Pharrell Williams On People Who Don’t Believe In God: ‘Incredibly Arrogant And Pompous’

[KamaAina]

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Popular singer and music producer Pharrell Williams recently revealed that he believes in God, asserting that it’s “incredibly arrogant” to deny the existence of a spiritual being....

“How do you see all the stars and think there’s nothing else out there?” he continued.

“It’s so incredible arrogant and pompous. It’s amazing that there are people who really believe that. It’s unbelievable.”...

“With no conversion, there’s no conviction. And with no conviction, there’s only confusion. You understand what I’m saying? If you don’t believe there is a change that is due to you then you will never, ever find it. Change won’t come and tap you on the shoulder. You have to be open for change.”

Go do a duet with Kanye or something. $#*! like this does not make me Happy.

[hobbit709]

1. If he wants to see arrogant and pompous he needs to look in a mirror.

[BillZBubb]

27. Exactly. He is the one being arrogant and pompous.

[liberal_at_heart]

2. I find it incredibly sad when people think that the way they think is the only way to think.

[sakabatou]

3. Incredibly arrogant and pompus? Look in the mirror, asshat.

[Enrique]

4. it's arrogant for him to make such a judgement

most people these days understand that people have different beliefs. This person's chauvinism is out of the ordinary.

[Arugula Latte]

5. What's arrogant

are people who think that there is an omnipotent supernatural creature that rules everything in a multi-billioned-galaxy universe, yet concerns itself primarily with one little species of primate on one little planet in one little galaxy and -- coincidentally -- these primates LOOK like this deity! Also, the events of the last 2,000 years on one section of this planet are the most important things that have ever happened anywhere in the universe in its multi-billion year history.

What a myopic and incredibly narcissistic view THAT is, eh Pharrell?

[Dawson Leery]

23. Everything you stated.

[cali]

6. wow. that's stupid. all too believably stupid. asshat.

[Terra Alta]

7. sounds like a pretty arrogant and pompous statement to me.

I personally believe in a higher power, but I have respect for people with differing views. To think your views are the only views that are right or acceptable, is what I find to be "arrogant and pompous".

[tularetom]

8. WTF is a Pharrell Williams anyway?

Admitedly I'm pretty much out of touch with pop culture, but I have no idea who he is.

He sounds charming, though.

Not smart, but charming.

[KamaAina]

11. The guy who sings the song "Happy"

that most folks have heard about 85,000 times or so.

[tularetom]

15. Thank you for cluing me in

I still don't know much about Mr Williams but I know I won't be delving further into his body of work.

Some cool scenes in the video but the music sounds like overproduced feel good pap.

And for the record I believe there is a creator but I don't believe he thinks of humans as anything but the latest improved model of the amoeba. A work in progress as it were.

[KamaAina]

17. "overproduced feel good pap"?

You mean "pop", right?

[tularetom]

20. Well the two terms are pretty much interchangeable IMO

[notadmblnd]

33. I'm thinking he's just another one hit wonder

nt

[Journeyman]

9. "It's lovely to live on a raft," wrote Huck . . .

"We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many."

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

[gollygee]

10. I don't doubt that it feels that way to him

I wonder how he feels when people talk about his beliefs in a similar way to that.

[rustydog]

12. Hummm, I'll take popmus for 100 dollars Alex...

Let me see, billions of years of creation or magic white-haired man in the sky who loves you! But tells you to kill your kids if they misbehave...He flooded the world because his creation did not do his bidding...but he LOVES YOU!

He let the white man kill native Americans so we could have their land. he let is kill how many millions for gold and diamond mines.
His churches say being rich and demonizing the poor and marginal people is God's will even though He allegedly said:
it will be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than Mitt Romney to get into heaven. Or something like that

[locdlib]

34. yes. exactly like that, rusty.

i always say the mythical and magical white-haired man in the sky is really no better than any other abuser on earth. "he" judges, beats people down, oppresses, and then if we don't bow to "his" every whim, we get to live out our lives in mayhem and turmoil and in the end "he" will send us to a "fiery lake" for all eternity for being disobedient. all this is done in the name of love (which is what most abusers tell their victims). i'm sure that with all the money pharell has made with his mediocre at best music, he feels really great that the white-haired sky daddy has truly favored him.

[Tom_Foolery]

13. When I look at the stars, I know there's intelligence out there...

But I don't believe it's a mythic being created by others to explain why life exists.

[Throd]

14. Blow it out your ass.

[eppur_se_muova]

16. FPW

That is all.

[KG]

18. who?

[Ilsa]

19. He's musically talented, but doesn't understand

Science or Religion. He needs to keep his unerudite opinions to himself.

[eShirl]

26. Only you!

[Jamaal510]

22. Some of them are arrogant about it (just like with some religious folks),

but obviously not all are like that. What I don't like are the people (believers and non-believers alike) who think that their own perspective is the one and only correct path, and they berate others. I'm surprised at the lack of insight that Pharrell showed here, and he might end up getting quite a bit of hate mail for this comment.

[DavidDvorkin]

29. He's not saying that some, or even most, atheists are arrogant

He's saying atheism itself is inherently arrogant.

[eShirl]

25. I don't understand what's supposed to be arrogant and pompous about not believing in god(s).

[logosoco]

28. Well, Pharrell, that is very judgemental, and i believe it was Jesus who said

"Judge not". So you may not be as familiar with the book that contains the beliefs you are saying you hold.

I still enjoy your happy song. I've sung "If your happy and you know it" with enough kids to appreciate a new updated version.
You may think your talent was given by god. But I think it came from highly evolved vocal cord system and the brain to use it.

Keep up with those conversations, maybe you will learn a lot!

[Ed Suspicious]

30. I guess that's the thing about belief . . .

It's free from doubt. I believe the sun is going to rise tomorrow morning. I think people who might disbelieve that are a bit crazy. I have no basis to believe the sun will rise tomorrow except that it's happened billions of times before. I guess we have some good scientific explanations as well but those are based upon other tenuous beliefs as well.

I can see how, to a believer, disbelief would be unconscionable.

[YOHABLO]

31. What's astonishing is that once you become some sort of celebrity we have to listen to your POV.

Just like everyone else we have one (a POV). Talent doesn't necessarily = intelligence.

[unblock]

32. always amazes me how people can see the awesomeness of reality and attribute it to something else.

that's the basic argument, that nature is so awesome, so intricate, so wonderful, that there must be some mythical being behind it all.

to me, that's an insult to nature. to me, nature is not nearly so awesome if some omnipotent being created it. i mean, if god can create anything, then nothing is really all that impressive, is it.

to me, the very thing that's so impressive about nature is that all this stuff happens naturally, over time, through through the constant application of consistent physical laws. humans are all the more impressive when we understand that we are millions of years in the making, having evolved gradually from single celled organisms.

but if we're just the product of a magic trick by a being that could have just as well created a rather different universe, then reality is hardly impressive.

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