Do Atheists Think That Jesus Was Just A Myth? | The Atheist Experience: Throwback

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@danielrussell9416 26 дней назад

If Jesus existed, no one who met him wrote about him and anyone who wrote about him never met him.

@gordonlynn8300 26 дней назад

And he didn't write anything , probably because he was illiterate like almost everyone else then .

@Specialeffecks 26 дней назад

Add "and they all lived in a primitive and superstitious culture at a time with no easy fact-checking." (If fact-checking would even occur to those motivated to get converts).

@slackerman9758 26 дней назад

And Nazareth wasn’t occupied when he was to have been born.

@kennethgee2004 26 дней назад

false. What do you think the gospel are? When do you think that they were written?

@jwsanders1214 26 дней назад

What a foolish thing to say

@Deconstruction_Zone 27 дней назад

The desperation of these callers to justify their fictional deity is embarrassing.

@normkeller2405 27 дней назад

I've often thought that more people are concerned about Jose, than about Jesus. At the start of every game, the whole crowd rises to their feet, and asks, "Jose can you see?". That's proof that Jose is real.

@Stevo_Drums 26 дней назад

…and exhausting

@TheZombieSaints 26 дней назад

Olympic grade mental-gymnastics

@AntitheistHuman 26 дней назад

I truly struggle to understand how are they considered to be "adults"

@Miraak1868 26 дней назад

And I would add, "their total fanatical lunacy"

@ARoll925 27 дней назад

After listening to this call, the most offensive thing for me is that Eddie is calling himself rational, he very clearly is not

@DJMarcO138 26 дней назад

You can practically hear him stomping his widdle feet and pouting xD

@GoodBrotherGrimm 26 дней назад

That and using a poor woman's suicide to push his nonsense.

@Acteaon 26 дней назад

My biggest headache 🤕 was that too!

@FakingANerve 25 дней назад

@@GoodBrotherGrimm Yeah, that was pretty disgusting. Sorry you lost your friend, bud, but don't try to cash that in to "explain" your "rational" positions. Jesus fucking Christ...

@quotedotes 24 дня назад

You don't know the cooooooonteeeeeeeeeeext! I feel it's true therefore it is! I'm a skeptical person that believes things without evidence!

@tg8603 26 дней назад

The caller is way too emotionally invested in his conclusion and is fighting tooth and nail to defend his irrational thinking.

@daydays12 10 дней назад

There are millions of people like him unfortunately.

@calebgray1733 26 дней назад

When I was in the military, I had been up for 3 days straight with minimal food and water. I remember having a full on conversation with my grandfather during that time. My grandfather died when I was 12 and he wouldn't have been in the field with me anyways if he was still alive. The human mind under great stress is very fragile. Having memories of talking to my grandfather doesn't prove ghosts and it definitely doesn't prove a god.

@ryvercardn3387 25 дней назад

I was at the tail-end of a 72 hour shift, and my partner and I were arguing about seeing a yeti (it was a tree), and my "logical reasoning" at the time for why it couldn't be a yeti was because "they're not indigenous to this area!!" Sleep deprivation does some monumental weird things to our thought processes.

@kasocool2812 24 дня назад

@@ryvercardn3387"clearly this is Bigfoot territory"

@amandarhodes4072 20 дней назад

Add to this that in ancient times people regularly use to burn hemp wood in fires as it one of the few bushes that grew in such a harsh climate. One of the side effects of the smoke produced by burning the roots of Hemp is it's hallucinogenic. So when mosses came upon a burning bush in the desert and heard voices talk to him of cause he would think it was god.

@paulmcdonald9257 13 дней назад

I have had a similar experience. Lack of sleep and high stress can cause your synapses to misfire. I had a conversation with my Dad in which we discussed the manner of his Death. I remember every word of it but am in no doubt that it never actually happened.

@kasocool2812 13 дней назад

@@paulmcdonald9257 during exams in highschool. Stress and anxiety and a bout of insomnia. Caused me to lose it a bit and I was 100% convinced that if the large moth on the outside of my window got to me I would die.

@adrianvisentin534 26 дней назад

It's literally shocking how gullible and illogical people are

@warmstrong5612 26 дней назад

Not really. Humanity can be pretty stupid.

@Ninthofnine1969 14 дней назад

Ummmm have anyone noticed it's mostly(only) Americans who are this gullible... So indoctrinated into belief from authority it's scary.

@daydays12 10 дней назад

It is really appalling I agree.

@WonkyDonkey3000 27 дней назад

"He didn't say 'Jesus'. He said, 'Hey, Zeus!' My name is Zeus."

@DragonHeart-cm1tx 26 дней назад

"As in father of Apollo! Mount Olympus! Don't f**k with me or I'll shove a lightning bolt up your a**! ZEUS! You got a problem with that!?"

@SundaeRoast 26 дней назад

@@DragonHeart-cm1tx No, as in 'Die Hard with a Vengeance' :)

@garybaltiejus7248 26 дней назад

Like the die hard reference

@benjaminmadrigalperez9010 26 дней назад

That actually happened on greece with. Pan

@jwsanders1214 26 дней назад

why do the Heathen Rage ?

