Please Learn The Definition Of Anonymous | George-AZ | Atheist Experience 25.32

The Atheist Experience 25.32 for August 8, 2021 with Matt Dillahunty and Dr. Darrel Ray (@Recovering from Religion).
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[@blaireofhylia1572]

"Why are you mad?" Meanwhile everyone else knows matt went easy on him coz he's a teenager lol

[@CloverField83]

This is an example of a kid who believes that when the other party gets mad, you've won the argument.

[@markklippenberg7364]

So utterly stupid. A young religitard is still a religitard and should be mistreated as such.

[@patrickjohneby1306]

“Of the two of us, which one of us knows Bart Ehrman” that was absolutely savage 😂

[@chrispbacon3042]

Yeah the kid completely missed the sarcasm in that. This child might be smart but certainly not wise…Not even for his age.

[@BootBizarre]

@@chrispbacon3042 Is he actually smart though? He just sounded scripted/coached. Anytime Matt got him off script he floundered. His dodging regarding what the word ANONYMOUS means was some fucking stupid shit, even for 15. Also, what 15 year old has a problem with the word FUCK? LOL He was most certainly coached by his parents expecting that Matt would say fuck at least once. 😂

[@wunnell]

I think the fact that George repeatedly pointed out what "everybody" said about Matt tells you pretty much all you need to know about the kind of person he is.

[@rammsteinrulz16]

Yes, a child

[@Petticca]

He sounds like a kid who has had someone overload him with all the proof, facts and arguments, but he doesn't know enough to adapt and respond. I think I did something similar at that age, although with a different subject entirely, but I had heard the buzzwords and dipshit opinions of my dad (which I mistook for knowledge and valid points) Luckily, for me, my aunt was the first person I spewed stupid at and she wrecked my hubris-filled nonesense ass in short order. I am grateful for that.

[@Mavuika_Gyaru]

​@@rammsteinrulz16nah I wasnt that dum at 15

[@puckerings]

I'd say that it might be relevant that this guy is 15 since he argued like an ignorant, petulant child, but he's really no worse than the adult Christians who call in.

[@dieSpinnt]

Huh? Ben Shapiro is clearly older than 15! (BTW that was a joke, they sound similar :))

[@garyskinner2422]

@@dieSpinnt They sound very familiar I agree, that annoying nasal voice

[@lukewojtanowicz1991]

At the age of 15, he still has time to break out of his indoctrination. Best of luck to him, I say.

[@EustaBAracer]

@@garyskinner2422 That annoying "my dad is a lawyer" voice.

[@garyskinner2422]

@@EustaBAracer Yes he seems very arrogant to go with it.

[@kylarflint4205]

A lot of people are saying Matt is wrong for calling George a runt. If George is calling into a grown up domain, and acts like an idiot, then I don’t see a problem with it.

[@ApocryphalDude]

It won't the word it was the manner. I think he made a motion of politeness and it was reasonable

[@t800fantasm2]

@Viktor Tandofsky "the glaring mistake of interpreting the entire bible as literal fact." Except, many if not most of the callers do think the bible is 100% true and to be taken as the literal word of god...

[@TheMonk72]

@Viktor Tandofsky "He misinterprets numerous Old Testament passages." According to who? What authority is there that can definitively state the meaning of those passages? And if such an authority exists, why so do many different Christian sects have different interpretations? I have no doubt that Matt has a different interpretations than you do, but the same is probably true of 99% of Christians. So what? The Bible isn't very clear about the meaning in any language as far as we can tell. The oldest copies we have use words that are poetic or unclear, and Christians come along and interpret those words in new and interesting ways all the time. "He makes the glaring mistake of interpreting the entire bible as literal fact." No, he doesn't. He has often stated flat out that some parts of the bible that a caller is taking literally is clearly allegorical. So either you're dishonest or misinformed. What he does is ask if the bible is not meant to be taken literally, what mechanism can we use to determine which parts are literal and which parts are not. And when he asks people about whether a specific verse was literal or figurative - something he used more frequently back in the early days - he got different answers from different people. "No minister would do that." Ignoring for the moment that there are actually ministers that do exactly that, what difference does that make? Matt is not a minister. You know what I think? I think you know all of this, you're just posturing here. You don't call in because you know that Matt would say pretty much the same, and you know that you can't actually address his objections. I believe that you don't have a good reason for your belief, and that you probably recognize as much. And if you want an example of pure, unwarranted arrogance, listen to the caller in this video. He's an arrogant child who appears to think that talking fast, being rude and disrepectful, and trying to bully Matt is going to anything. He probably lords over his peers with these tactics, and I'm going to guess he doesn't ever understand just how badly he got slapped down. He's probably proud of standing up to the bully, and will almost certainly never recognize his own disgusting behavior. Honestly, you guys might as well be telling us about your girlfriend that you can't introduce to us because she goes to a different school, or she lives in Canada or something. We're not that dumb, okay?

