Apologetics FAIL - The Atheist Experience #650

Martin Wagner discusses some "apologetics fail" that was sent to him by an Italian viewer whose professor almost makes Texas look good for a day.

Excerpt from The Atheist Experience TV Show #650 of March 28, 2010, with Tracie Harris and Martin Wagner. (Topic: Apologetics FAIL.)

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[ThePonce1221]

Do atheist believe in evil?

[TheAtheistExperience]

@ThePonce1221

- "Do atheist believe in evil?"

Not in personified evil. "Evil" is just a label.

[Sanquinity]

Christianity had their chance to shine. Know what that time period was called? The DARK AGES. And it was called that for a reason!

[MsLilithJS]

I prayed that I could watch The Atheist Experience and then went to YouTube and there it was! Prayer answered!

[ehandkz]

@ThePonce1221 "Bad" is still a label. "Bad" or "evil" are just subjective to what people decide they are.

[ThePonce1221]

Sorry I don't mean to make assumptions I take that back

[ThePonce1221]

A label for what? Bad things I'm assuming...

[niinja2]

@linkuei83

well we dont say they are demon possessed but we could say they are irrationality "possessed", we dont say they are evil, but some people treat them this way. We dont cast the out of the whole society but in circles which value science they will be ostracized. Some people actually do try to ban their free speech because they think they are simply wrong ( that they speak heresy).

It is heretic hunting by the standards of 21 century.

[linkuei83]

so it takes him time to cure someone, but did whole universe in 6 days? Religion... fuck logic!

[linkuei83]

@niinja2 that's not entirely true. They both got great similarities, but we don't think creationists are demon worshipers or evil people nor we cast em out of society and try to ban their free speech, it's just that we can't take anymore of their crap. They spew crap, so they are called on it.

[niinja2]

well yes and no

no because its not the same to kill someone and ridicule him

yes because its the same spirit of intolerance that drives mocking the creationists and heretics.

they perceived heretics back then as we perceive creationists now.

[Sanquinity]

@niinja2 Are you seriously comparing burning heretics alive, or torturing them to convert. With us ridiculing creationists because their beliefs are literally based on a fiction novel?