@Ironraven001 26 дней назад

Eddie doesn’t need god, he needs therapy. Seeing a friend kill themselves would totally cause trauma. I hope he got the medical help he needs.

@EleanorofAquitaine42 22 дня назад

Thank you! Poor Eddie sounds like he’s trying to make meaning out of a terrifying and traumatic event in his life. PTSD can cause your mind to do crazy things. Also, has anyone checked on the wiring, rodent situation and carbon monoxide emissions of the place he was living?

@oggyoggy1299 21 день назад

He saw it?

@daydays12 10 дней назад

I agree. He is disturbed and confused.

@hex6ng 26 дней назад

It is difficult trying to explain scientific concepts to a person who has been conditioned to reject science.

@AcidGubba 26 дней назад

But he is open minded and thinks he thinks rationally.

@jwsanders1214 26 дней назад

I love science , bring it on !

@zombine555 26 дней назад

@@jwsanders1214alright. Explain the scientific theory of evolution, a couplw of the mechanism therein, and the lines of evidence we have to confirm the theory as the single best supported idea in science.

@PrivateSi 23 дня назад

Science was supposed to be conditioned to reject Science but it got liberally spoilt rotten and turned to stupidly inclusive mush and vanity science hyper-wastage!

@opinion3742 19 дней назад

One can treat science like some infallible god too. Most of know shit about really, we rely on what others tell us. And most of us don't have an overall very good understanding of what science really is, what it can and what it can't tell us about life.

@Alltime2050 26 дней назад

Even if Paul met the brother it doesn't do anything to prove that the magical Jesus myth is true.

@josephbelisle5792 26 дней назад

Whose brother. Billions of Christians believe Jesus was an only child and Mary is still a virgin. The varieties of the myths go on and on. One group claiming in one version is hardly truth. Giving it any credence is more than it deserves.

@davidszeremi1786 26 дней назад

Jesus can be a first century magician and it proves nothing of his divinity.... Assuming he isn't a collection of other people

@davidszeremi1786 26 дней назад

@@josephbelisle5792he had family, he father might have had other wives or she had more children. Perpetual virginity is a religious doctrine but it might not be accurate. I heard of "The church of James the Just brother of Jesus" and that Paul fought with his movement and made sure it failed.

@Alltime2050 25 дней назад

@@davidszeremi1786 Exactly.

@twowardrobeswardrobes1536 25 дней назад

@@josephbelisle5792 Jesus had a brother. Mary was a virgin, she was just terrible at it.

@michaelbell3181 26 дней назад

Most atheists don't seem to care if there's a historical Jesus or not for it doesn't affect a god aspect. As for me, there's not enough data to actually prove a historical Jesus.

@vitast2000 26 дней назад

Much less the dude walked on water, and was able to heal blindness with magic spit.

@SundaeRoast 26 дней назад

@@vitast2000 Oh no, don't tell me he didn't turn water into wine either! I was hoping to hire him for my wedding.

@jwsanders1214 26 дней назад

So what do you have , a historical bang ? I choose Jesus

@Gerryjournal 26 дней назад

@@jwsanders1214c'mon, it's the 21st century

@michaelbell3181 26 дней назад

@@jwsanders1214 Like choosing the Easter Bunny, I get it. I was once a devout Christian. I studied in an attempt to become clergy in 2 of the 44,000 (and why does that number never shock anyone) denominations of Christianity. I not only read it but studied it! Let me be explicitly clear, both times my brain checked in before Seminary!

@robertschriek1353 26 дней назад

It really is amazing how far the theists have been forced to retreat in their desperation to justify their delusions

@chetsavage2536 21 день назад

Not far enough, sadly.

@thetherapist53 27 дней назад

"I'm a rational person..." ad nauseam. Methinks the gullible doth protest too much.

@IRGeamer 26 дней назад

"It depends...", "It depends...", "It depends..." Yes Eddy, we get it. It depends on how wilfully ignorant of logical reasoning and verifiable reality you are.

@josephbelisle5792 26 дней назад

You hear this by people who really are not what they claim to be. 'To tell you the truth'. 'Let me be honest with you'. Makes you doubt they are truthful and honest.

@Ironraven001 26 дней назад

I'm a rational person... who doesn't understand what RATIONAL means. Sheesh.

@SundaeRoast 27 дней назад

"Immoral is literally the same thing as unlawful. You should know this already, why are you trying so hard to embarrass yourself?" Oh the irony of being called ignorant by someone who thinks that 'immoral' and 'illegal' are the same thing 🤣

@shrews12001 26 дней назад

Unlawful is cheating on your taxes Immoral is cheating at tic-tac-toe

@jamesparson 26 дней назад

Mayonnaise on a hotdog is immoral.

@simonkoster 26 дней назад

I recently came across the term "Argnorant" as portmanteau of Arrogant and Ignorant. I may start using it.