[@wtfjesus8251]

Because possible ad hominem and he is a child not only act like 1; also good material for further atheist 😁

[@EustaBAracer]

@Viktor Tandofsky loooooool he reads the bible directly as it's written. He doesn't lie and obfuscate the true words of that shitty book like preachers do.

[@alexkilgour1328]

I'm a parent of 3 teenagers. This is what it's like talking to them about any subject. If only the rest of us could have the self-confidence of your average teenager.

[@edenorsomething7630]

It's not confidence, usually insecurities influence this behavior (been a teen not so long ago, defensive mechanism). Being young is tough

[@compulsiverambler1352]

@Joce C If someone beats you up everyday at work... that won't ever happen because they'll be fired the first time, and probably prosecuted and a restraining order if you like. Someone beats you up at school everyday, law enforcement discriminates against you and will let it happen potentially until you are one giant bruise walking around and everything hurts and every single day you're just waiting for your latest tender bruises to get punched again. No wonder so many children kill themselves.

[@dx1450]

Confidently wrong.

[@gpang788]

But George is only 3 years old

[@bert.hbuysse5569]

cool story bro

[@BoneySkylord]

The Dunning-Kruger is strong in this one!

[@tylercolagerakis2257]

Matt: "you're not listening" George: "I am? I'm dodging your questions?" Matt: "YOU'RE NOT LISTENING" *silence* George: "oh okay" sums it up perfectly

[@BootBizarre]

LOL! I caught that too...... because unlike George, I WAS listening. 😂

[@AussieNaturalist]

George seems to be a good example of someone who was taught WHAT to think, instated of HOW to think. And he certainly was never taught how to listen...

[@joyhana3542]

I still see a lot of people in some circles I run with sometimes that display these characteristics. So robotic!

[@nathanielthomson6600]

Why would they teach him to listen? If he listened he might actually start trying to evaluate things for himself.

[@jiggydibest2329]

Exactly! He's a straight up slave of Christianity 😂

[@TheSnoeedog]

but just imagine how much fun it is at whatever high school has George playing "village bicycle" for all the schoolyard bullies

[@petermirtitsch1235]

"I was talking first, so that's not fair"... Where's the evidence that he's as old as fifteen.

[@hank_says_things]

Ladies and gentlemen: Uncurious George.

[@hank_says_things]

@@kentonbaird1723 nah, this dude was just a regular Pissy George

[@robl8847]

Can we be sure "George" wasn't actually little Ben Shapiro? Sure sounded identical. I also don't have issue with Matt calling him a runt. He was rude, disrespectful, and wasn't listening to the hosts. You get what you give. If George wants respect, he should earn it by treating others, ESPECIALLY his elders with respect first.

[@doneestoner9945]

He did sound a lot like Ben Shapiro. Maybe it's his son or something.

[@crispyblack8779]

OMG! I just wrote that, too!

[@EustaBAracer]

@@doneestoner9945 He did sound a lot like Ben Shapiro. Maybe it's his wife's boyfriend's son?

[@LinkFanatic]

I feel like your statement contradicts itself at the end, but otherwise I agree. If respect has to be earned, then you can't logically say that you're obligated to respect someone just for being your elders, as that is a *status*, not a *personality*.

[@LinkFanatic]

@Naukumaija Mau-mau No they don't. Bullies for example.

[@tonybennett4159]

This kid sounds uncannily like Ben Shapiro. Just as grating too.

[@br2k]

And I feel like our good Dr Ray was my spirit animal in listening to this

[@ZhangK71]

Let’s say, hypothetically, that I own atheists epic-style as Ben Shabibo 😎

[@EustaBAracer]

@@ZhangK71 Secular countries owned and murdered by facts and logic XD

[@Alexagrigorieff]

@@ZhangK71 Shen Bapiro

[@spocksvulcanbrain]

@Joce C Well, let's just say that Ben has arguments to support his position. That doesn't mean they are correct or true. He's wrong and/or misrepresents the data a lot of the time.

