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  • @joels5150
    @joels5150 6 месяцев назад +94

    ‘If you don’t have faith in a creator, what else is there?’
    Literally everything…

    • @gknight4719
      @gknight4719 3 месяца назад +2

      Yes, and telling children they are born in sin and deserve hell for eternity
      is child abuse. So we don't need any of that bullshit ether!

    • @jexelbur6872
      @jexelbur6872 2 месяца назад

      The sun. Literally the sun, because stars are where we get (most of) the elements of the periodic table. Also meteorites. The rest from natural processes like thermodynamics. No god is required.

  • @sparki9085
    @sparki9085 6 месяцев назад +73

    Ah yes, the argument from "because I said so" favorite of parents everywhere

    • @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript
      @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript 6 месяцев назад +5

      Favorite of terrible parents.

    • @kaiza6467
      @kaiza6467 6 месяцев назад

      And also "Because the book said so, but also I can't read so I believe weird things that aren't even in the book in the first place." 😂

    • @TabbyVee
      @TabbyVee 6 месяцев назад +1

      They insist on placing god as the ultimate parent, while absolving him of any parential duties.

    • @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript
      @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@kaiza6467 They don’t bother to read it because they get told the parts they’re supposed to believe. Then when they’re told something that’s in the Bible that they haven’t read they just say it’s the wrong context or a mistranslation.

    • @gortmundy01
      @gortmundy01 2 месяца назад

      Yea, but sometimes that's just the parent going, "I'm not explaining this to you yet again, because you are not listening and in fact I actually DO know better". Now Im not saying that should always be a go to position, or that its always good parenting, but I can tell you, as a parent, its not always BAD parenting. Course, that has nothing to do with faith, just parenting.

  • @Mr_Porter
    @Mr_Porter 6 месяцев назад +109

    It's astonishing that this call happened almost six years ago, and yet Jeff recently called into The Line still using the same flawed reasoning and sophistry. Absolutely no change whatsoever. He presented one of his arguments that had already been dismantled by four different hosts.
    This persistence in using debunked arguments illustrates a refusal to engage with valid criticism or evolve one's thinking. It underscores the importance of genuinely considering opposing viewpoints and adapting one's arguments in the face of sound reasoning...which is one of the objectives of AXP.

    • @paulwoolnough3770
      @paulwoolnough3770 6 месяцев назад +3

      This is exactly why religion has lasted so long, Mr. _porter apart from the fact that humans can't accept that this life is all there is and childhood indoctrination.

    • @lemver70
      @lemver70 6 месяцев назад +6

      Some people just want to argue

    • @thaimperial97
      @thaimperial97 6 месяцев назад +14

      Some ppl just lie to themselves just to have a reason to believe in nonsense

    • @oxidize11
      @oxidize11 6 месяцев назад +20

      Which is exactly the point of religion. It's to tell you to never question anything and just accept what was first told to you, and never falter.
      It's basically the reason to not learn anything. Which makes it extremely frustrating when people try to claim that science and religion should go hand in hand.
      No. Just flat out no. Science is learning, religion is just a cult saying "we know everything so don't trust science.

    • @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript
      @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript 6 месяцев назад +6

      Because it’s not about facts. They’re repeating a script to deflect from the lack of demonstrations.

  • @goldenknight578
    @goldenknight578 6 месяцев назад +82

    I always love it when these guys bring up some version of, "Look at the human body. Doesn't it look like it was designed?" I can't speak for everyone, but whenever I look at my body, if it was "designed" whoever did it did a pretty crappy job of it.

    • @VerryAnna
      @VerryAnna 6 месяцев назад +17

      "Doesn't it look like it was designed?"
      You know, It really doesn't :|

    • @jvondd
      @jvondd 6 месяцев назад +14

      I'm a type I diabetic with Hashimoto's disease, ADHD and depression. If a god designed my body to be perfectly functional, why would it install defective parts?

    • @norcodaev
      @norcodaev 6 месяцев назад +14

      And why put an entertainment complex right next to a sewer system? Makes no sense whatsoever!

    • @jamesparson
      @jamesparson 6 месяцев назад +8

      Excuse me. I have been having a hard time reading the comments. I have to put my bifocals on.

    • @nealjroberts4050
      @nealjroberts4050 6 месяцев назад +3

      I sometimes wonder if the creationists saying "look at the trees" need glasses

  • @davidbelway6076
    @davidbelway6076 6 месяцев назад +84

    Faith is the art of lying to yourself. Critical thinking is the art of questioning yourself.

    • @HumanismIsRepulsive
      @HumanismIsRepulsive 6 месяцев назад

      Not only does atheism not require critical thinking it doesn't even require the ability to think.
      Atheism is a disbelief which means it's an unwillingness or inability to accept God. Which means even if God was proven by the scientific method an atheist still wouldn't accept it .
      90% of the world's atheist come from communist countries forced into atheism the next largest representation for atheism is the critical thinking LGBT community😂

    • @quentind1924
      @quentind1924 6 месяцев назад

      @@HumanismIsRepulsive Everything fter "atheism is an unwillingness or inability to accept god" can be forgotten. Former christians are proof that it's false, and even christians that start to doubt understand that it must be false as they start to doubt and that it's not their fault nor that they have an inability
      And LGBT community isn't critical thinking nor the lack of critical thinking. It's just saying no to people like you who oppresses them for something that's out of their control (and even if it is, it still doesn't allow anyone to oppress them)

