The Atheist Experience 668 with Matt Dillahunty and AronRa

[@TheAtheistExperience]

13:41- Stefan (theist): asks what reasons the hosts have for accepting atheism, what burden of proof has religion not met? 33:35- Mike: why aren't theists more reckless and atheists more careful? 44:34- Luke (theist): Belief in God is not necessary, God is love, breathing is evidence for God, nature is giving which is evidence for God 1:06:35- Jeremy: bias in the media favouring Christianity, the World Trade Centre mosque site 1:11:38- Samer: theists who claim Sir Isaac Newton was religious is evidence for God 1:19:37- Nick (theist): refutes intelligent design 1:23:51- Dave: God is one, God is everything 1:25:10- Tic: asks why the hosts can't accept the Bible as evidence of God

[@ApocryphalDude]

The Atheist Experience thanks for putting these in. Finding them in either the comments or description improves the viewing experience.

[@waelben2000]

OMFG both of you in one video 😱❤😆🙏.. we need more of this!

[@emilymayer5537]

Undisputed tag team.

[@anthonylong9067]

AronRa and Matt Dillahunty are like Kane and The Undertaker

[@mistylover7398]

@@anthonylong9067 religious believers : 😱👉😖👈 la la la la la la God's real and true who cares about reality.

[@1SheepishWolf]

It's a bad idea to be a creationist and call in when Ra and Dilahunty are on the phone.

[@asherikamichaela8425]

Facts!! 😂🤣

[@darrenleelayton6052]

But they're good at bad ideas, so...

[@coletrickle1775]

@@darrenleelayton6052 Your problem is with logic and skepticism. Which is super sad. It's not their ideas, it's logic and reason. But you go ahead and be anti reason, I'm sure that works out well.

[@cynicaltheastrocreep4504]

well it is a good idea to make their beliefs look ridiculous!

[@Miodrag.Vukomanovic]

@@coletrickle1775 But if he doesn't worship his cosmic dictator, it will through him into an eternal torture chamber!

[@derekmizer6293]

I love how Aaron demands an answer before the theist goes on with his irrational thinking

[@davidhull2426]

@@fjackson4382 creation is so beautiful..

[@KatKevaKelise]

It’s Aron. Not Aaron. I’ve heard him correct SO many people... And fair enough - it IS his name, after all.

[@ringo666]

@@davidhull2426 until you can prove it was created, call it reality. There is NOTHING to support the idea of a creation.

[@ogreman-lll-957]

@@davidhull2426 no evidence for that

[@mistylover7398]

@@ringo666 dipstick how can you really show evidence of evilution and say my almighty always existed purple unicorn didn't use a special spell to have a relationship with and friendship?

[@mikechapman1992]

Luke's belief system is based off the lion King

[@pdute1]

Gawd! you're right, it "The Circle Of Life" all over again.

[@zer-op2gq]

@Francisco Nieves yes; those are the options.

[@jameswest8280]

Props to the hosts for being able to make heads or tails out of Luke's rambling.

[@BolasDaGrk]

44:30 Luke's 15 minutes of extreme psychological pain listening to this guy talking out of his ass making up whatever he feels like in his law of love, with definitely unwarranted confidence.

[@JohnMorris-ge6hq]

What are a horrible thing to say! ......LOL LOL Good one! "Out of his ass..." A classic man!

[@andrewsarchus7319]

Two sentences into Luke's argument and already the word salad is complete

[@sataridis]

daaamn, aron and matt tagteaming is brilliant

[@zer-op2gq]

@Francisco Nieves wtf are you babbling about?

[@TheSnoeedog]

ken and gloria (copeland) ain't got shit on this

[@heavymeddle28]

This is like watching Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson together

[@w8m4n]

Armed with nukes against a bar of fudge

[@tedgrant2]

Why do people say they have evidence, but don't provide it to us ?

[@jonathanconnor7920]

You know how on Halloween, sometimes people will put a big bowl of candy outside with a sign saying "take one"? Well once, I fucked a dead moose.

[@tedgrant2]

@@jonathanconnor7920 Was it consensual ?

