Jethro Says Atheists Are Too Emotional 

So, Jethro's having a meltdown because people dared to comment on the things he said. That's a stunning lack of self-awareness on his part.

What really pisses me off is his set decoration. It is an abomination of woodcraft, and by looking at it only the grace of an actual god would keep it from collapsing.

Atheists get mad at him. He says atheists are mad at God. Therefore, he thinks he is God.

Atheist aren't the ones with a long history of killing people who doesn't believe in a god nobody has actually seen before, it doesn't get more extremely emotional than that.

"Who cares if you're offended? Who cares if you don't like how people behave?" He asks this of atheists but it could be asked of his god... if he existed. How do finite transgressions impact an infinite being?

When I was an evangelical, I was taught that making decisions based on emotions was a weakness. You should trust God, not your emotions. Separately, I was taught that women are emotional and men are logical. They never said directly that women were weak, but that was absolutely what they taught.

“I see you shaking with pro…” (Say it! Say it! Say it! Say it!) “…jection.” -Not Rocky Horror

I can't speak for "atheists" as a group, but I think rationalists tend to get "EMOTIONAL" (irritated) over people saying dumb and irrational things. Or, people telling them what they think, feel, or believe. That's pretty irritating.

It's pretty hilarious to watch guys like this conflate irritation over guys like this, with hatred for a god. No, I don't hate gods, anymore than I hate fairies or leprechauns. I don't even hate Jethro. He's just annoying.

No, Jethro - I don't hate your invisible friend. I'm sad your life is so lonely, you need to use it for emotional support.

Theists are the ones killing, oppressing, and disowning those for simply not believing. They are the emotional ones

I'm always suspicious of people who frame other people's concerns in terms of being offended. That's because people are often, essentially, trained to dismiss things given that label, taking it to mean the frivolous complaints of oversensitive and overemotional people. But people's complaints are very often genuine concerns about important matters of harm and justice. Emotions are natural and appropriate for these issues, but that's so often twisted into the idea it's nothing to these things but emotions.

I would say that's pretty hypocritical. Nobody gets more emotional than those preachers who try to con people out of their money.

Oh; he posted this 7 days ago. So; he’s not not talking about me. Whew! I was about to get all emotional and angry at a God that doesn’t exist for this guy’s complete misrepresentation of atheism.

How dare people challenge his beliefs. Shocking.

Jethro, why are you so emotional about this? Really, you are projecting and confessing.

Ol Jedediah there needs to decide what he wants. He doesn't want science, logic, critical thinking, and now his fee-feez got hurt by passion. I can tell him what he won't be getting: "Gee, my-guy. You make a lot of sense. I'll take your religion, please."

after 20 years at penticostal churches I can say they have the most immature emotional lives on Earth the repetitive trendy speakers the children's nursery rhyme singing they call praise With the yearning painful look on their faces women crying like kids who didn't get their candy ...the thankyou you Jesus repitition ....it's all so dramatic.....then ..... After the service they go for pizza and gossip like nothing happened....

I just want to know why Jethro is so butt-hurt that I don't believe in his god.

Of course we involve emotions when making decisions, that's why in science we try so hard to remove emotions from the process. Emotions are something to be avoided when making decisions (except for purely cosmetic issues, like the colour of your car), as much as possible.

You explained the album color thing so well I thought it was just me

I asked him why he doesn't help the police solving cases since he apparently can read minds since he keeps talking about what atheists think He answered me that the police is already able to read minds Now, maybe he is joking, but wtf?

Conflating feelings/emotions with critical/logical thinking. Sounds about right.

"We make decisions based on emotions!" Goes on to list normative decisions, not factual ones.

