5 Atheist Double Standards

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In this episode Trent examines how atheist views on the Bible, God, evil and evidence often contain double standards that show the arguments wouldn’t be accepted in other contexts and so atheists should stop using them.

Video Contents:
00:00 - Introduction
01:25 - #1 – Ancient document double standard
08:20 - #2 – God is evil, there is no evil
15:30 - #3 – Bad Christians vs. bad atheists
21:13 - #4 – Excommunicating atheistic “heretics”
24:33 - #5 – Christianity is fair game, Islam is off limits

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Another problem with writing off the basic historicity of the Bible is that people have made that same mistake with other things. People used to the think Gilgamesh was a wholly mythical character from the Epic of Gilgamesh, until various ancient inscriptions were discovered that mention him as a real king. People also used to the think the city of Troy was a fictitious place until the late 1800s when it was discovered in Turkey. Archaeology is a relatively new science and there are still plenty of things left to be discovered.

samvimes

I had a boss who professed to be an atheist but would ask me to pray to God when he had some work problem.

patriciagrande

Most frustrating is the claim there is only one historical source for christian claims, the bible. Then they ask for other sources to corroborate. The gospels ARE independent sources, as are the epistles. You can't legitimately deny they are independent, corroborating sources simply because they were gathered into single compendium at a later date.

spamdump

Saying that bad Christians disprove God is as absurdly foolish as saying that “a fake Rolex disproves the existence of a genuine Rolex”.

paulburns

Re:" they would be good even if they weren't Christian". I've also heard that a Christians goodness doesn't "count" bc we do it because of religion and not of free choice (ie, atheists choose to be good without any framework). It's not a good argument either, as everyone, even an atheist, has frameworks they work within through culture and society.

Re: handmaid's tale and Islam. Mind blown for me - I didn't make that connection. It's so true. I've noticed the double standard there in other areas but the constant handmaid's tale references had never occurred to me to link the two.

Mrs_Homemaker

Richard Dawkins: there is no God; there is no evil.
Also Richard Dawkins: if there is a God, he is evil.

emperor_mozzy

We can't hold someone against their will or kill them because that is "evil". Yet if the state does these same things it's not considered evil, but virtuous and just. If the state can do these things and it's not considered evil, then certainly God, the creator of all can do them as well.

sonnyjim

I do agree that there is in fact a double standard in regard to how atheists view Christian’s vs how they view other atheists - and how those individuals reflect of the credibility/integrity of their worldview.

However, the only reason I’ll let them have that, is that so many of us are absolutely pitiful examples of the faith we proclaim. In fact, the steadily rising numbers of atheists (in this country, at least) is largely due to so many of us as Christians, who don’t live by example to the world, don’t know or dedicate time to the scriptures, and when challenged with genuine issues pertaining to the Word (all reconcilable, mind you, but there are genuine tough ones that we come across) we fail to provide the reasoned explanation for those challenges, to justify the hope in our hearts. This reasserts the atheistic mindset that Christians are just a bunch of uneducated bumpkins who blindly follow the religion because we can’t think for ourselves. And honestly, they’re not far off from the truth - in that many, many of us in my experience, are blindly following the faith and have never once considered tackling our own faith intellectually to verify the trustworthiness of the scriptures. We blindly follow truth of course, but don’t actually comprehend what they’re following. This is unacceptable and is a direct cause for the decline of Christianity - and indirectly the cause for the rise of Woke insanity.

WafleEnterprises

I remembered when I tried to talk about the late Hitchen's discomfort with abortion since it is basically a gatekeeping from the species' membership and they snapped at his other bad opinions to poison this particular opinion of his for a categorical standard for human entry level

josephg.

Really great content. He also has a very affable and gracious manner. Great work

backyardengineering

Atheists are not free-thinkers, not even slightly. Otherwise they'd critizice Islam with the same enthusiasm as they do with Christianism. Dawkins and his chums are anything but brave.

GoinDownhill

Most of my atheist friends and people I come in contact with are pretty respectful of my beliefs. It’s the protestant Christians that attack me with there broken and sometimes made up theology.

jnby

This is one of your best videos. I'm Christian and I never even noticed some of these.

dukeofdenver

Wow, I can't believe I had never seen this channel before; fantastic content. I have a version of the teleological moral argument you mentioned (inspired by Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue") coming up in a philosophy journal.

thinkingchristian

It's easy to ridicule and offend someone who is taught to not retaliate in anger and violence. This is just like continuously slapping someone and when that person had enough by slapping them back, they would immediately brand them as a bad person for slapping them.

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