For a bonus clip of Matt and Glen discussing the Atheist Experience Trans controversy sign up at www.thebigconversation.show Many people have also requested links to the studies cited by Glen to show the positive effects of religion: Meta-analysis of 3000+ studies on religion & spirituality and health: www.researchgate.net/publication/237200852_Religion_Spirituality_and_Health_The_Research_and_Clinical_Implications Mental Health: meta-analyis of 850 studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09540260124661 Other studies and meta-analyses: veraznanjemir.bos.rs/materijal/Values%20and%20religiosity_a%20meta-analysis.pdf tonyjack.org/files/2013%20April%20poster%20Religion%20Dogmatism%20-%20Intersections%20Prize%20winner%202nd%20place%20Social%20Sciences.pdf www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19210054 dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/545/docs/Wendy_Wood_Research_Articles/Social_Influence/hall.matz.wood.2010.final_why_dont_we_practice_what_we_preach.pdf journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0008429810377404 www.jstor.org/stable/1387984?seq=1 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0013164497057006007

@chainsong9546

4 жыл бұрын

that was a snoozer....matt seemed jet lagged and the other guy seemed like he had too pee really badly...literally nothing was accomplished--nothing

@chainsong9546

4 жыл бұрын

and you derailed the whole conversation with the hitler crap

@johncart07

4 жыл бұрын

Matt claims that the Soviet union wasn't secular humanism, but he is only focused on the aftermath. When if first started, it sold all the same humanist dreams to the people. That was the hole point of communism, to produce a social utopia. That was the point Peterson was trying to make when they debated.

@franklindzioba13

4 жыл бұрын

Matt's argument that you can't have a Christian moral code unless everyone agrees to it is weak. Western Civilization is rooted in Christian philosophy and has been furtile ground for Atheism. So Matt's existence is anecdotal evidence against his position. You can ground your social morality in God and still have Atheists accept the benefits without appealing to divinity. To say you must have a secular or humanist morality to appease the Atheist is sort of special pleading for his point. This doesn't even take into account the effect that the idea that an invisible omnipotent intelligence watching over all might have a net utilitarian benefit.

@johncart07

4 жыл бұрын

@@franklindzioba13 We are all acting out Christian moral values, we are all inculturated in it in the West. All our movies have religious themes. It happens either consciously or unconsciously. Morality isn't suspended until we all agree, we act it out every day. Matt's arguments are super weak.

Matt’s final statement: Restates his position clearly. Glenn’s final statement: Intentionally mischaracterize Matt’s position, never provide support for his own belief.

@UnRe4lSkat3r

4 жыл бұрын

m riggs trying? To convince people of theism?

@UnRe4lSkat3r

4 жыл бұрын

m riggs so u like the more gentle approach? Like the Socratic method? I totally can understand that, it takes all types to finally put the seed of doubt within. Some respond well with debates, some don’t. Have u ever checked out Anthony Magnabosco?

@The1stMrJohn

3 жыл бұрын

@@UnRe4lSkat3r Anthony is brilliant 🙂

@The1stMrJohn

3 жыл бұрын

@@UnRe4lSkat3r 😀💚🐕🎸🎵

@whocares1761

3 жыл бұрын

@@UnRe4lSkat3r I just learned about SE literally like 2 weeks ago such an interesting way to look at things let people just talk themselves into realizing that they have no evidence to support their claims

Guys I sincerely envy you. As an atheist from a Muslim background, I can not see such a calm and open exchange between an atheist and a member of the Islamic "clergy" happening anytime soon.

@Thumbelina298

11 ай бұрын

I can visualise one and meeeen😂😂😂😂

@davidnewland2461

2 ай бұрын

Which is why religious freedom is a good thing. And why the Christian right wingnuts need to be opposed at every point possible

@pebystroll

Ай бұрын

I was even shocked once I began seeing the critical academia with the quran. It is a long way away from where we are with the bible

The conversational format is so much more effective than the traditional formal debate. There’s no talking past one another, there aren’t as many unanswered questions or missing rebuttals. The participants can actually drive the focus of the subject matter and force their opponent to answer. Wish some of classic popular debates had utilized this format. Thankfully we are seeing more and more of these. Outstanding!

@whittfamily1

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you about the format as long as each participant cannot talk longer than some time T, perhaps two minutes, at a time and interruptions are prohibited. In the discussion of Matt and Glen there were a few interruptions, but not many.

@AleisterCrowleyMagus

11 ай бұрын

Well, apologist James Tour just crashed the entire bus of apologists with his recent insane “debate” with Prof. Dave of KZread - he literally screamed at Dave while acting like an unhinged maniac - he also misled his own students regarding the chemistry that they were supposed to be discussing.

@tsolum4126

6 ай бұрын

You might like Alex Malpass. He had a funny discussion with a jerk, John Lee. JL was rude and Alex was patient and lead him towards finally seeing his faulty logic.

@larryjake7783

19 күн бұрын

Thats because people like Matt and Glen don't know how to debate. Especially Matt, he literally doesn't get debate and thus the exchange can't take place. It's like playing chess and the opponent imports rules from tik tac toe

As a former Christian, I’m a much happier, kinder, giving person as an agnostic. No yoke is lighter than one removed.

@danielsmithiv1279

Жыл бұрын

So, as an Agnostic, you don't know if God doesn't exist then?

@jdnlaw1974

Жыл бұрын

@@danielsmithiv1279 Yeah. There’s no way to prove that anything doesn’t exist. For example, you can’t prove Bigfoot doesn’t exist. It’s very possible there was a creator that created all of “this” and I’m open to proof of that. I’ve just not seen anything as of yet that proves it or that provides enough evidence to convince me of it. And if there was a creator, who or what was it? Was there one creator or multiple creators? There’s just not enough evidence to convince me of it.

@josuevaladez1176

Жыл бұрын

Same. I always tell people I’m a much better person now that I’m not a Christian.

@orionlax626

Жыл бұрын

​@@danielsmithiv1279 Yep. Agnosticism is the position that one doesn't know whether or not a god exists. We don't know whether or not OP believes one exists, but I'm guessing they don't, so they'd be an agnostic atheist.

@rsbds5791

Жыл бұрын

Im much happier as Christian and kinder as Christian

Every time they cut to Matt I expect him to be rolling his eyes.... and he isn't. The man has self control I don't

@davidepintus6490

4 жыл бұрын

I swear, this man has been dealing with these people f twenty years. If Nirvana were to actually exist he would probably be closer to it than the Dalai Lama.

@christophermyers6372

4 жыл бұрын

I think he brings the fire and brimstone kinda talk with the no no no cutting off during discussions only on the A.E show because that's like what people expect when watching it for better or worse. He still has those traits during debates and similar discussions but their far more reigned in and he becomes pretty chill for the most part.

@steevrawjers

4 жыл бұрын

Eric Goodman true lol

@Freethinkingtheist77

4 жыл бұрын

Or maybe when you know your stuff you don't need to resort to disrespect.

@theneverending9319

4 жыл бұрын

He’s pretty obnoxious on his show

Why is it that these guys always seem to be implying that pre christianity there were no persons who cared about their fellow human beings.

@calebgomez8992

4 жыл бұрын

Time stamp?

@carlauclair8748

4 жыл бұрын

Such as? Most just cared only about their community/culture and no one beyond that.

@carlauclair8748

4 жыл бұрын

@ This small community also lead to the West.....it's not so much the numbers, as it's about the road.

@psychicandice

4 жыл бұрын

Christopher Hitchens had a great response to people who say “there was no good before Christ” when Jesus talks about the Good Samaritan he tells the story of a man who did good to a fellow human being but the Samaritan man can’t be a Christian because Jesus is telling a story of him and it predates Christianity. Glen’s argument is so fallacious because he starts with a conclusion and tries to work it backwards.

@calebgomez8992

4 жыл бұрын

@@psychicandice what conclusion did he start with?

Love Glen's totally unjustified and cringe smugness and his complete reliance on overconfident assertion.

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones." -Marcus Aurelius

@danielsmithiv1279

Жыл бұрын

Excellent quote.

@Belief_Before_Glory

Жыл бұрын

@@danielsmithiv1279 Thank you, Daniel. "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is." -Albert Camus All the best!✨

The fact that a religious man is happier than an atheist is of no more significance than the fact that a drunk man is happier than a sober one.

@gregorsamsa1364

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not convinced a drunk man is likely to be happier than a sober man

@lifestough5558

3 жыл бұрын

Gregor Samsa And i’m not convinced a religious man is happier than an athiest, what’s ur point?

@gregorsamsa1364

3 жыл бұрын

@@lifestough5558 Not sure what you're confused about. I think my comment is self explanatory

@chrismathis4162

3 жыл бұрын

@@gregorsamsa1364 The point of the quote was to demonstrate that one's feelings have nothing to do with what is objectively true. People may very well find the idea of god satisfying and comforting but in no way does that demonstrate that a god exists.

@gregorsamsa1364

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrismathis4162 I understand that. I was saying that I think it might be a flawed analogy. There are studies which suggest that, on average(at least in the US), a religious man is happier than an atheist(which likely has something to do with the fact that we have to deal with all the religious people surrounding us), but I would suspect that, on average, a sober man is actually happier than a drunk man

"It's there in Judaism but it's a uniquely Christian idea".

@johanneskramer9490

3 жыл бұрын

You fail to see that Judaism is fOreShadOwiNg for Christianity!

@jmac4910

3 жыл бұрын

@@johanneskramer9490 Unless you're Jewish...

@zerourouamine

3 жыл бұрын

It is an even more appalling statement when you consider the fact that Zoroastrianism did come up with those ideas even before Judaisme

@kentonbaird1723

3 жыл бұрын

Contradictions and double standards are the cornerstones upon which every insecure foundation rests.

@victorvanvolt8425

3 жыл бұрын

@@johanneskramer9490 Cant a muslim say that the bible is the foreshadowing of the Quran ?

The thing Glen needs to share is how in the world he knows there is an objective morality and what it is. How the hell are we letting him just assert that without explaining?

@petepayette6690

2 жыл бұрын

Ever heard of the 10 commandments

@lnsflare1

Жыл бұрын

@@petepayette6690 You mean the one Arthur not cooking a baby goat in its mother's milk, or the past where the Christian God went into great detail on how to buy and sell people, including how to extort a Jewish temporary slave into becoming a shave for life by holding their slave wife and children hostage? What period do you have that this story is even true, much less moral, and even more much less objective?

