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Why Do Politicians Play the Underdog Card?
Glen Scrivener discusses Kier Starmer, Rishi Sunak, David Cameron and the issues of mask wearing and mask tearing in politics.
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Katharine Birbalsingh on Secular Faith and Banning Prayer
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Glen Scrivener interviews Britain's strictest headmistress Katherine Birbalsingh about Michaela Community School, original sin and the prayer ban controversy. Do the 321 course now, it's completely free. Sign up at 321course.com/ Join this channel to get access to perks: ruclips.net/channel/UCJjwJMzkkVyXg3BNGUMcT0gjoin LINKS// Subscribe to this channel for videos that see all of life with Jesus...
Responding to Peter Singer on Euthanasia
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Glen Scrivener interviews Ewan Goligher about his book 'How Should We then Die?: A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death' and Peter Singer's recent comments on UnHerd. UnHerd video: ruclips.net/video/hFsdv0GPKnA/видео.html&t Do the 321 course now, it's completely free. Sign up at 321course.com/ Join this channel to get access to perks: ruclips.net/channel/UCJjwJMzkkVyXg3BNGUMcT0gjoin L...
Two Worlds CLASH - Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs Richard Dawkins
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Do the 321 course now, it's completely free. Sign up at 321course.com/ Glen Scrivener reacts to Ayaan Hirsi Ali debating with Richard Dawkins for Dissident Dialogues, hosted by Freddie Sayers. Watch the debate: ruclips.net/video/DbjHyz_7fCg/видео.html&t Join this channel to get access to perks: ruclips.net/channel/UCJjwJMzkkVyXg3BNGUMcT0gjoin LINKS// Subscribe to this channel for videos that se...
Is it HERESY? Tom Holland and Louise Perry Discuss the New Religion
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Jordan Peterson Finally Answered THAT Question
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Glen Scrivener reacts to Jordan Peterson's conversation with Alex O'Connor (Cosmic Skeptic). Do the 321 course now, it's completely free. Sign up at 321course.com/ Join this channel to get access to perks: ruclips.net/channel/UCJjwJMzkkVyXg3BNGUMcT0gjoin LINKS// Subscribe to this channel for videos that see all of life with Jesus at the centre: ruclips.net/user/SpeakLifeMedia Subscribe to our o...
Is the New Theism Right Wing? Russell Brand on Conserving the Jesus Revolution
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PROOF: The God Conversation Has Changed
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Glen Scrivener reacts to 'Christian revival: fantasy or reality? - UnHerd LIVE' featuring Justin Brierley, Elizabeth Oldfield and Alex O’Connor. The host is Freddie Sayers. Watch the full conversation: ruclips.net/video/V8PeSvLSF-Y/видео.html&t Do the 321 course now, it's completely free. Sign up at 321course.com/ Join this channel to get access to perks: ruclips.net/channel/UCJjwJMzkkVyXg3BNGU...
THIS argument is weak. No wonder Joe Rogan and Alex O'Connor are NOT convinced
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We Need to Talk About Christian-Curious Celebrities
Просмотров 13 тыс.Месяц назад
What do Jordan Peterson, Louise Perry, Konstantin Kisin, Francis Foster, Joe Rogan, Nick Cave, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Niall Ferguson, Kat Von D, Nala Ray, Russell Brand and Andrew Huberman all have in common? They are all public figures who, in the last year, have expressed some kind of Christian curiosity if not Christian faith if not Christian baptism. What to make of all this? Do the 321 course no...
Deconstructing Their Way To Faith
Просмотров 14 тыс.Месяц назад
Glen Scrivener discusses the so-called 'lapsed atheists', focusing on the recent examples of Konstantin Kisin, Niall Ferguson and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Do the 321 course now, it's completely free. Sign up at 321course.com/ Join this channel to get access to perks: ruclips.net/channel/UCJjwJMzkkVyXg3BNGUMcT0gjoin LINKS// Subscribe to this channel for videos that see all of life with Jesus at the cent...
How Important is Going to Church? (In 3 Minutes)
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What does the Holy Spirit do? (In 3 Minutes)
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Four Comedians Say The UNSAYABLE
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Four Comedians Say The UNSAYABLE
Richard Dawkins Is Contradictory... And So Are You
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Richard Dawkins Is Contradictory... And So Are You
Was Luther "Living His Truth"? Responding to The Rest is History
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Was Luther "Living His Truth"? Responding to The Rest is History
Asbury One Year On - With Zach Meerkreebs
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Asbury One Year On - With Zach Meerkreebs
Does Rationality Rule? - The Faithiest Athiest
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Does Rationality Rule? - The Faithiest Athiest
Meaning, Religion and Truth - A Christian Reacts (to Alex O'Connor on Triggernometry)
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Meaning, Religion and Truth - A Christian Reacts (to Alex O'Connor on Triggernometry)
Richard Dawkins' Double Speak Is Not New
Просмотров 11 тыс.2 месяца назад
Richard Dawkins' Double Speak Is Not New
The Resurrections We ALL Believe In
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The Resurrections We ALL Believe In
Easter Explains Recovery: Jordan Peterson on the Crucifixion as the Ultimate Story
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Easter Explains Recovery: Jordan Peterson on the Crucifixion as the Ultimate Story
Easter Explains Relationships
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Easter Explains Relationships
Why We Made "Easter is for Atheists"
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Why We Made "Easter is for Atheists"
Responding to William Lane Craig on the Conquest of Canaan (Rev. Dr. Helen Paynter)
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Responding to William Lane Craig on the Conquest of Canaan (Rev. Dr. Helen Paynter)
Easter Is For Atheists: Spoken Word
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Easter Is For Atheists: Spoken Word
Easter Explains The Stories You Love
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Easter Explains The Stories You Love
Muslim Scripture in "Secular Space"? Christian REACTS
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Muslim Scripture in "Secular Space"? Christian REACTS
God Conversations Have Changed: So Has The WORLD. (Joe Rogan, Kid Rock, Dylan Mulvaney & Tim Keller)
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God Conversations Have Changed: So Has The WORLD. (Joe Rogan, Kid Rock, Dylan Mulvaney & Tim Keller)
What the Holocaust teaches about evil and humanity (The Zone of Interest)
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What the Holocaust teaches about evil and humanity (The Zone of Interest)

