Religious propaganda in action

One of my latest ventures onto YouTube was to watch a video called "6 Solid Reasons Not to be an Atheist".

Not particularly interesting, logical or convincing, and containing nothing by way of solid reason or related mental processes.

You get this young American guy bouncing around uttering a load of opinionated views to which he is entitled, but do not differ much from what you can hear in a million other places.

What is interesting though is that the person who has placed the video on YouTube (a young person's medium theoretically, though I would question that) is not the person on the video.

The video is one in a series of very similar Christianity pushing theories (OK "propaganda" if you wanna be nasty!) aimed at relatively naïve young people who have become atheists (which underestimates most of the young people who are atheists IMHO). The person, who issued all these videos, is according to his/her YouTube profile 54 years old.

Why it isn't explained why some younger, unidentified individual is the person pushing the argument and is not the person issuing the video is a good question.

Maybe at 54 you do not think that you can look appealing to younger people. Well if they are not convinced by your looks or your presentation, why should they believe your arguments or your proxy?

It becomes though more of a sales or promotion or propaganda exercise than anything else. It does not come across as being 100% honest (which all religions like to think that they are!).

I would like to have communicated with the individual concerned for this exercise and challenge him ("her" actually might also be a possibility here) on the content, thinking and presentation of their material - and also upon the fact that they underestimate young people who have the capacity to reason. Unfortunately the individual concerned has a last Activity Date on YouTube of April 2009, so like a cuckoo they have left their damage behind and moved on.

Which may be a sad but typical comment upon the individual concerned and the entire exercise involved!