[@badgerbush3556]

Wow a religious person that has trouble listening to what's being said by a atheist? That's a real rarity.

[@Johnboy33545]

Shocking, isn't it?

[@EustaBAracer]

I am aghast, aghast I say!

[@Dog-Jet]

Not sure why you apologized for calling him a little runt, he was being one.

[@reasonablespeculation3893]

The apology was appropriate... name calling is not acceptable. Matt would do himself a favor, if he eased up on his promotion of the word FU(% ... He knows very well, that "word" is commonly used (whether it makes sense or not)to express anger. On the other hand the kid should have accepted the apology, and shown appreciation for Matt's time , and the new information made available. .. Matt is a wise old sage, he has no excuse. He needs to recognize his blind spots. The kid has a long way to go. Stupid moves are part of growing up.

[@awkwardcultism]

I fucking love the word fuck. I know two languages and fuck is one of my favorites in either. People need to spend more learning new words instead of inventing excuses to chuck out perfectly good words they already know.

[@LoveProWrestling]

His comment "why are you mad?" was very telling. I've heard it before from people on this show who have tried to logic god into existence and been called on their bullshit. Theres a school somewhere turning these people out.

[@tonydarcy1606]

Probably unfair , but let me do a quick character assessment of the caller. Young, arrogant, ignorant, aggressive, gullible yet good with his phone, and a good parrot for his Christian friends. Oh, and I don't envy his dad in couple of years, when he gets pestered to buy a car for young George. Am I miles away ? Let me know George.

[@andrewholdaway813]

Another kid with a script.

[@John-md8wb]

His parents probably indoctrinated the twat, and told him what to think. Child abuse in anyone's book.

[@TheTruthKiwi]

@@John-md8wb There's no doubt that his folks have assisted in drumming this crap into him. I'd almost feel sorry for him if he wasn't such an arrogant little upstart

[@steveswangler6373]

A good chance that his father is just an adult version of george

[@FourDeuce01]

"Everybody says you're mad." George needs to learn some integrity if he ever wants to talk with adults.

[@GayorgVonTrapp]

Yes, use of the word ’runt’ was uncalled for. Curious George is more of a twonk.

[@themplar]

Meh it was correct for this insufferable baby shapiro.

[@Johnboy33545]

A twonky runt?

[@freddan6fly]

@@Johnboy33545 A twonk runt, followed that a word starting with a 'c' and that rhymes with runt. But I cannot write it since youtube would censor me.

[@justanormalday7251]

George is not curious, he is flexing muscles. George have listened to many bad apologetic preachers and was calling with 100% confidence.

[@TakoIbarra]

Sorry Matt... but you are using very big words for his very small mind.

[@joulian]

"runt" is small enough

[@kellydalstok8900]

In Dutch we have the expression “Jip en Janneke taal”, meaning the language used in a series of books aimed at 4 - 6 year olds. This is the way to speak to these intellectually stunted individuals.

[@whatsupinspace854]

I miss being 15. At no other time in your life, will you be as sure of yourself and convinced that your own BS smells of roses.

[@huepix]

I'm glad I'm not 15 anymore

[@hakonkvande6767]

If not for climate change, I would give a lot to be 15 with my current knowledge. Would have avoided the biggest mistake of my life too. I would never have started smoking.

[@krisaaron5771]

It must bring real "joy" to be one of George's teachers. Imagine him showing up in your trigonometry class... or world history. That nasal voice and the constant arguing over minor details would drive even the calmest teacher to raving insanity! "George, come up here to the front of the class and explain how this formula is constructed." "George, give us an explanation based on the European economies for the multiple conflicts that fueled the Napoleonic Wars."

[@LuvJT101]

George has a lot of growing up to do and learn to actively listen. He hears the words but isn’t listening.

[@SecondaryHomunculus]

Colorful fucking language is a sign of intelligence and comfort with expression.

[@IxodesPersulcatus]

Whenever I have to pause a video, I always feel compelled to do so by clicking on Matt's head.

[@tuteelion9470]

🤣 🤣 lmao

[@carter358]

This is a prank call. He's got people on the phone with him giggling in the background the whole time.

[@brendandmcmunniii269]

800 week termination recommended

[@Mia-ep4zu]

First time I watch this. Matt is really showing a lot of restrain here. Makes me happy to see!

[@Jenalgo]

restraint. Not restrain.