    • @HumanismIsRepulsive
      @HumanismIsRepulsive 6 месяцев назад

      @@quentind1924 your argument is nonsensical, just because somebody believed in God and now became an. Atheist it doesn't debunk the idea that atheism is an unwillingness or inability to accept God.. when the person believed in God they didn't have an unwillingness or inability to accept God therefore they weren't atheist so they wouldn't have a disbelief in God they became atheist when they became unwilling or unable to accept God.
      As far as your other argument, firstly the LGBT community is not oppressed it's a privileged community, ,anything but oppressed.
      The LGBT community are victimizers they oppress people, they compele people in places like the United States to acknowledge gender Faith as a physical and moral reality, that's a violation of our constitutional right to free speech and practice religion.. male members of that community oppress women by going in women's spaces.. look how that hateful community targets Christian children in mass shootings..
      Look at all those poor Christian children who were murdered in schools targeted members of that hateful community

    • @sharedaccount1639
      @sharedaccount1639 6 месяцев назад +1

      ergo you have faith in critical thinking.

    • @AbleAnderson
      @AbleAnderson 4 месяца назад +1

      You have faith that oxygen will be in your next breath

  • @joshsheridan9511
    @joshsheridan9511 6 месяцев назад +161

    If faith was evidence, then it would be evidence for all religions 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @joshsheridan9511
      @joshsheridan9511 6 месяцев назад +23

      And for all those theists that say I have faith god doesn't exist.
      Then that would be evidence that a god doesn't exist.😂😂😂😂😂

    • @ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγος
      @ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγος 6 месяцев назад +9

      ☝️💯 Zeus confirmed

    • @MrCanis4
      @MrCanis4 6 месяцев назад +7

      And court cases would be very different.

    • @HumanismIsRepulsive
      @HumanismIsRepulsive 6 месяцев назад

      If Faith isn't evidence then why are atheists cross-dressing and mutilating their children

    • @HumanismIsRepulsive
      @HumanismIsRepulsive 6 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@joshsheridan9511we believe in God because the belief in God is a logical conclusion and or a designed thought. We believe in some of the nature of God the religious aspects in faith the way atheists believe in faith that their ancestors were sea creatures and that their children were born in the wrong body . There's atheists to also believe in faith that the origins of Life came into existence without creation, without God

  • @BlarglemanTheSkeptic2
    @BlarglemanTheSkeptic2 6 месяцев назад +41

    *REPEATING¹: A challenge to ALL theists:* Name a SINGLE person who came to believe in ANY _specific, and already described,_ god without learning about it from another human first.
    ¹ Repeated, being that all theists "tapped out" the last time - the sound of silence was louder!

    • @damonkenny3444
      @damonkenny3444 6 месяцев назад

      @@BlarglemanTheSkeptic2 The Genetic Fallacy. You failed again.

    • @Specialeffecks
      @Specialeffecks 6 месяцев назад +5

      It is just so seductive and comforting (for many people) to placate their existential dread of "not knowing", so many simply glom onto old stories of origins that are far enough removed from present time to gain enough mystique to become unfalsifiable, therefore not as subject to being disproven...resulting in the world's various religions.
      Any religion placates this dread (at many convenient locations) but contain other traps that sustain and grow the religion (such as "believe = eternal reward, not believe = eternal punishment), making them grow more popular and therefore gain even more credibility (and more locations).
      (Side note: Interesting "to believe" would be any kind of a criteria...very random IF it was from a god...sounds more clearly like an effective sales ploy for a religious group).
      The glairing problem is - there is MORE than ONE religion (let alone sect), and each contradict (at least many core claims of) the others, each with convinced believers, who each claim to 'know' they are right, and the others are wrong (each with their own handy set of justifications), each religion constantly calling everything offered "Truth" - PROVING (to us outsiders) most, if not ALL religious beliefs must in fact be FALSE. Obviously.
      They tend to never critically examine any claims or even look at the above glairing problem - as it may result in disbelief - which means 'return of the dread' (at best) or at worst (now that they bought in) - eternal punishment. They don't want to lose their perceived benefit, which is one reason regular reinforcement is required (mass, church, synagogue, temple, hall, center, mosque, etc) as non-apparent, invisible claims tend to naturally fade without constant reinforcement. Plus, there's the handy apologist, who is ever-present to bolster the belief (therefore benefit) by any means possible, however flimsy - who are in high demand - due to the inherent weakness of their invisible claims/beliefs.
      There is NO effort by believers to determine IF the claims are true, all effort is to reaffirm THAT they are.
      A hideous mind trap - from which one must find their own courage and honesty to escape.

    • @holgerlubotzki3469
      @holgerlubotzki3469 6 месяцев назад +1

      DonKey was strangely mute
      His nervousness very acute
      And he got wet and sweaty
      at the thought of a Yeti
      Reaming out his poop chute!

    • @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript
      @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript 6 месяцев назад +5

      I’ve asked them to demonstrate their god, how it came to exist, how it created anything, how theirs is the real one versus any others, and how they know the Bible accurately describes a god.
      Everytime it’s a scripted deflection. Usually “you think everything created itself”.

    • @BlarglemanTheSkeptic2
      @BlarglemanTheSkeptic2 6 месяцев назад +3

      ​​@@damonkenny3444 "genetic fallacy": oh look, a new buzz word that you clearly don't understand (as always)!
      Buzz 🐝 Buzz 🐝 Buzz 🤦 🤣🤣

  • @JPPan-hq6le
    @JPPan-hq6le 2 месяца назад +3

    I now have a better understanding why the USA trails in scientific literacy vs other countries

  • @hansj5846
    @hansj5846 3 месяца назад +3

    "Why do you have confidence that a god exists?"
    "Because I'm an American" is the answer he should give.

