here are my 10 questions for atheists well let's get into answering those questions
though it doesn't matter how many times questions get asked or who responds it
seems no one ever listens to the answers so here are 10 annoying questions that may or
may not lead to concluding there might actually be a god wow I really doubt it
skeptic the British floating Circle the watches people make extraordinary claims and then I
explain why I don't accept what they're saying in the hope that some folks who also don't believe
get some reassurance that they're not alone in their non-belief this is Braxton Hunter he hosts
Trinity radio and has 10 questions for atheists most of the time when I've seen these questions
it seems as though it's meant to be a few gotcha moments but maybe this time it'll be different
and either the questions will stump an atheist and they'll start believing or the theist asking
the questions will listen to the answers and go well maybe it wasn't a God and maybe there is a
logical explanation but we shall see but before we do answer some questions if this isn't your
first skeptic video hit the like the Subscribe and the bell and we can question whether the algorithm
is doing the right job and suggests more videos like this to you and a super thanks to those that
hit super thanks in some recent videos Turtle M Chris Sears Eric mashima Dwayne young and
Steve cross Lisa the rainbow giraffe bestosa is upon you all more hen questions go here I
hope my atheist interlocutors will consider these questions deeply without giving glib answers these
aren't meant to be gotcha questions though I'm not asking for no reason I expect you will have
answers and I want to hear what the most sincere among you have to say with that here are my 10
questions for atheists Hey listen I'm not against questions that make you reconsider your position
on certain things what facts about reality that you and I agree are real facts about the way the
world is does your world view account for but my Christianity doesn't account for or at least
doesn't account for well and for those of you that would point out atheism isn't a world view
I'm talking about you your worldview that includes atheism I'm not even sure what this question is
what do you mean by account for real facts about the way the world is you'd have to be specific
I'm sorry if that's not an answer you'd like but it's a bit of a broad non-specific question a bit
like which is the correct color I can't think of any Christianity accounts for evil suffering the
existence of other religions but how on Earth does that make it true isn't isn't an answer
God did it for most things and there is a God you miss you miss a rather large step there that being
proving the god that you claim does the things including Supernatural events in those other
religions Christianity explains the supernatural events in other religions ah when a supernatural
stuff ever happened outside of stories and hallucinations and all that crap science and
differences among different denominations of Christianity Christianity explains differences
between different types of Christianity as a weird flex and still doesn't demonstrate the
truth of it but I can think of many things that the most common World Views that include atheism
don't answer as well as I think Christianity does please just list them and then let's see what the
explanation is like Universal Supernatural claims Universal religious experiences God did it isn't
an explanation and how can you tell the difference between a regular experience and a supernatural
or religious experience how can you tell an experience wasn't because of Lisa the rainbow
giraffe Leaf be upon her all powerful giraffes work in mysterious ways too you know morality
near-death experiences Beauty morality not being a person to make the world a safe place for our
children and their children near-death experiences I have a friend who actually temporarily died and
didn't have any kind of experience because maybe he's an atheist his brain didn't search for
meaning and a way to explain away what actually happened to him Beauty please it's 2023 let's not
even touch the look at the trees argument or point out that not everything is quote unquote beautiful
I know a couple who have a daughter that had pulmonary valve stenosis which thankfully after
years of treatment has gone they thanked God for making it go if life was beautifully created why
would a God give an innocent child born to very religious parents this disease it's bloody stupid
if you ask me the rapid expansion of the early church people follow people other religions that
have nothing to do with Christianity also grew fast you know what else is growing more and more
every day non-belief the events surrounding the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth stories about
something don't make them true there are stories about Lisa the rainbow giraffe Leaf be upon her
and her miraculously turning river water into pina coladas and feeding 6 000 people with one coconut
oh Magic giraffes are awesome in our shared longing for purpose and meaning meaning and
Christianity don't go hand in hand the meaning of Christianity is to give your life over to an
undemonstrated being and prepare to tell it how good it is for forever in a floating cloud land
my self-given meaning is to make others have the best time with me whilst I'm still alive
to do that it's very easy so what is it that Christianity doesn't answer as well as your
world view okay let's sum it up you say a god did it I say prove the god that's Christianity right
mine is that it's okay to say I don't know until science can demonstrate a natural explanation
is that okay good if your definition of atheism is merely that it's a lack of belief in God and
you're just waiting to be convinced but then you speak of him as though he's in some way synonymous
with Santa Claus the Easter Bunny or fairies oh Lisa the rainbow giraffe Leaf be upon her doesn't
that at least send the message to your listeners that you actually believe that there is no God
after all these are entities and beings that you likely believe do not exist and if your response
is that you merely lack a belief in Santa Claus and don't actively believe that he does not exist
doesn't that sound a little disingenuous honestly not really I mindset now that a God doesn't exist
just just Santa fairies and ghosts don't meet the burden of proof of their existence
he guards so I personally conclude that there aren't any atheism is a lack of belief in God
there are different ways that you can lack that belief but then the end result is essentially the
same if you think about it when atheism becomes a part of someone's worldview they typically change
their positions on other issues like abortion sexual morality and a number of other things
yeah no I've always tried to not be a to my fellow humans my views on abortion have especially always
been the same and freedom of sexual expression as long as consent is involved yeah well I'm
down I actually have several videos of well-known atheists saying that there's nothing wrong with
prostitution oh no that they hope their children don't save themselves until marriage and that
sex workers should be put up on a pedestal no different than the military I didn't use those
here because I didn't want to seem combative to individuals specifically the individuals who made
those statements but even if you didn't become an atheist just so you could sin and I believe
you do you at least understand why those moves could send that message to people who might say
that to you wait people stop believing in a God so they can Sin Sin isn't really a concept outside