@petepayette6690

Жыл бұрын

God drown the entire Egyptian army in the red sea. Moral of these accounts: God will destroy his enemies...

@whittfamily1

Жыл бұрын

Suppose a god exists and presents a moral code. Also, suppose a panel of nine human moral experts presents a moral code. The codes are in writing and they are identical. Which code is objective? And why do you think so?

@themostscurviestscurvey508

Жыл бұрын

@@whittfamily1 can you please reiterate this reply? I don't really understand it.

Loved this debate!... Great points by Matt

*"Can atheism deliver a better world?"* Without having listened, I trust that someone brought up the point that this is not even a proper question.

@49perfectss

4 жыл бұрын

Ya Matt caught that one

@ocrancienthistory3326

4 жыл бұрын

Well why shouldn't it be?

@ocrancienthistory3326

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidnoel8458 yes, obviously, but there's still a different world which results from it. Don't act like it's "just a belief" with no implications.

@Tore_Lund

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidnoel8458 Being Atheist is not a simple concept, if it is impossible to define what you reject. You can indeed reject a conscious being, a creator. etc, but you can't also say that human life has intrinsic value and morality has value because it feels good. Not even an evolutionary argument is sufficient to validate such claim. It is like claiming that breathing is the right thing to do, because it increases your survival chances and I can share that opinion with all of mankind. However intellectually, you cannot claim that being alive is better than being dead, so the argument falls. Being Atheist is cherry picking meaning, just like religion is. There is only Nihilism, but being alive is a contradiction even in that case.

@TimSManuel

4 жыл бұрын

@@ocrancienthistory3326 It's not even a belief, and most importantly, it is not a worldview, why do theists have such a hard time understanding this. Atheism is the lack of a belief. You can get atheists who believe in helping others (altruism) as well as atheists who believe in helping themselves (egoism). Atheism is just a position about a single topic, the rejection of the claim that there is a god. It's as silly of a question as "Will having a mustache make men better people?", and then pointing out all the people who have mustaches who did good or bad things and linking their actions to having a mustache. It is not atheism in itself that will make a better or worse community, just as it is not the mustache, it is the beliefs that extend beyond these things.

It's amazing how Matt can explain his position in such a clear and concise manner and yet people will still build a straw man. These comments are pathetic.

@davidh5020

4 жыл бұрын

People would rather go into delusions than admit there is a possibility that they are wrong.

@patrickmcardle952

4 жыл бұрын

David H as atheists do when they watch a guy like WLC dismantle a well known argument that atheists view as being a knock down. Theists and atheists are by and large cut from the same cloth with the main difference being that atheists will show far less self awareness through criticising theists for that which they are blatantly guilty of themselves

@davidh5020

4 жыл бұрын

@@patrickmcardle952 I have yet to see WLC dismantle anything, so I don't know what you are talking about. I also have seen a huge lack of self awareness in the Theist community.

@patrickmcardle952

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidh5020 Clearly you haven't seen much of his content where he dismantles popular slogans and atheistic lingo which make for good soundbites but which fall apart when subjected to scrutiny. Either that or you're the kind of person that would rather delude yourself than admit you're wrong or that WLC has ever produced a logically sound argument. This is exactly what I was talking about when I touched on atheists lack of self awareness

@patrickmcardle952

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidh5020 As I said earlier and repeat again, atheists and theists online in forums like this when engaging those they disagree with are cut from the same cloth

thank you so much for this great conversation :)

Glen says "literally there are thousands of studies that show the benifits...." Please list some of them I would like to see some of them.

@stevemull22x

5 ай бұрын

They’re eye witness testimonies 😢

@truthovertea

4 ай бұрын

Like he said, Google is a great tool to start.

That was good of Matt to turn it around on Glenn. “Ok, let’s assume I don’t value human life and now YOU try to convince me why I should.” “Well, ummmmm...”

@joanissac9966

3 жыл бұрын

At that point You don't need refutation, You need help lol

@davidstorrs

3 жыл бұрын

@@joanissac9966 That was the point, though. Glen was playing the tired "objective morality" card, claiming that the only grounding for morality is the Christian god and that somehow this is the default position -- that Matt must prove it is *not* the case. Matt was demonstrating that the fundamental grounding for morality is something that we choose for ourselves, and we typically choose human well-being as our grounding because we are primates who evolved to value human well-being. "No God required," as @BionicDance would say.

@joanissac9966

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidstorrs 1) He must be arguing for God's existence because of the existence of objective moral duties as we observe, not the Christian God per se 2)When take this view to its logical conclusion, doesn't that make morality subjective and arbitrary? But We do see that morality is objective and not subjective 🧐 Also, this view doesn't explain why should we be obliged to follow them? These are the ramifications of a non teleological perspective on this subject

@davidstorrs

3 жыл бұрын

@@joanissac9966 What evidence has convinced you that morality is objective? I have seen none and I'd be interested to hear yours.

@cbizzybandamus

3 жыл бұрын

David K. Storrs Matt has talked about objective morality many times on Axp. He also has video about it on his channel

Can you encourage Glen to post his "countless scientific studies" he mentioned? I'd very much like to read them. Thanks.

@roblewis7186

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that exact thing!!!

@patriciasampson9317

4 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing they came from good church abiding researchers, anything that could be replicated by peers would be an interesting idea and would likely be used to push religion.

@4everVillas

4 жыл бұрын

Glen kept mentioning these studies as "univariate" as if that's a commendable quality in the studies. It actually means that religiousity (however defined) is correlated with x in one study and y in another and z in yet another. As we should all know by now, correlation is not causation and, equally important, a "univariate" study fails to control for other possible explanations of the relationship. That the consumption of ice cream is correlated with crime doesn't mean that eating ice cream causes people to commit crime. Instead, ice cream consumption and crime tend to vary with how hot it is outside, but a "univariate" study of ice cream and crime would discover a spurious or false correlation. On another level, the Quran champions the weak, the poor, the orphaned just as much as Christianity if not more so. Why privilege Christianity as the source for caring for the downtrodden. And oh yeh, there was that guy Gandhi. I don't believe he was a Christian.

@lolbroklol

4 жыл бұрын

"Literally thousands of studies!" Which I can't find.

@darkwolf4434

4 жыл бұрын

Aswell as Dillahunty's scientific studies

Despite hints of his own bias emerging from time to time, I think Justin Brierley is an outstanding moderator.

@reda29100

2 жыл бұрын

I know atheists do hate the (1:19:38 why Nazis are wrong) point which shows his bias but that's exactly why he's a great moderator and example of how we should administer dialogues in the fields and points of view we diametrically oppose. He's not the idc type of guy who identifies as a Christian and takes the conversation wherever it leads, but you can see him clearly (obviously because he's Christian) siding with Glen. He's verbally on the side of the theist, emotionally invested in the conversation, yet he can at the same time take himself from the situation, dissociate from the conversation, battle his temptations (sounds Christian ik) not to give one side more weight, at least as a moderator, than the other. Truly as lesson for all of us

@skyeangelofdeath7363

Жыл бұрын

@@reda29100 Yeah, the Nazi discussion really went off the rails though. The apologist does not seem to know much about that historical period either. The "Judeop-Christian" moral sensibility of the "west" had nothing to do with WW2.

@TitenSxull

11 ай бұрын

He's generally very good and professional. I'm not aware of any equivalent Christian presenters here in the USA. I wish there were more Christian shows like this. He genuinely seems to enjoy the conversations too which helps a lot because he doesn't come off closed minded.

Thanks for being kickarse, MD. I wish I had this content when I was a teen. It would have spared a decade+ of breaking away from dogma and uber-religious rhetoric.

@fcchannel6162

2 жыл бұрын

you know as a studier of history i found it that it was always the people called crazy who always ended up being the right ones.

@aurorapaisley7453

2 ай бұрын

​@@fcchannel6162Of course. You will always have a convenient scapegoat from someone who's no longer useful to your cult so might as well take advantage of it. Fake Christians, anti-christ all sorts of labels

Glen Scrivener stated (his problem) at the beginning: 8:56 "...I discovered I could do this thing for a living...." "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair

@crazyprayingmantis5596

4 жыл бұрын

BINGO!!!!!!

@praze2god37

4 жыл бұрын

@Melinda D What about all of the atheists that were once well payed preachers? What about Antony Flew? What about Matt himself? Matt was going to be a preacher. He had a lot of support behind him. He very well could have made money being such. You know quotes aren't full-proof right? Also, he was a well-payed writer for newspapers and author. He became wealthy from his views on socialism. He wrote many books about his views and all sold well. He could very well be an example of his own quote according to himself.

@WhatsTheTakeaway

4 жыл бұрын

You don't think Matt is getting paid for proselytizing atheism? Wow...

@GoodAvatar

4 жыл бұрын

Likewise, anyone who can say that he respects Jordan Peterson is barking up the wrong tree. I agree with you completely about Scrivener realizing he could make a living by being deceptive or dishonest..... That's why I was so annoyed with his opening talking points also including Peterson, a man I regard as a con-artist in love with crafting verbal roller coasters.

@GoodAvatar

4 жыл бұрын

@@WhatsTheTakeaway He's not "PROSELYTIZING" anything. He's an intelligent debater and he got famous on youtube..... *FOR BEING ANGRY AND HONEST* like many other atheists are!!! Certainly, he's annoyed with the cynical dishonesty of the religious, and that's plain to see.... But he doesn't really do the "Beg For Money to Replace the Church Organ" schtick. He doesn't say, "Send me money and the Flying Spaghetti Monster" will cure your cancer. He never says "Atheism is the cure for all your problems." He's not demanding money for atheist missionary work to Africa to convert the heathens... Using a term like "PROSELYTIZING" carries connotations that Matt Dillahunty doesn't use. Figure out a better word.

"I don't need god to save me, I need a god to demonstrate that he exists" 🔥 burn....

@stylis666

4 жыл бұрын

"Burn? Such a limited imagination." - Pinhead

@stylis666

4 жыл бұрын

@Truth Matters What's around us is a natural universe and we're a natural result of it, shown by the fact that we're made of exactly the same stuff. It is not evidence of a creator. Did you parents create you? Or were you born, naturally, after growing in your mom's belly, naturally, after she was impregnated, by your brother most likely. If truth really matters to you, at least learn to think critically and study up on logical fallacies and syllogism.