@Fufiloofa 27 дней назад

"These ppl who question the validity of legends and hearsay are unreasonable, but me who believes in "ghosts" without any actual theory for why and how is totally reasonable" Eddy 2017-1-22

@SecondaryHomunculus 27 дней назад

Finding a rabbi by that name in the Middle East 2000 years ago would be like finding a dude named Steve Johnson in the US today. Who gives a shit? Are you gonna worship Steve if I write a shitty fanfic about him?

@thomaswigfield7623 27 дней назад

Possibly, depends how convincing it is. (Only kidding, no).

@phillysupra 27 дней назад

Steve Johnson of Springfield. (there's a Springfield in every state) 🤣

@taylorlibby7642 26 дней назад

Depends. What cool stuff does Steve do in your shitty fanfic? If he can change water into IPA for my cousins wedding we might have something to build on.😂🤣

@delbomb3131 26 дней назад

I know literally 3 steve johnson's and i live in a city of 4k people in Wisconsin lol

@queuecee 26 дней назад

@@delbomb3131 Stoughton?

@thedave1771 26 дней назад

“We could mention her name around other lightbulbs” 😅😅😅 I love it.

@ericgraham3344 26 дней назад

Classic “God of the GAPS”.

@Ironraven001 26 дней назад

Sooooooo many gaps. I feel bad for Eddie though. Seeing someone kill themselves in front of me would mess me up too. 😢

@ericgraham3344 26 дней назад

@@Ironraven001 Don’t Feel Sorry for him

@anthonycraig274 26 дней назад

Until 3 weeks ago, I thought he was a historical figure until I was looking for evidence that Jesus was woke, only to find there isn’t any valid evidence that Jesus existed. Now, I don’t believe a historical Jesus was a real person.

@geoffallshorn5167 26 дней назад

I came to that conclusion after reading about the Raglan/Rank mythotype that implicitly includes Hercules, Moses, Jesus, Robin Hood, King Arthur, Luke Skywalker and Harry Potter.

@einienj3281 26 дней назад

Why were you looking for evidence of Jesus being woke?

@classybree2241 25 дней назад

He was not a real person he was created to deceive people

@anthonycraig274 25 дней назад

@@einienj3281 You read that the world’s most famous historical person ever may have never existed due to the sheer lack of evidence and your take is “why are you looking for evidence Jesus was woke” absolutely baffles me.

@anthonycraig274 25 дней назад

@@geoffallshorn5167 I first found David Fitzgerald on this channel and read his book *Nailed*. Although it was the smoking gun, it wasn't the evidence that convinced me. I then stumbled onto Richard Carrier's peer reviewed work, *On the Historicity of Jesus* which gave a full synopsis on how Jesus was invented, why he was invented, the mathematical probability and possibility, and went through all the so-called evidence of Jesus and against, great work.

@markireland1162 26 дней назад

one should not be so open minded that ones brains fall out......

@snowflakemelter1172 26 дней назад

Its hard to imagine a God that would engineer the most important event in human history but never bother to engineer anyone to record it, human nature was well established at that point so he must have known no one with a rational mind that he gave them would beleive this.

@holgerlubotzki3469 26 дней назад

Yeah... the tribal war g0d was not only an evil immoral ratbag, he was totally incompetent despite being all knowing and all powerful.

@Specialeffecks 26 дней назад

Because I had an experience I can't explain, I will vote for legislation to force others to: Speak in Togues, Genuflect, Wear Beanie Caps without the Propeller, Align Chakras, Bow to the East 7 X Per Day, Hold E-Meter Cans, Wear Magic Underwear, etc...

@holgerlubotzki3469 26 дней назад

don't forget the prohibitive stuff. no bacon, no birth control etc.

@Specialeffecks 24 дня назад

@holgerlubotzki3469 No rights for others for things I don't like and that I believe others should not have the right that also don't affect my life in any way (other than to thwart my desire to impose my will upon others, that I have personally determined also aligns exactly with my god's will).

@TrumanSparx 26 дней назад

I've heard so many of these campfire stories over the years. Some people want to swallow the supernatural because reality is not enough for them.

@einienj3281 26 дней назад

Eddy seems like a guy who would see that as a connection to justify thinking a campfire is causing the feeling of being creeped out.

@benjamindover5676 20 дней назад

searched "CNN reporter attacked by ghost" And the lead story was. "Reporter unfazed by haunted house"

@Mkeusquealbby 27 дней назад

I'd say Jesus as described in the bible is mythical, whether an actual man existed in the middle eastern desert 2000 years ago or not.

@shrews12001 26 дней назад

Given how removed from the time the actual writing was I would at best accept that the character of Jesus was based on an amalgam of people that were told to have existed. The supernatural being pure fantasy.

@jwsanders1214 26 дней назад

goo to you by way of the zoo

@tekbarrier 26 дней назад

@@jwsanders1214 i'm sorry you don't understand science

@twowardrobeswardrobes1536 25 дней назад

Jesus seems to be a composite character. In a similar way that King Arthur or Ois’in is. Different stories can get attached to pre-existing characters that the audience is familiar with. A great example of the classical story of Perseus and the Minotaur which was reborn in the renaissance and hit England … but nobody there knew who Perseus was or what a Minotaur looked like. So, Perseus became Saint George and the Minotaur became a dragon. Pre-existing characters that an audience can relate to attract popular stories.