of religion people Don't Stop Believing in a God just to have sex you know if it's a lack of belief
sort of atheism what is it is it 50 50 60 40 75 25 and at what point do you feel disingenuous
saying that you merely lack a belief as opposed to leaning towards I believe that God does not
exist I don't think that's how it works you can't 50 not believe in a god you either are convinced
or you're not convinced nothing convinces me but feel free to offer something that might convince
me that your God actually exists now I know we've all got our talking points but I want
you to struggle to be as sincere with yourself as you can right now doesn't it bother you a little
bit that when we come to talk about the origins of the universe and if there's a Multiverse the
origin of that too that the only real options you've got besides God is a past infinite Universe
which is impossible why why how do you know that it's impossible isn't a God that existed
or exists outside of everything impossible or the universe coming to exist uncaused out of nothing
or something far less clear than even those it seems that for any worldview that includes atheism
there's a massive blind spot when it comes to the origin of the universe and the only explanation
you currently have is a god did it because a book says so but who wrote that if there was
nothing and then suddenly it was written that a God made everything who was there to witness it
no one other than the God and so you just have to accept that a god did it because it said so and I
can tell you that before the universe was created or whatever Lisa the rainbow giraffe Leaf be upon
her ate any possible Gods to summon the cosmic poop needed to crap everything into existence
how do you know that didn't happen and all the attempts to try and circumvent that problem seemed
desperate and at least far less likely than theism my question isn't just what do you typically say
about this because I'm well aware of the responses my question is simply this when you step away from
the debate mode that it's so easy for us all to get into online doesn't this issue destabilize
you a little bit it seems to fit really poorly with any world view that includes atheism no
it doesn't it's absolutely okay to say I don't know instead of just making something up and then
thinking people are stupid for not accepting your made-up thing of the arguments for God's existence
is there one that to you seems more interesting than the rest is there one that for you actually
does weigh in favor of theism which one this one's easy none of them not one argument for a
God's existence is remotely convincing to me sorry buddy I'm very much unconvinced most atheists I've
met humbly admit that they don't think they can have absolute certainty about much of anything
but what they want from the Christian is a demonstration that God exists or that Christianity
is true well when we offer the reasons to believe that we do have those are typically deemed not
good enough I can't help it if you believe something for silly reasons so what sort of
evidence if any would be enough to convince you I would be convinced of a God's existence if a god
actually showed up itself and if it really was a god it would know that that is all I need and it
would also know that getting regular old humans to try and convince me by using their feelings
and anecdotes isn't enough to convince me if a god actually existed it would know what it would
take to prove itself to me so perhaps it just doesn't care if I don't believe in it or maybe
it doesn't want me to believe in it or maybe it doesn't exist and if anyone comes at me with you
have to open your heart or allow God inside listen if a God is that weak that it requires me to do
the groundwork to then be convinced of it it's not really that powerful of a being anyway do you know
and since it's often a conversation stopper let's take experimental reproducibility off the table
since that's not even always necessary for science oh okay to what extent did social and moral issues
start you down the path toward your atheism I mean I've never really believed in a God so nothing
that is to say the typical Christian or religious views on sexuality gender rights and acts and
commands of God in the Old Testament it seems that many deconversion stories online begin with
OR at least include LGBT issues Purity culture or hell as instrumental in the deconversion process
typical Christian mindset right there that folks can't just be brought up not really believing in
it in the first place it strikes me that what should matter most is the truth and not what we
might prefer that the truth were how is it that they always get it but then they really don't
at the same time I do care about what's true which is why I no longer believe in anything
Supernatural and until it can be demonstrated there really is no reason that I see to believe
in any of it anyway I honestly wonder how much those issues and ones like them motivate the
deconversion rather than all this talk about evidence well instead of wondering why don't
you ask people oh I guess you are never mind can you name the last three academic books you read by
theists on the subject how long ago did you read them no because I'm too busy reading other fantasy
novels usually or is most of your understanding of apologetics and Atheism from non-scholarly
internet sources Pop level books and let's face it YouTube videos no I wasn't convinced because
of my own mind how educated someone is has nothing to do with why I should or shouldn't believe sure
watching videos and reading books and going to conventions and all that has taught me better
ways of articulating myself but the fact remains I was a non-believer in God before the internet
was as big as it is now now and be honest with yourself about this anyone can Google up a list
of books and paste them in the comments section but I want to know are you getting the best from
the other side the other side that being the ones trying to convince me of something that
hasn't ever been demonstrated outside of ideas thoughts and feelings I don't think I'm getting
the best in that case who do I need to speak to about getting the best let's finish with a
pretty common one if you found out today to your satisfaction that Christianity were true would
you accept God's Authority repent of your sins and Trust Jesus as your king uh absolutely not
given what I've learned about the Christian God if it was demonstrated to be real would I follow and
worship it nah a murderous jealous Petty invisible which is weirdly exactly the same as non-existent
being I'm sorry I'm better than that I'm good and so it seems those questions didn't actually
offer anything else other than suggesting that Christians can pretty much answer any question
with a god did it well great but you know how I go those Believers you do need to demonstrate
that God exists rather than just asserting things happen because of it maybe you'd have answered
these questions differently though let me know in the section below I'm going to skeptic this
as another annoying round of questions answered a big thank you to this month's top level ticks
on patreon Addie rock art the enix's Elizabeth Jakari and the absolute lunatic Travis as well
as all the three dollar Basics you can become a supporter on patreon 2 at patreon.com the skeptic
the link is in the description along with links to all my other socials don't forget to hit the like
button and subscribe if you haven't already from me the skeptic stay safe keep thinking logically
and ask questions skepticism is the first step towards truth see you next Saturday [Music]
thank you