[@tedgrant2]

@Francisco Nieves Sausages are not bananas.

[@zer-op2gq]

@Francisco Nieves they are when you have faith in a book commanding killing. Like how god commanded genocide over and over again

[@Gremriel]

Because they don't know what evidence is or means.

[@mgrzx3367]

I was in prison and met many "good Christians". Even Preachers. None of them gave me a real reason why they thought they were following the Bible when they committed their crimes. They thought so, but they couldn't actually say why they thought they were righteous.

[@RB-zh1eq]

I found god in prison. Quit doing dope. Completely turned my life around. And now, more than 20 years later, I realize that I turned my life around. I quit doing dope. I made changes in my life. And now that I've left religion behind, I'm a better person. All the way around.

[@beauteetmusculation8191]

@@RB-zh1eq Thanks for sharing. Have a nice day!

[@ta13s93]

Stefan, if god is omnipotent then it should also follow that “his word” should require no interpretation, not a lick of tap dancing to clarify or defend, as this god would be the greatest writer/orator in existence and would have zero problem communicating their message to every brain in existence seeing as how this god would have engineered them every one. Also, I agree with Matt and Aron. An omnipotent (especially should it not be a trickster/tool of a deity) wouldn’t express their eternal message in book-form as they could easily project said message into the minds of every individual and/or pay each and every one a personal visit.

[@D-me-dream-smp]

I’m curious how the many Christian denominations justify why it is so, especially when some contradict each other plus what rationale they have for believing that THEIR interpretation is the only correct one out of all the others when they ALL have the same level of “proof”.

[@kirkgrimmer3497]

2 of the best on earth to argue for my positions! I LOVE watching both of them. They're absolutely brilliant on this and many other things. "Long live Christopher Hitchens"...thank goodness we have him on video...FOREVER! And there's nothing these religious nuts can do about THAT. Josh-NC

[@kirkgrimmer3497]

These religious nuts have NOTHING!

[@wilezekiel5773]

I'm glad I watch these on KZbin and not live because I simply have to skip through many of the latter parts of some calls

[@ircjesselee]

These two are the gate keepers of reason and no theist can get through.

[@brucemadge8147]

Spot on!

[@mistylover7398]

YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!!!!

[@BluePhoenix_]

About the news and history thing, i don't understand why. I live in germany and i think i don't have to tell anybody what germans did about a hundred years ago. We don't ignore that, we get 2 years of history class ONLY on those two world wars AND half a year of pedagogy AND a year of politics AND half a year of social studies class on that topic alone. I don't understand why americans try to ignore their past like that. I think it is massively important to know about that to not repeat such errors of the past. We today also have a rise of religious right winged extremists, that are supported by or themselves Neo 88lers in disuise. Our news are full of that. I just don't understand how you can have such a pride in your nation and ignore everything that is wrong with it.

[@n.presley917]

too often their national "pride" is just authoritarianism, not much different from that taught by the most conservative churches.

[@JohnMorris-ge6hq]

These two guys need their own live late night cable show like The Arsenal Hall Show.

[@BrianBattles]

I hate when these have low volume audio

[@boneappletea3858]

"Compassionate woman stops robbery with a lie" is a very compelling headline. I'd have to watch that for at least a second.

[@themourning1783]

Isn't it clearly stated that Adam and Eve could eat any fruit in the garden except from the tree of knowledge? So there was never a time where life did not consume life.

[@asherikamichaela8425]

Yeah, but apparently plants didn't count. Just like how they don't count as living for vegetarians/vegans. 😏

[@themourning1783]

@@asherikamichaela8425 Not surprising vegetarians can't count with the lack of protein in their diet. It's amazing that they can read. 😁

[@georgecrompton8663]

I'm not vegetarian but some types of bean have twice the protein of beef steak

[@AliceSpeltRight]

Love Aron and Matt, they brought me out of religion.

[@mistylover7398]

Yay

[@Sharon-fw9qw]

Them and Seth Andrews for me

[@domiro8156]

Aaron and Matt.... What a superb combination!!!