[@davidsmith-uw2ci]

Even if Jesus existed or didn't or was crucified or not still doesnt make him supernatural or devine and does not mean he was resurrected

[@richardfraser5060]

Matt: "George......George......stop! George.......George.........George......stop!! " Lol 😆

[@MrGreensweightHist]

George: So you think they are anonymous because they don't have names on them? Me A-, prefix meaning without or lacking. -nonym-, meaning name. -ous, suffix meaning having. Anonymous = having no name.

[@hankkingsley9183]

That's what happens when you name your child George

[@cowshaveclaws]

The world needs more debate about the word "Fuck"

[@jackb.nimble2423]

I never understood how anyone could read the bible and believe all the crap in it is real or true, I always thought the stories I was told in catholic school were fairytales, and then when I was forced to go to church and listen to some guy in a dress it really made me sick, I didn't know why I had to listen to this crap I knew I didn't believe it. That's when I was 5 or 6 years old.

[@BruceRiggsGamer]

He doesn't listen, he just waits to reply.

[@unkaumanguy1439]

If you don't like Matt's style, don't call the show. Stop with the personal attacks on Matt and bring some bloody evidence for your beliefs. No wonder he has little patience with these callers.

[@100percentnotabear]

That's not exactly fair, this is a public show, not Matt's private life. Some basic decorum should be observed. While I'm not surprised anyone would lose patience with callers like this one, Matt, as a host of public show, should be held to a somewhat higher standard.

[@jitendraisaacs3019]

Matt has the right to say what he wants..This is his show..if you don't like the way he talks than you should not call his channel...and if you do then you better be prepared and not delusional

[@100percentnotabear]

@@jitendraisaacs3019 annnd just ignore everything i said. you are delusional, don't ever call this show. Matt will rip you to shreds

[@elgringo1893]

I can't believe that the annoying kid from the polar express called up

[@ecpracticesquad4674]

30 seconds into this kid speaking and I see what people commented what they did. This kid is the perfect example of how religious indoctrination rots the mind. His mindset was combative from the start and he CLEARLY wasn’t calling to have an honest conversation.

[@terrychant4365]

Omg. So nice to see Darrel.

[@por15canada48]

Curious George has a list of questions and can't leave it alone because he can't think for himself. If you can't grow a beard yet, don't call in.

[@cantdeal]

All I learned was that if a teen calls in and makes it known how old they are while claiming they dont know why they shared that information, it's because they're going to be an ass and want the kiddie gloves.

[@dkaik]

“What evidence we have to show the gospels are anonymous”. Uhh. The fact that no one has demonstrated who the authors are lol. Pretty easy to demonstrate anonymity; it’s purely contingent on if we have a confirmed author. Wtf was that question?

[@Heathen.Deity.]

5:06 - “why are you mad?”, asks the cretinous caller. He’s not, but if he was, it’s be because you’re the same species as we are, and it’s painful for the rest of us to know that.

[@Dwaynesworld99]

At least we know who wrote harry potter

[@amyv8416]

That means the magical world exists!! Yay! :D

[@richardleeskinneriii9640]

Kid was out of his wheelhouse.

[@KirkSH52]

"George, you need to learn how to listen. You are a highly annoying person."

[@tedgrant2]

If you think nobody will ever find out, it's easy to lie. For example, I've got three legs. You can't check.

[@FrightfulMess]

I've been a full-blown atheist for many years now, baptized Catholic, slowly getting my mind back, final years passing thru Episcopal phase, then Wicca, then......well, life and thirst for knowledge finally cured me of it all, even allowed me to face the fact that being full blown Caucasian did NOT make me some sort of superior human being. I still am not sure why, having been raised in the back woods of prehistoric Mississippi in the sixties, that I did not become a Klansman, and knew SOMEthing, even at around 11-12 years of age that SOMEthing just wasn't right about how "MY" people were treating black people. Nowadays at the ripe old age of 66, still stuck in Trumpland, I take it as a source of pride that I consider myself a "rational" liberal (I try to temper my left leanings with common sense), have NEVER been a racist yet understand the rational behind institutional racism as practiced by Caucasians against just about every other race of human, and have an enduring hatred of all things Republican, Facist Trumpism, or religion, ESPECIALLY fundamentalist Islam and Christianity (if you can honestly even call it that), I'm sorry, but these people are f*%$$#@ crazy, and I have NEVER been more fearful of losing our democracy to yet another Theocratic style government with NO separation of church and state. THANK you guys for showing me a better understanding of why I AM an atheist, and why I'll die one, without some stupid fear of burning in some freak show idea of an afterlife.