    • @stevenswitzer5154
      @stevenswitzer5154 7 дней назад

      I am an American. For 7 generations we have been. I have NO confidence a god is real. Take your Scotsman fallacy to youth group where it might be believed

  • @superbnns
    @superbnns 6 месяцев назад +28

    Quoting the bible incorrectly at the end was just a perfect chef's kiss moment

    • @powbobs
      @powbobs 23 дня назад

      That’s what his pastor told him.
      His faith prevented him from verifying it.

  • @Lupinemancer87
    @Lupinemancer87 6 месяцев назад +36

    If we truly are created, then whoever did it, did a shitty job and I could do it better.

    • @charlespoe5155
      @charlespoe5155 6 месяцев назад

      Today’s medical system focus on each of the organs separately in the human body. What if all the organs work together in some way but it is not considered since the system separates them? What if all the chemicals made by men are creating our health issues? The liver has many functions and is the most important organ to the human body that breaks down toxins to get ready for body to remove. How much toxic junk is at the grocery store that we eat? How about known sodas with high sugars. How about others stuff in the environment? Wonder why the essentials like fast food, liquor stores, were open during the pandemic and donuts and hamburgers were given to those who took part of the solution. Health these days is not about nutrition it’s about managing dis-eases. A lot of money for for profit corporations. Sugar industry makes a lot of money. If this system can not provide a solution as in a cure than what is it actually doing? No wonder fasting is bad for us because it cleans us out.

    • @sharedaccount1639
      @sharedaccount1639 6 месяцев назад

      not necessarily. you are assuming an hypothetical purpose that doesnt align with your expectations therefore the work is subpart

    • @TonyCox1351
      @TonyCox1351 6 месяцев назад

      Imagine you are omnipotent and omniscient and this is the best you can come up with 😢

  • @DrexSinister
    @DrexSinister Месяц назад +1

    The argument of "I cant explain it, therefore god"

  • @jamesaston410
    @jamesaston410 6 месяцев назад +17

    I’m an atheist and yes, I have faith …faith in myself and my own abilities. That way, if I screw up it’s wholly down to me.
    It’s great, I’m responsible and accountable for every one of my actions, what’s not to love?
    And the best part, I don’t get any get out of jail free card that allows me to vicariously blame others if and when I do make mistakes :)
    I urge believers to try it, it’s both liberating and empowering!

    • @landsgevaer
      @landsgevaer 6 месяцев назад +5

      You mean trust or confidence, possibly.

    • @jamesaston410
      @jamesaston410 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@landsgevaer both I’d say. They are both required to enable self-empowerment, imho.
      But it’s a very interesting circle since self-empowerment also leads one to have confidence and trust in oneself :)
      Certainly been to case for me, I’ve been atheist since I was about 8 years old and have yet to lose control of any aspect of my life.

    • @landsgevaer
      @landsgevaer 6 месяцев назад

      @@jamesaston410 Then how do you define faith? Or can you give an example where you need it?
      If it is belief without justification then it would be self-deluding to use it; if it has justification, then you don't need faith but you work from the justification.
      I would say you know your own abilities, roughly, so no faith needed there. Sometimes you might (have/want to) do something that you are not sure of whether you can succeed, but then still you don't need faith, you only need the realization that this is what you have/want to do and you are willing to take the risk of not succeeding.

    • @jamesaston410
      @jamesaston410 6 месяцев назад

      @@landsgevaer maybe just a figure of speech. To me, faith in myself is effectively confidence in my own abilities; I have sufficient belief in myself and my abilities that doesn’t necessitate or require any need for third party involvement.
      It’s no different in terms of meaning for a believer is it - faith (belief) that a god exists and if you do everything you’ve been taught you get what’s promised; god will ultimately deliver you to heaven when you pop your clogs.
      If it helps, and without wishing to sound like I’m schizophrenic, look at it as though I have my own inner god which only I answer to, and in return I have faith that inner god will guide me to make the right life decisions and choices for me.
      Might not be the answer you want but it makes sense to me and, to me, that’s all that matters :)

    • @jamesaston410
      @jamesaston410 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@landsgevaer and faith isn’t something exclusive to spirituality.
      For example, I have faith in the American public that they won’t vote a complete maniac back into office :)

  • @Mewse1203
    @Mewse1203 24 дня назад +2

    I absolutely love it when Believers say we all have faith. It really is a self own for them.
    If they believe that faith is reliable, then they must acknowledge that we are just as justified in our position as they are. They have no basis to question other people's use of Faith to getting to their position.
    If they acknowledge that faith can be unreliable, then they must acknowledge that they have a belief that is not justified.
    Either way, its an own goal.

  • @TMPreRaff
    @TMPreRaff 2 месяца назад +1

    The caller wasn't ready to understand what his own claims mean. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

  • @drewbeedoobeedooooooo4821
    @drewbeedoobeedooooooo4821 6 месяцев назад +5

    15:15 dumbfounded silence on this show never fails to be hysterical

  • @Zero-0-Cypher
    @Zero-0-Cypher 4 месяца назад +3

    The problem is... Religious people think that thier thing means the same thing as ours, they think when we say scientific theory, they believe that means faith... Theory is tested, measured, observed, it's not just a guess that we have faith in.... Theory doesn't mean guess.

    • @Zero-0-Cypher
      @Zero-0-Cypher 4 месяца назад +3

      The other issue is the Bible, they think that God actually wrote/created this book and physically handed it to man.