Комментарии

  • @baluvurijawahar7216
    @baluvurijawahar7216 38 минут назад

    Shame on British Government & police. We pray for you Hatun Tash.

  • @jaqua7732
    @jaqua7732 3 часа назад

    If she didn't want any conflict she shouldn't have gone out there she can get. When you go seeking conflict it is always very easy to find.

  • @dav__71
    @dav__71 5 часов назад

    The abolitionist were part of the enlightenment tradition which itself was a part of the Christian tradition which was itself part of the ancient Greek and Jewish system. There is no Cartesian point in space where ideas and movements suddenly appear and have exclusive rights to some result. Rationality is bound up in more than just pure reason or faith, as Liz said earlier.

  • @dav__71
    @dav__71 5 часов назад

    It was enlightenment rationalism that overturned slavery in conjunction with Christian ethics. Too often we try to divide up camps to settle in and do an either or but it was both and. The political liberal values that came about because of Christ (render to ceaser what is ceases and to God what is God's) and was worked out or unfolded over thousands of years as any principle does logically contributed to enlightenment thinking. Enlightenment thinkers fundamentally had a Christian ethics and were Christians. You can't cleanly separate them. The parts of the whole dynamically work in a back and forth

  • @Lonewolf35-10
    @Lonewolf35-10 6 часов назад

    Voldomort = devil Harry = Jesus

  • @asmasultana8775
    @asmasultana8775 21 час назад

    Ayaan does not make sense; she is a greedy person and abused all the support that she received from the West!