[@lobintool]

I'm going to have to break: listening to "God Botherers" tying themselves in knots is addictively amusing but it doesn't pay my mortgage or any other bills for that matter! I am constantly being told that The Universe has my back...if it's a binary choice between The Universe and Matt...Matt's logic wins hands down!

[@brucebaker810]

Historians probably ACCEPT, rather than "are convinced". Degree of confidence. And "yeah, presumably a guy existed" is not "we are certain he existed and 79% confident he came back from actual death to actual life. then flew up into the sky."

[@humanitech]

George does not fully understand the whole construct that giving and attributing work to a third party when the original copies are anonymous and non signed ...means these claims can't be truly considered valid, fact or fiction nor should they have been ascribed to anyone. But of course anything goes with man made religions.

[@MrThemaskedavenger]

I'm pretty sure we know George Washington existed.

[@reveivl]

The romans were exquisite bureaucrats, they kept records of trivial details from all over their empire. They have no record of this particular guy getting crucified. Or eg, the 'graves opening' and zombies wandering around.

[@MikeB-nn4nh]

Stay in school kids… make sure it’s a school in a state that values a secular education..

[@DrMikeE100]

It's sad that a) the Christian children are calling in and b) the fact that the Christian adults have no better arguments.

[@katyungodly]

I was a better Christian than George when I was a Christian. He's arrogant and proud. No humility or respect for his elders or himself.

[@andrewwallwork9257]

The problem with saying “Fuck” right after an apology is that it delegitimizes the apology and makes the person offering the apology look insincere. Other than that, I liked the video.

[@humblesentiments1553]

No it doesn’t. You can apologise for one thing while acknowledging that the person you are apologizing to you has been a jerk, too. Matt specifically apologized for calling him a runt. That doesn’t mean he cannot point out that the caller was being a total bad-faith interlocutor. At least Matt has the decency to apologise unlike the caller, who failed to listen consistently and never even admitted it.

[@andrewwallwork9257]

@@humblesentiments1553 I would rather Matt had just not apologized at all. Either (a) calling them a runt was justified, and an apology isn’t necessary, or (b) calling them a runt was unjustified and a sincere apology was needed to remediate it. You can’t call it an apology if you’re functionally saying “yeah sorry for potentially being a jerk in response to you being a jerk.” I agree that the caller was a jerk, though either you’re sorry or you’re not and I’d rather Matt not be sorry than to offer a potentially disingenuous apology.

[@gurrrn1102]

@@andrewwallwork9257 the apology was sincere, I don’t know what the fuck might have made you think it wasn’t sincere but I guess I’ve probably just hit on why you think so. So, what’s the minimum amount of time that’s acceptable between making a sincere apology and saying fuck?

[@andrewwallwork9257]

@@gurrrn1102 To answer your question, the minimum amount of time that's acceptable between making a sincere apology and saying "fuck(ing)" is when the word fuck is in a different fucking sentence -- I assume that you'd likely agree with that. At a minimum saying "I'm sorry for reacting that way due to the fact that you weren't fucking listening as you've repeatedly proved (20:42)" is really just another way of saying "I'm sorry, but you deserved it." Either you're actually sorry or you're not, and I'd rather Matt not be sorry for calling a theist a runt when they deserved it. I also legit don't know what you meant by "...but I guess I’ve probably just hit on why you think so."

[@gurrrn1102]

@@andrewwallwork9257 we're getting somewhere here. To me "I'm sorry, but you deserved it" does count as a sincere apology, at least for covering one's own arse - at least mini-Shapiro doesn't have grounds to turn around and frame Matt as someone who resorts to petty name calling, at least on the basis of this call. I don't understand how the word fuck/fucking would be the clincher here. If the quote at 20:42 is not a sincere apology, surely "I'm sorry for reacting that way due to the fact that you weren't listening as you've repeatedly proved" is just as sincere/insincere?

[@vizzini2510]

I suspect George gets his ass kicked a lot at school.

[@BearManNorth]

The song.... Teen brain waste land, oh yeah, he's in teen brain waste land. The Who???? LOL

[@goalski134]

that was a hard listen. a good example of dunning-kruger.

[@williamwatson4354]

If this were old testament times, George would find himself being taken to the edge of town and stoned to death for arrogance.