@Santi_Santiago_

4 жыл бұрын

@@stylis666 I keep things simple.

@Santi_Santiago_

4 жыл бұрын

@Truth Matters Atheist propaganda? That's rich.

@MagicalGalaxies112

4 жыл бұрын

@Truth Matters HAHAHAH atheist propaganda? that's the most irony shit I've ever heard coming from a christian

Great stuff as usual. Great many thanks

This is an amazing, deep conversation with both sides listening and speaking genuinely to each other.

@strataverse

2 жыл бұрын

One side was having a conversation and listening, the other was dodging and making assertions left and right.

@reda29100

2 жыл бұрын

@@strataverse you're not denying he was listening I noticed, which is the civil part of any conversation

When discussing how the bible endorsed slavery Glen shook it off as Old Covenant but slavery never was corrected in the New Testament. 1 Peter 2:18 tells slaves to obey their masters, even the cruel ones.

@Katalyzt

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly ;O)

@OkieAllDay

4 жыл бұрын

To give a very brief rebuttal - stealing another person (or knowingly buying that stolen person) is grounds for the death penalty in the Bible. Slavery in the Bible was reserved for prisoner's of war (sure beats being put to death) or as a form of endentured servitude for being in debt. If you beat your slave they are released for chipping a tooth or loosing an eye. And they are automatically released after every seven years. Biblical slavery had ZERO to do with race. That's a fact. But again, if you are an atheist then you have no ground to ever say something is truly morally right or wrong. That is simply your opinion. You can disagree with Hitler (as I'm sure you do), but he was just bucking the herd mentality. If all we are is the evolution of single celled organisms then what a person chooses to do is no more "immoral" than when a lion kills a zebra.

@todbeard8118

4 жыл бұрын

@@OkieAllDay Levitical Law only applied to fellow Hebrews. That's why Leviticus25:44-46 stated to buy your slaves from the nations around you, you can own them as property for life and bequeath them to your children as inheritance. The foreigners were bought and sold as slaves. I doubt God would have inspired the author of Leviticus to write this if he didn't want Hebrews to have foreign bought slaves. Leviticus 25:39 states Hebrew servants were not to be treated as slaves but as hired workers. They were released after 6 years. Big difference in the way foreign bought slaves and Hebrew servants were treated. Apologists BS and insinuate all biblical slavery consists of the treatment that only applied to Hebrew servants whenever tap dancing about biblical slavery.

@todbeard8118

4 жыл бұрын

@@OkieAllDay I can say something is right or wrong just as well as you can. Its humorous when Christians spout morality especially when their foundation is their ultimate book of morality that endorses slavery and where their God commanded a number of atrocities such as the slaughter of the Midianite women and children as well as the Amalekite infants.

@todbeard8118

4 жыл бұрын

@@OkieAllDay By the way, guess what God's kill count by his command was in the bible? Over 2,017,000 not including 65 cities where the total slain wasn't given. Guess what Satan's kill count was? 10 of Job's children which were killed only after Gods permission so I guess you'd add that to God's total.

Glenn going up against Matt in religious debate is like a 5 year old going up against Michael Jordan in basketball, respectively.

Absolutely brilliant and enlightening!

Honestly at the beginning this seemed like a nice, level-headed debate about morality... but as soon as Glen lost his footing with deeper argumentation and problems he just started preaching, asserting the bible's truth based on faith.

@johntrains1317

4 жыл бұрын

Par for the course I'd say. It seems all these apologists hitch there belief on god being their moral absolute and whem theu can't even show it exists it falls aparts

@asian432

4 жыл бұрын

Most people that Matt has had debates are dishonestly not debating about the reasons why we believe a god. The majority of them will end up proselytizing than discussing the logic and rationality of god’s existence. The man knows the right intentions when asking precise questions.

@gavinhurlimann2910

4 жыл бұрын

@@asian432: I've now seen 4 debates where Dillahunty has had his ass handed to him on a plate. Michael Jones (twice), Dr Braxton Hunter & Glen Scrivener. Interestly, these guys are a lot younger than MD, so if Dillahunty is the cream of the atheist debaters, it's little wonder atheism is shrinking. Pew Research Centre data.

@asian432

4 жыл бұрын

@@gavinhurlimann2910 if you're a Christian, of course you will lean in to your org. If Matt lost his debates, He would have been back as a Christian by now. Most of his debates against apologists, they never give good answers. They haven't convinced the man. Either his opponents are bad debaters or good liars. BTW - what's the purpose of inserting pew research center data? Does it mean something?

@gavinhurlimann2910

4 жыл бұрын

@@asian432: MD has lost 4 of his last debates, Michael Jones (twice), Dr Braxton Hunter & now Glen Scrivener. Interestly, these guys are a lot younger than Dillahunty. The reference to the Pew Research Centre data shows atheism decreasing to 13% of the global population over the coming decades.

The condescension in Glen's voice from talking through unfalsifiable notions...

@nrg937

4 жыл бұрын

But, but, 1000s of studies!!

@PhysiKarlz

4 жыл бұрын

@@ManuelCastro-ns5sd He's Australian, not English. And I've encountered that tone of voice from Australians who almost always think too highly of themselves. I lived in Australia 30 years and visit the UK often. I don't hear this time of voice from anyone but snobs.

@PhysiKarlz

4 жыл бұрын

@@ManuelCastro-ns5sd All g brah

@sabin97

4 жыл бұрын

@@ManuelCastro-ns5sd they are all anglos. the anglos of canada, usa and australia are anglos at the end of the day.

@iamthegodyouseekiamthegody3387

4 жыл бұрын

The arrogance of ignorance. Faith pretending to know what is unknowable ad being smug about it.

Justin Brierly, an intelligent, impartial moderator of the highest level. Fantastic. I'm an atheist and he is a Christian but I recognize a smart dude and a decent human being when I see one. More theists like him please.

@rowdy3837

Жыл бұрын

I agree, though he does tend to take up the apologist perspective and pursue it more often and with considerably more vigor than he does the opposition. He is a Christian so I understand this tendency to do so but, the result is the non-apologist ends up facing two opponents rather than one…

@pinball1970

Жыл бұрын

@@rowdy3837 Weakly I think, it's as neutral as you can as an apologist and a moderator. He is a Christian but he sure likes Bart Ehrman, if he is not careful he could move over to the dark side!

@joerdim

Жыл бұрын

No, less theists please.

@pinball1970

Жыл бұрын

@@joerdim They are not all bad.

@joerdim

Жыл бұрын

@@pinball1970 I mean that theism needs to be abolished which would result in lesser (or no) theists in the world. The less people who believe in nonsense the better. So less theists please.

Great exchange. Thank you

17:00 I always find it odd when religious apologists criticize something secular by accusing it of being like religion.

@nono7105

4 жыл бұрын

It's not a criticism of the thing, but rather of the idea that it's free of religiosity because it's secular. The secular argument has long been "less religion is better than more, therefore let's make things secular". The criticism that the religious apologists are making is that an increase in secularism does not equate to a decrease in religiosity. In fact, what it tends to do is create spontaneous, spurious, ill-thought out religions, such as intersectional feminism, veganism, environmentalism, and cyclists. If you instead advocate for a traditional religion in your society then you'll at least have a rational lasso to throw on the human instinct towards religiosity as well as a foundation for morality and a way of giving people meaning and purpose in life.

@anthonypc1

4 жыл бұрын

​@@nono7105 yes yes, I get that point as well -- whether or not it's what is intended by individual apologists for religion. And I'm not one to assume Every thing associated with a religion must be bad for members or outsiders. There can be many benign or healthy rituals and bonding traditions, and some more than others get to enjoy a supportive community, all organized around their temple or faith, or funded by it. I just can't think of any beneficial element for structuring community or enriching one's human "spirit" which couldn't be achieved at Least as well without the other aspects of religion. i.e. Superstitious beliefs, and dogma. Pointing a finger at secular things, like a government or social justice movement, or people for the ethical treatment of animals... or cyclists, and exposing ways they are different and similar to religiosity can be productive. Whether those similarities are beneficial or toxic is just the next step in a diagnoses. I haven't heard much about dogmatic evangelical cyclists wielding their influence in government to restrict the rights of others much at all, though I may be out of the loop on that religious sport. (or is it a lifestyle)

@nono7105

4 жыл бұрын

@@anthonypc1 It's a virus.

@anthonypc1

4 жыл бұрын

@@nono7105 in the way that all commutable ideas are. the balance of harmful risks vs benefits of any viral ideas (or belief systems like faith-based dogma or scientific skepticism) is for us to judge.

@samanthacanales3183

4 жыл бұрын

@@anthonypc1 I found your response balance and truthful.

Matt clearly was stronger in the discussion. I felt like he was a school teacher with a student.

@orthodox9191

4 жыл бұрын

It is easier to appear stronger when you are defending nothing. I think Glen won this one. Although I also think that this may have been Matt's first defeat (with the exception being his conversation with Jordan Peterson which was a draw.)

@gabrielmartinez717

4 жыл бұрын

@@orthodox9191 in what respect do you think Matt lost??

@orthodox9191

4 жыл бұрын

@@gabrielmartinez717 Glen provided evidence that religion has a net benefit to society while Matt admitted that we must wait and see what secularism will produce. Also, every time Glen tried to show that secularism has failed in the past, Matt's response was to say that that was just religion masking as secularism. I think Matt's problem is that he cannot accept that any attempt at secularism will always morph into some kind of a religion. Atheism is just a flawed way of thinking. Quite frankly, I would call atheism a mental disorder.

@gabrielmartinez717

4 жыл бұрын

@@orthodox9191 Jesus lol what an "un-christian" way to end that. Hope everything is okay. Like Matt had pointed out, Atheism is just the state of not being convinced a God exists. Similar to Santa, there is no evidence. So to continue to believe would be, by definition, delusional. Also there's never been a secular humanist society so there's nothing to compare. Well what if everyone believed in Santa and that made the world a better place? It honestly might lol but that wouldn't make it true.

@madshorn5826

4 жыл бұрын

@@orthodox9191 Won?? Arguing that "atheism will bring down the Down population" when the deselection is happening in a world where most people claim to believe is ... unqualified. Trouble with religious types is that they define anyone on their side stepping out of line as a consequence of non-religious types doing stuff. It is a genius con: "Humans are frail so we can't allow dissent. You all have to behave as we would like you to for the greater good. The reward will be HUGE - and no one have ever complained. Questioning this is dissent and therefore harmful."