I’m wearing a t-shirt with “I’m not antisocial. I’m anti-stupid”. Appropriate ☝🏻😉

I was a Christian until I was 16. That is when my best friend who was being abused by her father committed suicide. I was trying to make sense of it and asking I was a Baptist. I had a friend whose dad was a Presbyterian preacher. And I got conflicting answers one told me she’s going to hell because she threw God‘s gift back in his face. Another told me the old trope about God doesn’t give you more than you can handle well my friend would disagree and the old comforting God has a plan bullshit. And I just realized they can’t all be right, like what plan could that possibly benefit and I just started giving it all a really good hard look and I held on for a while thinking I wanted to see my friend when I got to heaven because that’s so comforting, but as I matured I 😂realized I didn’t believe in any of it anymore. no matter how comforting a lie is, it is still a lie.

I think it's fair to say that for a lot of us who were previously believers, being hurt by something done to us in or related to church, or being outraged by something we read in the Bible either started us on the road to disbelief, or reaffirmed or increased some skepticism inside of us. But the journey out that followed was still more than likely a very long and difficult and - most importantly, a complex and complicated one. The difficulty in these conversations is in the realization that we likely can never get an apologist to understand the nuance; that any hurt experienced was just one of dozens, maybe hundreds of factors. They can't be trusted, they seem to know only how to exploit.

We don't get angry at mythical beings, but we do tend to get mad at scammers and bullshit peddlers like Ol' Jethro here.

Music has a color. Has he never heard Pink Floyd Dark side of the Moon?

I certainly was never "hurt" by the church in any way. In fact, my time in the church was rather enjoyable. I enjoyed my membership and I liked most of the people in my particular church. The only reason I left and became an atheist is because it could not be shown to be true. And I certainly wasn't going to follow a false belief. There was nothing at all emotional about it. In fact I still remain friends with most of the people I knew in church. So, no. Nothing emotional at all.

he makes the same arguments as my fundamentalist christian mother and it lowkey gives me flashbacks to conversations we've had, I was homeschooled too btw so I find your stance on things relatable on a lot of levels despite being agnostic instead of atheist so thanks for being informative and intellectual as opposed to blatantly ignorant like a lot of the people you respond to

Undiagnosed personality disorder that's a secret assassin... I feel attacked.

It is very hard to separate logic from feeling of something being logical. Or illogical. When we look at some fallacy, read the definition and say "yep, that type of reasoning seems pretty dumb". No objective evidence, we must trust our feelings that it is in fact a fallacy. Or just take it on faith despite our feelings, but that is not a reliable method. (Btw, i also have synesthesia. I usually experience classical music as violet, modern music as blue or pink, folk music as green or orange, jazz and country as yellow. Red music is a bit rare, some of the best red songs is probably Jeremiah Clarke - The Prince of Denmark's March and Allegro Maestoso - Handel, from modern music i could mention Republica - Picture Me, Marko nastic - Flojd, Mandrage - Ona se smála. Songs also have mood genres (funny, sad, scary, surprising) and physical effects (making people dance, laugh, cry, increasing the heart rate, etc.). That is why i like music, although i like other types of art too.)

First he blames us for using our emotions to attack Christians, then he blames us for both using logic and emotions? Almost like we are humans or something. Also, one can probably state things with logic, or that sounds or feels like logic that is wrong and on the other hand, feelings might lead to truth and be the product of a lot of thought process we did not notice we had. I guess what makes things true is evidence and if something is reproducible. How we get there matters less. If something we think or feel is true is being challenged, especially with something that has substance, if the only thing we can answer with is how we feel that we are right, then we might have a problem with feelings. Similar if we have flawed logic, as logic without evidence only tells of how something could be possible.

There are fundamental differences between a Christian and/or Muslim anger compared to atheist one. 1. Theists are angry because they can not convert people using violence anymore and have to resort to coercion and manipulation. In addition, they are also angry that we don't just believe things based on what they say and ask for evidence instead. 2. Atheists are angry and frustrated because irrationality rules the world, and that irrationality will drive humanity to extinction. In other words, theist anger is childish and nonsensical, while atheist anger is empathetic and justified.

Man, that life support and delivery system for a terrible beard projects.

