The Failure of Atheism to Account for Rationality

Matt Slick of www.carm.org explains the failure of atheism to account for rationality including logical absolutes.

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[hab99rry]

I don't need to account for anything. Atheism is simply a disbelief in a god. Saying "we don't know" is more truthful than pretending to know from some ancient book.

[FriendofDaishonin]

The simple matter is that the ego of a Christian can't bear the though that they aren't special. It is so obvious when they ignore the glaring contradictions in their scriptures and lie about them doing mental gymnastics contradicting the very book they are trying to uphold. It is so pitiful that I friend of mine I had when I was a fundamentalist Christian told me I have no basis for morality. I explained my common sense morals and he IGNORED what I told him. It was a slap in the face.

[ihforever696]

Despite an argument you have clearly thought through well, you insult the viewers intelligence by discussing rational thought given your beliefs. I have no way of proving what I believe is right and/or what you believe is wrong, and nor do you. However I find it more rational to say "I don't know" than to claim I do and I feel no more need to justify myself for standing against your beliefs than I would if someone told me that clowns created the Universe.

[Autumn6]

You say anything about Atheism, you're like/dislike bar will be filled with red.

[FriendofDaishonin]

Furthermore, I get BETTER results internally(feeling "full" and not depressed, life is alive and full of meaning) by meditation than by "turning it over to God" and following the Bible to the letter. Why would I of all people EVER partake of the circus that is Christianity? Why would I be willing to raise my hands up and shout praises waiting for my life to improve when I could go meditate and feel a hell of a lot better than dealing with that zoo and in the process improve my life quicker?

[FriendofDaishonin]

We condemn all the Charles Mansons and David Koreshes of the world because they murder people, yet the patriarchs of Judaism abided by laws that allowed rape, child murder, genocide, racism, slavery, etc etc. So how were the patriarchs any different than people like Charles Manson?

[FriendofDaishonin]

Not to mention these people are so arrogant. They accuse us of being arrogant but when we use common sense to explain things, they arrogantly disregard common sense in favor of what the Psychiatric field would call(if someone claimed to hear god) if it happened today(IE Abraham, Noah, Saul, King David, etc etc) they would be labeled as schizophrenic or possibly having a delusional disorder combined with hallucinations.

[BrendanIsCool]

Is death really that scary to people that they defend fervently a magical desert spectre?

[LatinRockerx]

Using big words doesn't make you right.

[WorthlessSix]

Alright look. The laws of logic are not some independent scripture. They are incidental. Consequences of the universe. Physics and gravity create these laws, not the other way around. People wrote these laws. It's like what Freud did for psychology. The disorders he discovered didn't just NOT exist before he wrote about them. Freud just made them known and gave them labels. This is no different for logic.

I don't know why I bother explaining though. It's not like you'll listen.

[limpy601]

0:40 the law of excluding Lidl??