There not single debate that I watched without the religious debater not harping on the objective morals!!

this is what a civil conversation between opposing belief systems(or lack of) looks like. There needs to be more of this.

Glen seems like a nice guy. A nice guy who has never honestly questioned his beliefs.

@jtheist32

4 жыл бұрын

@Gabe Norman Because literally ever single "point" he makes is like "Baby's First Theology." Every point he makes could be debunked with even 30 seconds of honest investigation.

@bobyoung3857

4 жыл бұрын

He, just like all theist like to refer to a script. They may even say atheist use a script,but the difference is theist script is about 2500 years expired.

@silverwolfmonastery

4 жыл бұрын

I agree, Glen seems like a wonderful human. I am suspicious he uses flawless logic, except with his faith.

@jamesppesch

4 жыл бұрын

J w I don’t think you even believe the nonsense you espouse. You seem like a Sunday school ditto head. Many atheists align with Matt because he uses logic, Occam’s razor, skepticism, and rational thoughts to express his refutation of theist claims which many atheists have also considered.

@glenhill9884

4 жыл бұрын

@J w People follow whomever they choose, and Matt put it pretty clearly when he said there are some jerk atheists out there and some atheists who have not used the best reasoning. You can't avoid that. Glen was pretty irrational in his explanations. Matt was not. I think Matt was far too kind in this debate. When Glen brought up the trinity (God is the son. The Son is God. One is inside the other), he should have pounced on the illogical way that was presented, as well as the fact that the trinity is not in the bible. It was added scores of years later. Also, Glen went off on his "moral explanation" of God by saying "God is love". No, sorry. That's not how it works. You have a publication called the bible, and in it we don't read that LOVE created a universe or talked to people or wrestled with them. It wasn't LOVE that formed the basis for the Inquisition, Crusades, and witch burning. I was astounded that none of that came up. I was NOT surprised at how often Glen avoided answering direct questions.

Glen mistakes that because some Christians have done good things it follows then that Christianity is therefore good and true.

@adomaster123

4 жыл бұрын

TheBuilder and by that standard so is Buddhism friend. You’re going to have to do better.

@Wispyapples

4 жыл бұрын

@TheBuilder "Isn't"

@wuphat

4 жыл бұрын

@J w Except that's not what he said. No strawman. My assessment is what he argued.

Really enjoyed this discussion. This was an excellent example of how to have a respectful conversation with those you disagree.

The Juliet and Shakespeare analogy backfired! Great reply!

Great discussion. Dillahunty knows his stuff.

@wtfjesus8251

4 жыл бұрын

Yep!🤘

@MrKhushrenada

4 жыл бұрын

He was gonna become a pastor and read multiple versions of the bible multiple times and knows it better than approximately 100% of the people that he debates with (atleast 100% of the debates i heard).

@Diviance

4 жыл бұрын

@Jarvis Gandy In English alone, dozens of different versions. And yes, I would consider different translations to be different versions. Because they generally are quite different overall.

@TonkTheStonk

4 жыл бұрын

@Jarvis Gandy He doesn't know & he wasn't suggesting that;-)

@brando3342

4 жыл бұрын

@Brother Sanguinary Matt definitely does not understand the Bible at all. I'm not sure who told you that, but if you did read it and try to understand it, you would catch MANY mistakes and misinterpretations Matt presents.

The WWII argument is asinine. The British may had been fighting Hitler but the US famously DID NOT GET INVOLVED until 1941 when - not because of Hitler - but because of PEARL HARBOR. Bad argument and I'm surprised Matt didn't slam this guy for being so ignorant of history.

@siobhangraham7280

4 жыл бұрын

Also the fact that the Nazi party was allied with Christianity, required Christianity in order to be a member and to hold any office, and sent atheists and non-Christians to the concentration camps as "asocial." The motto of the Nazi party was "Gott Mit Uns," "God is With Us."

@Alulim-Eridu

4 жыл бұрын

There's a number of times I was surprised to see Glen say crap that Matt just let him get away with, w/out really addressing. Stuff Glen says, that I know Matt is aware of & knows how to effectively deal with! I don't know if Matt was just trying to be extra gentle, & extra polite ...because he's a guest in a foreign country or something like that But it is frustrating to see Matt let such foolish preaching, slide into what is supposed to be a good conversation

@puggydad

4 жыл бұрын

Eric Boczar I thought the same the first time I listened ed to this debate. Then I went and listened to what Matt’s responses where and it seemed that he was trying to not go down those rabbit holes and steer the conversation back towards the greater topic of secular morality.

@ericscaillet2232

4 жыл бұрын

@@puggydad it would point that way.

@stevebinning977

4 жыл бұрын

The USA became involved with the war against Nazi Germany 4 days after Pearl Harbour when Hitler declared war on the USA .

Matt is the only one being truly honest here

@NoContextRDH

9 ай бұрын

Nonsense. No basis of morality in his worldview, we are molecules in motion making it up as we go along. If a government passes a law, using logic and reason to state paedophilic behaviour is now legal, on what basis could you reasonably object??

@pabriny

4 ай бұрын

As I heard Glen explain blood magic is not blood magic, I had the same thought. This guy knows what he believes is a lode of crap. Look at him squirm trying to explain BS.

@aurorapaisley7453

2 ай бұрын

​@@pabrinyThey couldn't reconcile the sunk cost that they feel digging themselves in so they couldn't bring themselves to being sincere and truthful

I'm impressed that both of these men are able to engage in civil discussion while so strongly disagreeing with each other.

Someone, needs to teach Glen Scrivener the definition of the word: "Unique". He many, MANY, *MANY* times claims "Christianity has this unique quality"______" "....... when in fact such aspects, qualities, concepts are found *ALL* over the world, throughout history, and even in the animal kingdom.

@JMUDoc

4 жыл бұрын

Especially given that Chrisitanity incorporated so many pagan elements into itself...

@MrCanis4

4 жыл бұрын

There book is based on what they knew at that time, some 2000 years ago. But than again they knew less than 5% off the world and its population.

@MrSiloterio

4 жыл бұрын

like what?

@ocrancienthistory3326

4 жыл бұрын

Go listen to Tom Holland.

@paulelkin3531

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrSiloterio 41:12 has a good example, where "its found in judaism but its a uniquely Christian idea."

Once the conversation got to sacrifice, Mr. Christian arguer showed his true self.

@deangailwahl8270

4 жыл бұрын

In which way and at what point on the video I want to check it out? Thanks

@bonnie43uk

4 жыл бұрын

@@deangailwahl8270 Me too.

@ThePinsa42

4 жыл бұрын

bonnie43uk when he responded to Matt’s blood magic comment. He struggles to appropriately respond , there was no real substance to what he was saying to describe the sacrifice . Curious since it’s the single most important event in human history and he wasn’t able to distill a clear answer down that made any sense - I agree this is exactly when he was exposed . As it should be because it simply isn’t true and is sort of like blood magic - Matt was right.

@charlesd4572

4 жыл бұрын

Yip he got a bit stuck there but after the Downs Syndrome point was raised I have to be honest Matt was all over the place. He descended into utilitarianism which is never a good place to find yourself when talking about human beings - he was under pressure so perhaps he didn't have time to think it through properly and in the end he got very defensive. But again he made the point that if someone doesn't believe in your suppositions then its not a persuasive argument (which is true). But then that sot of makes Glen's point: in a society governed by a Christian view of the world you won't arrive to the conclusion that human beings have no innate value. In the absence of that - and what Sam calls well being - you could. So I think this was two way traffic. A very good conversation.

@Iverath

4 жыл бұрын

@@charlesd4572 "in a society governed by a Christian view of the world you won't arrive to the conclusion that human beings have no innate value" This is true, humans even have a shekel-value according to the bible (where girls are worth less than boys). I don't know if that value is "innate" though. Because that's just a claim. You can attach *anything* to what it means to be made in the image of god, and the bible does not make that clear at all.

I feel like every time I watch an Unbelievable video to learn about something I enjoy, the two guest go down a rabbit hole of debate that I now want to learn even more about. Which was precisely what happened when Matt and Glen began speaking about the reasoning/rationale behind sacrifice in the Old Testament and the necessity for Jesus' sacrifice on the cross.

@whittfamily1

Жыл бұрын

The crucifixion of Jesus is actually another piece of evidence pointing to the fact that God does not exist!

@charliebravonova5075

Жыл бұрын

@@whittfamily1 Explain

@whittfamily1

Жыл бұрын

@@charliebravonova5075 Yes, I will try to explain. If you don't understand or don't agree, please let me know. 1. Definition: God is 1) the hypothetical supernatural, unique, independent, eternal, invulnerable, everywhere-present but usually invisible, all-knowing, perfectly rational, all-powerful, perfectly moral person or intelligent agent who created the cosmos, sometimes intervenes in our world, and assigns human persons to different desirable or undesirable conditions after they die. or 2) the greatest imaginable possible person (the “GIPPer”) who, if he existed, would surely be worthy of our greatest respect, admiration, and worship. 2. If God did exist, he would not have arranged the crucifixion of Jesus, but would have prevented it, and it would have never occurred. 3. But the crucifixion of Jesus did occur. 4. Therefore, God does not exist.

@danielsmithiv1279

Жыл бұрын

@@whittfamily1 So God does not exist because of Jesus Christ? Is that your evidence?

@whittfamily1

Жыл бұрын

@@danielsmithiv1279 No, of course not! I believe that Jesus was a real man -- a traveling minister of the first century who probably was crucified. There are many correct arguments that God does not exist which have nothing to do with Jesus.

Did anyone else notice that when Matt challenged Glen to change his mind about not valuing human life, Glen went to secular reasoning instead of mentioning god?

shows how arrogant and closed-minded Glen is by the fact that at the end of the show despite Matt giving accurate representation of Atheism, Glen completely describes it wrong like it just went in one ear and out the other. Every time i hear "MHM" I think he wasnt actually listening and just was waiting for his chance to talk.....Such a tool.

@UnRe4lSkat3r

4 жыл бұрын

Meson atheism is just lack of belief in a god. Whether or not someone is positive is up to them. There is no agenda or worldview attached. There are positive and negative atheists, as there are are in religion also.