  • @woodtier-gv8he
    @woodtier-gv8he День назад

    You cannot appease everyone. Christians are the only ones who are not consider by the political parties and don't ask for special requirements. One would almost think Christian is more of a singular belief, in contrast to muslim or jew. The fact is a large majority of Christians, along with some muslims hold to a familiar ethos as a good proportion of the working class in this nation (besides the overlap of course). Our religious and spiritual aspects may differ, but I always wonder how exactly some can speak about muslims as a monolith, all the while they are happy to be be insensitive to their lifestyles and avoid actually delving into personal opinions. We see a similar thing done to women periodically. They are helpless, incapable, victims, and men are bad, because of a story about one man and one woman. Perhaps society takes itself far too seriously and feels too ready to imagine itself as necessarily taking the role of a mediator, judge, and enforcer all at the same time, like a warrior of light serving it's emporer. Only it is headless, society has deemed itself powerful enough to selfdetermine it's own ethos, which on the surface sounds the same as what the majority hold. But it's over paranoid vigilance and blind zealousness causes it to have the exact opposite effect much of the time I guess.

  • @venus_envy
    @venus_envy День назад

    I also live under a flight path. I love the cat in the background!

  • @phyllislovelace8151
    @phyllislovelace8151 День назад

    Thank you both for this vital dialogue.

  • @truthsings
    @truthsings 2 дня назад

    Everyone should be more like 😊 Mr.Thankful

  • @cindyorserful
    @cindyorserful 2 дня назад

    Yep…I also stand with Brand

  • @MonkehMike
    @MonkehMike 2 дня назад

    Both Jesus and the Apostles could be very harsh in their critique of false teachings, hypocrisy and lies. Hatun have her calling and as long as she is faithful to her calling other Christians should not interfere with it. Rather they should pray for her and be faithful to their own calling.

  • @obiflex
    @obiflex 2 дня назад

    Marriage is actually consent, marriage is meaningless without consent. Under common law, a man could not rape his wife because marriage was considered consent in law. Feminism has changed that. Marriage is now a scam in which men get nothing they were promised but have everything they've worked for taken away from them. As a catholic, what you're saying is not my understanding of catholic marriage. You're talking nonsense

  • @Frederer59
    @Frederer59 2 дня назад

    Ken Wilber called this the emergence of 2nd tier consciousness. Indeed, all the world needs is about 15% at 2nd tier and then it's curtains for reductive materialism and WOKE as the leading edge. It's going to be close because WW3 nuclear annihilation could intervene. 🇨🇦🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @johndanso4922
    @johndanso4922 2 дня назад

    No one can do this if not called by God

  • @nevlc1845
    @nevlc1845 2 дня назад

    Good for you, everyone in speakers corner knows how rude you are.

  • @AutisticVaxtard
    @AutisticVaxtard 2 дня назад

    The NWO loves smug atheist

  • @danielmaher964
    @danielmaher964 2 дня назад

    I love your videos and this one is no exception. Can you please help me to understand why you keep using the term "original sin" this way? As I understand it the term means "inherited guilt". This is not what you talk about when you use the term. Unfortunately the alternative term "total depravity" sounds much worse, but as a term for our inability to overcome our own sin it is much closer to what you talk about. Is there another term? Fallenness? Brokenness? Thank you, love your work.

  • @DGRVP
    @DGRVP 3 дня назад

    Greetings from India, I came here after listening to Dr.James Bratt's short interview about FDR bio (A christian nd a democrat) FDR too was rich but my God how different was his life of Providence from these shallow rich (faith positions do matter)...nd how desperately Britain/our countries need one like him now. Cameron is good too but...

  • @paintedhorse6880
    @paintedhorse6880 3 дня назад

    Isn't lying a sin?

  • @Aisha2178
    @Aisha2178 3 дня назад

    Christianity isn’t weak society is. He said it himself we live in a godless society. You can’t fear God if God doesn’t exist. Christians don’t repent for nothing. I’m not sure how his argument makes any sense quite frankly. Seems like an incredibly uneducated statement. I wish Candace would have corrected him on this.

  • @Petroupas
    @Petroupas 3 дня назад

    Not surprising tbh, we know that's what the Muslims do...