@user-pw6gm1tu6q 21 день назад

@@twowardrobeswardrobes1536 yes its all just based on archetypes,there is only so many archetypes to include and write a story about,the hero,the underdog,the lover etc etc thats why most poems books tv programmes and movies all have a similar recognisable structure but just with different characters and dialogue,its the reason when u start watching a film u can kind of predict the path its gonna take and ultimately the ending with obviously a few exceptions with good twists etc and its the ones that manage to be a bit different that seem to do well cos they seem abit original,i think game of thrones did well originally because although many archetypal storylines and characters existed but the so called hero types were killed off shockingly early at times which kind of bucked the trend of the likes of lord of the rings which although there seemed to be alot of jeapardy and close calls none of the 15 or so good guys actually died by the end of the films and it followed the good v evil ,light v darkness archetype from start to finish

@solly119119 26 дней назад

This caller is why I no longer have any patience for theist's "personal experience". It literally is just a "because I say so" argument.

@timg7627 26 дней назад

I agree. They’re all the same. “Trust me bro, stuff happened to me” -every theist from every religion 🙄🤦

@joecoolioness6399 23 дня назад

I ask them if they believe that prayer works, and most say yes. So I say then pray that your god give me my personal experience so I can join them in heaven when I die. So far, it has not happened.

@RudeCalling 26 дней назад

"When I was sitting on your side of the table" by this statement alone he has admitted as an atheist he would have been skeptical of unexplained things and now that he is a theist he goes with whatever feels or sounds best.. this is a direct example that believing in religion makes you illogical and guilable

@leongkhengneoh6581 26 дней назад

abraham lincoln was a vampire hunter. There is a movie on it so it must be true

@bestbehave 26 дней назад

Well I’ve certainly got no other explanation

@AXKfUN9m 26 дней назад

I thought he was the King of Mars?

@stephenolan5539 26 дней назад

@@AXKfUN9m The candy company?

@AXKfUN9m 26 дней назад

@@stephenolan5539 No, the red planet.

@stevecole3917 26 дней назад

I think it's likely that a charismatic preacher fell afoul of the government and was crucified during that time. Probably several.

@BlackDeath920 22 дня назад

Definitely several

@MrMattSax 26 дней назад

Ghosts. Therefore Jesus did magic. Okaaaaaaaay

@magoo1950 26 дней назад

That's the issue with so many theist arguments. Let's say he is right and the ghost of a person who committed suicide was causing these supernatural events. How does that therefore prove Jesus? Maybe Zeus is the cause. Maybe Allah. Maybe an unknown force that has never revealed themselves in human history.

@Fufiloofa 27 дней назад

every single thing Paul ever wrote about Jesus was at best hearsay, at best, think about that

@kennethgee2004 26 дней назад

false. Paul spoke the gospel of Christ and went to Jerusalem to confirm with the other apostles that he was preaching the same thing. it was the other apostles that declared Paul an apostle of Jesus. What do you think historical means?

@jwsanders1214 26 дней назад

You don't have a clue

@kennethgee2004 26 дней назад

@@jwsanders1214 ok that might be true, but it is not an argument. A might is still an unknown. How about you add some reason and evidence to formulate a full argument.

@jwsanders1214 26 дней назад

@@kennethgee2004 Sorry my friend you are 100 percent correct I humbly ask you let me out of this , you are right , I am wrong I miss read what you said

@jwsanders1214 26 дней назад

@@kennethgee2004 Keep Being Salt and Light we all need to hear it

@ReasonBeing25 Месяц назад

Eddie... Eddie...Eddie, cmon now

@phillysupra 26 дней назад

The dude thought a halogen bulb blowing out was god.... He's mentally not capable. Period.

@Jebus_Anti-theist 26 дней назад

Eddie's in the space time continuum.

@AussieNaturalist 26 дней назад

"Im a rational person, I had experiences that I cant explain = theism" - That comment right there IS in fact irrational.

@einienj3281 26 дней назад

Exactly. There's that "I was an atheist" again..no. He had a traumatic experience then connected a random lightbulb exploding to there being a god. Then he claims to be a rational person.....

@aemiliadelroba4022 23 дня назад

It simply means the person does not know what happened . There are lots of things we don’t know. That is not irrational!😮

@einienj3281 23 дня назад

@@aemiliadelroba4022 It's his reasoning that makes him irrational. 1. Traumatic experience. 2. Talking about this experience. 3. Lightbulb breaks. 4. Supernatural. 5. God exists because 2, 3 and 4.

@AussieNaturalist 23 дня назад

@@aemiliadelroba4022 You totally missed the problem, which is that he he said that he had experiences that he coulnt explain which led him to believe that there must be a "God", which, as I pointed out, IS irrational. The ONLY rational thing to say when you DONT KNOW what happened, is, I dont know, not.... It must have been a "God".

