The Pessimist

I’ve only recently become an addict of youtube. Occasionally somebody would send me a link to some funny animation or cute animal vid, I’d watch it and that would be it. If I looked around at all, the most popular videos all seemed to be of face-pierced youths crashing their skateboards, getting hoofed in the nuts, or singing or dancing badly. Or sometime all 4 at once.

But I put “atheist” into the search box and fairly quickly came across padcondell.

I watched it, then watched another and another. Pat has been publishing these videos for about a year, and he currently has 45 posted on youtube. I watched 7 or 8 at my first sitting, killing several hours watching them, and some rebuttals and reading the latest comments.

His shtick is to deliver a 4 to 6 minute monologue directly to camera. His voice is conversational, pleasant, humourous and imbued with a plummy London accent. His topics speak against Islamic extremism, reasonable accommodation, political correctness, and religion in general.

The most amazing thing is, after watching about 20 of his 45 vids, he has not uttered a single word that I disagree with. Stated another way, he says exactly what I have been thinking (and saying on this website), only he says it better, with more wit and humour.

If I weren’t an atheist, I’d make him my prophet or even my god. But I am, and I don’t believe in that kinda bullshit, so the best I can do is express my admiration for the man. By putting his face out there, he is taking a not inconsiderable risk that some religious wacko could whack him.

If he were running for political office, I would definitely vote for him. Canada could use a politician like him.

For more patcondell videos, see his youtube index.