  • @PauloBarreto15041964
    @PauloBarreto15041964 6 месяцев назад +5

    Jeff is convinced that he's right. That god exists and created everything. He's not willing to question that. Funny 🤣
    "Why you have confidence in what you believe"?
    - Because it's true. 😅😅😅
    Thanks Jeff. You're the man. You solved a question who tormented mankind for thousands of years. With a single sentence, you destroyed Atheism, Hinduism, Budism, Judaism, Islam, etc. You solved it Jeff. You will be granted the philosophy Nobel award.

  • @Soylent1981
    @Soylent1981 6 месяцев назад +42

    The strangest checkmate is to denigrate your own position to dunk on your opponent.

    • @Mr_Porter
      @Mr_Porter 6 месяцев назад

      @@Soylent1981 True. That's the equivalent to ending an online argument like "your to dumb to continue this conversation with"
      😬 Soooo close 🤏🏾

    • @einienj3281
      @einienj3281 6 месяцев назад

      Self own 😂

    • @EchoChamberDweller
      @EchoChamberDweller 6 месяцев назад

      That’s what God did when he humbled himself to human form. It’s called a sacrifice, and it defines what love is.

    • @einienj3281
      @einienj3281 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@EchoChamberDweller 🤦🏻‍♀️

    • @bestbehave
      @bestbehave 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@EchoChamberDweller Sacrifice? He had a shocker of a Friday, and didn't surface until Sunday. Is that what you really see as sacrifice?

  • @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript
    @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript 6 месяцев назад +4

    “If you think the sun isn’t going to explode tomorrow that’s the same as me having a very specific god that I want to legislate even though I don’t read its book or follow its rules”.
    Another person who knows for a fact he can’t prove his god exists so has to deflect. Like our theist stalkers.

  • @Manyfetch
    @Manyfetch 6 месяцев назад +16

    Personally, I've always found it more persuasive to talk about the scientific method in terms of "the scientific method isn't trying to prove hypotheses, it's trying to disprove them and then grudgingly accepting what remains". Or if I'm feeling florid and metaphorical "lining hypotheses up in front of a firing line and the survivors get to keep living so long as they stay bulletproof" with an addendum of "and unfalsifiable ideas aren't even capable of fitting into the line"

    • @jwsanders1214
      @jwsanders1214 6 месяцев назад

      Don't you know , arent' you aware , Jesus is the author of all the laws that govern the universe ?

    • @nealjroberts4050
      @nealjroberts4050 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@jwsanders1214
      Claiming that someone is the author of something is worthless without actual evidence.

    • @Manyfetch
      @Manyfetch 6 месяцев назад

      @@marcosolo6491 "unfalsifiable ideas aren't even capable of fitting into the line to be shot at"

    • @dwightfitch3120
      @dwightfitch3120 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@jwsanders1214why don’t you try addressing the actual comments instead of just preaching?

    • @jwsanders1214
      @jwsanders1214 6 месяцев назад

      @@dwightfitch3120 " Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for , the evidence of things not seen " Hebrews 11

  • @Tuna_Man2323
    @Tuna_Man2323 6 месяцев назад +9

    There are two kinds of faith: reality-based faith, and faith-based faith. Reality-based faith is merely recognizing that reality is consistent with itself, so it's the most reasonable variety of faith. Faith-based faith boils down to believing what you're told just because someone said so. If it were consistent with objective reality, it would be reality-based faith, but because it is not, it can only be faith-based faith. And that's essentially the same as gullibility.

    • @Garyskinner2422
      @Garyskinner2422 6 месяцев назад +1

      Nicely put

    • @stevenswitzer5154
      @stevenswitzer5154 7 дней назад +1

      Exactly this. I have faith I will wake up tomorrow. Im a healthy 40 year old. BUT a meteorite could hit me in the head tonight, who knows

  • @AussieNaturalist
    @AussieNaturalist 6 месяцев назад +2

    "I don’t even understanding your question"
    This is oh so common among most of the theists Ive come across, they dont even know that they dont even understand the questions, and yet they claim to have all the answers... 🤔😵🤣

  • @albocaj5975
    @albocaj5975 5 месяцев назад +1

    "Saying 'it's obvious' is not an actual argument supported by any evidence. If anything, it is the definition of Faith, in the sense that faith is the excuse people give when they don't have a good reason. You don't have a good reason"

  • @LoadPuller
    @LoadPuller 6 месяцев назад +4

    1 minute and 40 seconds in, the caller is stymied with a coherent response. Education is very important.

  • @lemmyhead8578
    @lemmyhead8578 6 месяцев назад +24

    They always have to drag things down to their level so they can have a chance.

  • @gknight4719
    @gknight4719 6 месяцев назад +14

    NURSE, he's out of his bed again!

    • @georgeo2664
      @georgeo2664 3 месяца назад

      😂😂😂😂😂
      Ouch

    • @JimmyJohn-r1y
      @JimmyJohn-r1y 2 месяца назад

      Oh, behave!

    • @gknight4719
      @gknight4719 2 месяца назад

      @@JimmyJohn-r1y Believe me, I do not use "faith" to find truth or what might happen next.
      I use trust that must be earned, try it, its far more reliable!

  • @Fufiloofa
    @Fufiloofa 6 месяцев назад +17

    9:51 "common sense tells me...", no that's NOT what Jeff was using

  • @thedubwhisperer2157
    @thedubwhisperer2157 3 месяца назад +2

    If there is intelligent design, Jeff certainly missed out on the 'intelligent' part of it...

  • @Xfundamentalist
    @Xfundamentalist 6 месяцев назад +4

    "Science is contingent on the maker."
    No
    This caller is using "faith" how insecure couples use the more specific term "loyalty."

  • @punkaholia
    @punkaholia Месяц назад +2

    This persons creation argument works for the other 3000+ religions as they all have a creation story. I dont get how people can be so ignorant.

