Tag: Discussion

Possibly the most reasonable Christian yet

A combination of mild heat exhaustion and a little too much Southern Comfort left me a little slower than usual in my thinking.

Stefan might be the nicest, most reasonable Christian I’ve ever had the pleasure of speaking with.

Unfortunately I didn’t give him the discussion he deserved. A combination of mild heat exhaustion and a little too much Southern Comfort left me a little slower than usual in my thinking. Stefan was gentlemanly enough not to mention it though.

To be honest, part of me would prefer not to post this one but there’s no integrity in that. The agreement was that we post it on YouTube and it would be dishonest of me to renege on that agreement after the event. Oh well… nobody’s perfect!

Discussion with another Eastern orthodox Christian

Is religious belief sufficient reason to dismiss the experiences and validity of others?

Meet Joshua. He’s an Eastern Orthodox Christian with some interesting ideas. I had high hopes for this one although it didn’t turn out quite as I’d expected. What’s your opinion?

Joshua was very keen to prevent me from actually making my points, even when he’d asked specific questions. However I have several videos that will explain what I meant. They’re linked below…

Regarding human irrationality and religion
https://youtu.be/MJewkA6EMkU?si=2wPqfubO5FYhni5X

Regarding my trans son
https://youtu.be/iH9a6bsh_to?si=nr0_Xk5SeosHLJy6

Regarding Numbers 31
https://youtu.be/Qo37EBgFmmc?si=1XZNDAPUqhEPBFIn

Regarding God’s genocide
https://youtu.be/QdRPv_ya3S4?si=-454QDwFX2-QWOMZ

Regarding Christian morality
https://youtu.be/uGGETu8FfXc?si=nwQit10QErxjTkcB

Be careful what you ask for

keyboard warriors tend not to be quite so impressive in person

Sam Sheets is a Christian.  He thought it might be fun to claim that atheists are just trolls who don’t want to debate. He claims we have a warp (sic) sense of reality. Finally, demonstrating all the self awareness of a woodworm in a house brick he asks the atheists “What’s with the hostility?”

This video is what happened when I took him on. I’m afraid keyboard warriors tend not to be quite so impressive in person. Sam ran away after 40 minutes spent demonstrating how little he knows of his religion, his bible or rational thought.

Part 2 with Jonathan

It is my belief, which I told Jonathan several times throughout the discussion, that he simply is not equipped for this type of discussion.

This is both the longest and the most infuriating conversation I’ve had with a Christian. It’s definitely what you might think of as ‘long form’. It is my belief, which I told Jonathan several times throughout the discussion, that he simply is not equipped for this type of discussion. I have advised him to learn the basics of his religion and to actually read his Bible.

In the second half he demonstrates his utter contempt for anyone who doesn’t agree with him, his dismissal of any notion of equal rights and just how much he deserves the rarely applied (but in this case very well deserved) label of ‘Christofascist’.

His misogyny, racism, homophobia and xenophobia are expressed with a smug pride that has to be seen to be believed.

If we give people like Jonathan an inch they’ll drag us all straight back to the bronze age!

He promised me a ‘brawl’

My debate with a man who seems to be a cross between an animist and a deist.

About a week ago Aaron Fauth issued a challenge on Facebook

Aaron’s challenge

I was happy to accept the challenge, if only because I was intrigued by his complete misunderstanding of atheism and of atheists in general.

I invited him to join me in a discussion with the two basic conditions I always include:

  1. We both have the option to record it.
  2. We can both publish the video UNEDITED wherever we choose.

This video is the result of our recent online conversation. What’s your opinion? Did Aaron live up to his challenge?

Discussion with Luke, an American Christian

Luke and I don’t see eye to eye on very much but we do show that it’s possible to discuss and argue, passionately at times and still remain cordial and genial at the end.

This is a discussion/debate with Luke Villareal, an American Christian. We had a few technical problems resulting in fairly poor video quality on my end and no image at all from Luke. However that beats our first attempt during which we couldn’t get anything to record at all.

The rule was that we both get to record it and we both can publish it online as we see fit but without any edits. There is one small edit in the original where I cut out about a minute of ‘dead air’ whilst I attended to my dog. Other than that the video is completely unedited.

Luke and I don’t see eye to eye on very much but we do show that it’s possible to discuss and argue, passionately at times and still remain cordial and genial at the end. Let us know in the comments what you thought of the points raised and especially let us know if either Luke or I managed to change your mind about anything.

Discussing God and atheism with a Calvinist presup

Ryan Matus is a presuppositional, Calvinist Christian. He’s no fool and he certainly knows scripture. This online conversation was one of the most interesting and enjoyable I can remember and I’m certainly looking forward to talking more with Ryan.