  • @WildJester-em1he
    @WildJester-em1he 3 дня назад

    I think poetry just gives motivation to the scientist but however poetry can't be a method to understand the physical world

  • @terryowen7449
    @terryowen7449 3 дня назад

    The christian story is best described as an inconsistent self contradictory collection of fables. FAbles based upon the word of mouth confabulated fantasies of primitive ignorant goatherds, which for two millenia, been mashed up, reinterpreted, translated, exagerated, distorted, expanded and embellished over and over and over again in the pathetic effort to achieve plausibilty.

  • @falconer15138
    @falconer15138 3 дня назад

    Very good indeed

  • @ovschinikov
    @ovschinikov 3 дня назад

    There are 4000 religions in India alone. The European Orthodox call the Catholics blasphemous and the Sunni muslims call the Shiaa muslims false and wrong. so please, you know he did not mean Zeus, altho Zeus existing is a reality as much as any other god would.

  • @martynmettam9296
    @martynmettam9296 4 дня назад

    Thanks Glen for the reality check "what if I'm weak and so are you, and what if I'm privileged and so are you ..."

  • @martynmettam9296
    @martynmettam9296 4 дня назад

    This talk is brilliant in so many ways. Katherine spoke about what makes a good school and indeed good parenting, plus what makes a civil society, via self sacrifice. She is so clear headed and articulate . But I particularly loved when Katherine questioned the feasibility of Jesus’s resurrection you Glen responded with how miraculously weird is mere life. It reminds me of Chesterton’s quote about the “mere man on two legs…as more startling then …” Glen as I’ve mentioned before I’d love you to do a whole talk about the origins of the secular, as the word is used so frequently in a negative sense by Christians yet as you say it was Christianity that gave us the secular. You touched on different types of secular but I would like more.

  • @mokeboi3328
    @mokeboi3328 4 дня назад

    Brilliant. Once again.

  • @flowrepins6663
    @flowrepins6663 4 дня назад

    Guy didnt had anything better to do? Darwin award it takes a special kind to be killed by pp living in stone age after 2 world wars and nuclear weapons

  • @nikolatesla5553
    @nikolatesla5553 4 дня назад

    There is little to no evidence that Jesus or God exists. But everyone has a need or a desire for comfort and meaning. That they construct a God with their inner dialog that matches the teachings of Jesus is not surprising. Jesus mostly taught love, kindness, grace, and community. These things are appealing. Sadly, Christianity has all the baggage of the barbaric and hateful Abrahamic God. The vengeful and racist God that committed murder and genocide on a regular basis. The God that chose the Jews over the rest of humanity. The God that sanctioned the killing of the Midianites. The God that tells us to kill people based on who they love. The God that says Men are more important than women. The God who tells us not to use the brain he supposedly gifted us with. If there is a God, he/she/it could not possibly be the God taught in the Bible.

  • @zeero.0o
    @zeero.0o 4 дня назад

    Praise Lord Jesus Christ ❤ i love you sister in Christ ❤ watching from Afghanistan

  • @user-ro9xk2bz5l
    @user-ro9xk2bz5l 4 дня назад

    I am reminded that: “To LIVE is CHRIST, to DIE is GAIN(Philippians 1:21).”

  • @lysibuesi
    @lysibuesi 4 дня назад

    That was a reality check, great stuff

  • @pweinbrenner
    @pweinbrenner 4 дня назад

    Wow! In this age of expressive individualism and being one’s authentic self, Birbalsingh’s concepts are countercultural. I’m sure Glen will do a good job speaking at the school, but I think Katherine B. wants the values and not the story that gave rise to the values, and the King. This is a concern I heard Glen speak of in another podcast.

    • @lostat400
      @lostat400 3 дня назад

      Yest, back in the day, they thought they could do the same, after Darwinism, and as Nietzsche pointed out, and what we can all now see, is that that is not possible. Not in the long term.

