I Found These Atheist Memes Online. Here’s What’s Wrong with Them. 

Timestamps! 0:00 - Intro Meme 1: 0:43 Meme 2: 4:51 Meme 3: 11:28 Meme 4: 21:39 Meme 5: 31:37 Meme 6: 35:57 Meme 7: 39:49

Meme #3: Never having sex in heaven claim -This is actually something that compels me to the truth of Christianity. When people make stuff up, they try to sell it in a way that is appealing to people's natural desires, and often times, carnal sexual desires. Islam teaches that a man may have up to four wives, may divorce one at any time, and can have prostitutes and sex slaves. Then when they get to heaven, they get 72 virgins. Mormanism teaches polygamy, and that when a man gets to heaven, any of his wives he choses he still wants he can still have to populate his own world. Progressive Christianity teaches that all sexual activity is okay, even polygamy, -no wait, sorry, poagamy (marriage orgies). I was talking to a Hebrew Israelite recently, and he claimed that Christians will get 8 wives in heaven. Even Judaism teaches marriage in the afterlife, and only began to support monogamy centuries after Christianity already taught it. As far as I know, Christianity is the only religion in the world to have taught monogamy from the beginning. And unlike many of the other religions which say homosexuality is okay (Progressive), sex slavery is okay (Islam), sex with a girl under 3 years old does not take her virginity away (Judaism), pedophilia is okay (Mormanism), Christianity commands not just monogamy, but patience until marriage too. And, unlike all of these other religions which permit sex in the afterlife, Christianity, -after giving far less license to sex than any other religion in this world, says that this world is all we've got for sex. For a man like myself, who wants nothing more than to get married, and is wrestling with the thought that I will never have it, I don't even have this hope in heaven. I've got now to get married, or else it's too late and I will never get my most craved experience. If people like me can still believe in Christianity under those conditions, it's not because of carnal desires. If somebody believes in Islam, it may be for the sex. If somebody believes in Mormonism, it may be for the sex. If somebody believes in Progressive Christianity, it may be for the sex. But for those who believe in traditional Christianity, -you know their belief is genuine.

Soon after I became a Christian 40 years ago someone asked me if I believed the Bible. I said "yes absolutely, every word", he wanted to know why and all I could say was "I dunno, I just do". He wasn't impressed and I realised it wasn't a good enough answer and set about finding out why I believed it. Doing so gave me love and appreciation for the Word that's just got stronger over the years. "Always be ready to give a defense..."

Our small church used to have an old man start coming every Sunday, trying to give money for every possible reason. Our Pastor had a talk with him and discovered he was trying to give all the money he had left before he died because he didn't think there was any other way for God forgive him. Suffice it to say, none of us were concerned about his money, but every single one of us was concerned about his proper understanding of the Gospel.

In my experience, many people don’t consider these “silly memes” but distillations of legitimate arguments against Christianity. This is very much worth your time!

As an atheistic agnostic myself, I apologise for those out there who misrepresent you and other Christians. It's really a thing that hurts any discussion, and it's horrible that it happens. I may not speak for everyone, but maybe it means something

11:28 - LOL! - When I was in high school, our church youth group had a ski trip during Spring Break. At the hotel, our participants were all loaded on the bus to the ski area for the day. Other hotel guests were on that bus, and when he found out we were a church group, he said, "Man, Christians never do anything fun." One of our girls blurted out, "YEAH, THAT'S WHY WE'RE ON A SKI TRIP!" 😆😆😆

It almost seems like a waste of Mike's time to respond to and correct these memes but if it changes the heart and mind of even one person, then it's worth it. God bless you, Mike.

Mike I know you might feel jokey about reviewing memes, and it is funny! But I cannot stress enough how important this is in thinkinv biblically. Because there is so much stuff, content and memes online prevelent to everyone that is grouped up under a bigger christian principle. That is good, but sometimes you need to go into the nitty gritty even of such “lighthearted” thingsb

We all know that Jesus doesn’t literally mean hate your father and mother or hate your own life… He’s illustrating that you have to love discipleship with him more.