@UnRe4lSkat3r

4 жыл бұрын

Meson scientific method is not a worldview...it’s a method...literally in the name. And idc about atheists that make those claims, cause they are wrong. Just cause I’m an atheist doesn’t mean I agree with what all atheists say. I only hold the scientific method in such high regards, because it has provided the most advancement in understanding our universe and providing aspects to further improve on our existence. Without the scientific method, the human lifespan would be a lot shorter.

@UnRe4lSkat3r

4 жыл бұрын

@@Meson10 science doesnt dismiss anecdotal evidence, it just doesnt hold it to a very high regard. If we relied so highly on eyewitness testimony then many innocent people would be convicted of crimes they havent actually commited. Science enhances our senses beyond those that we have by way of microscopes, telescopes, energy wave receptors, etc. Only relying on our human senses can only get us so far. I dont trust alot of things most people say, particularly my own government, because i am extremely skeptical all around and only come to my conclusions after extensive research. I would hope you apply the same amount of skepticism as most should.

@UnRe4lSkat3r

4 жыл бұрын

@@Meson10 that is not being skeptical. You should not believe anything until evidence proves it. Seeing a supposed "possessed" person, your baseline should not be to believe it, but rather not believe it until proven. I'm deeply appalled by this example. Are you not aware cases like supposed "possession" has happened to people before that have had mental illnesses and their family refused medical treatment because of the belief they were possessed and that person ended up DYING for not getting proper medical care. This is simply a gross mindset you have and I deeply hope you do not look after any mentally ill people.

@UnRe4lSkat3r

4 жыл бұрын

@@Meson10 you have to prove the supernatural exists to use it as evidence. I dont only use the scientific method. I use anecdotal too, just not to a high standard as i already stated. If a detective convicts without sufficient evidence, then sounds like ur detective in this scenario is sht and needs to be fired. In what way is the scientific method flawed? You do know the scientific method does not claim absolutes, only the best possible explanation and if there is a better one, the theory can be shot down or improved on. We dont only have 5 senses btw, we have more subtle ones like the sense of space and balance. I've already told you science helps to enhance our senses, so we dont only rely on those senses. There is a difference between someone witnessing something through their eyes and someone witnessing something through a video camera. A video camera can record and keep log of data for everyone to see, you eyes record and keep data for only you to see.

Loved watching Glen’s eyes cross trying to skip around the absurdity of the trinity 50:00

@usergiodmsilva1983PT

4 жыл бұрын

Though the same, always cracks me up 😂

@ThePalePrince

4 жыл бұрын

Time stamp?

@micahchermak6386

4 жыл бұрын

Tyr Of The Great Old Ones 50:00

@qruzado

4 жыл бұрын

I think Matt should've torture him a bit with that!

@Endless7764

4 жыл бұрын

It was around this time when i lost hope in Glenn being an honest debate opponent. The first 30ish minutes he was ok but when he really wasn't able to defend himself he let his true character show.

This was a good discussion 👌 👏

I am not a Buddhist, but just by looking at The Noble Eightfold Path and the Mahayana text they seems to have been able to come up with a moral system without Christianity and perhaps an even higher moral standard then Christianity. You see atheist is from all over the world and some have different religious backgrounds. So we don’t have to lean on the christian moral at all, we can use Buddhist moral.. or we can just think logical, what it all comes down to.

Glen is painful to listen to and comes off as arrogantly not really interested in understanding what Matt is saying

@MrTHEtesters

4 жыл бұрын

setboy1 this is so true and sadly most often the case in these kinds of debates

@bigfan1041

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting that you would use an unsubstantiated character attack instead of a real comment

@MrTHEtesters

4 жыл бұрын

JxJxJxJx define real comment?

@bigfan1041

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrTHEtesters Not containing fallacious ad hominems

@A-VeryJudgemental-Guy

4 жыл бұрын

JxJxJxJx what makes it unsubstantiated, did you not watch the debate😂

Lol! This guy was trying SOOOO hard to turn this into an abortion debate and Matt wouldn't let him.😂

@daviddeida

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah Matt dodged alot.

@therambler3713

3 жыл бұрын

Matt knows his knowledge on abortion is really bad, but he felt the need to support it anyway because Christians are against it

@dunkyvslife7447

3 жыл бұрын

@@therambler3713 Yeah...that's not how he works. He bases his opinions on facts whereas christians base theirs on bronze age fairy tales and emotions.

@therambler3713

3 жыл бұрын

@@dunkyvslife7447 lol, ok buddy

@kentonbaird1723

3 жыл бұрын

He was trying to push a "gotcha". However, if glen had actually watched Matt's show, he'd know that he's handled those discussions quite easily.

Been going through a lot of these discussions/debates and I am just loving it. Nice to see disagreeing without being disagreeable

As a former heroin addict I second that notion that doing dope does not equate to happiness 🤘

"Morality: Can atheism deliver a better world?" The question doesn't really make sense. All atheism is a non-belief that any god exists. It makes no claims about morality. It makes as much sense to ask "Morality: Can non-belief in Odin ( or non-belief in leprechauns) deliver a better world?

@woolvey

4 жыл бұрын

While I understand your point, atheism does rule out the possibility of a moral system based on divine authority and most theists claim such a system of morality. I assume the title was selected as much for keyword purposes as accuracy.

@shawncudjoe21

4 жыл бұрын

@@woolvey Atheism has nothing to do with morality.

@woolvey

4 жыл бұрын

@@shawncudjoe21 I didn't say it did! I said atheism rules out the possibility of morality based on god. You can't simultaneously believe in morality derived from god and not believe in god.

@shawncudjoe21

4 жыл бұрын

@@woolvey No it does not. Even if there were a god or gods, morality would be a seperate issue.

@cnault3244

4 жыл бұрын

@@woolvey "atheism does rule out the possibility of a moral system based on divine authority " Atheism has nothing to do with morality in the same way that chemistry and astronomy have nothing to do with morality. "most theists claim such a system of morality" They can claim whatever they want, but there is no reason to believe that claim.

I'm an atheist. I dont believe in marriage. For my girlfriend to stay with me she wanted to be married. So I got married and gave her my word. For 20 years. My cousin is a preacher. He's getting divorced after 12 years. He cheated on his wife with another girl the entire marriage. So much for morals.

@BorgesProduction

3 жыл бұрын

Your cousin had a choice. He could of been religious but not have a moral compass or a relationship with God. Just because one is religious, doesn’t mean they’ll live by moral standards

@bharathdeva9407

2 жыл бұрын

Was the girl hot.i mean she has to be worth it or else its for nth mate 🤣😂

@lnsflare1

Жыл бұрын

My standard rule is to immediately distrust anyone who says that they know what God wants, especially if they want to get paid for doing so.

Great job Matt

Are you guys ever going to have Matt back on? This was an awesome, cool, and calm conversation. We need more of these!

@noneofyourbusiness7055

Жыл бұрын

It's been well over 2 years by now. Looks like they learned from their mistake of having his sharp mind that close to their narrative...

@00dfm00

Жыл бұрын

@@noneofyourbusiness7055 🤣👍

@noneofyourbusiness7055

Жыл бұрын

Nice ad hominem fallacy. Goes well with the false equivalence fallacy. The tu quoque fallacy on top of that seems a bit much though, any kind of point that's not invalid crying about social norms might've been nice...

@noneofyourbusiness7055

Жыл бұрын

Magic, like a god speaking things into being? Magic, like a talking snake? Magic, like magically enchanted fruit granting knowledge of good & evil? Magic, like cursing all snakes and humans forever? And that's just chapter *1* of the dogma you believe, before the magic of miraculous healing, food multiplication, water walking, combustion and resurrection spells, and much more. A mind projection fallacy, then.

"...literally, there are thousands of studies that show the benefits of religion.. ". Citation needed.

@rembrandt972ify

3 жыл бұрын

He kept stating without citation that thousands of studies show that Christians who were the happiest with their church were so much better people than non-believers. Well sure, if you pick a complete bullshit criteria and disqualify all the frustrated unhappy people who want to kill somebody from a group that contains them, you can show that the happiest people in a group behave better.

@DavidJones-zg4od

3 жыл бұрын

In our current reality, and throughout our history, one can show all the the horrible atrocities that people have, and are still doing, because of their religious convictions.

@StuntpilootStef

3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidJones-zg4od I despise religion as much as you, but you're making the exact same mistake. It's not true that all atrocities are done because of religion.

@douglaspearce9129

3 жыл бұрын

As my father used to say: ''I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate!''

@StuntpilootStef

3 жыл бұрын

@@douglaspearce9129 Hyperbole will destroy the world!

"all humans are worthy of provision and protection" 1:05:35 You know, except when they won't bow to jesus, then they are only worthy of eternal torture. Perfectly counter to the religion.

@kosgoth

4 жыл бұрын

@Déjà Siku You miss the point. Don't suck off jesus and you don't get into heaven. There isn't anyone innocent, and no one has a choice about being a sinner or not due to the claims of the book. So it's jesus's decree that everyone is a sinner that causes us to go to hell, not the pure claim that we are sinners.

@jonfromtheuk467

3 жыл бұрын

@Déjà Siku "Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" John 14:6

@jettec9411

3 жыл бұрын

1:11:00 "the good life is the sacrifice of the strong for protection of the weak" excuse me but isn't it the deeply religious concervertive tea party that argues the strongest against healtcare for the poor, not caring about the deaths that causes.

@loveandfaithfulness4479

3 жыл бұрын

Psalm 34:8 Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

@jonfromtheuk467

3 жыл бұрын

@@loveandfaithfulness4479 you know people like you should try to actually make a well thought out point , that addresses the original authors point , than endlessly quoting scripture as if an unbeliever will suddenly go, oh, right I'm convinced , alleluia

great conversation.

Matt was so kind in this interview. He tends to treat people the way they treat him. The " Matt" principle.

@jessehollenbeck4607

Жыл бұрын

It seems to be the reverse of the "Golden Rule".

@YeshuaIsLord135

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know but what I do know is that I don’t know and you don’t know but I also don’t know what you don’t know the famous Matt “i don’t know” dillahunty

@javieradorno2503

Жыл бұрын

@@YeshuaIsLord135 “All I know is that I know nothing.” -Socrates

I appreciate Matt more and more. Watching 3 years now.

