This is a non-exhaustive list of my videos by topic.

Religion — LGBT issues — Ethics — Politics — Transhumanism — Mathematics — Personal growth — Comedy — Miscellaneous

Religion

• Atheism and nonbelief
  • Ron Rosenbaum’s misconceptions about atheism
  • The troubling implications of alleged miracles
  • Why do atheists share their views?
  • Are atheists angry at God?
  • “Footprints”
  • Are atheists arrogant?
  • Should theology be taken seriously?
  • Is atheism a religion?
  • Death doesn’t become good just because there’s no afterlife
• Christianity
  • The Bible
    • Is there any way to interpret the Bible correctly?
    • The book of Job excuses the inscrutable random events of a godless world
    • Arguing against the Bible “proves” its truth
    • The Bible does support slavery, and Christians have trouble with that
  • Jesus
    • Unconvincing resurrection arguments
    • The sacrifice of Jesus makes no sense
    • Addressing excuses for God’s bizarre sense of justice
    • “Embarrassing details” in the Bible could easily be fictional
    • Why bother fighting over what Jesus would do?
  • God-centered morality
    • Hell
      • The punishment of Hell is disproportionate and unethical
      • The threat of Hell is not a good reason to approve of biblical mass killings
    • God’s morality aligns suspiciously with the moral trends of societies
    • Are Christians willing to repudiate God-sanctioned mass killings in the Bible?
    • Morality precedes one’s choice of faith, not vice versa
    • We shouldn’t have to reinterpret the Bible to support modern morality
  • Catholicism
    • Let’s not pretend that communion wafers are God
    • How to register your official defection from the Catholic church
    • Washington, D.C. archdiocese threatens to end its social services if gay marriage is legal
    • Catholic bishops think religion is an excuse for employment discrimination against gay people
    • Catholic bishops seek to deny government housing to gay people
    • Most lay Catholics support birth control coverage
  • Mormonism
    • The Mormon fight against equal rights
    • “I’m a Mormon” ads don’t make their religion any better
  • Salvation Army
    • Why we should boycott the Salvation Army
    • Is the Salvation Army really “doing the most good”?
    • Would a boycott of the Salvation Army hurt the homeless?
    • Common objections to boycotting the Salvation Army
  • Zinnia interviews the Westboro Baptist Church
  • Christian conservatives blame liberal values for angering Islamic terrorists
  • Why would gay people choose to be Christian?
  • Hypocrisy can help keep people from acting on dangerous beliefs
  • If you attend a megachurch, you don’t really “hate religion”
• Islam
  • There is no reason not to draw Muhammad
  • Criticism of Islam is not hate speech just because Islam may not like it
  • Disobeying Islamic doctrine is not a good reason to kill someone
  • Defacement of a Qur’an does not warrant violence
  • The “ground zero mosque” is only as wrong as building any religious structure anywhere
  • Eid al-Adha celebrates a disturbing legend
  • “I bet you wouldn’t say that about Islam!” Or would I?
• Witchcraft
  • The disastrous consequences of belief in witchcraft
  • Apparently I shouldn’t say witchcraft isn’t real
• Existence of gods
  • The cosmological argument
  • Why would God need to “fine-tune” the universe?
  • Answering Pascal’s wager
  • “Does love exist?” God is like love, just a feeling
• Faith, evidence and epistemology
  • Faith is not a sound justification for beliefs
  • Faith can’t fill the gaps in your reasoning
  • Atheism is not faith that there are no gods, just no faith that there are
  • Alleged supernatural experiences are more likely to have organic causes
  • Why is belief in God exempt from the usual standards of evidence?
  • Can the absence of evidence be evidence of absence?
• Religion and law
  • Blasphemy laws give unequal and undeserved protection to beliefs that are religious
  • People do not exist to serve laws, laws exist to serve people
  • Marriage is not an invention of religion or an inherently religious institution
  • Why “non-denominational” school prayer is impossible
• Christmas and the holidays
  • Christian groups oppose the recognition of any holiday but theirs
  • Coercing people to say “merry Christmas” when they don’t mean it is self-defeating
  • HumanLight: A holiday for humanism and humanist values
• Personal responses
  • To bowhanded, on homosexuality, creation myths and death
  • To Krazie316, on Old Testament morality
  • To CriticalQuestion, on taking the claims of religion seriously
  • To CriticalQuestion, on the real-world impact of religion
  • To Stacy Trasancos, on people’s freedom not to follow your religion’s dictates
  • To shockofgod
  • To GodGunsGutsGlory
• What it really means if “everything happens for a reason”
• Being wrong for a really long time won’t make you right
• Religion and charity: What about all the good things religion does?
• Organized or not, religion itself is a problem
• Religious beliefs and activities shouldn’t be treated as special