Modern Christianity to most people are the crazy false teachers on tv.. then they disagree with that stuff and pretend every Christian believes in it.. we’re fighting the same fight.. the problem is how modern Christianity has been twisted so badly that we have more in common with atheists when they speak about those teachers. My heart hurts that most people don’t even understand what following Christ mean . These videos are a great way for short christian views that are rightly explained.. once again great stuff Mike

People that say "I used to be a Christian" [like the one from the 3rd meme] are like a guy failing all tests of a science class and yet daring to say "I used to be a scientist" when forced to switch to arts.

Love it. We can’t allow ourselves to be offended by mean memes. Better is to have a reasonable answer that makes the meme look as silly as it is.

The thing about getting accused for having no evidence reminds me of this passage from Chesterton: 'The question of whether miracles ever occur is a question of common sense and of ordinary historical imagination: not of any final physical experiment. One may here surely dismiss that quite brainless piece of pedantry which talks about the need for "scientific conditions" in connection with alleged spiritual phenomena. If we are asking whether a dead soul can communicate with a living it is ludicrous to insist that it shall be under conditions in which no two living souls in their senses would seriously communicate with each other. The fact that ghosts prefer darkness no more disproves the existence of ghosts than the fact that lovers prefer darkness disproves the existence of love. If you choose to say, "I will believe that Miss Brown called her fiance a periwinkle or, any other endearing term, if she will repeat the word before seventeen psychologists," then I shall reply, "Very well, if those are your conditions, you will never get the truth, for she certainly will not say it." It is just as unscientific as it is unphilosophical to be surprised that in an unsympathetic atmosphere certain extraordinary sympathies do not arise. It is as if I said that I could not tell if there was a fog because the air was not clear enough; or as if I insisted on perfect sunlight in order to see a solar eclipse.' I find this line of thinking extremely common when arguing with non-believers. If the fundamental characteristic of Logos is that it occurs above material phenomena, then logically it won't be found under a microscope-and yet, that's ultimately the only source of knowledge they will admit. In other words, they wouldn't know what the evidence they're asking for would even look like if it was in front of their noses. If we are talking about proving the supernatural, the most disingenuous thing you can do is obstinately demand that people point at it in the realm of the natural. It's completely circular reasoning.

I know it doesn't seem important compared to other topics and maybe it isn't, but I think this is important in its own way. Memes like this encourage ignorance and flippancy, which can draw believers and unbelievers away from God. I believe addressing these memes properly and logically is important for clear thinking about stuff like this and understanding how it can slyly twist things to misrepresent the Truth. On a different note, thank you so much for your ministry, it has helped me more than you probably know in my walk with Christ ❤️

I want to thank you Mike for the chat on my drive home from work. And thank you mom for sharing this vid with me. And thank you Lord for not giving up on me.

Okay, so how many times has this been posted so far: "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools." And these meme's are examples of them demonstrating that very thing. Oh snap!

Mike, You had me rolling with your impersonation of the meme #3 youth pastor. LOL!!!

The 1st meme is from Rev. 3 when Jesus says “behold I stand at the door and knock” he’s actually addressing the church of Laodicean. His own followers, not unbelievers.

The Zeus one also misrepresents Zeus and Greek mythology, Zeus never claims to be “the one true god”.

Thank you for tackling these memes pastor Mike! I would love to see another video like this one.

Mike you are an amazing teacher. thank you!

29:56 I love that you discussed this understanding of faith. My non-believing family members and friends will make comments about how I 'have faith', but I usually correct them and point out that I believe what Jesus says because I have evidence. Very rarely will they ask about that evidence, yet I continually work to be equipped with short and long scientific data from biology, physics, math, and geology.

The Temptation in the wilderness was the first thing that popped into my head about Jesus being alone. But you made a great point Mike. It's not like when Jesus was with the deciples they sat around and watched TV or played on their phones. He was guiding and teaching them the entire time. We only have a sliver recorded.

Thanks for all the work you do, Brother Mike.

Mike, thank you so very much for these videos. God bless you and yours.

I love your content and your style, Mike. Thank you.

I love how the internet cuts in and out when he's talking about why people should be supporting ministries :P

Man your videos really help me more than you know

Mike's answer to each of the memes are so good and deep. I wish I could think and answer like that.

I saw a couple of these memes. This video sums up what I can't explain about it. Excellent!