@ceceroxy2227

2 жыл бұрын

I dont thnk I could like matt less

@bharathdeva9407

2 жыл бұрын

@@ceceroxy2227 matt is the saviour of religious ppl .he is guiding them out of religion saving them actually .

@jsmilers

Жыл бұрын

Sad for you. Listen to his talks on abortion and how he discounts the developing life as being worthless, and acts like the "poor woman" who got pregnant did so through no fault of her own. He thinks pregnancy is a disease and I guess that you do, too. THAT kind of thinking is what coarsens the culture and makes this world a more dangerous place.

@dzeger2810

Жыл бұрын

@@jsmilers you think women shouldn't be allowed abortion? Based on what, if there is no law prohibiting abortion then nothing happens to you, if your wife doesn't want abortion she isn't forced to do one, if abortion is prohibited then the women wanting to get it are not allowed to, im pretty sure the fetus doesn't feel any pain until very late through pregnancy, what surprises me is that religious people tend to be pro life yet their dogma suggests people get stoned for working on sabbath or being gay or apostasy, why does a life of a fetus which isn't able to feel pain most of the time more valuable to them than a life of another fully developed human being

@jbirdzz

11 ай бұрын

@@jsmilers Having a position on one thing is separate from a position on another thing. I like Matt for his stance, debates, and discussions refuting religion. I'm an atheist, and I would say for the most part I entirely agree with his positions outside of politics. When it comes to politics, though, I tend to disagree on key issues such as abortion. Were I hold the same view as political commentators such as Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson, I generally like most of their political positions, however, their religious stances are extraordinarily flawed, and lack merit as they've lost almost every discussion they've had on those subjects. The reality is we can appreciate people for certain positions they hold, however, as humans we hold varying positions on everything. Atheism isn't a worldview, and therefore, atheists will hold a wide array of beliefs about differing issues that differ from other atheists. I dislike Matt's stance on abortion, however, I appreciate him in these types of discussions.

41:00 is where he lost the last bit of his credibility. "the idea of including everyone is a uniquely Christian idea. It is on the first page of the Bible. So Judaism." He is literally debunking himself as he speaks.

@nono7105

4 жыл бұрын

Um, no, he isn't. Christianity includes Judaism. They are not entirely separate religions. They have the exact same God, who is the source of all morality.

@corydorastube

4 жыл бұрын

@@nono7105 So does Islam. Dou you believe that Mohammed flew around on the back of a winged horse with the head of a woman too? If not why not? Jews do not agree that your Christ is their Messiah.

@nono7105

4 жыл бұрын

@@corydorastube Obviously I do not. I do not believe that the God of Islam is the same as the God of the Christians and the Jews. That is not the point though. If a Muslim were to believe it so and he made a claim about some aspect of Islam that could actually be traced back to Christianity it's not some "gotcha" moment. Because he believes that Islam is the inheritor of Christianity. You or I or any others might disagree with him on that point, but it is irrelevant to his position. He is being internally consistent. So in this case Glen is _not_ debunking himself. The Christian God is the same as the Jewish God. The first five books of the Christian Bible are the Torah. The difference between Judaism and Christianity is that the Christians believe the prophecy of the promised Messiah has been fulfilled, Jews do not. If you wish to critique Glen for failing to say "Judeo-Christian" instead of just Christian, then fine, you can say he wasn't precise in his terminology. But he didn't debunk himself.

@corydorastube

4 жыл бұрын

@@nono7105 Then you are uneducated. Islam is an Abrahamic religion. Judaism, Islam and Christianity share the same God. So do the Druze, the Bahá'í and the Rastafari. Why are you lot always so ignorant on the theology of the religion you profess to follow?

@soren9833

4 жыл бұрын

@@corydorastube The theology is not the same. For example, Muslims believe Jesus is the messiah, but do not think he was crucified, or that he is the Son of God, which is central to Christian theology. Judaism and Christianity have more in common with their theologies than that of Islam in that Christians can take insight from the old testament. Islam does not and in fact deviates from it; Ishmael is considered the chosen one rather than Isaac. Jesus at the end of the day believed he was fulfilling the Jewish religion, he was actually a practicing Jew. So, no, you are factually mistaken on several points.

Two things I'm really glad MD picked up on here - Glen talking about evolution as the 'survival of the fittest' and MD pointing out that his use of the phrase in the context of morality to suggest that a belief in evolution and secular humanism leads to a moral system where the strong (i.e. physically or politically powerful) obliterate the weak is just a misunderstanding of the word 'fittest' in an evolutionary sense; secondly, the point about divorce - relationships breaking up can be damaging, of course, but isn't always worst than staying in an unhappy, self-destructive situation.

@neilsworldwide

2 жыл бұрын

Ok so your two points I agree with. The guy was bullshitting about evolution, what evolution says is that there's traits that are desirable that are passed down and nature selects naturally what traits are advantageous. And there's actually studies that say that traits like being caring and helpfulness actually lead to better outcomes and evolution favors these traits over others. The point that all these religious people bring up is divorce, and how evil it is. And my question is always the same what's wrong with divorce. Seriously, what is wrong with it.

@XiagraBalls

2 жыл бұрын

@@neilsworldwide Well, if you're in an abusive, unhappy relationship, probably not a lot.

that was really good

As an Australian, I found Glen excruciating and painful, and a bit disingenuous.

@jacoblee5796

4 жыл бұрын

Well he is a religious apologists so.....

@crazyprayingmantis5596

4 жыл бұрын

Fellow Aussie here thinks the same, sorry world for Glen and Ken Ham.

@bpdrumstudio

4 жыл бұрын

As a human being I felt Glen was painful lol

Why does there need to be a blood sacrifice? Why not a vegetable sacrifice? Why not a origami sacrifice? It's all hocus pocus no matter how you parse it out.

@douglaspearce9129

4 жыл бұрын

@Trillions And ... ?

@discoveringancienthistoryw5246

4 жыл бұрын

@Déjà Siku - now that's funny.

@zenithquasar9623

3 жыл бұрын

It is not the same if there is no burning blood and flesh to generate pleasant smell for the psycho God!

@discoveringancienthistoryw5246

3 жыл бұрын

@@zenithquasar9623 -true, but in the big book of Jewish fables it was Cain who made a sacrifice of 'fruits of the soil' ... so I guess Yahweh isn't into fruit salad!

@zenithquasar9623

3 жыл бұрын

@@discoveringancienthistoryw5246 Yeah, he is strictly paleo...

It's amazing that this is still a subject for debate...

@dtgb7

2 жыл бұрын

its amazing that people think atheism should be taken seriously...

@whittfamily1

Жыл бұрын

Oh, it might be the most important subject for debate.

Sacrifice of the Strong VS Survival of the Fittest is the best comparative snapshot for analysis and the best angle of the conversation that delineates the foundation of both position.

@whittfamily1

Жыл бұрын

No, not even close. The best angle is "Where does morality come from?"

@JamesN16

4 ай бұрын

I don’t think this oversimplification offers any value. It certainly had nothing to do with this conversation. To sum up the Christian message and the Bible as sacrificing the strong would be revisionist. To suggest Matt advocated anything resembling survival of the fittest to completely ignore everything Matt said. He argued for humanism, the exact opposite.

Glen - “your statistics are wrong, mine are correct” That resumes religion beliefs and his character in one sentence.

I didn’t notice any difference between glen and the average christian caller on AXP.

@0x8b

4 жыл бұрын

same

@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl

4 жыл бұрын

He seems to be smart but I think he gave up his intelligence for a believe system. We do not know why, but I think he´s very delusional about Christianity.

@derkaiser1306

4 жыл бұрын

theres never a difference. the smartest, most well versed professor of theology will use the same arguments that a regular joe theist uses...

@phant0mwolf421

4 жыл бұрын

@@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl You can really see it when Matt starts to ask the hard questions, and Glen tries to answer with pretty, but meaningless platitudes.

@psychicandice

4 жыл бұрын

Regardless of your degree or title, bad arguments are still, at the end of the day, bad arguments. That’s not to say the argument for a God isn’t out there somewhere but when William Lane Craig is the epitome of Christian apologists and one people like to cite as the absolute authority on everything then it’s just bad arguments from these well known apologists.

Matt is a BEAST!!!

46:30 is when his reasoning gets really annoying. "God the son became god our brother blah blah blah". Sure it's poetic but that doesnt make it evidence.

@The02wooley

3 жыл бұрын

Over 55,000 artifacts and documents says so and provide a reasonable explanation not to mention the eye witness accounts

@iamreflective9624

3 жыл бұрын

It seems that atheist would better appreciate that "nothing" created "something", yet they will carry out a poetic explanation of how "the issue is more complex". Give me a break.

@russellh9894

3 жыл бұрын

@@The02wooley There are claims of eye-witnesses but no one to talk to now. I dont know about the artifacts thing but there could be a million and that wouldnt prove a god. Documents saying something is not evidence that what they say is true. Got anything concrete?

@russellh9894

3 жыл бұрын

@@iamreflective9624 I'm not sure what you are getting at. "Would better appreciate" ? What does that mean? And if asked about how/why there is something rather than nothing, I'd say I dont know. That's me being poetic? As far as something coming from nothing, excuse my ignorance, but wouldn't your god fall into that category?

@Ichabod_Jericho

3 жыл бұрын

@@russellh9894 here’s another prime example of Christians ignoring concrete objections to their faith

I can’t wait to see Dillahunty go against De’Sousa in March!! It’s gonna be on Pangburn Philosophy so you all should check it out too!

@seanjones2456

4 жыл бұрын

dSouza is a criminal and an asshat. Matt will destroy him, because Matt is honest and happens to be scientifically correct.

@ronaldmendonca6636

4 жыл бұрын

You mean, Convicted Criminal DeSousa?

@VodShod

4 жыл бұрын

@@ronaldmendonca6636 hey are you calling criminals as bad guys? We respect criminals in america, at least the religious people do, otherwise why would we elect as president a con artist who has used charities as his own personal slush fund, cheated on his wife, refused to pay people for their work, was recorded confessing to sexually assaulted women, and those are just the things we knew for certain before he was elected.

@veggiebroth5542

4 жыл бұрын

demigodzilla I think it’s still around. I seen it in you yt feed

@darkoleskovsek2558

4 жыл бұрын

on Pangburn Philosophy? I think I'll pass

The person who can cite one study always has the edge over those who assert vague “countless studies.”