  • @BigRalphSmith
    @BigRalphSmith 6 месяцев назад +17

    Once again, "look at the trees."🙄

    • @Garfieldlysanya
      @Garfieldlysanya 6 месяцев назад +1

      Lmao I literally said this about 10 min in

    • @TonyCox1351
      @TonyCox1351 6 месяцев назад +1

      I want to know why God designed billions of planets with no trees

  • @smochygrice465
    @smochygrice465 6 месяцев назад +6

    Okay, I have faith that walking the dog and gardening is way less boring then God ritual activities like worship and prayer.
    And a good Monday morning 🌞 AXP Fans and Theists ❤❤❤
    Peace Love Empathy From Australia 💪🤠☝️

    • @jamesparson
      @jamesparson 6 месяцев назад +1

      Your dog likes it too.

  • @ApatheticFish3667
    @ApatheticFish3667 6 месяцев назад +7

    To all members of QC's live, I haven't read any AxP comments since yesterday, and I'm not going to. Just letting you all know that I'm fine, I've talked to the people I trust most (my parents and my cat) and they're going to help me get through this.

  • @skiphoffenflaven8004
    @skiphoffenflaven8004 6 месяцев назад +7

    I do not exercise faith. I cannot think of any time after my adolescence where I did anything on faith. My last “religious experience” was ringing the bells during communion in my teens, as an altar boy. That was in 1988. I knew then that it was a meaningless ritual.

  • @jamestaylor6453
    @jamestaylor6453 6 месяцев назад +2

    Asked how he has confidence in the bible he answers: “Cos it’s true.” Yet another person who doesn’t seem to have even considered, scrutinised or challenged his own position. This is why he finds it’s so difficult to answer the basic questions asked of him. His brain just doesn’t seem to be able to compute the possibility that what he believes may not be true.

  • @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript
    @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript 6 месяцев назад +5

    This guy called in to use the same script on different hosts. Like our obsessive stalkers who know they can’t prove anything they say.

  • @RoakkyUS
    @RoakkyUS 6 месяцев назад +2

    Saying that everyone has faith in something is basically the “You Too” fallacy where someone tries to convince someone that they are as wrong as them and thus they are not at fault.

  • @RichardDandanell
    @RichardDandanell 6 месяцев назад +11

    This guy is just knowledgeable enough about the subject in think he's right . But not enough to know he's wrong .

    • @logicbomb8977
      @logicbomb8977 5 месяцев назад

      @@RichardDandanell ok Neil degrasse Tyson

  • @IsraelLazoPlus
    @IsraelLazoPlus 6 месяцев назад +3

    14:20 I believe that God made me so I would die if I don't breathe, then gave me the ability to breath. He is so good to make me so vulnerable to be grateful of letting me overcome my vulnerabilities.

  • @bubbercakes528
    @bubbercakes528 6 месяцев назад

    I have faith that this gentleman doesn’t “think” about religion at all!

  • @A_friend_of_Aristotle
    @A_friend_of_Aristotle 6 месяцев назад +6

    An amazing thing happens when you hold convictions instead of have faith...you prioritize the time and effort it takes to think about things. Faith cannot be revised or refined with more information, because more information is irrelevant. Conviction refined by the reasoning process is what faith is meant to avoid. I propose that faith is the effort to avoid thinking.
    Faith (the effort of non-thought) may be easier in the short term, but long term it produces nothing meaningful; if a person must live by their own actions and at their own expense, faith multiplies the effort necessary to produce meaning while producing no results. Faith, as a long term survival strategy, is certain death for the thinking animal.

  • @lnsflare1
    @lnsflare1 6 месяцев назад

    "Things have physical properties that interact with one another in consistent ways, therefore GAAAAAAWWWWWWD."

  • @2beers007
    @2beers007 6 месяцев назад +2

    love the laughter in the background i felt the same way listening to this 😂

  • @Average_Joe273
    @Average_Joe273 5 месяцев назад

    If "ignorance is bliss" was a person
    Holy crap this man didn't think at all

  • @Topquark13
    @Topquark13 6 месяцев назад +2

    "Faith is something you believe in, that no one in their right mind would believe." - Archie Bunker

    • @sharedaccount1639
      @sharedaccount1639 6 месяцев назад

      this is blind faith only not faith in general

  • @amtlpaul
    @amtlpaul 6 месяцев назад +10

    Jimedith Castleberry is into repetition. It's easier than thinking. Mindless repetition is easier than listening too. Listening too much carries the risk of awakening dormant doubts! Keep those doubts suppressed by mindless spamtrolling!

    • @t800fantasm2
      @t800fantasm2 6 месяцев назад +9

      it's all he knows... SPAM, call everyone liars and run.... SPAM and call everyone liars run... Stupidly claim he won, rinse and repeat....

    • @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript
      @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript 6 месяцев назад +1

      Because he knows his religion is not based on facts. He’s a dishonest narcissist who demands we give him the authority of god.

  • @MrCanis4
    @MrCanis4 6 месяцев назад +4

    I have faith in many things, but religion is not one of them.

  • @asyetundetermined
    @asyetundetermined 7 дней назад

    “They don’t think it be like it is, but it do.” - Jeff

  • @malalo75
    @malalo75 2 месяца назад +1

    What is it with these callers always - ALWAYS - repeating the question, as another question ?!?!?

  • @BananaHams
    @BananaHams 6 месяцев назад +1

    love the throwbacks!

  • @RockMadness-gy6ez
    @RockMadness-gy6ez 6 месяцев назад

    I got half-way through this when he mentioned the water cycle. It’s that guy again! Obsessed with the water cycle as if that answers all questions about the existence of god!