Great video, Mike. I completely agree with your responses here and I think you did a great job debunking them. Atheists will often misrepresent or straw-man Christian claims to make their case seem solid and irrefutable. We need to be wise to these things and respond to these people with grace and love, but also with the truth and you did all those things. God bless, Mike! Keep the up the good work. 🙏👍

Please do more of these. This was awesome.

I always learn so much from you. Thank you.

It’s really interesting you said that about golden hour. I had that exact experience a handful of years ago. I was really struggling with desiring heaven and had been praying for God to give me a longing for it. Then I was on a walk at a local park I go to all the time and it just happened to be that time of day. I looked up and saw the light shining through the trees and heard a whisper in my heart saying, this is the beauty of heaven. Nature is such a powerful witness to what awaits us in heaven!!

Great video!! It is very good to address these even if they are just memes; because their power is the simplicity and misrepresentation and destruction they create by the power of humor and mockery.

love your videos, thanks for making them.

Love this! And you shared the gospel clearly throughout ❤️

Thanks for all you do. 👍

All these memes just show how little atheists understand about the Bible and Christianity. Great responses, Mike!

i loved this, i'd love to see more meme reviews! Maybe even christian ones? keen to see more anyway, thank you Mike.

I appreciate you doing this. Many times I know what I want to say but can’t quite get the words right. This helps a lot.

The Bill Burr one is a line from one of his bits, but the scenario is he's playing ball with his kid on Sunday and he's asked why they aren't going to church. He then taps his heart and says "God's in here."

I love this!!! It helps all of us learn

Pastor Mike Thank you for doing this message. 💜

I have faith that Pastor Mike can tackle these memes and we also have evidence that he’s doing it in this video.

Thank you for these!

32:00 Considering how short the recorded prayer is, and knowing Jesus prayed for a while, and knowing the disciples fell asleep and therefore didn’t hear His entire prayer anyway-the prayer is even more accurate! 🤣

This is one of the best videos you've done in a while. Really helps remove doubt in my mind.

I was cracking up laughing at all these. Thank you for at least choosing the entertaining memes for us...

Great video! Thanks for all your work!!!

Mike, Prayer is Important. I especially like it when you end these videos with prayer. That prayer gets repeated every time someone watches your video. I join you in that prayer. Please consider doing it more often.

I had to stop watching once the last meme started and now I’m bummed I missed it! Loved seeing Mike on the phone with Sarah. Made me laugh. Great content, Mike! I always look forward to hearing your perspective. Your ministry has been a huge blessing on my life, and I am constantly asking myself what the Bible says and studying the Scriptures within context. Huge blessing!

I find this excellent and I hope you do this more in spaces where you would Like more time to flesh out a series

2nd time watching your show. This is a great episode. Learning soooo much from your channel. I need to learn to share the gospel in a gentle way.

Thanks for this video, great content once again.

Spot on as usual! I literally teared up on the last one where you described God’s wrath and mercy. Also thank you for addressing faith being without evidence, I can’t stand that. There’s more evidence for Christianity than gravity in my opinion. You just have to look for it and eventually desire it. Former atheist