Lime Sherbert green bands: Dayglo Abortions, Dirty Ass, Mr. Dinkles, Amyl and The Sniffers. Spanked bum red bands; D.O.A., Dead Boys, The Chats, Drunk Moms Urinal yellow bands; William Hell and The Voidoids, Dick Wasted, The Dickies, SNFU Three day old bruise blue bands; Screeching Weasel, any group of people containing Mike Ness, Ramones,D.R.I., Primal Paisley Performers; Shonen Knife, Butthole Surfers, They Might Be Giants Teal Bands: The Db s, Dead Milkmen,Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers, Pansy Division, Even In Blackouts, The Lillingtons Wait a second, why am I doing this? Oh right, I'm bored on the bus and as soon as color coding bands came up, I pretty much had to. Also, I would check out a band if some rando mentioned it in a list that included bands i like, so today Is the day to BE the rando. As for the apologist calling atheists out for being overly emotional, I dont see any EMO bands on the list, so by the principal of anulingus coprophagia: I am not overly emotional, I don't look good in gray and pink knitwear, my sleeves do not hook over my thumbs, I wore eyeliner once and I thought I looked like a bored sex worker on whatever the opposite of the tenderloin is. if anything, I am absent several emotional states, my elevator goes to the top but all the people get off before it gets there. I am not antisocial, but were all of humanity with the exception of my son to dissapear into the Void of Thanos tomorrow, I would shrug and suggest we get busy gathering frozen pizzas. My Mom was a dominatrix, my Dad is a sociopath, and the only reason I cried when my wife left, was because she took the cat. Apologists are not a vital resource or in any danger of going extinct, were many of them to disappear, would the world be much worse for their absence? Lots of land in northern Canada, we could build them a nice little town where they could prattle on all day; "Herpa derp, gotta have a foundation for your epistaderpy. Derpily derp, why do atheists get mad if nothing derps for anyderp?" Ahhh...yeah, just imagine....

Emotion =/= being incorrect in and of itself. Arguing that someone is wrong or irrational solely based on emotional state comes off as ad hominem and makes his own arguments seem weaker. Like you said, empathy is an important trait for our species. Its just a shame this guy couldnt bother to show any while going over people being potentially hurt by religion. Also, it feels really telling how against logic this dude seems to be while simultaneously arguing for and against emotion being an appropriate way to make decisions. Edit: fixed some spelling issues. I have fat thumbs.

That opening was golden! :D Yeah, this guy isn't even talking to atheists, he is trying to convince his own group atheists are bad and maybe hope that he might get some return to a religion - ignoring the fact that most of them wouldn't even return to his and he supports all religions... Sort of morbid alliance against reasoning.

The dude is projecting in 4K.

"Jethro Bodine". Nice reference there.

The dude having an emotional breakdown is saying other people are emotional? Interesting take.

I think he mistakes the problem of evil as being anger toward God. It isn’t. It is just one line of argument against the existence of the Christian God. The hypocrisy of Christians who have supposedly experienced the transformative power of Jesus is another similar argument. For many atheists, it is a combination of several different arguments that they find convincing. The utter lack of scientific existence for God is another one of those arguments.

That's a new one for me...'if you get upset about how shitty my religion treats people then that means that God is real and my religion is right.'

We're not trying to destroy all things Christian or Godly. We're just trying to get you to calm down.

Destroyed in the first retort 🤟🏻🤣

Jethro, hear the words of the Lord Jesus Christ: "If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. "

He said if supernatural things don't exist, then emotions aren't real. The height of logic.

Jethro is rocking the Moses/Noah look. But if those wooden crates behind him are pine caskets, well, I hope he's not trying some resurrection experiments because that would explain a bunch of dead bodies.

This man has never heard of Tool. Black then white are all I see, red and yellow then came to be.

What’s his backdrop? Birdhouses? Is so, cool. ;)

People with synesthesia don't just associate things together. It's like their wires are crossed. In your example, synesthetes would experience color when they hear music. There's a good documentary called Derek Tastes Of Earwax. One of the people on the doco tastes words. Couple Aussie bands you might like: Karnivool, Twelve Foot Ninja.