  • @cor.ben_4737
    @cor.ben_4737 6 месяцев назад +1

    I’m an Agnostic Atheist but I was concerned with the ending contention on the word usage of John 14:6. It really does say “life” not “light”lol.

  • @vidfreak56
    @vidfreak56 5 месяцев назад +1

    First thing scientists do is observe. Thats the beginning of every hypothesis. Can this guy show how the lungs were created by a supernatural super being?

  • @amtlpaul
    @amtlpaul 6 месяцев назад +11

    Damon Kenny's strawmanning is tantamount to surrender, an admission that he has no rational case that it is unreasonable to not believe in God.

    • @ChallengeYourBeliefs
      @ChallengeYourBeliefs 6 месяцев назад +5

      Is it strawmanning? Or just plain lying? All he is doing is lying and saying things like atheism being a presup when it clearly isn't. And making a presup argument to say that atheism doesn't have a logical foundation. Because, consider evidence before blindly believing is too logically complex?

    • @vertigo4236
      @vertigo4236 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@ChallengeYourBeliefs
      I would guess some strange psychological condition. Lying is one thing.
      But lying so badly and obviously, everyday under every video?
      That is so strange.

    • @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript
      @NotALiberalSoSkipYourScript 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@vertigo4236His religion makes him miserable and dishonest. He can’t even discuss his religion. All he can do is act like a brat, deflect, and project his dishonesty onto others.

  • @einienj3281
    @einienj3281 6 месяцев назад +1

    The way, the truth and the life...light! 😄

  • @Ghalaghor_McAllistor
    @Ghalaghor_McAllistor 6 месяцев назад +11

    Haven't you heard? The lack of faith and believe in any gods is a religion in itself nowadays according to some theists. So stop being idolaters by not worshipping anything!

    • @BigRalphSmith
      @BigRalphSmith 6 месяцев назад +7

      This seems to be due to believers not having the mental or emotional capacity to realize that it's possible to NOT "worship" _anything._
      They seem to have this idea that if you don't believe in a god, then there has to be some sort or "stand-in" or "replacement" for that concept.

  • @OswaldBatesIIIEsq
    @OswaldBatesIIIEsq 6 месяцев назад +1

    I can't have faith in something that hasn't proven its existence. Even if it did, I still wouldn't have faith in it.

  • @vidfreak56
    @vidfreak56 5 месяцев назад +1

    Yeah this really goes to show that some people are never going to understand because they simply want to believe rather than having good reason to.

  • @SilortheBlade
    @SilortheBlade 6 месяцев назад

    I have faith in one thing. That the fundamental forces in the universe will not change tomorrow. That is based on them not changing in 13.8 billion years, but I still don't know that they couldn't change.

  • @skiphoffenflaven8004
    @skiphoffenflaven8004 6 месяцев назад +6

    So annoying. This is how this conversation always goes. I no longer try to have it with people “of faith”.

  • @looselugnuts5874
    @looselugnuts5874 6 месяцев назад

    Him misquoting his book is absolutely the fucking cherry on top 😂😂😂

  • @skummisrocker
    @skummisrocker 6 месяцев назад +8

    Jeff does not know anything else and therefore god.

  • @amtlpaul
    @amtlpaul 6 месяцев назад +2

    Remember, Jimedith Castleberry claimed the following:
    1) In the absence of God, there is no moral right or wrong
    2) 'God's nature' (whatever that means) somehow causes there to be moral right and wrong. How this supposedly happens is never explained, and in fact Jimedith regularly seeks refuge from rational scrutiny in this ambiguity
    3) God's nature is morally good by definition in the same way that the constitution is constitutional by definition.
    4) Any discernable framework of principles other than just 'God's nature makes it so' is mere delusion.
    This means that any framework of principles by which 'God's nature' could designate actions as right or wrong is ruled out.
    "God's nature is moral by definition and it makes actions moral and immoral, guided by no discernable principle or framework" is not a moral system. It is arbitary.

    • @nealjroberts4050
      @nealjroberts4050 6 месяцев назад +2

      I would say it's arbitrary by definition. It's designed to be arbitrary because otherwise they'd have to rationally demonstrate their moral ontology rather than merely claim it.

    • @holgerlubotzki3469
      @holgerlubotzki3469 6 месяцев назад +2

      jimEdith only chooses to be a bible babbler because he finds the idea of incest very appealing.

  • @Specialeffecks
    @Specialeffecks 6 месяцев назад +3

    Even though Jeff had never considered the question "how would we go about determining if the claim 'the moon is made of cheese' is correct" he immediately and accurately said "we can take a look" (observation). When asked about the god - that he 'has confidence in' (likely for years), "how would we go about determining if the claim 'there is a god' is correct?" Jeff had to think about it for a bit... demonstrating he had NEVER even considered to ask if he could determine IF his all-important god claim is true!
    Question: Shouldn't everyone question, look at from every angle possible, get competing expert analysis, look for logical fallacies, evaluate all current direct evidence and demonstration, if any, etc. - to properly verify something they will build their entire life around and 'have confidence in'?
    I'm guessing NO - if we are speaking of religion. In religion one is TOLD what to believe (and/or simply born into it)...belief = benefit. But the problem is - there are so many religions and sects, all believing they're right and the others wrong - that OBVIOUSLY they can NOT all be true, but each with equally convinced believers.
    I propose Jeff does not care IF it is true. I think his perceived benefit relies first on the assumption THAT it is true (whether is true is of no consequence; only that he believes it), and any such critical examination could only be counterproductive, risking his perceived benefit of "easy answers" (if such 'scary' critical examination might result in 'scary' disbelief). After all, Christians are constantly told just this: that 'belief' is critical, without belief = eternal punishment, with belief = eternal reward.
    Someone who does care IF their beliefs are true and does an honest, non-fallacious critical examination, is called an atheist.
    It's all so obviously a mental trap...from the outside.

