This is a serious challenge that is not meant to be a slap in the face or a quick moment of owning atheists. I genuinely believe that mockery, sarcasm, and caricaturizing can hinder clear thinking. It’s not that all mockery is wrong. It’s not that all sarcasm is wrong. But, they can easily become a way of expressing confirmation bias. In the case of Ricky Gervais, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and a number of other influential atheists, it certainly is. I rarely recognize the version of Christianity that these guys argue against. Yet, these guys have come to formulate or otherwise represent the thinking of countless atheists and agnostics in the current generation, even if those people don’t realize their criticisms trace back to that sort of thinking.
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Sweetheart sarcasm is better than bringing in a fiction book to prove your arguments for the proof of that book's worth.
I've watched tons of Christians debate and they were absolutely cocky and arrogant. Not only that but they were condescending and many of them uneducated in the topic they are professing knowledge. As a former fundamentalist christian of 33 years I've spent decades around insufferable, condescending, ignorant Christians.
Wrong. However it's hard not be sarcastic when you're talking about religion.
What evidence are we weighing?
They both are equally self assured of their own mindset, neither presents a good argument
How would you argue with somebody who believes in the tooth fairy? There’s no evidence of the tooth fairy existing. That’s what it feels like for an atheist to debate a Christian.
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John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”.
make sure to capitalise God because god is like RA and God is Jesus Christ. Don’t say ‘god bless you’ say ‘God’ bless you and have a wonderful afternoon.
God will forgive you if you ask and mean it.
God gives me strength
Amen
There is absolutely no, and I mean NO evidence at all for God, Jesus Christ or his resurrection. There's literally zero historical proof for the existence of Jesus outside of the Bible, which has been proven to be completely historically inaccurate.
I wonder who has more fun, the one making jokes or the one pissed off that the other guy is having fun.
The problem is there is no evidence for the existence of God, they always end up having to resort to the God of the gaps
I am ready to weigh the evidence. Where is the evidence?
Ricky bro you will be standing before Jesus and he will be pretty real to you
….thing is a you have to be dead though as his glory and power will kill us here on earth
I can see why you'd be bothered by the sarcastic tone but atheism isn't about proving the non-existence of deities to religious people, it's simply not believing there are any. Atheist vs. Christian debates don't make sense bc you cannot prove there is a god and I cannot prove there is none. Yet you believe and I don't. Why debate nonsensically at all? Just live and let live.
Where is the question?
He can’t be serious
@MikeWinger you used a comedian to attack sarcasm? that's silly. plenty of atheists don't use sarcasm. that's a dishonest use of the clip. one of the problems atheists have with christians is the dishonesty. lack of sarcasm isn't going to prove a god. even if you could prove a god, that doesn't get you to jesus rose from the dead.
what do you do with the problems of no cohesive soteriology in scripture? i think that's the biggest problem christianity has…. besides the immorality of the entire bible… there is no one clear soteriology. if my eternal soul depends on it, why isn't there a clear soteriology? why does paul contradict jesus if he's receiving revelation from jesus? why does jesus lie about how many days he'll be dead? why don't the gospels agree on what day he died?
any answer you give is going to be isogetical reading your particular doctrine into scripture while the pastors in the ten churches within a mile of you are going to completely disagree with you.
With respect to anyone seriously interested in the truth if matters, I say, without sarcasm:
Evidence for the bible?
I had looked into it, over many years. And I could not have possibly been more sincere in intent and more serious in study.
I didn't fail to believe in an allegedly error-free bible.
The bible failed to be convincing as such.
Thank you for listening.
He says atheists use self-righteous posturing all while posturing his own self-righteousness by claiming his arguments are more valid because he's not sarcastic
He needs to use sarcasm as a defense mechanism because he's unable to hold any amount of a critical thought
Once again. Conservatives make an accusation; they are confessing. So, I do not believe you. Till you prove it. period.
It's really easy then… Demonstrate your imaginary friend:
Weigh what evidence? I have watched many debates and not once heard a Theist provide any evidence at all. This does make sense, though. If God exists outside time and space we wouldn't expect to find evidence inside time and space. I find the Atheist position concerning the creation of the universe to be the only honest position. How was the universe created or born? I don't know. I don't know that the universe was created or born. Maybe the universe is infinite. Theist say that they do know. They somehow have a connection or window into "Outside of time and space". More that they got a guy on the inside. Take a practical approach to history. Religion was invented to control the masses. 2000 years ago the rulers could control people with an army but a lot of people lived away from the large cities.When the army wasn't present the people went right back to the their mischievous ways. Introduce the omniscient, omniscient, omnipresent immortal transcendent being. God knows all and sees all. Problem greatly reduced with the fear of God. The Church also provided spies for the rulers. The Church provided a system of communication. In my opinion, God was created to help the rulers control their population. If you can convince someone that their immortal soul is on the line, you can get them to do just about anything and behave in the way you wish.
WHAT EVIDENCE!!!!!!
What about “FACTS”
There is no actual evidence to weigh though.
There is no actual evidence to weigh though.
But that doesn't make you right. It just means you don't like the other person's attitude.
You are very incorrect and unfair in this assumption. A company recently did market research based on Theist vs Atheist debate groups on Facebook and found 86% of Christians acted hateful, irrational, or rude while 10% totally shut down and 4% changed their views. On the Atheist side 48% acted hateful, 0% shut down and 0% changed their views. Literally it showed that 0% of theists acted rationally while 52% of atheists did.
Hilarious. No evidence of anything supernatural so why should anyone take any religion seriously?
I hear endless posturing and even worse cosmic threats from christians. Imagine if i had made this video from the opposite side and highlighted Andrew Wilson as the poster child for what christians are like. Cool generalization youve got there, bud.
The bible is full of contradictions. Religion is a scam
"No self-righteous posturing allowed"
How the tables turn…