To steal from the TV series "Archer," you could call him Jethro Dull.

You know, he might have a small "point". If not for the small part that a whole lot of people are atheists without having been theists first. In other words, no, i was'nt "hurt" by church. Apart from some cultural visits i.e watching a choir at christmas or going throught confirmation (Lets face it, it was all about the money gifts), church and religion meant nothing in particular to me. I mean, it helped that i studied about the different religions in school and have read enought of those "holy texts" to see certain patterns in how religion spread throughtout the world giving the conclusion that they all are manmade constructs. Of course pointing that out to people like Jethro here seems to hurt them more than me. So in conclusion, give him a job at the cinema because boy is he projecting.

Zoroastrians talk to Ahura Mazda, their deity. Little known fact: they being prayers with the ritual phrase “Zoom Zoom.”

Yeah, we atheists are into emo. And goth. And dark academia.

if wanting people to be happy and loved without having to grovel to some sky man makes me emotional, then slap my ass and call me an empath

Personality disorder implies the existence of personality order.

Atheists have emotions. Therefore this guy's particular god.

I'm an atheist and a longtime supporter of gay marriage (even when mainstream Democrats opposed it). But I'm really skeptical about the claim that legalizing gay marriage reduced suicide rates among gays. I seriously want to look at the studies that purport to demonstrate that. It smells like an overstated advocacy group claim.

I was hurt by the church, but this didn't lead to my leaving the religion. Certainly helped, indirectly. Once i was out of the community, i lost the reinforcement of faith that the church provided. Now, my starter for street preachers is: "I'll listen, if you can convince me that your denomination is the one, true denomination." Like, Christians can't even agree on what it means to be Christian. Sort yourself out, and I'll listen.

Jethro: If individual Christians hurt or offend you, that is not god himself doing it to you Also Jethro: Any atheist being mean is on ALL atheists! I know it's coming

Zoroastrians god would be Ahura Mazda... BTW I like your channel

So his point is that we are too emotional and that we would like to have some evidence. and apparently at the same time.

Sounds like Jethro had a decision to make... "I could use my brain and logically analyze what these atheists are on about, OR I could toss my brain in a dumpster because it sounds fun" and I think he chose the later option.

2:46 *He's not actually asking this question; it's a rhetorical device* used to completely manufacture an explanation so that his theist viewers will go along with his dismissal of all atheist critiques as overly emotional whinging. If he gave the slightest hint of a f*** what we _actually_ think, he'd ask us instead of posting a 9-minute rant about how we're mad at his imaginary friend and how we pick politicians with our feelings. 🙄

I'm not clear if Jethro thinks atheists can't have emotions, or they can't make a logical decision but still feel emotional about it. Is divorce a logical or emotional decision? I suspect most people getting divorced are motivated by their emotions, know it's the logical thing to do if you no longer love each other or your family unit enough to stay together, and STILL feel very emotional about tyat decision log afterwards. What we do know is that atheists don't hate a god they don't believe exists, but might hate the time they wasted believing the BS, the people that still foist that BS on others, and the people making bad decisions for the country they live in because they still believe the BS. I reserve my hate for the people that don't believe the BS, but use the fact that others do to gain political power to foist that BS on others, and top of that list is a conman whose name rhymes with Conald Dump.

The zoroastrian god you were thinking of is Ahura Mazda

Jethro, emotion and rationality aren't mutually exclusive concepts

There are many, many Christians who believe due to emotions or because everything is beautiful to them. Even famous evangelist Cliffe Knechtle does this. Idk why she’s targeting some atheists when it is prevalent in their own circles

Theists when they have an opinion or prejudice they cannot rationally justify: "This is what God wants" Apologists, defending these stupid, hateful talking points: "Why are you so angry at God?" Fundies, when they see science or technology they do not like: "STOP PLAYING GOD!"