    • @nealjroberts4050
      @nealjroberts4050 6 месяцев назад

      An important use of critical thinking is to apply it to one's own thinking

  • @MiltonMoJunction
    @MiltonMoJunction 6 месяцев назад +5

    I have faith that religion people will always come up with ridiculous things to show their particular invisible magic pixie is real.

  • @williamjohn2910
    @williamjohn2910 6 месяцев назад +1

    You can hear Jeff's brain dying on air.

  • @arkdark5554
    @arkdark5554 6 месяцев назад +3

    Jeff, I’m so glad that I’m not in your shoes, my brother.
    I hope your "designer" will one day make you a millionaire. Until that day, pray on, crap on, dude.😅😅😅

  • @outermarker5801
    @outermarker5801 6 месяцев назад +4

    1:00 They always ignore the examples of faith listed after vs 1. Eg - "By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith." Heb 11 7
    A dude built a giant ship on land with no evidence whatsoever of an impending, unprecedented flood supposedly coming who knows how long later. THAT is 'faith' _per his own bible._
    'Faith' is the antithesis of evidence based belief. Period.

    • @tonyclements1147
      @tonyclements1147 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@JimCastleberry
      Funny how *Edith* loves to accuse others of lying…

    • @nealjroberts4050
      @nealjroberts4050 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@tonyclements1147
      I think they think it means they won't get accused of lying when they lie.
      Doesn't work.

    • @barrythomson899
      @barrythomson899 6 месяцев назад +1

      How long did it take Noah to sail from the the Middle East to the Far East, Australia, South / North America , Europe etc ?

  • @PortmanRd
    @PortmanRd Месяц назад +1

    🎵
    'Cause I gotta' have faith...😂

  • @thedeerhunter999
    @thedeerhunter999 6 месяцев назад

    My personal favorite “ An entertainment complex, right smack in the middle of a sewage system. Noooo engineer would design that”…….

    • @williamcreighton1417
      @williamcreighton1417 6 месяцев назад

      I think it was Robin Williams who said no designer would put the recreation area so close to the waste disposal unit 😂😂😂

  • @silverfire01
    @silverfire01 6 месяцев назад +1

    Faith in a religion is based on believing something without evidence. You could believe almost anything if you say faith is the same as evidence.

  • @Doodlebird138
    @Doodlebird138 6 месяцев назад

    "Gosh, it just seems to me so obvious that our lungs were designed for breathing." 💀

  • @joshuamartinpryce1237
    @joshuamartinpryce1237 6 месяцев назад

    We all have faith, this faith is obedience to the desire of change. Who doesnt want change even in the small things.

  • @brianmonks8657
    @brianmonks8657 6 месяцев назад +12

    So, he thinks that without an intelligent designer we wouldn't have lungs, uh ok...

    • @jvondd
      @jvondd 6 месяцев назад +4

      I'm guessing that no one ever told him that fish don't have lungs, yet they still have the ability to breathe.

  • @KarlBunker
    @KarlBunker 6 месяцев назад +2

    The most surprising thing about this call is when he mentions that he's called before. Obviously he learned less than nothing from doing so.

    • @tiltingwindmill
      @tiltingwindmill 6 месяцев назад +1

      Oh, he's called repeatedly. A very frequent flyer. Still calls into shows, even fairly recently. Yet, he never learns a single thing from call to call. He's decided one single book is all that is necessary.

  • @mirandahotspring4019
    @mirandahotspring4019 6 месяцев назад

    Jeff's reasoning was so circular you could male a Slinky out of it!

  • @heiyuall
    @heiyuall 6 месяцев назад

    “Ya mad bro” doesn’t let you win an argument. It means you have nothing to contribute and are a waste of time.

  • @grantwing4942
    @grantwing4942 6 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for the call and enlightening us Captain Obvious. (Or should that be thanks for enlifening us?).

  • @BlueSummers101
    @BlueSummers101 6 месяцев назад +3

    @13:53 Jeff should be asking that of all us listeners for having to endure his stupidity during this call

  • @theotakux5959
    @theotakux5959 6 месяцев назад +5

    Can you PROVE there aren't 50 naked people just outside that room? Surrounding it, if you will?

    • @Sundae_Times
      @Sundae_Times 6 месяцев назад +5

      Well, on the off-chance that it's true, can I volunteer to be the one who goes and checks?

    • @holgerlubotzki3469
      @holgerlubotzki3469 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@Sundae_Times Hey. I'm not a gynaecologist, but I'll have a look just to make sure.

    • @Sundae_Times
      @Sundae_Times 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@holgerlubotzki3469 Well, take your magnifying glass, in case Flo's out there.

    • @OokEekTheLibraian6708
      @OokEekTheLibraian6708 6 месяцев назад

      I would ask you if someone was videoing it and can I have a copy😁

    • @Sundae_Times
      @Sundae_Times 6 месяцев назад

      @@OokEekTheLibraian6708 For research purposes, of course. That's very public-spirited of you, cobber :)

  • @DeathAwaitsYourSoul
    @DeathAwaitsYourSoul 3 месяца назад +1

    Maaaannnnnn he even sounds robotic. Like there's nothing behind his thinking.

