The Atheist Experience: episode #696 (Caller: Mark) 2/13/11

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Sorry to skip over Jeff's initial defense, but I couldn't squeeze it into the 15 minutes and really wanted to get everything Matt said in there.

Matt squeezes a majority of the coolest things he's ever said into about 10 minutes of speech, in response to a representative of Austin Stone Community Church claiming that atheists are doomed to go to hell.

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[alternanick]

I like Matt's response much better, since it starts from a sympathetic point, having been formerly a religious person, and guides the caller through reasoning instead of being oppositional.

[kyoopihd]

Wicked. Richard Dawkins has learned of the show and is interested in it:

tinyurl [dot] com/4ophk9y

[twooffour]

@Yahya76

If you can't justify those contradictions, you have no point. The end.

[LOGIC42369]

pwnd

[Periph1989]

@Yahya76 Why do you assume that we want to not believe in a god? Of course I would like to have a god look after me and love me. But that doesn't mean I can believe it. The evidence isn't there. Just because you say "our minds are made up" doesn't mean our minds can't change. IF YOU GIVE US A GOOD REASON, WE WILL CHANGE OUR MINDS (i capitalized it so you can understand).Enjoy wasting the only life we KNOW that we're going to experience, hoping for an afterlife that has not been proven to exist.

[PokeyMeansBusiness]

@Yahya76

If you want to prove us wrong so much, why don't you call the Atheist Experience and debate with them?

[socksumi]

This guy is an obvious poe. First question I would have asked "Mark"... name two pastors at the Austin Stone Church? That would have busted him as a prankster and avoided a lot of wasted time.

[Yahya76]

@tamu77095 Yeah, you who knows me so well ! Who are you, exactly, and why should i care ? Enjoy your life. To you your way, to me , mines. There really is no point in me wasting time with atheists and kuffar who have already made up their own tiny minds in what they WANT to believe. As MR T said: I pity the fool. Actually, I don't pity you kfrs.

And my life is going swimmingly, thanks for your best wishes. But the best part comes when this life ends and anther begins :)

Enjoy oblivion.

[tamu77095]

@Yahya76 lol u r a closed-minded idiot sir. good luck in your life sir. with which im sure you'll end up nowhere

[Yahya76]

@kyoopihd I WILL enlighten you to this, if you are somehow unaware: You want to believe the Qur'an contains contradictions, so you, unsurprisingly, will find things which YOU believe are contradictions. I have neither the time nor the inclination to debate with someone who has already made their mind up. To you, your way. To me, mines.

Good day to you, i shall not be responding again as i find this dialogue to be stunted, self-aggrandising (on both sides) and frankly dull.

Peace.

[kyoopihd]

@Yahya76 I never said you were an Arabic language expert. I believed you to be fluent enough to read the Quran, and here's why:

You said the Arabic Quran doesn't have contradictions, when only the translations do. How do YOU know if you can't read it? That was the only reason I thought you could, because you asserted to have knowledge about the Arabic Quran. And, by the way, it was you who quoted a translated verse from the Quran in the first place. -continued-

[kyoopihd]

@Yahya76 But none of that matters: I have read enough reliable, academic sources that I'm confident the contradictions are there even in the Arabic version. I accept this for two reasons: 1) The only people who claim that the translations are incorrect are Muslims, who have a bias and presupposition that the Quran is infallible; 2) Even if the contradictions WEREN'T there, it would make absolutely no difference to me. -continued-