@SundaeRoast 27 дней назад

Well done to user Sir Barry V8 for spotting Floridunce's howler in saying that Jesus was buried, when in fact he was just placed in a tomb! How embarrassing for Flo to not know such a basic 'fact' about his own saviour. He should read his Bible more 🤣

@apple1662 26 дней назад

I have watched this many, many times...and Eddy just doesn't get that a) he makes zero effort to try to find out WHY things happen, b) blindly accepts that things happen & c) he should be heavily fined for daring to call himself RATIONAL!

@AcidGubba 26 дней назад

So I think there's a good chance that the caller could become an atheist. For many believers, it's completely unrealistic that they would even question their faith; for them, it's absolute and doubt isn't allowed. Okay, I take it back, the guy is not particularly intelligent. But who knows, maybe he will accidentally broaden his horizons.

@GoriusMaximus 26 дней назад

If the woman died doesn’t Christian doctrine say that she either went to heaven or hell? Wouldn’t his belief that she is a ghost haunting him prove that something other than Christianity is in play?

@davidszeremi1786 26 дней назад

They could reason that a ghost hasn't gone to their reward? Ghost games and movies tend to embrace the idea they will move on the light or darkness. Frankly I find the zombie apocalypse in the new testament more funny.

@GoriusMaximus 25 дней назад

@@davidszeremi1786 According to the bible there is an unseen spirit realm but it’s populated by angels and fallen angels (demons). I’ve never seen a passage that implies there are the ghosts of humans wandering the earth to blow up light bulbs or knock down paintings.

@queuecee 27 дней назад

The idiocy of a troll reposting the same tired arguments over and over has no bottom.

@rbwinn3 26 дней назад

I repost the same correct equations for relativity over and over again. So far no one has offered to discuss them.

@queuecee 26 дней назад

@@rbwinn3 I LITERALLY offered you to come on my live stream and discuss it. AND SO many people have responded to your idiotic comment that all of physicists are wrong and you are right because you understand junior high algebra and don't seem to think that physicists, even Lorentz, doesn't understand junior high algebra.

@joshsheridan9511 26 дней назад

@@queueceewhat could physicists with PHD's know compered to a LSD with high-school algebra? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@nealjroberts4050 26 дней назад

@@rbwinn3😆😂🤣

@Seticzech 26 дней назад

@@rbwinn3 "no one has offered to discuss them" Discussing nonsense is nonsensical.

@dustinmorton942 26 дней назад

I simply do not believe him when he talks about his supernatural stories. There is no mechanism for lightbulbs to explode. This isn’t a movie.

@bestbehave 26 дней назад

That just proves it. 😂

@joelonsdale 8 дней назад

Splash of water can do it. Happened to me.

@Soylent1981 27 дней назад

I am always cautious about skeptics who quickly abandon their skepticism because they lack the creativity to think about other possibilities. It makes skepticism seem like a feeble position waiting for an unexplained experience rather than a position that aims to support things we think we know.

@SundaeRoast 27 дней назад

I don't believe you. Actually, yes I do.

@ARoll925 27 дней назад

That's not a skeptic

@twowardrobeswardrobes1536 25 дней назад

Why would a skeptic require creativity? It’s a method for assessing the truth of claims, not making sh!t up. You have no idea what you are talking about.

@Soylent1981 25 дней назад

@@twowardrobeswardrobes1536 I would say an integral part of skepticism is the ability to doubt what you think you know. A method of doubting is to be able to think of plausible alternatives to the assumed knowledge. Indeed, one of the most famous instances of skepticism, Renée Descartes, conceived of an evil demon to aid in his doubt. A person who cannot imagine an alternative is more likely to hold their belief as true since they are unable to see how the evidence points to another possibility. Your comment is almost meaningless because you give no indication of the mechanism that skepticism uses as a means to assess the truth. The scientific method is built on creativity; creativity to propose a hypothesis worthy of testing and a creative methodology to conduct the experiments. Creativity is an important element of skepticism.

@Specialeffecks 26 дней назад

My Niece did the same thing when her father (my brother) died. She went up to Alaska and saw an eagle. For the next couple of years, she kept on noticing 'eagles', whether it was on a billboard, in a song, on a can of Tecate, she started seeing many eagles and somehow associated it with her dad. I asked if there was anything significant that was shared between them about eagles before his death, and she said no. She reported that it stopped after a couple of years.

@einienj3281 26 дней назад

Traumatic experiences can cause the mind to make up weird connections. When my husband died, I had all sorts of meltdowns of ration. Like: "if I only had done this or that, then this would not have happened"..like I could somehow erase time and everything would be ok. The outcome would not change, bc I can't go back in time, obviously. Grief is such a powerful shock to the system, that you literally try to grasp straws to stay afloat..

@GoriusMaximus 25 дней назад

@@Specialeffecks when I started working for the ambulance service I started noticing ambulances everywhere.

@Gerryjournal 26 дней назад

If you see a guy in a public street verbally abusing a fruit tree, do you cross the street or say, wow look, the son of god?

@bestbehave 26 дней назад

What other possible explanation is there?

@twowardrobeswardrobes1536 25 дней назад

Was it a fig tree? Fig trees are tw@ts.