  • @2l84me8
    @2l84me8 6 месяцев назад +2

    Faith is just wishful thinking and self delusion in spite of the evidence. I don’t use faith and neither do a lot of people.
    You could believe in anything on faith, and that’s why it’s not a virtue.

  • @bookkeeper141
    @bookkeeper141 6 месяцев назад

    I love how these callers gauge reality based on what they think makes sense, hahahahaha

  • @D-Pocalypse
    @D-Pocalypse 6 месяцев назад +4

    It's fascinating to see how otherwise intelligent people so easily toss out reasn, facts, logic, and basic common sense when it comes to the supernatural.......

  • @suffist
    @suffist 6 месяцев назад +2

    I have faith that I don't have any faith.

  • @yespub234
    @yespub234 6 месяцев назад +1

    He doesn't need proof - just like a child doesn't need proof.

  • @holgerlubotzki3469
    @holgerlubotzki3469 6 месяцев назад +3

    When the bible babblers say atheists have faith, is that a criticism or a compliment?

  • @mrscolumbo4704
    @mrscolumbo4704 5 месяцев назад

    It's obvious... Well I'm convinced!

  • @einienj3281
    @einienj3281 6 месяцев назад +1

    Faith is not evidence. I do not have faith in a religious context. I can accept things based on evidence. I can believe things based on existing evidence of similar stuff or as a result of rational logic.

    • @nealjroberts4050
      @nealjroberts4050 6 месяцев назад +2

      The mere existence of incompatible faiths should be evidence itself that faith isn't evidence.
      I can only conclude that my fellow theists who refuse this are either extremely ignorant of how evidence works or lying (for a variety of reasons) or both.

    • @einienj3281
      @einienj3281 6 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@nealjroberts4050 I agree 💯💯

  • @ClaytonJonesImages
    @ClaytonJonesImages 6 месяцев назад +1

    I will preface this by saying I am NOT a theist.
    What Jeff fails to realise is that scientists start with the observation, and not the conclusion. He assumes that, like him, scientists begin with the conclusion and walk backwards, which is entirely unscientific. However, for the sake of correctness, Jeff *did* actually quote the Bible correctly -- John 14:6 does indeed say "life" and not "light", so when he said "god is life", he is correct, if following biblical logic. That said, everything else he said is very wrong

  • @Shankeriffic
    @Shankeriffic 5 месяцев назад

    I feel so sorry for this guy. He seems so sweet. Yet he can't break out of his indoctrination. He seems very misinformed, and he just wants to hold on to the traditions that he has trusted for a lifetime. I feel like he does have doubts, and it's a really scary and emotional time when you come to this part of your life.

  • @dominikschlatter1428
    @dominikschlatter1428 3 месяца назад +1

    Thanks, God, for not designing my skin to withstand the summer sun. It's really sad, that the sun that YOU created gives my skin (which you designed) cancer, a diseadse which you have ALSO created.
    Imma go brood somewhere in the shade now..,

  • @flyguyry1
    @flyguyry1 3 месяца назад

    We have faith in what we have all seen before. If we never had seen an airplane before we would never get on one. But sense we have seen it work we have "faith" that it will fly so thats why

  • @bobbybecker3572
    @bobbybecker3572 6 месяцев назад +1

    "everyone has faith in their own understanding"
    How many times was this person dropped on their head as a child?

  • @nealjroberts4050
    @nealjroberts4050 6 месяцев назад +4

    The usual debunked arguments:
    Fine tuning - no constants or parameters have been demonstrated to be tuned or confirmed as independent of each other.
    Anthropic principle / puddle reasoning (distinct from FTA) - relies on assuming that things are observably existent because they were intended to be rather than because they exist and were observed.
    KCA - relies on special pleading a particular something from nothing.
    Contingency - relies on special pleading that contingency exists.
    Design - relies on comparing known human design with known lack of design then assuming everything unknown is designed.
    Irreducible Complexity - still not demonstrated to exist.
    Objective Moral Values - still not demonstrated ontologically.
    NDEs - basically another claim that personal experiences are true by default.
    DNA as information - usually hampered by misrepresentation of the definition of information, often with the false claim of being wholly digital.
    Existence of Consciousness/Intelligence - often falsely claimed to require themselves already existing in order to exist. Usually presented as a false dichotomy ignoring that both vary throughout an organism's existence.
    Free Will - usually involves equivocation on what free will means and false dichotomies on determinism and randomness, sometimes with a composition fallacy.
    Scripture Prophecy - usually a mix of statements not verifiable as prophecy, appeal to probability, and appeal to authority.
    Cue someone getting the first two confused again 😉

    • @sharedaccount1639
      @sharedaccount1639 6 месяцев назад

      the second law of thermodynamics you fail in here. there is no reasonable explanation why entropy was low at the beginning of the universe. you may have faith that one day your God the scientific method may say something about it. you will be waiting forever though.

    • @nealjroberts4050
      @nealjroberts4050 6 месяцев назад

      @@sharedaccount1639
      ???

  • @tiltingwindmill
    @tiltingwindmill 6 месяцев назад

    A so very, very typical Jeff from New York kind of call. Whoo-boy. Poor dude.

  • @Canada_Dominium
    @Canada_Dominium 4 месяца назад

    Caller is basically Mr. Wensleydale, shopkeeper of the cheesy comestibles sketch. Which is not much.

  • @VooshSpokesman
    @VooshSpokesman Месяц назад

    Love from a Suris and Vaush fan!

  • @einienj3281
    @einienj3281 6 месяцев назад

    "look at the trees"... 😂
    "I have confidence that god exists
    I can see stuff around me
    The bible says god created the stuff around me
    It's obvious, it's common sense to me.."
    ⭕🔁⭕♻️⭕😂