  • @jperez7893
    @jperez7893 4 дня назад

    the census of quirinius can be explained by the res gestae augusti. an oath of loyalty and prayers to the health of the emperor were done every 5 years throughout the empire. this coincided with 3 bc. from revelation 12 and accounts of matthew and luke, you can deduce that jesus christ was born on 11th of september 3 bc, wednesday, 1 tishri. this was also the 750th year anniversary of the foundation of rome. the registration and oath of allegiance became more important because the next year, 2 bc, was the silver jubilee of augustus, and on 2 bc the senate give him the honor pater patria. herod the great died on 2 shevat 1 bc. this was after the lunar eclipse of 10th of january 1 bc, 5 days after executing his son antipater, executing the 2 matthias, and executing the massacre of under 2 year olds throughout his dominion, and after gathering prominent jewish leaders in the hippodrome of jericho to be executed after he died (gathering your enemies at a specific location to execute them is also a favorite method of dictators and tyrants up to the modern day). the governor of syria in 4 bc to the end of 1 bc was gaius caesar, the grandson of augustus. he was on an accelerated apprenticeship to succeed his grandfather to the throne. at the age of 15, gaius was already elevated to the college of pontiffs, obviously given the office of pontifex. at the age of 16, he became the governor of syria. however, being only 16 and having little experience in running government, he was under the tutelage of the consul and senator, quirinius. in effect, quirinius was running syria. gaius then became the consul in 1 ad at the age of 20 years old. Gaius Caesar's co-consul in 1 AD was Lucius Aemilius Paullus. Paullus was his brother-in-law, married to Gaius' sister Julia the Younger. Gaius left rome shortly after taking the consulship back to the eastern provinces and engaged in military campaigns and negotiations with parthia. he was killed in 4 ad in armenia during a military campaign

  • @Alien1375
    @Alien1375 4 дня назад

    Well Starmer's dad at least made one tool...

  • @GOGFANChurch
    @GOGFANChurch 4 дня назад

    Just listened to your RUclips conversation. May God bless you and continue to protect you and us until our time which is in His hands. A true Soldier has nothing to fear; you are one that Jesus Christ is proud of, taking His Love to everyone Your angels are on guard

  • @TheSaltydog07
    @TheSaltydog07 4 дня назад

    They want that demographic. The working class outnumbers the wealthy.

  • @markkendal5490
    @markkendal5490 4 дня назад

    Such wise words, thank you.

  • @jackforeman2742
    @jackforeman2742 4 дня назад

    The irony is the most privileged are often the ones least likely to recognize their deep need and lack. The first will be last.

  • @christopherflux6254
    @christopherflux6254 4 дня назад

    There’s something in us which often routes for the underdog. We do it in sport. But politicians often do it in a fake way and the public can often tell.

  • @benrandall7126
    @benrandall7126 4 дня назад

    I didn't know you owned a blazer, Glen!

  • @littlelights6798
    @littlelights6798 4 дня назад

    Yeah so I hadn't heard of this school, or the legal case, and this was really interesting. How to incorporate religion into a secular setting - very difficult question and she has good instincts I think. Concerning end to the discussion though - the difficulties she's had in expanding, setting up a leadership program. Saying she's been 'blocked' was an interesting word - why and by whom are the obvious questions. Concerning also that she doesn't see any reason to be optimistic about her project. This is a form of inclusion that seems to be good, but does go against the prevailing form of inclusion. Pupils aren't 'bringing their whole selves' to this school.

  • @antoniocoman3307
    @antoniocoman3307 4 дня назад

    Jesus is the only true way. ❤

  • @bcatcool
    @bcatcool 4 дня назад

    Yes I agree with what is being said. The Muslims unfortunately have been given too much rope. The Christians need to take another look at who is teaching them and what they don't understand about trusting God and how to love. Prayers for you and the school.

  • @sunilakula4986
    @sunilakula4986 5 дней назад

    Ridiculous arrogance

  • @fil9574
    @fil9574 5 дней назад

    Thanks very much for this Commentary and decoding the underlying basis of where JP is coming from. It is The Lord Jesus Christ who is the primary ‘psychologist’.