@jeffparent2159 27 дней назад

So you have Paul, killing off Christians and then suddenly he becomes THE head of the church having specifically state he had never met the figurehead of the religion outside of dreams and visions. And he gets all the benefits of being the head of the church by continuing to state that he talked to people who knew Jesus. We have no reason to listen to Paul as he gains the same head of church status had he just made up all these claims and never talked to anyone.

@stephenolan5539 26 дней назад

Imagine if the FBI agent in charge of watching Scientology had a seizure and thought that L Ron Hubbard was God. I think that would parallel Paul.

@twowardrobeswardrobes1536 25 дней назад

Paul was a boss. He made the entire Christian population his b!tch. He saw an opportunity and grabbed it with both hands. You’ve got to give the guy a bit of credit for that.

@vernonlomax1721 26 дней назад

Self delusion is very real. My family can attest that I have believed I was a werewolf since age 5. It took me another 63 years to learn that I have a very rare psychological condition called Lycanthropy Personality Disorder. This makes more logical sense than me being a supernatural creature who has never shown the ability to transform. I even gave up my religious beliefs more than 35 years ago.

@robinharwood5044 26 дней назад

What happens at full moon?

@vernonlomax1721 26 дней назад

@@robinharwood5044 haha! The full moon didn’t affect me. You wouldn’t believe the complex story I weaved to justify my belief. Try cross dimensional symbiosis with a lycanthropy species. Obviously, I have an overactive imagination.

@SeattleDinghyer 26 дней назад

Puberty must have been tough... i saw your documentary about high school: Teen Wolf.

@beerman1957 26 дней назад

The story of Jesus has parallel stories with Buddha, Krishna and several Greek and Roman Gods. Several other ancient myths also persist in the story.

@shrews12001 25 дней назад

Both testaments are almost entirely lifted from previous myths and legends, some with slight changes and others near word for word with new names. The Bible is a Readers Digest of religious horse hockey

@einienj3281 26 дней назад

"I was an atheist"..no. He had a traumatic experience then connected a random lightbulb exploding to there being a god. Then he claims to be a rational person.....

@headkraber 26 дней назад

The lightbulb guy! I remember him 😂

@philipinchina 26 дней назад

Paul the apostle, had an epistle That was so long it made all the girls whistle.

@SundaeRoast 26 дней назад

...And when he got it out On a staff day out It resulted in instant dismissal.

@holgerlubotzki3469 26 дней назад

And he went to launch his missile but the ladies all did bristle and they beat him off with a thistle.

@twowardrobeswardrobes1536 25 дней назад

@@holgerlubotzki3469 Beat him off with a thistle? Paul was a freak but was he that freaky?

@holgerlubotzki3469 25 дней назад

@@twowardrobeswardrobes1536 He never used a feather! He always used a hole (sic) chicken

@nealjroberts4050 26 дней назад

Another throwback: I used to be surprised that so many of my fellow theists kept getting atheism wrong. Initially I blamed it on the so called New Atheism which essentially was a deliberately provocative form of antitheism. However, the continuation of the wrong definitions and inferences being propounded despite education by atheists and by theists like myself leads to the conclusion that it's deliberate ignorance. The reasons for that avoidance of truth seem to come down to two basic ones: fear and/or hatred. Fear of being wrong, fear of losing community, fear of losing purpose, etc Hatred of what's different, hatred that others can live with different purposes and beliefs, etc etc. It comes as no surprise that these sorts of people also are the most intolerant in society, the most misogynistic/homophobic/transphobic/racist/"othertheismphobic"/etc. I pity them.

@vladtheemailer3223 26 дней назад

I think a lot of it comes down to the need to reinforce the ingroups position.

@tekbarrier 26 дней назад

You can just hear his brain desperately trying to cling to his irrational belief at all costs

@Specialeffecks 26 дней назад

I had an experience I can't explain, so my explanation is Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Scientology, aliens/UFOs, Big Foot, etc...

@philojudaeusofalexandria9556 27 дней назад

But... His story IS a myth - even by the Christian view of him. myth (noun) "a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events."

@artemisnite 24 дня назад

Idc if some dude named Yeshua existed or not. The guy walking on water, multiplying fish and resurrecting from the dead ABSOLUTELY DID NOT EXIST.

@dangerdest3606 14 дней назад

I've been having a shit few weeks. Hearing this guy make his "arguments" and "challenges" and just run himself in circles has made me belly laugh so much. Needed this.

@arnoldfossman1701 26 дней назад

The caller says he has an open mind, I wonder though if it might be open at both ends.

@gordonlynn8300 26 дней назад

I think his brain fell out .

@einienj3281 26 дней назад

Empty between the ears

@pvoshefski 26 дней назад

The pretzel logic of theists is always amusing and very telling.

@sunsetman1479 26 дней назад

Eddy sounds like a cherry picker. he should go to washington state and pick cherries and other fruits. If your god does things that dont make sense you have to accept he does not exist. The entire story of God and Jesus is so unreasonable it isnt funny.

@mark2king 23 дня назад

I really like Traci's analogy: "zero plus zero plus zero (etc) will never equal one".

