The Source of Human Morality [9/9] (debate)

"The Source of Human Morality" - a debate held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County on November 16, 2010. Hosted by UMBC's Orthodox Christian Fellowship and Secular Student Alliance. With Matt Dillahunty and Father Hans Jacobse.

Matt Dillahunty is the president of the Atheist Community of Austin, and host of the popular public access television and internet show "The Atheist Experience." He was raised as a fundamentalist Baptist, and was on track to become a minister until he started asking questions about the reasons for his belief. He rejected religion, and now serves as a public voice for rationality and secular morality.

Father Hans Jacobse is an Antiochian Orthodox Priest, who administers the website Orthodoxy Today and heads the American Orthodox Institute. Fr. Hans is convinced that Orthodox Christianity has an important part to play in American moral renewal. He views the current world as a battle between competing moral visions of the secular and the sacred, and hopes that Christianity can restore the moral tradition of the gospels.

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[OgreVI]

I thought, when I saw that Matt was in a debate on here, that it would be more fun. I guess I figured that if they went to the trouble of setting this debate up they would give him an opponent who would get me thinking, even if I disagreed with him. This guy, though, really brought nothing to the table. God makes creativity? Totalitarianism requires atheism? Religion is self-correcting and atheism isn't? It was very disappointing.

[TheAtheistExperience]

@OgreVI

- "This guy [father Jacobse], though, really brought nothing to the table. (...) It was very disappointing."

Isn't that the only possible conclusion that one can reach after watching any debate about religion? Once you have seen one or two of such debates, you have seen them all, because the religious side always loses. How many new arguments can people still make up for the existence of a god from more than 2000 years ago? If there were any good arguments, we would know them by now.

[FreeThoughtSolution]

The father just talks so much and yet says little. And he did it through all the vids, not just this one. It made watching the 9 vids quite trying.

[esplin227]

Jacobse beliefs about atheist are bigoted and he is a vile liar. This debate was agonizing.

[xipheonj]

Matt answers the questions succinctly and in plain language easy to understand. The other guy talks and talks and talks and not only doesn't answer the question, but doesn't even say anything at all.

[ljubboyt]

Matt was too polite. I would like to see father Jacobse call the show and assert all those things he did here and see what would Matt do to him.

[TheMadJammer]

Thumbs up if you think the Priest should shut the fu** up. There is a high and direct correlation between the rate of my dying brain cells and the amount of time he gets to speak.

[styot]

@GoogleVideoMan Apparently so, just like Atheism holds a monopoly on Totalitarianism. This priest almost brings me to despair, at least it seems he didn't have much of the audience on his side.

[naughteedesign]

poor man

[kloveless82]

Two minutes to answer a question. Come on priest

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

i have faith i can beat mike tyson in a boxing match lol

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

ill say it agian humans dont have free will

[GoogleVideoMan]

Art, culture, creativity, does religion really hold a monopoly on this?