  • @whittfamily1
    @whittfamily1 5 дней назад

    Ali prayed, but she should have known that “Nothing fails like prayer,” as Dan Barker has informed us. Ali says she subsequently experienced a miracle, and of course she didn’t. No natural laws were caused to be broken by God. Glenn, the water did not turn into wine. That would be a miracle. There is insufficient evidence that this reported event even occurred. Don’t be so gullible about stories written two thousand years ago. Also, Glenn, changes in worldviews are not miracles at all. They happen everyday through natural processes. Christians become atheists, and atheists become Christians. No supernatural here. Richard, of course, is right to say that to be a Christian you must believe in something. There are about 15 core Christian beliefs, and I believe that in her opening statement Ali embraced a couple of them, but still a long way to go. Glenn, why are you mocking Dawkins’ DNA tie? Red herring there. Glenn, why are you mocking Dawkins’ attempt to go down the Christian checklist? That is a perfectly legitimate inquiry. It may be weird to you and Alex, but not to me and others. Ali is making the claim that she is now a Christian, but is she? Her moving story at the beginning should not distract us from the goal of the meeting. Glenn, it doesn’t matter if Dawkins takes his rational approach into other areas. That is irrelevant to the issue at hand. You are trying to discredit Dawkins instead of dealing with his current challenges to Ali. Get back on track. No, Glenn, Ali is on the wrong existential path. She is not thinking clearly or rationally. Christianity is serving as a temporary placebo for her. Ali is just wrong that Dawkins is coming from a place in which there is nothing. Of course Dawkins thinks there is something, but it is just something different from what Ali and Glenn thinks it is. (This reminds me of the typical charge of theists that all or most atheists think the universe came from nothing, a charge which is just false.) Glenn, you are making an argument ad populum. Just because most people have believed something doesn’t mean it is true. Most people once believed the Earth is flat or the sun revolves around the Earth. Glenn, if God did exist, he would voluntarily prove to us that he exists by presenting himself to ALL OF US SIMULTANEOUSLY, on a regular basis. Why would you think otherwise? I do think that Dawkins is negligent in his failure to specify what would probably convince him of God’s existence or of the existence of a deity very similar to God. But Glenn, see my description of that evidence above. Glenn comes off like a fast-talking, deceptive, arrogant used-car salesman. He and Dawkins should be together debating. Glenn, there is a way for God to break in, if he exists. See above. This has never happened. You apparently worship a lesser deity, a hiding deity. Glenn, God would be “solid” at least temporarily when he presented himself to all of us simultaneously. He would be seen, heard, and even touchable. A deity did not turn around Ali. She mistakenly believes that this happened, but there is no good evidence that such a deity exists. Ali is describing a subjective experience, not an objective fact about the world. Glenn, you can look at Christianity in an artistic sense and say that it is beautiful to you, but all its tenets are false. Most of Christianity is not nonsense. It is comprehensible. But most of all of it is either false, probably false, or unproven. And so we should reject it on those grounds. Glenn, unfortunately it appears that the you are not open to the hypothesis that God does not exist. What evidence, reasons, and/or arguments would convince you that God does not exist? The problem with you, Glenn, is your posture. Love does come from the “outside” but there is no good evidence that it comes from any deity. It comes from other human people. Ali needs some good friends, family members, and