@david-pb4bi 21 день назад

Ye, that was brilliant, she is always good value.

@chadpatterson9796 26 дней назад

Eddy has no idea what he believes

@party4keeps28 26 дней назад

He just believes what he's been told to believe.

@JamesRichardWiley 26 дней назад

The Jewish preacher who was executed as a public nuisance and the miracle working godman who saved humanity are two different characters.

@jwsanders1214 26 дней назад

You don't have a clue

@davidszeremi1786 26 дней назад

What are your sources?

@gerhardgiedrojc991 22 дня назад

@@jwsanders1214How can you have a clue about something that does not exist. What a stupid question it is until the claim that a musical maker exists.

@Vincent-fo7xp 22 дня назад

"Did you try mentioning her name around other light bulbs?" 😅😅😅

@lnsflare1 26 дней назад

Actually, now that I think about it, my power went out while I was on the phone with my boss yesterday, so obviously that's proof that the ghost of the still-living customer we were talking about got Jesus to trip my circuit breaker. QED.

@vladtheemailer3223 27 дней назад

I think he was a real dude. That doesn't make anything in the bible true

@phillysupra 27 дней назад

Jesus was a common name just like the other "apostle" names were. So yeah there was a guy named Jesus

@queuecee 27 дней назад

@@phillysupra Hey, pssst. You wanna get into heaven? Well, I know a guy.

@vladtheemailer3223 27 дней назад

@@queueceeCan he help me make $42,000 a week? Who is this amazing guy?

@vladtheemailer3223 27 дней назад

@@phillysupraI don't doubt there was some apocalyptic prophet named Jesus. What we see in the bible is an individual being divinified.

@phillysupra 27 дней назад

@@queuecee sign me up! I now feel like donating 10% of my paycheck to this guy every check.

@zolaarczakle 26 дней назад

My favorite pair!

@edmundquek3530 16 дней назад

"When I read books on particle physics, even ontological argument, and John Lennox ......" The caller actually said three unrelated things in a sentence.

@RAD-ju1ru День назад

I was thinking about blueberries when a plane flew over my house. Now I realize blueberries are the reason aircraft can fly.

@shrews12001 27 дней назад

Yep.

@ronwhitehouse23 26 дней назад

I WAS an atheist, means I was NEVER an atheist.

@davidszeremi1786 26 дней назад

Couldn't a person go from not being convinced to being convinced that there is a God because they have poor critical thinking skills?

@SeattleDinghyer 26 дней назад

@@davidszeremi1786and the reverse. I was a Christian, and now I'm an atheist.

@davidszeremi1786 26 дней назад

@@SeattleDinghyer same. I learned too much about the Bible

@ronwhitehouse23 25 дней назад

@@davidszeremi1786 Could it be they possibly have delusional tendencies.?

@RabenmundK 25 дней назад

@@davidszeremi1786 Yes, it happened to me. Grew up in a household of unbelievers and didnt put a lot of thought into my 'atheism'. During a rough time in my life i met christians who helped me out and their story - and my own experiences - were very convinving. So i converted and stayed a Christian for some years. But, since i also was a critical thinker - and someone who read thr bible - i found more and more inconsistencies. Pair that with me being a naturalistic guy, i "deconverted" back to Atheism which i am since then. But this time i had put some serious thinking into my position, unlike when i grew up. Edit: english is my 2nd language.. so i hope you can endure my grammar and possible wrong usage of words

@geoffallshorn5167 26 дней назад

If someone claimed in a letter that they had met Spiderman's brother, is that 'historical evidence' to conclusively prove that Spiderman existed?

@Gooberchen 22 дня назад

"I can't explain these things, so therefore I will create an explanation for them" is a sign of extremely poor epistemology.

@SundaeRoast 27 дней назад

Jesus the person may or may not have existed but if he did, he was just a person. Pity, as he could have made a fortune with all those -miracles- magic tricks. He wouldn't have stayed a humble carpenter for long 😅

@qwadratix 26 дней назад

I suspect he did. The entry to Jerusalem reads like an account of a con-man trying to pass himself off as the Messiah that all ended badly for him. (The donkey and foal bit?, very suspect. And the reaction of the crowd who'd rather have Barabbas released than this guy. They were p*ssed.)

@nealjroberts4050 26 дней назад

@@qwadratix Would explain why Nazareth is depicted as not believing anything about him. It being his hometown

@thomaswigfield7623 27 дней назад

I think that Jesus was mythical. Does anyone want to provide evidence to the contrary?

@vladtheemailer3223 27 дней назад

The biblical Jesus or historical Jesus?

@thomaswigfield7623 27 дней назад

@@vladtheemailer3223 Is there a difference?

@SundaeRoast 27 дней назад

Well, a book said a thing - so there's that.

@phillysupra 27 дней назад

@@SundaeRoastif a book said it, then it's GOT to be true 🤣🤣

@vladtheemailer3223 27 дней назад

@thomaswigfield7623 The typical view among secular scholars is that Jesus was a historical figure. He was not the Messiah or the son of God. What you see in the NT is called "apotheosis." The apostles basically made up everything so that they could have the Messiah that they needed.