LGBT issues

• Marriage
  • The constant shifting and inconsistent application of anti-marriage arguments
  • A response to Maine’s ban on gay marriage
  • Tradition is a superfluous and circular argument
  • Why aren’t civil unions good enough for straight couples?
  • Insisting that the meaning of marriage can never change is unpersuasive
  • Are the additional expenses of spousal benefits a legitimate objection to gay marriage?
  • Protesting anti-marriage rallies is not “bullying”
  • NOM partners with Minnesota group that accused gays of “ingesting urine and feces”
  • Minnesota Family Council later deletes “ingesting urine and feces” claims from their site
  • NOM invests millions to “drive a wedge between gays and blacks”
  • NOM’s excuse: They were incapable of carrying out their racially divisive strategy
  • A list of NOM’s major donors is leaked
  • Proficiency at parenting should have no bearing on the right to marry
• Discrimination
  • Unequal expectations imposed upon minority groups
  • The use of “gay” as an insult
  • On knowingly funding anti-gay groups because you can’t stop eating Chick-Fil-A
  • Our rights are not any less important because of historical bigotry against other groups
  • Anti-gay group hires airplane to fly a warning about gay people at Disney World
  • The unique brand of misogynist disrespect toward lesbians
  • Opposing gay marriage is already bigoted, and legalizing marriage isn’t what makes this bigoted
  • Rick Santorum “doesn’t hate” the people he compares to rapists
  • Will “Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays” support non-discrimination laws?
• Criminalization
  • If gay sex can be criminalized, why not outlaw conservative Christianity?
  • Jason “Molotov” Mitchell supports executing gay people in Uganda
  • The Family Research Council says opposing gay executions is “pro-homosexual promotion”
• Pathologization
  • Being gay is not a symptom of personal trauma
  • Claims of pathological origins of homosexuality are unfounded
  • Why selective abortion or “treatment” of gay people may be impossible
• Transgender
  • Disclosure
    • The demand for trans people to disclose is based on inflated claims of harm
    • Unknowingly sleeping with trans people is not harmful
  • Why gender identity is included in LGBT
  • Insulting trans people’s appearance and genitals is transphobic
  • The do’s and don’t’s of dealing with gender ambiguity
  • Hate group secretly tapes trans women using public restrooms
  • “Cisgender” is not a slur
  • What does it mean to be “gender-confused”?
• Pride parades
  • People’s distaste for pride parades does not make them bad for us
  • Why there are gay pride parades and not straight pride parades
  • Disliking pride parades is not a reason to take away people’s rights
  • Come Out With Pride Orlando 2011
• In media
  • CBS blurs out Adam Lambert kissing a man, while airing graphic violence
  • The BBC includes an “opposing viewpoint” on Elton John’s newborn son
  • Fox reporter calls gay TV characters “product placement”
  • Fox News tries to reify constructed gender norms
  • “One Million” Moms seeks to remove all gay people from public visibility
• In schools
  • Teaching gay marriage in schools is a good thing
  • King & King should be no more controversial than any children’s book
  • Mississippi high school tricks lesbian students into going to a decoy prom
  • Anti-gay groups respond to National Day of Silence with day of biblical homophobia
• Youth
  • Gay teens should not have to be any less out than straight teens
  • Christian conservative blames gay rights groups for anti-gay bullying
  • It gets better!
• Out and proud: National Coming Out Day
• The role of choice in sexual orientation and its bearing on equal protection
• It doesn’t matter if being gay is a choice
• Homosexuality should not even be a moral issue
• Quit flaunting it, straight people!
• Cindy McCain says DADT is bad for gay youth, and she completely supports it
• Conservative Christians disregard the concept of consent at their own peril
• On atheists who hate gay people
• On gay people who hate gay people
• Yes, bisexual people do exist
• Similarities and differences between bisexuality and pansexuality
• Remembering Alan Turing
• There is nothing paradoxical about refusing to tolerate intolerance
• Does accepting homosexuality destroy civilizations? (Hint: No.)
• Accusing gay people of causing the Holocaust is a bad idea

Ethics

• Meta-ethics
  • Objective morals do not appear to exist
  • Moral intuitions are not objective, but relative
  • Are things wrong because they’re bad, or only because God doesn’t like them?
• Which charities should we support, and why?
• Choosing to reproduce is not ethical by default
• Is-ought: Improper use of natural facts as moral imperatives
• Administrative overhead is a poor way to judge charities
• Eating dogs is no different from eating other livestock

Politics

• Bradley Manning
  • On the New York Magazine story and my history with Bradley Manning
  • Publishing my conversations with Bradley
• On weakening the standards of evidence because you’ve already decided someone is guilty
• Massachusetts Rep. Ryan Fattman discourages undocumented immigrants from reporting crimes
• The importance of online anonymity
• The only thing strong about Rick Perry is his ignorance
• What’s the best legal approach to prostitution?
• The political process is being suffocated by meaningless trivialities
• Bristol Palin plays the victim
• Will we ever get an honest answer from Bristol Palin?

Transhumanism, immortality and the singularity

• Why I am a transhumanist
• Objections to transhumanism, and responses
• The pursuit of voluntary technological immortality
• Making death mandatory because of unresolved social issues is unacceptable
• Solving problems by developing self-improving AI

Mathematics

• Classical information theory
  • Uncertainty and self-information
  • Entropy
  • Entropy is not information
  • Source coding and Huffman coding (part 1)
  • Source coding and Huffman coding (part 2)
• Algorithmic information theory: Introduction to Kolmogorov complexity
• Graham’s number
• Memorizing pi to 314 places

Personal growth

• Coming out as gay
• Coming out as lesbian
• My deconversion from Christianity
• Lessons learned from one year on YouTube
• Overcoming my fear of air travel
• Becoming a parent

Comedy

• A guide to understanding Insane Clown Posse’s “Miracles”
• Insane Clown Posse responds to Zinnia
• The Mel Gibson tapes: a dramatic reenactment
• Basil Marceaux.com: a dramatic reenactment
• PSA: Don’t Grope People
• It got stuck?
• The best makeup tutorial ever!
• Totally Normal Activity

Miscellaneous

• Sexist dismissals of outspoken women
• How to argue well
• How Zicam disproves homeopathy
• 1,000 sparklers, unwisely lit at once
• Adventures at a creepy junk shop