@dylanschweitzer18

2 жыл бұрын

If you look at the pinned comment at the top, there are a link to several different studies that Glen indirectly referred to.

Good Job Matt👌

The audio in this discussion needed a HPF. Every time either one of them taps the table with emphasis, my subwoofer shakes the room.

@quantize

3 жыл бұрын

Just noticed this on my headphones and kept taking them off thinking someone was shifting heavy furniture

Glen keeps say there are "literally thousands of studies" yet never mentions one by title, author or year, and the only actual study that is ever brought up is the one that disagrees with him, the one matt brought up, yet he keeps pulling the "literally thousands of studies"

@alexisdrai

3 жыл бұрын

Déjà Siku no, like citing sources: a title, a year of publishing, and an author, for instance, are important pieces of information to share if you want to allow others to double check the data.

@dylzoe

3 жыл бұрын

Its rare for an area of research to have that many accredited studies too.

@nadivkaspi6211

3 жыл бұрын

​@Déjà Siku Matt literally cites the date (roughly) and the author lmao

@MikeTall88

3 жыл бұрын

@Déjà Siku 1. Matt did not make the point, thus he may have not been prepared with sources. But he does point you to a specific study. You really did not hear that? You might have a thick bias if you missed that, don't you think?

@jwhipple5567

3 жыл бұрын

Also, the "scientific value or validity of religion" is not a topic that most scientists would consider a sensical topic, let alone a worthwhile area of study. After 100,000+ years of humanity, no one has managed to demonstrate any evidence for the existence of a god... let alone a particular god or religious philosophy... as everyone knows, otherwise there would be no atheists and only one religion. So if I'm a scientist, why would I spend my research grant money, my time, and my energy on this subject unless I have a pre-determined agenda from the source of the grant money or my own preconceptions? What good would come from it? Even if I was able to conclusively demonstrate that religion is toxic to society or that religion is beneficial to society, what have I accomplished beyond a talking point for people to argue about? That's not why people join religions and it's not why they leave. So, even though he provided no evidence for his "thousands of studies", it would be nonsensical for there to be that many studies by that many actual scientists on a topic that does nothing, solves no problems, creates no value for a company, informs no new areas of research... just nothing. UNLESS... there just happened to be TONS of money laying around in the pockets of organizations with no need for any ACTUAL scientific research that might yield useful results... and a vested interest in seeing an otherwise useless set of data. Can anyone think of any institutions that might describe? So first of all, no there are NOT thousands of actual scientific studies on the benefits or otherwise of religion on societies, which is why he couldn't name any. There are less than a handful. The only such peer-reviewed published studies that were not directly sponsored by a religious organization with a vested interest in the outcome have all concluded that in MANY ways, but not all ways, that secular societies have a generally higher standard of living. Second of all, even that doesn't actually matter, because the entire concept of these studies is very unscientific. Large human societies are way too complex to boil down to one sociological aspect, so all such studies must, by their nature, choose what aspects of societal data they will include, and choose whether to eliminate or include subjective self-reported opinions as part of that data, and they must choose a definition of human and societal well-being from their subjective perspective. And the people doing those studies must make those choices. And those people are capable of being biased, either intentionally or unconsciously. And thus, anybody who doesn't like their conclusions could immediately dismiss the study, and will, as you witnessed from both sides. So for a supposedly logical person to stand on that as evidence of Christianity supplying a superior moral construct for society whilst ignoring what all of the Christian texts literally say is absurd. Christianity (historically, literally, and currently around the globe) condones genocide, torture, rape, homicide, slavery, abuse, misogyny, genital mutilation, racism, and human sacrifice, among others. None of these things were problems in the Christian mindset until a secular renaissance fueled by the likes of Thomas Payne, Thomas Jefferson, and many more led to the establishment of western NON-CHRISTIAN governments, like the United States. What Scrivener has done is tell the story of Hansel and Gretel without the child neglect, cannibalism, and murder where the kids go for a walk with their loving parents and meet a nice old lady and have a nice afternoon tea with her before going home to pet their dog... and claim that is what the Grimm Brothers meant to write, because he wishes that's what they wrote... and therefore it is a superior source of morality than Matt who just inherently told his kids to be nice to people, including the old ones, for no other reason than that the person is human, and the kids are human, and someday the kids will be old, and they'll want kids to be nice to them when they're old... whilst sneering at that line of reasoning saying it could lead to cannibalism or child neglect or murder... all of which was the ACTUAL starting point of his conversation that he just tried to excuse and ignore... and unfortunately Matt let him get away with it.

"Atheism leads to burning at the stake and witch hunts" King James Version (KJV) of Exod 22:18, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live, " I can't tell if Glenn is dishonest or stupid

@ramsaval

3 жыл бұрын

But the stakes to your credit

@NEMOfishZ92

3 жыл бұрын

@@jsob_fl1171 how can we read what we don't have ? Seriously we don't have an original

@NEMOfishZ92

3 жыл бұрын

@@jsob_fl1171 The oldest extant copy of a complete Bible is an early 4th-century parchment book preserved in the Vatican Library, and it is known as the Codex Vaticanus. The oldest copy of the Tanakh in Hebrew and Aramaic dates from the 10th century CE. Still not the original we have no original

@NEMOfishZ92

3 жыл бұрын

@@jsob_fl1171 I see non of them as trustworthy and did you not see my link? Basically all bible say the same thing about witches

@NEMOfishZ92

3 жыл бұрын

@@jsob_fl1171 meh it's ok dude you came in with every intention to have an honest discussion and I don't see that often so I appreciate it

As a Christian of 48 years I have to say that Glen did not really convince here. Matt has a much sharper mind and made him struggle. Surprisingly he seemed to have an unsure grasp of his theology, or maybe he was just unsettled by his opponent.The issue of conscience was not really addressed here and I think may be the clue to how people perceive right from wrong whether they believe in God or not.

Matt-"God likes bbq and self sacrifice." Glenn-"It's magic."

I’m so glad I’m not religious anymore, I probably sounded like Glen the apologetic.

@dtgb7

3 жыл бұрын

lol so youd rather sound like Dillahunty? ok then i can see why you are not religious anymore...

@GalapagosPete

3 жыл бұрын

@@dtgb7 What do you think Dillahunty sounds like? Why? Please provide examples and explain how they support your opinion.

@dtgb7

3 жыл бұрын

@@GalapagosPete he sounds like every other atheist! atheists that really dont understand what they are criticizing because they dont know/understand what the message is, that dont understand the context of every passage they superficially read! They criticize based on their assumptions, assumtpions that are obviously wrong because they didnt put the work in trying to understand and comprehend scripture! shallow reading or superfical reading is not enough to interpret the spiritual meanings of the Bible/religion teachings...

@Easy1two3

3 жыл бұрын

@@dtgb7 call the Atheist Experience and Matt will give you such a wallopping with his understanding of scripture it will make your head spin.

@dtgb7

3 жыл бұрын

@@Easy1two3 You are awed by Matt because he is less ignorant than you, but still ignorant! This is not the first time ive heard about Matt ive even seen his show and some of his calls, when he is put in a corner he has the ability to hang up! Yep he is so fair like that... And do you seriously think he will post on his channel a conversation in which he does not look good because of his ignorance? come one now, given the situation somebody could hold his own on his attacks he will do the easy thing and just hang up on him or just not even post the call up. Everything you see on his show are conversations in which the christian who made the call is barely knowleageable , and those calls might even be set ups by Matt, we dont know how original this phone calls are! it might be all staged , might be not, but the truth is Matt does not post calls with knowleagable christians..

Matt was very generous with his ideas/positions other dude was not.

@everythingisvanityneverthe1834

4 жыл бұрын

I thought Glen was way less condescending than usual and I thought Matt was wonderful in his generosity towards the gaps in his ideas. Ironically Matt is much more comfortable than some of the people in these comments. You can see Matt over the years refining his ideas in conversation with strong objections and just being all around comfortable in his own skin. It's like all the conflict and rejection that he had to face made him a more rounded an mature human being. Lot's of respect. I'm pretty sure the man would have been a hell of a pastor - which I believe he actually considered before his deconversion.

@HardKore5250

4 жыл бұрын

How so?

@stylis666

4 жыл бұрын

Well, in Glen's defence, Matt could just rely on reality and his honesty and integrity. Glen didn't have this solid foundation to rest and fall back on; he constantly needed to make up shit to rationalize his bullshit. That's not easy.

@matthewvandeventer3632

4 жыл бұрын

@@everythingisvanityneverthe1834 He explicitly became an atheist because of his quest to find truth. He had a roommate that did not believe in god, and he wanted to help him stay out of hell. Then he discovered that the "God" he was spoon-fed didn't make sense. I'm faced the same dilemma, followed the truth right out of Christianity. Honestly any god that claims to be truth, a concept of accuracy, should be left by the wayside.

@jacoblee5796

4 жыл бұрын

I agree, I think Matt was very generous with Glenn. Matt conceded a lot of points he shouldn't have and didn't need to just to move the conversation a long. If Glenn would have called into his show Matt never would have done this. I almost wonder if there wasn't some type of arrangement/agreement before the debate started.

Your looking much healthier Matt! It's great to see you looking so much happier! Keep up the good works!

@fcchannel6162

2 жыл бұрын

something i don't get is atheist say morality is subjective and wrong and right is just a matter of opinion so isn't belief in god a matter of opinion if that's true then atheism is just a matter of opinion?

For the debate about 1:10:07 Christianity being responsible for the Allies joining the war against Germany in WWII. I am surprised Matt didn't mention Italy, the literal home of the Roman Catholic Church. Despite what ever Fascist regime was in power at the time in Italy, no one can say Italy didn't have a lot of Christians within their boarders. Yet, despite all those Christians, they marched with the Axis during WWII. Also, the USSR who spent the couple decades preceding WWII doing what could easily be described as genocide against the Orthodox Christian religion, is the country most responsible for defeating the Axis powers during WWII. Which means the USSR supported the Allies, after just losing 12-20 million Christians right before WWII started. So maybe, saying Christians were responsible for the Allies winning the war is a little disingenuous.

@emilianosintarias7337

Жыл бұрын

It was christian anti-semitism that gave us the holocaust, and you're totally right that the church was on the side of the fascists. Who beat the fascists and sacrificed the strong for the weak? Atheist USSR

@patientfirbolg3299

Жыл бұрын

Also, Nazi soldier had "Gott mit uns" written on their belt buckles. Many, Nazi's saw themselves as Christians, seems God was playing both sides in this conflict.