a therapist. Faith is a vice, not a virtue. We should minimize it in our lives. Glenn, if God did exist, he would not hide the knowledge of himself in children or in or from anyone else. He would present himself clearly, boldly, objectively, and unequivocally. I fear you just believe in a lesser deity. No one knows God at all! How could they? He does not exist. This has been proven. God cannot help us. He does not exist! Glenn, you can’t be a Christian in a “mystical sense.” Being a Christian is about holding about 15 specific beliefs about the nature of reality. We still don’t know if Ali is a Christian. No, Glenn, up till now Ali’s turn to Christianity has been a “cultural warrior thing.” Just read her original essay. I did. Glenn, just because you might make yourself open and humble does not mean you will come to the correct conclusions. Ali did not. Glenn, solipsism is just a straw man for you. No credible philosopher, theist or atheist, takes it seriously. No matter how much you need love or seek love, you should not submit yourself to someone who spouts false, probably false, or unproven claims about objective reality. Glenn, please prove your claim that humans have intrinsic moral value or dignity. I don’t think you can. Glenn, beauty is subjective, but truth is objective. You can’t treat them the same. Jesus is dead. He no longer exists. He cannot and does not love anybody. Maybe he loved people during his life, but no longer. Jesus is not God, and did not claim to be God. Jesus did exist, but God has never existed. This has now been proven. Jesus was not all you Glenn have made him out to be. He had many flaws. Just read the Gospels. Your admiration for Jesus sounds similar to the admiration of many American voters for Donald Trump. Yes, given the three worldviews - Islam, Christianity, and secular humanism, Islam is by far the worst and secular humanism is by far the best. So, we members of Christianity and secular humanism should cooperate to oppose Islam. Nothing wrong with that, even though Christianity is mostly false and sometimes harmful. Oh come on, Glenn, you are totally distorting the metaphor of the “Selfish Gene,” I think intentionally. Dawkins is right - the doctrine of original sin is BS, not matter how much Glenn tries to dress it up. That people are a mixed bag is not the doctrine of original sin. Glenn, read Genesis if you want to accurately present it. “Adam was the pencil sketch of Christ”? What a bunch of BS! Glenn, you really need a competent secular humanist debate opponent to counterbalance and challenge your BS. Love alone is not the answer. Love and Reason together is the answer. Jesus did not save the Jews from the Holocaust, did he? So, not much of a savior. Ali says she chooses to believe that Jesus rose from the dead. Does anyone choose their beliefs? I’m not sure about that. I think what she has done is chosen to divorce reason which then makes it possible for her to accept all kinds of nonsense, including what she wishes were true. Glenn has done the same thing when he believes that Jesus came back to life. Jesus was not who he says he was. You just want to believe that he was. You have no reasonable grounds to think he was divine in any way. In fact, if God did exist, he would not have used any messengers like Jesus and he would not have arranged any resurrection as it is described in the Gospels. No, Glenn, Jesus does not seem to be the embodiment of goodness, beauty, and truth. He seems to be a flawed human being. Ali is wrong that Dawkins starts with the assumption that there is nothing. That is absolutely wrong! He does not see any evidence for supernatural things, and that is vastly different. If God did exist, he would be able to cause humans to be born from virgins or humans to come back to life. We do not doubt this. But we just see no good evidence, reasons, or arguments that God exists or that he did these things with respect to Jesus.

