Does Atheism Provide a Good Moral Foundation? | Joel - NJ | Atheist Experience 21.31

The Atheist Experience 21.31 for August 6, 2017 with Matt Dillahunty and John Iacoletti.

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[markrude]

Matt: "If you say 'context' one more time, I'm hanging up."
Caller: Describes context without using the word "context."

[dadaseyi]

I absolutely love when Matt holds their feet to the fire and will not let them wiggle out. It's my favorite thing to watch because the theist starts realizing they're wrong AND try to still argue and they get confused, naturally.

[emperorsgrandads]

Matt tried so hard to guide this caller and let him figure out his morality was better than his holy book, but he just couldnt get it. The damage religion does is so insidious

[GuyRegular]

Philosophy has questions that may never be answered, religion has answers that may never be questioned

This is a major reason I left religion behind: the constant need to waffle, obfuscate, and rationalize. It gets to a point when you realize you've been lying to yourself.

[giftgamer]

This guy would've made the perfect slave in alabama 200 years ago, praise the lord i'm a slave!

[ZlaRah]

It seems christians need to be asked a question eleven times to actually hear the question.

[johnlopperman]

I don't rape, plunder, or steal and yet have been a carefree atheist since the day I was born 85 years ago, even while SURROUNDED by "good gob-fearing christians'' my entire adventurous life.
Something musta gone wrong...

[MrSubsound]

Caller with their own version of christianity #675, 764, 765, 123, 876 that cant even explain it.

[mrgoth_xsK]

Matt is one of the brilliant minds of modern times

[AfoteyAnnum]

This is painful to watch.

You can literally hear the cognitive dissonance rack his brain

[kingrichardiii]

"there are Christians who are good people and atheists who are good people"
"but the good atheists grew up in christian cultures"
"i didn't grow up christian but i think i am a good person"
"i am not saying you can't be good, that is not what i am saying"
what is he saying?

[EASYTIGER]

Morality is not absolute. Never has been, never will be.

[SkyeID]

When I was a christian, the pastors taught us that we can basically disregard the verses about slavery because that was the old covenant, but they put a lot of emphasis on the 10 commandments. so really they would just pick and choose what to hang onto and what to ignore.

[dancedecker]

Fred Astaire himself would have been so very proud of Joel's tap dance. Lol.

[jesseriker]

A Christian dancing around what he knows is true. I felt embarrassed for him.

[TallSilentGuy]

Does being an atheist make a person a good pastry chef?
Does being an atheist prevent a person from being a good pastry chef?
I hope I have adequately demonstrated the absurdity of the caller's question!

[tedgrant]

It's seems odd that a grown man (or woman) hasn't yet worked out from where we get our morals.
Very odd indeed. I remember the day I learned. I was in my mother's kitchen and I was being naughty. She said that if I didn't behave, I would not get any ice cream nor watch Doctor Who.
I've behaved ever since. I still enjoy ice cream and Doctor Who.

[corawheeler]

"Murder is, always was, always will be a crime, so long as a majority of people object to being Robert Ingersoll

[LeonSandoval]

This could be my all time favorite AXP video. So much is illustrated in this one call.