The Source of Human Morality [5/9] (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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[juxdlx]

The louder I talk, the TRUTHER IS WHAT I SAY!!!!!!!!!!!111111

[Moreba]

And debating turned to preaching. Yay...

._.

[BottleConcreteBlond]

He really lets his mask slip here.

[BottleConcreteBlond]

It really turns me off when he starts shouting.

[bradkey98765]

Proof that the bible is true: Good fiction is truer than non-fiction, the bible is the greatest work of fiction ever made, it is therefore more true than all other fiction and non-fiction alike.

[bradkey98765]

What is he actually talking about in his final statement, believing consciousness is an outcome of the brain and that the brain is clearly made of molecules then … end of creativity and human values?

[TheMuskokaman]

This minister couldn't debate his way out of a wet paper bag. I noticed Matt doesn't seem to get alot of time for rebuttal either. Well maybe they (religous Folk) will see one day......Maybe!

[TheAmericanCthulhu]

I wish the camera would've shown Matt's face when this chucklehead screamed his line about "concentration camps and gulags".

[dciple12]

8:35 Hmmm Fiction like...... the bible?

[sabrinapaulas]

@LetJimiT8keOver The Bible, as all the other books, are works of fiction, aren't they? Perhaps that's why he relies on it to get access to the Truth! :P

[TheMadJammer]

This man sure loves post hoc and slippery slope fallacy. ._.

Atheists and Christians have both commited acts that most people would consider evil. Being an atheist or a christian doesn't make you evil. The reason people do evil things is something beyond just religious belief. People who used Religious notions to justify evil actions were probably the same kind of people who applied Darwins Natural Selection to justify their own.

[mjdon67]

Whenever my Dad starts to lose an argument he gets louder to compensate. Same here with Fr. Jacobse, sad really. Of course throughout Christian history, first they talk to you, then preach, then scream, then kill you if you still don't believe. So really Fr. Jacobse is just following the accepted pattern.