How Atheists Can Be Effective Evangelists (4)

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Russell Glasser discusses tactics for atheist outreach. Topics covered will include when and why to speak up, knowing your audience, general principles for dealing with theistic arguments, and how to get attention.

Russell Glasser received an MS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas. He is a lifelong atheist, and has been a member of the Atheist Community of Austin since 1999.

During that time, Russell has been producer, host, and co-host on "The Atheist Experience," a founding member of "The Non-Prophets," and a co-creator of the IronChariots.org wiki site with Matt Dillahunty.

Russell is also a prolific contributor to the online atheist community. He has been blogging on religious and political topics since 2005 on both his personal blog, "Kazim's Korner" and the Atheist Experience blog.

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[undertehlaw]

Another good source for the flaws in religious arguments is other religions. Want to know what's wrong with Mormonism? Ask the Baptist. And so on.

[dreamakuma]

Like Christians who do the Same?

[buttface112211]

2:00 Don laughs.

[dlbattle100]

Dude, you totally failed to even mention employ your best point in this whole little slide show. One of your slides says "Example: Appeals to emotion are used because they work!". Yes, they do. Did you even remember to mention that fact? No, you didn't. Did you use any appeals to emotion in your entire presentation? No, you didn't. Fail! Then you immediately move to logical arguments. Is that how religions people have been winning at spiritual warfare for the past umpty thousand years?

[Lioobayoyo]

do the big loud laughs are from Don x) ?

[jjason55740]

@omnimon3000 listenAsk him this question or tell him

And do you think that religious experience is unique to your religion? Or you say The religious experiences you speak of aren't unique to your religion and are uniformly identical to those who believe in mythology( or other religions).

Or sayIf 1 religion is true then that means the human mind can create the same type of religious experience that made you believe your religion as the one that made people of other religions believe mythology.

[jjason55740]

@fractal420 I always point out the fact if 1religion is true then ask "So you admit that people can believe in mythology and have the same religious experience as you do with your religion?"

They will say those are myth but my religion is true and Jesus died on the cross for me did Allah do that? reply The greeks said Prometheus died for the greeks does that mean Prometheus is real? Then you ask "Did you know there is no contemporary account or any evidence for Jesus's existence?

[RagingConflagration]

WOOT! Ctrl Alt Del!!!!

[omnimon3000]

Thanks, I'll try that when I meet him ^_^

[Atheistcat2004]

Call him out, say that he is evading the question (works pretty well most of the time). Tell him that feelings and emotions are not evidence that a being exists.

If he remains firm, ask how does he know it wasn't Shiva, or just say that if he doesn't know how to explain a feeling he had, how does he know that it was god that affected him and not a simple rise or drop in body temperature, or a his heart (the organ) just skipped.

[rhyfelur]

3:11 does someone whisper "glory to God'? Its a message from God! Or, wait maybe its Satan trying to confuse me. Nope, it's a message from God for sure...I think....ok lets just say it is.