First off, great video. I always like when people engage with what is probably the most important question asked ever in a respectful manor. As an atheist myself I had a couple of thoughts regarding some of the memes presented. I guess you could call it a defense. Memes by design leave little room for nuance and simplify things for the sake of comedy but I think a lot of these have foundations which are genuine concerns for atheists. Meme 1: If looked at face value I would agree this meme is not the best representation of Christian belief. The question underlying this meme is how some people find it strange the means god would go to forgive us. The picture uses Jesus but I believe the question is more directed at god, that question is: why would he make us predisposed to sin and then ask us to refrain knowing well that we can’t. It would seem to an atheist that god is forgiving us for making us in the way he did. Why not just make us better? Could he not make us better? Meme 2: The argument in this meme is not a very good one. I think you showed that perfectly well with your response. However I will add I don’t think it’s a dishonest one. From the atheist POV there is as much evidence for Zeus as there is for Christianity but I will get into that later. Meme 3: I can’t really defend this meme. There seems to be just blatantly wrong presumptions. I do think heaven as an idea has lot of problems, frankly way too many to get into in a youtube comment unless someone wanted me too. I do think it a fascinating topic. Meme 4: This is actually the part of the video that made me want to post a comment because I think the meme is just right. Evidence, regarding this topic, to me would be something that could only be explained through the existence of god. There is no such thing. Cosmological argument, fine tuning, the redirection of Jesus, none of these are proof. This does not mean that they are not sound arguments. As an atheist I have to deal with these arguments because is some iterations that can be quite compelling. The fine tuning argument to me is the single best case for god but it is not concrete. 99 percent of water on earth is not drinkable, most of the solar system is uninhabitable, Species have traits that have outlived their usefulness and many more examples that might show the opposite of fine tuning. Every argument I have come across from Christianity has a better explanation under naturalism. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. The people in the Bible that you pointed to had that extraordinary proof, they saw Jesus perform miracles in front of them yet none of us in the modern world get that luxury. You say that faith is not blind but even in the stories you pointed too there were people who believed before Jesus did anything to prove otherwise. The fact that there is no evidence does not mean that you cannot justify a belief in god. Like said previously there are many lines of thought that might suggest god, unfortunately none that prove it. If I’m wrong about his I would be glad to be corrected. I genuinely would like to believe. Conclusión: I don’t usually comment on anything and this topic is so rich that it’s impossible for me to address all the ways you can engage with these ideas. If anyone had a question for me I am happy to answer. I am an atheist but I am also open minded. I did not choose to be atheist I am simply not convinced of the opposite. I would be willing to discuss any of these bits a greater length if anyone wants.

Loved the effort you put in this one.

Love your work, keep it up!

Number 5 is hillarious to me. The memester thinks the guy walking around the ancient world being called "teacher" by everyone following him and most of the people he met never told his followers a thing about what happened to him while he was in the wilderness for 40 days and nights. Its almost like they fundamentally missed the point

I agree with William Lane Craig: “It’s sad to see people reject the Lord for such flimsy reasons.” Like what you see in these memes.

Great info as usual. I wanted clarity about some of these scriptures.

Thank you for clarifying the memes... and what was on your shirt, I thought it was some sort of cat 😂😂

Hi Mike, thank you for the video. As for your response to the meme about not having sex, or eating in heaven. I think another interpretation of the "I'd rather go to hell" mentality is the person saying that out of spite to God rather than them thinking that they can do those things in hell.

Like some have said, I highly agree that doing these more often is very important to helping people think biblically.!

You might as well mention the subject of tithing on that last meme. The analogy is great though, and you did clarify that the donations and stuff are for believers and whatnot. Great video! Thank you for this video. Learned some good apologetics and whatnot. Keep up the good work!

In response to the reframing of the first one, it was still hilarious! It kind of reminded me of my father when I was trying to blockade myself inside my room to escape punishment for something I did. Very hilarious!

Mike, would you consider adapting some of your longer series into books (Women in Ministry and Homosexuality series especially)? Similar to C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity originally being a radio show, but then being adapted into a book.

Thanks Mike for going through these - Even though I am a Bible believing Christian, I am often stymied by these arguments in that I am not sure what to say -- I recognize that at the root of these "arguments" is unbelief and I simply allow their argument to stand. Thanks for giving me the tools to break down the argument and reframe : ) their point.

Fantastic! :) Thank you, Mike.

quality video + content despite internet issues. Ty :)

Hehehe that first meme made me giggle quite a bit. I liked it for some reason, though of course it is theologically ridiculous :D

First meme: it absolves people behind the door of responsibilities. All judgment is from God that is therefore God's fault for holding to the principles from which one is judged. You need a scene on the other side of the door where the person is holding a gasoline hose, spraying it around, and a cigarette in their mouth going to light it. The hose can be labeled sin and the cigarette self-righteousness.

The final reply to the first meme should read “From what you will do to yourself if you don’t let me in.”

Thanks for the video

I'm proud of Mike for not recognizing Rick

But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” -1 Corinthians 2:9

Overall wonderful video and great explanations ^•^ (of course I have tiny differences and more things I would have added).

Great video!

With the first meme you were like: "oh yeah sure, Jesus made hell for you to burn in forever and ever, and if you don't let him in, he is going to do some horrendous stuff to you, and that is what he's trying to save you from, but this meme is just a COMPLETE distortion I mean utterly incorrect I mean I don't even believe in this! It's just a reframing of the actual gospel, which is just way better." How exactly does your idea of the gospel contradict the meme?