@mikeythehat6693 26 дней назад

Try to count how many times that Eddy started his answer with "no...but", while he's trying to convince us of his open mindedness.

@forcedtohaveahandle 25 дней назад

"I used to be an atheist" = I just wasn't very religious / didn't go to church lol

@JDMunoz-ct9xn 26 дней назад

He admits that instances of any event occurring outside of the specific circumstances of a conversation about the decreased wouldn't even be recorded, so he has basically no data at all. Bro, do you even science?

@captainhowdy2782 26 дней назад

My sister & brother-in-law claim to be former atheists because, during a rough spell in their lives, they briefly lost their faith. They didn't examine their former beliefs, or the Bible. They just temporarily lost faith during tough times. That's not how I became a non-believer. That's why I'm agnostic about these atheist to theist claims.

@VitoDRF 15 дней назад

Any time someone starts a statement with "I consider myself very reasonable" you can bet they're about to show just how unreasonable a person they really are.

@brewberry3894 26 дней назад

The written accounts of jesus are 100% debatable, whether inside or outside the bible, and are not in fact hard evidence.

@briarrose6442 20 дней назад

if I was talking about a deceased friend and lightbulbs blew out, pictures fell off the wall, and my dog wouldn't step paw into the room, I'd absolutely assume ghosts before god

@corringhamdepot4434 19 дней назад

Many years ago 5 or 6 of us were sitting around in the office library telling each other ghost stories. We were interrupted by a large heavy ring binder on a far shelf, falling flat with a very loud "splat". One person was up and out of the door like a flash. Some of us just laughed. Never for a moment did I think that it was a "real" ghost. People just believe what they want to believe.

@nameofthegame9664 14 дней назад

“I have a rational mind” *lightbulb explodes* “Jesus MUST be God”

@charleshinkley6 12 дней назад

Paul didn’t say he met Jesus’s brother. He said he met “a Brother of Christ”, which meant someone who had been baptised.

@einienj3281 26 дней назад

I don't think Jesus existed. Not as a normal dude, not as a son of god, not as 1/3 god.. or maybe it was just like "The life of Brian".. 😂

@thecentralscrutinizer 26 дней назад

I don't even think that paul was a real person.

@kendrickjahn1261 16 дней назад

"I'm a rational person." But then carries on with irrational conclusions.

@davidszeremi1786 26 дней назад

There were a metric ton of reformist/apocalyptic self appointed prophets in the first century. John the Baptist and James the brother of Jesus were just two others that may have been out there

@iatebambismom 14 дней назад

"The plural of anecdote is not data". I'm keeping that.

@heatherlewis9951 11 дней назад

I'm not saying Midland Texas has a religion problem, but Midland Texas is INSANELY religious. It's the Spinal Tap of "dialing it to 11"

@ardalla535 26 дней назад

Paul casually mentions "James, the brother of the Lord" and then doesn't expand on that at all. Later he says James and Peter are nothing to him and have no more status than he has. Would he talk that way if he really thought James was the biological brother of the Son of God? More likely, the Brother of the Lord is title that James had. Paul said Brother of the Lord because he knew his readers would know what he was referring to -- a group of people calling themselves Brothers of the Lord.

@shrews12001 25 дней назад

I mean literally today members of the church refer to themselves as brother and sister. In Catholicism nuns all have the title of Sister. Paul was establishing very early that the church would operate as a family unit on the same level as biological family. Perhaps the goal of that was to enforce the idea of being as loyal to the church as you would your blood family...? Now, isn't that interesting. Sounds a little bit like coercion.

@Brock_1025 26 дней назад

rational - based on or in accordance with reason or logic Eddy is clearly NOT rational.

@qwadratix 26 дней назад

Not only do I not believe his claims about a god. I don't believe his stories about light bulbs blowing up and other mysterious events.

@MrBozoOzo 20 дней назад

If a lightbulb explodes, will it cause someone to say her name?

@lnsflare1 26 дней назад

Where in the Bible did Jesus' ghost cause lightbulbs to explode or pictures to fall of the frame?

@KoPilotFlys 26 дней назад

This caller has no clue what critical, skeptical or rational thinking is. I know this because he is demonstrating none of these traits and this video is my evidence to that fact.

@cwillis92 26 дней назад

Wow "if I don't have an explanation I must theorize" jaw dropped

@chrisgraham2904 23 дня назад

Eddy has made my brain hurt so bad. Eddy is not alone, as it seems to be epidemic that so many Americans have no concept of what evidence is, how to evaluate it and apply it in the context of logic and reason. This phenomenon is creating so many conflicts and issues in religions, politics and so many other areas in order to achieve a valid understanding of reality. American children have somehow never learned important skills that most the rest of the world seems to have a much better understanding of. Children are lacking any skills of skepticism and epistemology to make decisions, or build belief from and the problem grows with them into their adult lives.

@rgavel 18 дней назад

My union uses the term 'brother' all the time, which rubs me the wrong way. I have three actual brothers, and they're family, not some strangers sitting around a meeting room.