Name: Penn Jillette's Bullshit Detector
Uploaded: 2016-07-13T03:02:58.000Z
Duration: 2 min 50 s
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You know, my bullshit detector works first of all...if there's something you really want

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to believe, that's what you should question the most. I don't question bad news very much.

I don't question things that go against what I believe very much. But boy, the stuff that

I really want to believe, I really question a lot.

Now, I was taught -- I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe

someone was watching over me. But when I want to believe something, that's when I want to

question it the most. That's when I have to be the most careful. And I feel a little bit

disingenuous with that answer because I don't think I any longer want to believe in God.

My friend, who I miss very much, Hitch, Christopher Hitchens, said that wanting there to be a

god was like wanting to live in North Korea, to give away all of your freedom. And for

someone who loves freedom and loves people, I don't think you should hope for God at all.

So I guess my detector on God is that whenever someone uses what they feel as evidence instead

of what they think as evidence or what they can prove as evidence, I'm very, very skeptical.

The most important thing is to feel about things you feel about -- should feel about

-- and think about things you should think about. You should not feel about the speed

of light or evolution and you should not think about love. You should feel "I love you,"

you should think about reality. And when someone says they feel the universe was created by

a God, that's nonsense, just like saying, you know, "I've thought about it and maybe

And a lot of people seem to think that -- that feeling cheapens the science, that if you

feel something it cheapens it. And there's not enough said about how it cheapens the

emotion. You know, if you're spending your time feeling that the earth was created, instead

of... by intelligent design, you should be spending your time feeling love, feeling compassion,

feeling generosity and loyalty and all the stuff you should feel in your heart. Even

anger, even disappointment. But that doesn't change the world. You should think about the