    • @whittfamily1
      @whittfamily1 5 дней назад

      CONTINUING MY POST Glenn, all leaps of faith are abhorrent! When will you learn this? No, Glenn and Ali, we secular humanists cannot be blamed for the moral errors of Islam. Neither Christianity nor Islam has any business teaching or being taught in the public schools. Ever heard of separation of church and state? But Glenn, we can take steps to minimize our biases, prejudices, and filters and to use Reason to answer these important questions. Glenn, you should not use faith as your filter, as your bias, as one of your primary values. We challenge faith itself. Faith does not enable you to “see what’s really there.” It enables you to see what is not there, what you wish to be there. Who does not wish that we could come back to life? Is it surprising that some people set aside reason and wish and believe that another human being, i.e. Jesus, came back to life? No, it’s not. Is this a good thing? No, it’s not. Glenn, both faith and solipsism are “less than rational.” In fact, they are irrational! Glenn, the truth is not a person who can love you. Stop using these silly metaphors. Ali, perceptions of beauty are just not the same thing as conclusions of truth. You are making a category error. Ali, we do not doubt that your experiences have been real. We just know that your conclusions about your experiences are false, probably false, and/or irrational. Ali, something is either real or not. Things aren’t more or less real. You are making another category error. Glenn, if we had God’s word we would all know it. All of us! Why? Because God would present it to all of us simultaneously, on a regular basis. Why can’t you understand this? God would have a better voice than Paul Robeson. Looking at the sun or tasting honey is not like reading the scriptures. Glenn, you too are making a category error here. No Glenn, if God did exist we would observe him objectively. We would all see him and hear him, and possibly touch him, at the same time! This has never happened. This is one way we know that God does not exist. Best line of Dawkins: “I think you are a Christian and I think Christianity is nonsense.” He is right! Glenn, the external world is there! What are you talking about? If God did exist, he would be in the external world. We would all know him objectively. If God did exist, we wouldn’t need to look for him or guess about him. He would make his presence obvious and undeniable. Why would you think otherwise? The laws of the universe would be different from what they are if there were a law giver and he was God. Even if you knew every law of the universe does not mean that there was a law giver. The laws are just descriptions of the inherent and eternal orderliness of the universe. Alex, writing conventions are not the same as regular processes of the universe. You are making a category error. Alex, you are implying that the laws of the universe had a maker, and you don’t even believe that. Glenn, we atheists do not say there cannot be a creator. We say that there is just no good evidence for the creator hypothesis and nobody should yet believe there was a creator. Glenn, you are engaged in begging the question when you talk about the NEED for an author of life. This is BS. Neither life nor the universe needs an author, although you seem to need them to have an author. It is your need. Richard Dawkins does take the rational high ground. Alex, Glenn, and Ali do not. Yes, Glenn, you are sub-rational with respect to reality and the meanings of life. The beauty or ugliness of a story has nothing to do with whether the story is true or false, nonfiction or fiction. Glenn, you are making more category errors. I actually think the story of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection is both ugly and beautiful, but it is still false. Goodness is actually a way away from God, not a way into God. Ali says there is no consensus on some of these major questions and she is right, but she acts as if and believes as if there is a consensus. That’s where she goes astray. What’s wrong with “We don’t know”? Glenn makes another God of the Gaps argument for the origin and nature of consciousness. Thinking may not be a material activity, but there is strong evidence that it is contingent on material activity. Richard Dawkins is certainly not a nihilist. God does not offer you purpose, beauty, or morality. How could he? He doesn’t exist. A personification of the universe doesn’t help either. Contrary to Ali, faith doesn’t give you anything to stand on. It gives you phantoms. Glenn, talk about mocking. You’ve been mocking Dawkins throughout your commentary. What a hypocrite! Ali, there is a place for subjectivity and reason, but there is not a place for faith. Faith is leading you down the wrong path. Ali, reason and faith do not compliment each other. They contradict each other. I recommend this book to you: Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible Paperback - May 17, 2016, by Jerry A. Coyne No, Ali, you are not an idiot. You are just mistaken. Why? Because you use faith rather than reason to draw your conclusions. Same with you, Glenn. Glenn, we are going to give them secular humanism instead of Christianity, Islam, and other irrational worldviews. Glenn, secular humanism does not embrace any idea of sacredness. Glenn, we secular humanists derive our moral code through reason and compassion. I’m sorry you cannot see that. Rational thinking and secular morality certainly predate Christianity. Just look at ancient Greek civilization. Ali, there is no vacuum of worldviews. There is a plurality of worldviews. You have just been absorbed into the wrong one. No Glenn, racism has never been scientific, even though some people have claimed that and you have agreed with them. Christianity is nonhumanistic, nonscientific, and irrational. I think Dawkins is mistaken about percentages of personhood. I think a thing is either a person or it isn’t. There is a sound definition of “person.” Downs Syndrome children suffer more than children without the syndrome. Parents who raise DS children suffer more than parents who raise children without the syndrome, other things being equal. In Iceland DS has almost been eliminated because of chosen abortion. No Glenn, by abortion you are not going to exclude those who are feeling pain. You are going to exclude some fetuses before they feel pain and before their parents would feel pain. Glenn, you have no proof of any intrinsic worth or sanctity of human beings. You are just making this up. Humanism comes from reason and compassion, not from any deity or belief in deity. No, Glenn, the truth is not a person. You are making another category error. Jesus spoke many falsehoods. He was either lying, delusional, or just mistaken. Faith is a flight from rationality.

  • @andrewperez2473
    @andrewperez2473 5 дней назад

    Fascinating time to be alive. Thank you all.