[@casparuskruger4807]

Stefan is an amazing tapdancer.

[@superpacemaker444]

Him and Luke both go see the same tap instructor every Tuesday 😒🙄🙄

[@marcusizbala1]

You’re giving Stefan too much credit. He tried to tap dance, only to end up falling off stage and land with one foot shoved in his mouth and the other up his ass.

[@casparuskruger4807]

@@marcusizbala1 LOL--Ya, that's about it! I'm going to have to listen to this one again. It was 6 month ago.

[@tjarkschweizer]

@@marcusizbala1 thanks for that disturbing image

[@RB-zh1eq]

He's god's perfect idiot.

[@garyhewitt886]

I love Aronra and Matt,i did not realise how uneducated I was.

[@ta0soft]

we're all uneducated about something, it's those who admit it and are willing to learn that actually do

[@mistylover7398]

Do you mean brainwashed?

[@coletrickle1775]

@@mistylover7398 They come in pairs. When I was a theist I was both brainwashed and uneducated.

[@mistylover7398]

@@coletrickle1775 lol

[@stevenakre4177]

Yo Matt and Ra; y’all know what types of ads KZbin is throwing at your videos? Lots of church stuff, like “this is the shaking of our faith we’ve been praying for!” type of bullshit...the other was “buy this book to understand how to decipher the anointment of Jesus he is telling you” - just think it might need to be addressed, those in the demo your looking to educate are being tugged back to the fold/preyed upon based off the KZbin algorithm suggesting ads towards the viewers of this video

[@jenscoconuts]

It gives one at least a small bit of hope to see sane people that live in the united states...

[@TheSnoeedog]

seeing all TWO of them, making a televised appearance together is rare and heartwarming

[@adicleme5]

1:13:33 beautifully put, Aron.

[@anvb5a1]

Exodus 22: By the way, in Exodus 21, we were just fucking with ya! (lol)

[@unit0033]

the answer was No, he didnt have evidence for it

[@jailhousephilosopher3309]

Awe man! I did not know that these shows existed. Aaron and Matt are like the dynamic duo. These two guys slaughter theist arguments!

[@JB-zd8gv]

But they got slaughtered by all theist callers here

[@racebannon5523]

Sure sure sure, cheetahs, lions, tigers, crocodiles, sharks even piranhas used to survive exclusively on foliage before the fall of Man

[@brucebaker810]

Piranhas lived on fish. Til the fall of man...into the river.

[@racebannon5523]

@@brucebaker810 🤣🤣🤣

[@mysteryh7174]

Believing in a god(s) is like a hobby, such as Stamp collecting. Atheism is not a hobby, but rather the absence of one.

[@TheSnoeedog]

you realize that you're going to burn, with the rest of the no-stampists, right? fucking heresy... lol

[@stevenakre4177]

“Agape Church of Wentzville, MO” just shot an ad my way

[@heavymeddle28]

Internet killed religion. Or its just a matter of time. I once saw a Thai cut a king cobra in two pieces. The "tail" was moving for about 12-24 hours. Nerv spasms of a piece of a snake without a brain. That's religion today. Here today. Gone tomorrow and that's a good thing❤️from🇹🇭

[@LunatheMoonDragon]

That would be nice, and the internet has definitely done a lot of good in this regard. But the opposite is also true. Things like conspiracy theories have gotten more traction and believers over the internet than ever before. These people who would previously have had to stand and shout in a street corner now have a massive platform to assert all their bullshit as fact, and are able to gather all the other fringe idiots in one place, creating even bigger echo chambers than was ever previously possible. This gives them the numbers and the platform to spread lies and reach people who wouldn't have otherwise heard or believed. It's more like what the internet is doing is destroying the middle ground. There used to be a huge population of people who were religious because that's how they were raised, but never really had to mentally address their religious beliefs as they conflict with reality. But due a large part to the internet, those people in the middle are now being driven to either atheism, or deep into the recesses of extremism and conspiracy. It's actually very dangerous, and the fight is more important than ever!