I really appreciate your ministry Mike, thank you. Was really looking forward to the 'Women in Ministry' continuation, will wait till next time bro. I have a question though, for your future Q & A's: Did you ever take a look into Myles Munroe's theology and teachings, I'd love to know your thoughts on that. Thank you.

Oh my!! I just love your description of being present in the glory of God for eternity

Great video. It was a good laugh but informative bible study

Anyone that interprets “hate father and mother” as literally hating your parents has to be under five years old. My goodness 😂😅

This is a great video series, because I know many unbelievers that say these sort of things.

Mike when you said the line about accurate representation, not always the good side, but the accurate side it reminds me of my favorite saying “if you’re gonna talk sh*t about me, then make sure you use the facts!”

The greatest example of a story talking about relationships ,marriage/sex in heaven I’ve ever encountered is found in “The Great Divorce” by CS Lewis.

I think this is so important in our times today because this meme thing, fun as it is, is really subtly influential in people's perspective, especially naïve people who won't seek deeper understanding of the issues at hand. Well that one by 'deconstruction girl' is simply unthoughtful. Thank you Mike. Good job.

That... was really great. Our pastor sometimes talks about engaging with those who don't believe, asking them what they assume Christianity is like or who God is. "9 times out of 10, I can actually say about the god you don't believe in- I don't believe in him either."

This is extremely useful for us, who are not that eloquent, so as to share these types of video on social media for our atheist friends. May God open their spiritual eyes 🙏💖🙏💖🙏

Superb memes, thanks.

My foreman has the first one taped on the inside of his locker... It honestly bothered me because I knew it was a distorted perspective but it's done with elements of truth that makes it difficult to argue. Thank you as usual for explaining so well.

The problem with your answer to Meme #1 is that in this case, the judge is also the guy who made the law, the party who was allegedly injured by the criminal, the horrific crime the criminal is to be slowly tortured for is failing to flatter the judge at all times and in the manner the judge wants to be flattered (you may take exception to my framing, but any definition of "sin" that is used by fundamentalists will inevitably have something equivalent with a more rose tinted framing), and the free gift of not being flayed and preserved in a state of agony comes with the cost of being required to flatter the judge for the remainder of your days. It's the parable of the hawk and the nightingale, but rather than lamenting the sad fate of the nightingale, it is extolling the awesome power of the hawk. Modern apologists like to portray Jesus as some random 3rd party who walks by and offers to save you from spontaneously being tortured by yourself, but the simple fact is you'd never regard the torturer with gushing reverence unless you'd been conditioned to. Regarding number 2, when people ask for evidence, they don't want centuries old accounts saying that a guy named Peter said he saw a guy rise from the dead, nor a guy named Paul saying that a few hundred nameless people saw the same. They're asking for demonstrations of the supernatural that can withstand any test of skepticism, which can be repeated, and which can be produced exclusively by believers in the correct theology. Think the kind of stuff that would have bankrupted the James Randi Foundation, back when they had their challenge. Now before you claim this would violate free will, which is a whole other discussion, the Bible itself claims people can believe based on blatant supernatural stuff happening in front of them. In the story of Thomas, even Jesus is forced to acknowledge that he believed because he had seen, though he wishes that weren't necessary. And according to the New Testament, Thomas had already had FAR more evidence that Jesus could cast Raise Dead on himself than anyone living today, skeptic or believer. In worlds where the supernatural is real and suffuses everything, skeptics don't tend to last very long.

This was great, Mike, and I didn't fall asleep bc it was shorter. Sorry, my atttention span is not what it used to be. :))

Meme 4: If you're using Rick and Morty to make an intellectual point, your argument already fails lol

Jesus told Peter he had little faith, when he started sinking into the water he was walking on, even though Peter had plenty of evidence of Jesus walking on the water right in front of him. 🤣 The definition of faith is "complete trust or confidence in someone or something"... Do these people have dictionaries? Also why are atheist memes so wordy? I'm not sure if these are supposed to be funny but they need to work on their delivery, just sayin'

In your commentary on Meme 4, I expected a reference to Hebrews 11:1. I assumed that "athiestrepublic" was basing their meme on "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." I agree with your analysis, but find this passage hard to explain to a nonbeliever.

Great video

Nice job on the video.