Is Atheism Dead? - Eric Metaxas 

Much love Skip!💞 God bless you always! 🙏

I'm going to share this with unbelieving friends, may God use this in a mighty way 🙏🏻

Blessings beloved pastor

atheism will remain as long as satan is not hellbound

No one knows that Camus converted to Christianity just before he died because it is highly unsubstantiated.

I think this entire discussion is summarized by Metaxas when he claims atheists are offering only "sophistry" at a 7th grade level (~44-45 minutes into the video). This comes about as he asserts that when atheists say "we create our own meaning", they're offering a bleak and unsatisfying response. His justification for disregarding that response is simply "If you're talking about `meaning' - `meaning' means `meaning'. It means actual `meaning'. It's not something that you create. You're playing head-games." REALLY! We atheists are the ones playing head-games!? After justifying your position with this self-referencing nonsense that doesn't, in any way, address why internally generated purpose cannot be a valid response and/or cannot be meaningful/satisfying? All purpose must be externally generated? Clearly, this guy has never even tried to understand atheism, nor is serious about addressing atheist positions on any of the topics he presents. His arguments throughout this video are just pathetically bad, incomplete, and off-target. It's clear that Metaxas doesn't fully understand science and that he hasn't ever really spoken with real atheists. It is Metaxas who is offering sophistry and a 7th grade level discussion. It's too bad that people like Metaxas are given enough credibility to be invited to speak at what many consider a serious Christian church/sect. Apparently, this garbage is at the forefront of Christian thinking/apologetics in the 2020s.

Hello. I am an atheist. I define atheism as suspending any acknowledgement as to the existence of gods until sufficient credible evidence can be presented. My position is that *_I have no good reason to acknowledge the existence of gods._* And here is the evidence I must consider when evaluating the claim by theists and as to why I currently hold to such a position. 1. I personally have never observed a god. 2. I have never encountered a person whom has claimed to have observed a god. 3. I know of no accounts of persons claiming to have observed a god that were willing or able to demonstrate or verify their observation for authenticity, accuracy, or validity. 4. I have never been presented a valid logical argument which also employed sound premises that lead deductively to a conclusion that a god(s) exists. 5. Of the 46 logical syllogisms I have encountered arguing for the existence of a god(s), I have found all to contain multiple fallacious or unsubstantiated premises. 6. I have never observed a phenomenon in which the existence of a god was a necessary antecedent for the known or probable explanation for the causation of that phenomenon. 7. Several proposed (and generally accepted) explanations for observable phenomena that were previously based on the agency of a god(s), have subsequently been replaced with rational, natural explanations, each substantiated with evidence that excluded the agency of a god(s). I have never encountered _vice versa._ 8. I have never experienced the presence of a god through intercession of angels, divine revelation, the miraculous act of divinity, or any occurrence of a supernatural event. 9. Every phenomenon that I have ever observed has *_emerged_* from necessary and sufficient antecedents over time without exception. In other words, I have never observed a phenomenon (entity, process, object, event, process, substance, system, or being) that was created _ex nihilo_ - that is instantaneously came into existence by the solitary volition of a deity. 10. All claims of a supernatural or divine nature that I have encountered have either been refuted to my satisfaction, or do not present as falsifiable. ALL of these facts lead me to the only rational conclusion that concurs with the realities I have been presented - and that is the fact that there is *_no good reason_* for me to acknowledge the existence of a god. I have heard often that atheism is the denial of the Abrahamic god. But denial is the active rejection of a substantiated fact once credible evidence has been presented. Atheism is simply withholding any acknowledgement until sufficient credible evidence is introduced. *_It is natural, rational, and prudent to be skeptical of unsubstatiated claims, especially extraordinary ones._* I welcome any cordial response. Peace.

Awesome! Just awesome!!

I got tired of watching his self-congratulatory ramble after 10 minutes. Is the evidence for gods exist in this video, his book, or where?

Hows about we don't hate each other over religion, I am an atheist and always have been, but I don't devalue someone because they are religious. I feel we should just love each other for important factors and not frivilous things like our religion (I mean it's frivilous to hate others for religion not that religion is bad) and help each other or love each other for our other qualities. Have a nice day to everyone who read this message.

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I'm so glad I got saved. I was a hardcore nazi before my conversion, someone who thought the holocaust was just fine, someone who saw racism as ok, and I was also an atheist. This is what you get when you're an honest atheist. You get naizm

This brings to mind some of the conclusion at which Nietzsche arrived. Namely that society would collapse without the unification of religion. I'm oversimplifying but you get the point.

Good arguments for the existence of God. Unfortunately too many will not believe no matter how much evidence! God already effected complete self-disclosure in the Person of Jesus and even many who saw Jesus perform mighty works like healing the blind, feeding the 5000 and even raising the dead still didn’t believe! Even some of His own disciples didn’t believe He was God in the flesh until He appeared right in front of their faces after His resurrection. Jesus said no one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him. But these arguments are useful for “planting the seed” and letting God work in the mind and heart. Thanks and God bless.