Why are you a Christian? (Pt 2) - The Atheist Experience #696

Mark from the Austin Stone Community Church gets asked to explain why his is a Christian and why other people, such as the hosts themselves, should also be Christians. He fails to provide a clean-cut answer, which leads to multiple rants from Matt Dillahunty and Jeff Dee discussing evidence and the costs vs. benefits of religion. Most of this conversation is captured here in part 2, but you can catch the first few minutes here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAen2NPDr8A

Apologies in advance for getting the audio out of sync. I don't know what happened, but I didn't want to go through the work of reprocessing the video at this time.

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Opening music: "Listen to Reason" by Bryan Steeksma (from part 1)

Additional music: I recommend checking out "Poison" by Tombstone Da Deadman, which features audio clips from this episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_YcDFJlVWA

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[maujo2009]

I think Jeff is a reptiloid :P

[MrEmeraldfusion]

If angels can get kicked out of heaven (when they were already in heaven) What makes you think God won't kick out humans out once they do something he doesn't like? I was thinking...

[Vegasgodless]

@wheresnajee YOUR SO WRONG, I MADE THAT POTATO SALAD, AND THE GOD THAT INSTRUCTED ME, IS THE IPU, INVISIBLE PINK UNICORN. NEVER MIND THAT OTHER MYTHICAL CHARACTER ATHEIST HAVE INVENTED, THE SPAGHETTI MONSTER IS A LIE, THE IPU IN HIS INFINITE WISDOM ALSO MADE SPAGHETTI.

[wheresnajee]

@theslayter01 HOW DARE YOU NOT BELIEVE IN THE SAME THING THAT I DO!!! WE ALL KNOW THAT THE ONLY RIGHT BELIEF IS IN POTATO SALAD.. IT CREATED THE UNIVERSE IN 7 DAYS THIS IS FACT. ITS WRITTEN ON MY NAPKIN

[willforrhall]

I think that was one of the best videos Ive seen by the atheist experience.

[theslayter01]

I believe in unicorns, if anyone doesnt agree with me ILL FUCKING KILL U AND SEND YOU TO SPINACH LAND WHERE YOULL HAVE TO EAT SPINACH ALL YOUR LIIIIIIIFFFFFFEEEEEEE. If you dont believe in unicorns i will be mad at you, just cause, no, other, reasonnnn.......

[jared8455]

"holding their sandwich ransom in the name of jesus". that was pretty funny.  matt has his ducks in a row, and he makes tons of sense.

[parkerthehicks]

@JohnGolbunny hahahahahahahah "top comedian" hahahah

[dkdj12]

@MrConsarnit Actually, the ACA has been suspicious of Mark's allilas names, but they had absolutely no evidence to conclude that, say, Andrew is in fact Mark as they have no caller ID, so they consistently gave him the benefit of the doubt. However, on the most recent show, Matt Dillahunty finally trapped him into revealing who he really is. Then all hell and chaos broke lose on that that same episodes blog. It's kinda fun to read over, actually. xD