[@sergeyfox2298]

That's a really good clarity for me and speaks to my own feelings I've suspected and have pondered: the Jesus of the biblical text is likely not real and has never existed, but the mythical figure were mythological accounts that cults tended to come up that appear quite common in ancient times. Jesus is an allegorical figure of ancient early Jewish-Christian mythical accounts. Really needed this. Jesus Christ is among a set of mythical figures of ancient mythical thinking like zeus or Hercules. Damn, I never realized that the synoptic texts are likely a set of mythological texts of early christian thought from the time of the Jesus Christ original times. That Christianity was a disparate set of sects that came out with their own myths competing with other myths of the period. I can finally ask this: were early christian texts and their later altered renditions just mythical stories like Jewish stories about Lilith or other myths about Loki being a son of Odin or Astarte having sex with El giving forth other gods and goddesses? I feel a massive loss but finally can reckon that early christian texts were just mythological stories that would give forth many sects. And that Christianity is just mythology we are alive to see like people of the past who worshipped mythical creatures, goddesses, big tortoises, avatars etc.

[@tracer740]

George's concomitant response is, 'Okay, but ...'! Does he actually have capability to really think?

[@TenFalconsMusic]

Caller has a lot of growing up (and learning with his mouth shut) to do. At present, he's sub-par for his age.

[@cato451]

Fantastic “who’s on first routine!” The resurrection is a myth that’s existed in every culture since apes could tell stories.

[@Mewse1203]

You know how you can tell when peoole feel insecure in their argument? When they start bringing up irrelevant things like "you used a cuss word". It's a way to feel like you have the high ground when it just makes you look weak and dumb.

[@3irdcity902]

Lol I love George. I spit out my drink laughing, as I listened to them argue about the word "fuck"

[@edgarmatzinger9742]

George runs a script.

[@Johnboy33545]

Runs a script? No he crawls through it.

[@happymaskedguy1943]

'I'm 15 years old' And boy does it show.

[@unapologetic4859]

Holy shit. That dweeb was hard to listen to 😂

[@amyv8416]

The only reason I could get through this call is because I believed that George is 15 and not Ben Shapiro. I had to try really hard to believe it.

[@mobilegamersunite]

What evidence would be convincing? How about the modern day evidence we have of old kings? We know they existed because during the time scholars would write about them and make reference to these kings. To bad nobody was doing this for J man during his actual life.... everything about him came a hundred years later or so.

[@DJMaul1031]

I'd say that George has the excuse of being a teenager for not listening but every adult Christian apologist that calls in doesn't fucking listen either.

[@nineteenninetyfive]

When i first started looking at videos debating religion i thought Matt and the Atheist experience were really great. Now i know that this is not the way to have productive discussions about people's worldviews. You have to understand what their current beliefs are and challenge them one at a time with respect. You can't just lambast them about the end product of their reasoning, and throwing insults and generally having a shitty attitude just makes the whole process worthless. I wholeheartedly wish Matt would think about his approach to these discussions and think about how people really form their views and the reasons that people don't accept what he is saying on face value.

[@scarlettsteele7999]

I REALLY want to buy Matt his favorite drink after seeing him deal with this slimy little ass ball. Hell, I need a drink after just listening to him.

[@Scholar702]

Give George time he is only 15 he doesn't know how to properly articulate and reason more logically yet. I was a devout believer until I was 22 years old then I started to question and reason more critically.

[@jimappleby3545]

George was, at some earlier stage in his life, misdiagnosed as intelligent. The problem is he believed the diagnosis. There must be thousands of kids wandering around under the misapprehension that the teacher was using the Arizona definition of "smart", not the American one. So George thinks the best way to work out which way the creek is flowing is to dangle his legs in it to see which side the weed gathers, and has to take off his boots to count past ten. A smart Arizonan is one who knows the correct order in which to do these things. Matt kept his temper wonderfully when dealing with this yappy little bugger.

[@CROMWELL9100]

George was just taking the piss

[@wolfpackwarriors]

The dilahunty dodge😂

[@arod0623]

My head hurts 😫

[@tracer740]

Will George ever clear the baggage which his gullibility and fears have created? Inquiring minds want to know.

[@lcceo22]

lmao@"THAT'S NOT FAIR"

[@gheller2261]

What a shock. A fifteen year old who doesn't listen.