@zorrobatman1

Жыл бұрын

​@@patientfirbolg3299Nazi's god wasn't exactly the classical view of God

@patientfirbolg3299

Жыл бұрын

​@@zorrobatman1 The views of many Christians in Nazi Germany wouldn't be too dissimilar from modern interpretations. Having many of the major theological beliefs many Christians have today. Hitler, on the other hand, did seem to loath Christianity (though he would pretend to be a Christian for politics). However, it was pretty easy for him to take the antisemitism fostered by Christian leaders over the past centuries and turn it into something even darker.

@Liverpoolfc9karim

Жыл бұрын

Also Hitlers first ever treaty as the official head of the Nazi party was with the Catholic party of Germany, to dissolve the party and effectively made Nazis the only party in Germany unopposed. And Hitlers birthdays were celebrated from the pulpits of Catholic Churches across Germany, never forget that!!!!

My late wife, when she was diagnosed withcancer, said she was glad that she had got rid of a religion which might leave her wondering what she'd done wrong to be punished with this horrible disease.

@BearCrossStudio

3 жыл бұрын

Thats what a religion does yes. A relationship doesn't leave anyone to blame. I greatly apologise for your wife's death though 🥺 I pray she sees God even in the afterlife

@anandsuralkar582

3 жыл бұрын

@@BearCrossStudio i hope she doesnt see a "abrahmic "god in heaven bcz abroahmic god is a evil monster

@mattlannimusic

3 жыл бұрын

I’m very sorry to hear about your wife. The Bible however never says that every disease is a punishment from God. So I am curious where you got that idea from?

@PetersPianoShoppe

3 жыл бұрын

@@mattlannimusic He didn’t say it was from the bible. He said it was from a religion.

@92brunod

3 жыл бұрын

@@mattlannimusic it doesn't? Aren't we all being punished to suffer this life instead of a better one because Adam ate an apple thousands of years ago? If it isn't punishment and God created everything, what is his reason to create cancer?

It baffles me, the confidence with which Glen and many Christians like him assert ideas like the principles of universal acknowledgement of human freedom and rights emanating only from the Judeo-Christian worldview, or the notion of a god assuming human form being unique to Christianity, and being part of no other faith. There are other world religions, and you cannot make these claims without even superficially studying at least some of them. Hinduism, for example, has both those notions embedded in its religious texts, and early roots of the religion predate Judaism by more than a thousand years. In fact, the concepts of universality could be argued to be far, far more central to Hinduism than any of the Abrahamic faiths. And God taking human form, well, that's the whole idea of Avataras in Hinduism - God (or Paramatma in Sanskrit) has done that not once, but multiple times, if Hindu scriptures are to be believed. None of this is to say that I believe in the existence of Hindu gods, or that the edicts of Hinduism are correct. I'm an atheist. I am merely pointing out the idiocy of making the assertions that people like Glen make.

@AnubisGray

4 жыл бұрын

Hrishabh Singh I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s mind went strait to the Hindu avatars

@jacoblee5796

4 жыл бұрын

Christians love crediting their religion for things that it had absolutely nothing to do with.

@seadog2969

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I'd just add that the discussions concerning what is "the good" has been long discussed and examined well before God had a long weekend. Just looking at the ancient Greeks, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. The other interesting thing people often overlook is that Greek philosophy actually examined and tested moral beliefs, whereas the bible just asserts moral platitudes and demands no question as to whether those platitudes are correct.

@paxmule

4 жыл бұрын

@edwardmashberg1 Well said.

@thebiblestudio7

4 жыл бұрын

edwardmashberg1 Can you say who first says “Do unto others as you want them to do to you”? You may be surprised. Don’t conflate crusades and other stuff with Christianity’s ethos.

The best method we have found is to tell a story... that story doesn't have to be true. You can use a parable from a work of fiction that can hit home and help change someone's mind.

@whittfamily1

Жыл бұрын

Or not. We can do better by telling true stories than fictional ones.

@grolstum211

Жыл бұрын

One fable of aesop ( choose one with the animals of your preference) has ten times the moral value of the whole old testament. I hope you do not raise your children by reading them the revelation with the whore of babylon or how Lot had incest sex with his daughters..... Stories are great and they exist ages before the abrahamic god of israel. Myths, fables, epic and lyric poetry all have far superior moral value. Just the myth of Ikarus or of Narcissus or Pygmalion are like philosophical dissertation compared to the barbaric and hateful holy scriptures of abrahamic religions.

@RobertLesac

5 ай бұрын

​@@whittfamily1 we already have that, it's called history. We humans are storytellers at our core, but we got stuck when some of us proclaimed that some stories are the absolute truth.

@whittfamily1

5 ай бұрын

@@RobertLesac I agree. And also, some of us proclaim stories are true when they are false. The first verse of Genesis is a good example: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..." Not.

"Awareness is known by awareness alone," is the sole irreducible axiom of reality.

@cynic150

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds impressive! Yes, but what is awareness?

Too bad that Matt let him get away with the bogus (and untrue) "science and statistics prove religions make you more happy" claim. Otherwise, nice talk.

@setboy1

4 жыл бұрын

zorglub667 it’s a hard thing to fight when you both haven’t read the same papers so you can argue specifics

@tonybanks1035

4 жыл бұрын

completelly true and matt already got wrecked on that very subject by Michael Jones. Try harder next time.

@jesusislord9758

4 жыл бұрын

Being a born again Christian brings you peace and joy.

@moodyrick8503

4 жыл бұрын

@@jesusislord9758 And being a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddist can also bring you peace and joy! You have to understand, to an outsider they all look the same. Also, large portions of Christians telling each other that they are not "REAL" Christians.

@jesusislord9758

4 жыл бұрын

moody rick how so?

Great job, Matt, as always. Considering what you're up against, you always provide excellent rebuttal.

@VodShod

4 жыл бұрын

@Paul Morgan it was very obvious in the way he kept phrasing his questions, rewording Matt to straw-man his position.

@flipgsp

4 жыл бұрын

@Paul Morgan Well Matt's show is usually 2 people against 1 caller so I don't think he can complain.

@fredriksundberg4624

4 жыл бұрын

@Paul Morgan : So god selfdefeated himself in ww2, because most of the germans and italians were christians and also those on the allied side, or am i misunderstanding the religiosity in ww2?

@Sydney_With_A_Why

4 жыл бұрын

@@flipgsp AXP is not a formal structured debate like this supposedly was. But that's alright, Matt is also an expert at handling stacked decks.

@brianwestley6985

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sydney_With_A_Why "Matt is also an expert at handling stacked decks." He IS an amateur stage magician...

I'm liking this a lot! Yay, Matt!!

Since I watch Matt's debates regularly I knew this was gonna be gold but damn, he knocked that Christian boy out of the park! Brutally logical arguements.

@Againstfascist

3 жыл бұрын

You spelled arguments wrong.

@bstlybengali

3 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily. Matt faced a huge problem as well. Matt has to concede that atheism has zero basis for morality and therefore it is mailable not through argument but through bias. I.e Hitlers ideas Are perfectly acceptable via atheism. The idea that harming innocent people is good can be found to be reasonable all under the umbrella of random blind processes making atoms come together only to fall apart.

@Againstfascist

3 жыл бұрын

Matt thinks we can't know anything. So how does he know that we can't know anything?

@wordforever117

3 жыл бұрын

I think this is confirmation bias for you sadly

@MarkoMood

3 жыл бұрын

@@bstlybengali No. Just like harming others is a blind process, so is the unacceptance of that act. The fact that poop came about by an uncontrolled blind process doesn't change that my dislike of the smell of it is also a random blind process. This fact doesn't suddenly make me accept the smell of poop and think it smells good. Same with murder and anything else. We still continue to be unnaccepting of certain behavior and accepting of other behavior. It's nothing more than a matter of taste. A god adds nothing to this conversation. It would just be another opinion.

Interesting how he had to admit that his qualities came from Judaism rather than Christianity.

@nono7105

4 жыл бұрын

Christianity came from Judaism. What admission is he making?

@Freethinkingtheist77

4 жыл бұрын

As above... its called the Judeo-Christian worldview.

Matt, you did it again 👍 Love you Matt!!!

@jojohnviz12

4 жыл бұрын

He actually admitted that he probably would have been a nazi? And atheism is essentially relativistic morality at the whims of the PEOPLE in control Or am I misinterpreting this comment

@1000whispering

4 жыл бұрын

@@jojohnviz12 misinterpreting

@ramigilneas9274

4 жыл бұрын

jojohnviz12 Well, according to the census directly before the war about 95% of the people in Nazi Germany were Christians. Of course pretty much everyone who grew up in that environment was a Nazi, there’s no mystery to solve here.😂

@jojohnviz12

4 жыл бұрын

@@ramigilneas9274 Christians by name only but obviously not believing it because the ethos it's exactly opposite to what they did , it's like Jordan Peterson says you act what you believe

@ramigilneas9274

4 жыл бұрын

jojohnviz12 Pretty much every Christian who lived more than hundred years ago would say the same about all Christians who live today. They would most likely call you a heretic.

Since having an encounter through prayer, with the spiritual presence that fills the heart, mind & soul with deep and profound love, peace, and joy, you realize that trying to prove it scientifically to skeptics, is absurd. I would only encourage others to keep seeking, because it's totally worth it ;)

@Resenbrink

2 жыл бұрын

You do realise this feeling isn’t exclusive to just your religion right?

@braydynniewiadomski5454

2 жыл бұрын

@Mike Seork None of my experiences with drugs came close to the peaceful, joyous, and purely loving presence of God. No need for drugs at all, and it is a more real and rooted feeling than any drug could ever give you. Only Jesus gives you eternal life, drugs do nothing to help you in life or in the next one.. Psalm 16:11 "Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

"The Father is in the son and the son is in the father." Whooaaa there my man.. What are we talking about here?

@officialspock

3 жыл бұрын

Watch Predestination, father, son, mother all the same :D

@nlawler12

3 жыл бұрын

Why is God Gae

@ahuman5150

3 жыл бұрын

@@nlawler12 who says he's gae? Lmao

@nlawler12

3 жыл бұрын

@@ahuman5150 because the father is in the son and the son is in the father, that is gae incest

@larjkok1184

3 жыл бұрын

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