[@n.presley917]

unfortunately it's not as simple as "[more] true facts are available". any given individual still, at some point, needs sources of education/information they trust. the enemy is any religion/culture that trains its members to distrust valid sources of sound information.

[@yuuseir3391]

I think the same, theists have been retarded for long time, but since internet they are going to lose this battle.

[@IAMMAT87]

How did the guy on the left keep so patient.

[@brucebaker810]

Aran's default is pretty zen.

[@MovieMakingMan]

Luke is to Aron & Matt as a dead branch is to a wood chipper.

[@sublimesunshine3229]

Pretty sure that whole story about the “woman who stops robbery with faith” was adapted into a book AND a movie..😕🧐🤯

[@NicholasGarber1]

Holy shit, I never knew Aron was on The Atheist Experience... excellent!

[@superpacemaker444]

Several times it's always good

[@tharealist824]

I wish i was around back in the day to come have dinner with yall

[@tylerkasuboski3366]

THIS is a classic episode!!!!

[@jackgarand7284]

Wow what the fuck? There are more commercials than show.

[@SuperSayinSolidSnek]

First, thanks for opening comments finally

[@basher4828]

you're welcome

[@LPCLASSICAL]

They should have called out MIke at the start and demanded his stats and studies.

[@Zethneralith]

"If you read the Bible carefully..." you can skip over the parts that say really egregious things.

[@jaymeanderson5121]

One of the reasons the earth can sustain life is because of the cycles. E.g. the seasons, the water cycle, and even volcanoes. But that's not evidence of god. If anything it points to no need of it.

[@ringo666]

Pretty much correct. Further, IF there was a creator who put us first, we wouldn't be able to deplete the earth as we have -- and if we were being punished for "sin", then we wouldn't still be the apex predators.

[@alexc5243]

Strawberry bushes depend on organisms eating the strawberries so that the seeds go through the digestive system and end up in the excrement of the organism, at which point it would grow into new bushes. Saying that strawberry bushes “giving” their berries is proof of God’s love would be ridiculous, strawberries don’t grow out of the kindness of the plant, it’s their survival mechanism for reproducing.

[@PortmanRd]

Aww! Poor (totally out of his depth) Luke. Bless his heart. 😂😅

[@josegaleano1530]

Hey guys where is the beer Good program keep it up

[@whatsupinspace854]

Holy FUCK ME the ads on this timeline!!

[@racebannon5523]

Aha it must depend on the time of day cuz I'm watching this in the middle of the night and I'm not getting any commercial breaks...... holy crap I guess I spoke too soon

[@brucebaker810]

This is the religiousest timeline.

[@richstwart2079]

The twin titans of reason and logic....I watched Matt rip into Jordan Peterson....he clearly had it over him

[@DrMikeE100]

Luke makes me want to look at a dictionary, too, but not for his reasons. It's to see the differences in beliefs that are delusional vs. those that are demented.

[@FourDeuce01]

Luke's last name wouldn't happen to be Chopra, would it?

[@tedgrant2]

I think Matt is the messiah ! I should know. I've followed a few.

[@SFforlife]

1:26:08 SPA-getti MONstur 🤣

[@rawhideleather]

I never quite understood why people want to be remembered well after they pass since they won't know anything about it anyway.

[@ringo666]

It's mostly ego, and about 8% wanting validation that they indeed made a positive impact on those around them. It's not an ego thing for me to be reassured I did right by my kids.

[@LunatheMoonDragon]

Mocking the fear of death as irrational isn't a good look. Whether you're religious or not, the fear of death is very normal, and it takes a lifetime of addressing it and slowly working to accept it for most. Much like the concept of infinity, the concept of death is something that the human mind cannot comprehend very well, if at all. I don't think you're being mean on purpose or anything, but when I see comments like this that belittle the fear of death as a stupid thing for anyone to have, I try to speak up because we should be doing exactly the opposite. We should be willing and open to talk about our fear of death, and work toward death positivity!

[@gabbylind3865]

@@LunatheMoonDragon please show that every person that wanted to be remembered well after they pass has that desire because of fear of death. Otherwise, I don’t understand how you know the op was mocking such fear. Plus they are asking why people want that and you’re concluding that they know the answer to this question. If you’re not, then there are more reasons than just fear of death for such mentioned desire.