[@darenrrful]

im guessing george is home schooled by some zealot parents

[@ravarga4631]

George: What about books possibly written by other disciples or early xtian figures ie Thomas? Do you believe writings not accepted by Protestants ie Ortodox and other non Protestant churches?

[@zugabdu1]

Matt is right about this kid not listening, but I think one of the other hosts would have handled this better. This kid isn't going to come away from this thinking "I should have listened better" but rather "atheists angrily shut you down and yell and cuss - they're as bad as my parents/pastor/whoever tells me they are!" Is that the lesson he should take away from this? No, but a host with a little more patience would have been in a better position to handle this particular call and put this kid in a better mindset TO listen.

[@peterbarker8249]

..do you mind.. .. dumbing down doesn't come easily .. ..later .

[@anonymouswhiterabbit]

Lmao, I love Matt

[@Stiffdistantandweird]

This could be a young Ben Shapiro

[@po679]

I hope George never has children.

[@michaelwillis8966]

This kid is an example of why no one takes teenagers seriously. He won't listen, he interrupts, he makes sarcastic responses like "do YOU know Bart Ehrman" when Matt knows him VERY well. I couldn't listen to more than 5 minutes of his being a childish little weasel before I had to go on to another video!

[@hrh4961]

Is that high-pitched sphincter Ben Shapiro?

[@terminatah500]

Im sure this kid failed every class. The teachers just passed him to get rid of him out the school

[@ccampbell02yt]

Matt: I'm not mad. Why do you think I'm mad when I swear at you, interrupt you and your guest host, talk over you, raise my voice, call you names, not to mention get visibly and audibly agitated. Why on EARTH would you think I was mad?

[@donnievance1942]

Yeah, I think Matt is a brilliant guy, but he doesn't seem to get that using bad language is against the rules. I guarantee that he would react just as badly as the guests if they used that language on him. Using the f bomb on guests and then insisting that using the f bomb is not insulting to them is just gaslighting and bullying.

[@jiubboatman9352]

Stephen Coonts has written lots of fiction about military aviation, Oddly, he is not any of the characters in his stories. But he was a military aviator.

[@davidsmith7653]

George sounds like he's straight out of a Harry Enfield Kevin and Perry sketch. He may actually be the most irritating teenager in the world.

[@paulatiredofthisshit]

5:55 I won the bet with myself.....Matt says show me evidence of the crucifixion......... "It'S iN tHe BiBle" AAAAARRRRRGH

[@Lupinemancer87]

The Percy Jackson books clearly states that George Washington was a son of Athena, and since George Washington was a real person, that confirms the Greek gods are real :D

[@marc-antoinecusson3119]

Spider man lives in new York. New York exist.... i hope To meet the guy soon

[@badgerbush3556]

Oh my f word I'm all in

[@ajclements4627]

Fun Fact: Peter’s address in Queens in the comics exists, and the home owners at the time would get tons of letters addressed to him.

[@coffeetalk924]

Christians love claiming that archeology "proves the bible"! Demonstrating that a city or an artifact once existed isn't proving any of the magical claims. Fictional novels are written all the time that use the names of actual cities and even some true events! But somehow we're to trust that the superstitious Hebrews were above that? Lol

[@mrcombustiblelemon2902]

@@ajclements4627 I don't know if the price of a house like that would skyrocket (because Spiderman's house) or plummet (because you would have to sift through a metric ton of spam mail "for Spidey" to find your mail, and the tourist fans hanging out around your house, etc.)

[@CharlesB-NGNM]

Sounds like this young man has a long career of making no sense ahead of him...

[@spocksvulcanbrain]

Perhaps an internship under Ben Shapiro. They could talk fast in staccato with nonsensical word salad in unison.

[@mrbigfellanz]

Yep he'll be a millionaire before you know it.

[@PHiLLy2c]

His age truly shows throughout his argument

[@powbobs]

That’s his intellect, not his age.

[@EustaBAracer]

Eh, when I was 15, I was pretty goddamn positive that Japanese culture was superior to every other culture based on what I saw and learned through anime and butchered translations of Japanese magazines. Now I know for certain that Kazakstan has the superior culture. Give him a few more cringey years, he'll plop out of religion soon enough.

[@powbobs]

@@EustaBAracer Japan is amazing.

[@EustaBAracer]

@@powbobs Agreed. Excruciatingly racist, but awesome.

[@PHiLLy2c]

@@powbobs yea but i feel if he experience a little more and did more research before calling into someone who has years of research and wisdom he would know he was already out matched