There is a logical reason why finding out the supposed almighty triomni god who is supposed to have created the universe started off being worshipped as a war god or a storm god and the stories about him can be traced getting more and more fantastic and combining with stories and aspects of other gods it seems more logical to assume based on that that it is an entirely fictional character than that an all powerful all good god would want people to start worshipping them as a storm

When a christian tells me to prove their god doesn't exist I tell them I'll get on it as soon as they prove Vishnu doesn't exist...I guess I'll flip the strategy if I ever visit India.

Every decision has an emotional and logical component. WTF is he trying to say?

Christian preach the gospel but never follow what they preach

Why is Jethro so emotional?

Yeah, resistance against a mythical being can be emotional 😂

This is my first time being exposed to ol' Jethro here... not a fan of his work 🤷‍♂️

This entire video really is just Jethro projecting his insecurities and failings onto another group of people he doesn't like. Does he seriously not see that?

Again another theist leaves the 's' off of exist. (Probably will stick it on the end of evidence somewhere) 😂

This isn’t the real Jethro Bodine. He’s taking the real Jethro Bodine’s name in *vain* ? There will never be another Maximilian Adelbert Baer Jr.

If the subhect, sorry. Manowar is a good metal band if you haven't heard them

Just the usual projection.

You wash your hair before this video? Never seen you looking so fluffy bro

1) You can't destroy what doesn't exist. 2) People disagreeing with YOU doesn't mean they're angry at God. 3) People disagreeing with YOU doesn't mean they're angry with YOU. 4) It takes a really weak character to believe that every time anyone disagrees with you, they're mad. 5) Getting real sick of explaining this to supposed adults. 6) if you wanna talk about someone being mad, you're literally mad that no one thought your stupid seal story was convincing on any level and here you are crying about it, trying to call everybody who mocked it "angry at God" so you don't have to deal with the fact you presented a dumb argument like it was going to end the entire debate and everybody just laughed at you. Are you actually five years old, Jethro?

Anyone can be upset at thoughts in your head Jethro

It's how dude looks very emotional almost like God doesn't exist.... 😂

London stop being emotional ;-) Now I know why your are called London STORM!! ;-) lol

Weirdly, he looks rather similar to a famous and very, very funny British stand up comedian from years gone by, whose name is Jethro. Google Jethro Comedian 😊

special child of god.

Is a rainbow "real" or is it just an illusion?

This is offensive😂 I'm atheist and I hate coffe😜

his first point tells me i don't need to bother hearing anything else. he's asserting what i'm thinking without having any actual way of knowing. zero credibility. i don't hate god. i don't believe god exists. i do think the god depicted in the bible is heinous but also fictitious. the only thing i'm angry about in regard to religion is the constant attempts of the religious (primarily christians here in the US) trying to turn their religious doctrine into legislation. that's theocracy. that's fascism. and i don't care for either.

Am I the only one that wants to go troll Jethro?

Atheists are wrong cuz of emotions but Jethro is fine if you believe for the same.

EMOTION BAD. GOD GAVE US EMOTIONS TO IGNORE THEM STUPID. GOD SAYS IN THE BIBLE DON'T DO FEELS

15:50 "When atheists resist god they always want to put him into a logic box." Christian Apologists always attempt (poorly) to support their sky wizard concept with logic and put their own god into a logic box when they prosyletize. Classic Projection This goof doesn't realize that we aren't resisting god. We don't believe he exists so how can we be resisting him. That takes a conscious effort. "Those who resist the Easter Bunny always want to put him into a logic box." See how simple that is to understand?

I am upset and disappointed that you would say something so incredibly divisive. It shows a real disregard for the rest of humanity. So i will be clear: I.hate.COFFEE. 😠

5:20... Then how is the church bad? People like this guy hide behind being all logical and scientific, but in reality it's because they doesn't want to change themselves for the better. Why ignore the church because you don't want to follow guidelines, it's stupid. It's the same reason why we put people in prisons. We need some kind of punishment for breaking the guidelines

Anger at God is upsetting as the presupposition God is not dead.Dude I don't believe in God.