[@skyvision7363]

Luke is unbearable. I wonder if he calls other shows and gets max 90 sec at the end. Learned from that, and prepped up his "law" with a timer.

[@boneappletea3858]

This audio sux. Good show though. Every time a commercial comes on it's incredibly loud cuz I have to crank the volume to hear the show in mono.

[@HeardFromMeFirst]

"Luke"...This is a perfect example of what Islam does to the rational brain

[@sublimesunshine3229]

My only complaint about this video is that there aren’t enough commercials....🙄

[@SEKTOR_6]

Aron is a fucking wizard

[@harriemeijers9826]

@ Luke: When you can learn something by heart, this does not mean you understand what you have learned. It even could mean when you have learned a book full with contradictions, everything you cite could be a contradiction. And you not even can see where the contradiction is. (just saying)

[@PortlandMan]

Wow never knew Aaron was a host on TAE

[@nothingtolookat276]

Principia Mathmatica was Russell.

[@spookyariel1]

Luke was insufferable. And Mike was trying to do a gotcha. His tone and line of questioning was a dead giveaway.

[@FourDeuce01]

Stefan, like most religious apologists, doesn’t understand that before he can try to tell other people that they don’t take the bible in the proper context, he needs to prove he understands the proper context.🙈

[@Mike.Muc.3.1415]

Twelve years later, theists callers still have the same handful of invalid arguments. It doesn't astonish that Matt seems to have lost most of his calm attitude along the way. I really like the old shows and have watched most of them over the last 15 years. Many of the newer shows and especially many of the new hosts are way too egocentric, going for gotcha moments and trying to promote their own "brand". I wouldn't mind if the ACA had used the creation of x newer IPs to go for more aggressive formats, but it wasn't a good idea to fundamentally change the USP, the very core of the AXP experience.

[@HighStakesDanny]

Religion is big on America due to money. It's not going away. We should tax religions or make it a state thing, that will reduce it. It's tied to the economy out here. RA and Matt? That's a powerhouse.

[@j.r.arnolli7494]

The Facts And Feelings / just tax it, like other organizations, don't make it a state thing.

[@kenichiotaku3693]

Wow, I'm among the first 3 people to comment. To be honest, I'm here for the texan anticreationist tank Aron Ra. :)

[@heavymeddle28]

He's not an antichrist...

[@toejamr1]

heavy meddle he didn’t say he was.. or was this a joke?

[@heavymeddle28]

@@toejamr1 actually... He said antitheist and it sounded like antichrist. Just a bad joke

[@emilymayer5537]

Luke: "I am the law".

[@brandonobaza8610]

I'm having flashbacks of a terrible 90s action film with a Rob Schneider sidekick

[@brandonobaza8610]

@Jay Morgan Alright. I first saw it when I was 10 and I loved it. Especially that badass robot.

[@godblesschild808]

God's not looking out for nobody, i'm a atheist

[@paulphillips684]

How do you take a person seriously when they begin a sentence with "I'm saying"? 🤤

[@krisaaron5771]

Luke did not bring his "A" game. Luke REALLY should bring his "A" game when attempting to discuss belief with -- of all people -- Matt and Aron. Luke is the guy who takes an "Introduction to Physics and Astronomy" class and tries to tell Dr. Stephen Hocking where he went wrong. Luke is the guy who has just discovered he can use his cell phone to make videos and thinks he knows more than Martin Scorsese.

[@seasonedbeefs]

Professor Stephen Hawking you mean?

[@krisaaron5771]

@@seasonedbeefs Dr. Stephen Hocking held a PhD degree in applied mathematics and theoretical physics from Cambridge University, earning him the title of "doctor" as well as "professor".

[@stevenakre4177]

I think KZbin heard me, church ads haven’t played since I commented earlier 🤔😳

[@NOXFPV]

What a tag team.

[@zendavesta1027]

51:20 …and he started preaching bullshit and when finished and looked around, nobody was around anymore…

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

2010 was 11 years ago....

[@JPduclerc]

no shit

[@bms77]

What the FUCK is with an AD every 2 minutes? Fuck youtube

[@tracer740]

Does Stefan have a function brain ... or is he a programmed clone?

[@superpacemaker444]

If Newton was born today I fucking bet he wouldn't be Christan. Even more so with Galileo, he would had loved to be born in a world like this with freedom of thought. Well at least more freedom of thought than back then

[@mistylover7398]

Lord megatron is LORD autobots repent or parish just like egyptian baby's

[@aaronsaunders6974]

skeptic & theist agree. theists are seriously gullible

[@FourDeuce01]

Luke’s religion obviously teaches its followers the Gish Gallop.🤡 The ONLY thing Luke got right was that it’s not necessary to believe in god.

[@w8m4n]

Genuinely got an advert for "religion" before the video

[@kimberlybaldridge5767]

The christian god sounds more and more like a member of the North Korean Kim regime every day.

[@CharleyHorse33]

Statistics deal with smaller sub-sets of populations in order to make inferences about that larger group; a population is everyone or everything that could be possibly captured by a particular measurement. When referring to the population as a whole, measurements are properly called parameters. If we take a smaller number of all the 15-24 year old males in North America and ask them who smokes, we are establishing a statistic about that whole group (population) and then we may infer (controlling for other variables such as wealth) that it's also true for the whole population of 15-24 males. Political polls are the most common way most people experience this kind of calculation. If we ask every 15-24 year old male in North America if they smoke, we are measuring a population parameter, not a statistic. However, that measurement of that 15-24 males is a statistic of all the males in North America from which, if we know the rates of starting and stopping smoking, we can infer how many older males will still be smoking for their age groups. That whole number of males, if we asked all of them if they smoke, is a parameter of the population of males in North America, but a statistic of all the humans in North America, or all the males in the world, etc.

[@ewartsmith7490]

Oh, so this guy's called twice then (or maybe more)

[@VanHalenIsolated]

Regarding the smoking and driving without a seatbelt, perhaps atheists are just more honest than Christians since I guarantee it was just a questionnaire given out to each group lol Christians admitting to smoking and/or driving without a seatbelt could LAND THEM IN HELL 😂. Jk but really, I found that when I was a Christian I cared more about the way I appeared to other Christians than god/Jesus because my narcissistic Christian brain told me that Jesus forgives unlimited amount of times and people don’t.

[@joshdarius5995]

Dream team

[@thetoddperspective]

668. The neighbor of the beast.

[@itsjustbriar1205]

YOOO. MY 2 FAVE GUYS

[@TheARN44]

20 ads wtf?

[@Antank8]

1:09:36

[@michaelharris4651]

Aron and Matt 👍👍🇦🇺 !

[@gerzxr838]

Aaron rules!

[@brucemadge8147]

There is more crap in Luke's words than in all the crappers in all the homes in all the cities in all the countries in all the world!

[@chudleyflusher7132]

This show confirms a very controversial theory about race and IQ practically every week. It’s really become an elephant in the room.

[@thomasmichaelabbott18]

The theme song of this program is reason enough to question the merits of atheism

[@unit0033]

by atheism you mean not believing a specific mythology?

[@thomasmichaelabbott18]

Im sort of suggesting there may be a link between personal taste and beliefs. But it's mostly just a half-hearted sort of tough in check comment made to express the fact that I think the theme song is kinda stinky.

[@unit0033]

@@thomasmichaelabbott18 In a way that appears to be the case. Some people apply rationality to some of their lives others most of it.

[@ringo666]

@@thomasmichaelabbott18 my own tolerance for that song lasted about 4 repeats over the years I've been watching the show. Glad you referred to tongue in cheek, don't have to put you on blast for an igno remark. Personally, I'm an atheist and a classic rocker with leanings to Seger.

[@elliotmartyn2960]

👍🏼

[@elliotmartyn2960]

Test

[@Cole444Train]

This is a little mean, but Stephen just isn’t that intelligent