Atheism Is A Fool's Game

Añadido: 2026-05-14

[00:00:05]It's getting to the place where people aren't afraid to say it anymore. Atheism is lame.

[00:00:10]>> Well, did they mention that I'm rubber and you're glue?

[00:00:13]>> Hello everyone. I'm Professor Plank. I respond to various theological and ideological questions and claims from a rationalistic and naturalistic approach in an effort to give and explain the opposite viewpoint and help to balance the conversation.

[00:00:26]Today we're going to be hearing from Brandon Poor from the channel Forged in Truth, a Christian Chad Bro alpha male channel with Brandon being the kind of traditionalism pusher you might find giving a motivational speech at schools about God giving him the strength to rip this phone book in half. And that's why you got to reject feminism, max load your creatine powder, and give it up to God so you can be a real man. The therapist implied that God wanted me to have boine hormones. And today, Brandon's going to be ragging his little heart out on us horrible, stupid, and especially lame atheists. He's going to be casting aspersions on our common arguments and mindsets and challenging us with questions we supposedly cannot answer, which is always a fun way for apologists, even low rent, loweffort, low thoughtgiven apologists, to try to start off and position their videos.

[00:01:21]Because in all the years that I've been doing counter apologetics, nar have I ever encountered any of these questions that I, as an atheist, supposedly cannot answer that I have in fact not been able to answer. They're typically very easy to answer if one has the slightest bit of understanding of whatever topic the questions are rooted in. Whether their mic drop gotchas are rooted in philosophy or ethics, morality, cosmology, biology, or literally any other field or topic, one does not have to stretch their mental faculties hard to come up with a secular answer to practically any question. But therein lies the fatal flaw with religious apologists. Most have never bothered to stretch their mental faculties at all, or even ever, and they've often atrophied from neglect of use.

[00:02:12]When your common fallback position to any question is just God did it, no more thought required, then anything that takes more brain power to comprehend than that three-word mantra, which would be pretty much anything else, becomes nonsensical, gibberish, and therefore not really a decent answer at all. And so what we end up with is people thinking that because the actual answer to something is harder than cuz I'm God, then that doesn't actually count as an answer at all. Therefore, atheists can't actually answer anything.

[00:02:46]Now I'll make a YouTube video telling them how stupid they all are. Yuck.

[00:02:51]Unfortunately for them, secular arguments and answers to their queries are actually quite easy to come by and for the average person to wrap their head around as well. As well as the extra problem of the fact that saying God did it doesn't really explain anything. And it's a thought-terminating cliche that less and less people are willing to accept these days as a valid answer to anything. But let's hear Brandon out and listen to his criticisms of a super lame atheist. But before we get to that, if you end up liking what you see in this video and would like to help out the channel, make sure to subscribe and click the bell so you'll always be notified when new content comes out. Check out my social media, including my Patreon, Twitter, and Blue Sky, all linked in the description. And of course, like this video, pop in a comment. All that goes a long way towards pleasing the YouTube algorithm.

[00:03:39]Jovial Jesuit, judging jarringly, join jaded, jerky journeys, juxtaposing justice, and jettisoning juvenile joyful jingles. Justly judgment justifies junking Jehovah's jayy jargon. Judging Jerusalem's jumbled juvenile jive may keep my channel motoring along. Now on to today's video. It's getting to the place where people aren't afraid to say it anymore. Atheism is lame. Literally, [music] it's lame. If you've ever looked at these arguments, then you know beyond a shadow of a doubt [music] that atheism is really just a fool's game. The Bible's pretty clear that the atheist has said in his own heart that there is no God. Wait, I think it says the fool says [music] that there is no God.

[00:04:25]>> Then it must be true. But if it's true, then it must beoop.

[00:04:30]>> What's that you say, Brandon? Your holy book, which was written for the express purpose of getting people to believe in the theology that it presents, has a passage where it calls people who don't believe in that theology fools.

[00:04:44]Oh, and no one wants to be fools, right?

[00:04:47]So then I guess I better buy into everything it has to say. That way I can avoid being a fool, right? Because I mean if it's in the Bible then it must be absolutely positively 100% true.

[00:05:02]Brandon, did you know that the Holy Quran says that indeed the religion in the sight of Allah is Islam? And those who were given the scripture did not differ except after knowledge had come to them out of jealous animosity between themselves. And whoever disbelieves in the verses of Allah, then indeed Allah is swift in taking account. This means that you as a Christian, Brandon, and therefore non-believer in the holy verses of Allah are only disbelieving because of your jealous animosity.

[00:05:34]According to this, you are just jealous that your religion is not the true religion of God. And because of that jealousy, you're angry at the true faith. and Allah is going to be swift in taking account of jealous, angry unbelievers like you.

[00:05:50]Or perhaps would you reject the notion that you're filled with jealous animosity as well as the claim that Islam is the true religion of God because you don't believe the Quran in the first place. And maybe it only says that because as the holy book of the Islamic religion, its authors had a vested interest in positioning non-believers as bad, foolish, angry, or just downright obstinate sinners as a way of placating and pandering to the faithful who do believe what it says.

[00:06:22]Kind of how the Bible only has that crap about the fool has said in his heart that there is no God in order to plate and pander to Christians like you.

[00:06:32]Did you ever think about that?

[00:06:34]Maybe just a just a little bit. No, of course you haven't. In short, >> see, I know that it may not be politically correct and [music] you may offend some people and this and that, but I'm telling [music] you, if you just take a look and think about it for just a few seconds and people are waking up to the reality that atheism is a fool's game.

[00:07:03]>> What does any of this have to do with political correctness? Since when has it been considered politically incorrect for Christians to [ __ ] on atheists?

[00:07:11]Y'all have been doing that since long before political correctness was ever coined as a term to begin with. Not to mention the fact that to be politically correct means to use language or behavior that avoids offending, excluding, or marginalizing specific groups of people. And whenever meattheads like you roll your eyes and scoff at the idea of being politically correct, it's generally because you don't want to curb your language and avoid saying things that's considered racist or sexist or bigoted or hateful right up to the point where you can claim religious discrimination. And then your Christian persecution complex kicks into overdrive and you start pissing and moaning about how oppressed Christians are in today's society. which basically means you don't give a damn about being politically correct right up until the moment that it actually impacts you because religion is one of those protected classes that political correctness is meant to apply to. And given how much religious organizations and especially religious politicians go out of their way to exclude atheism from the category of protected groups, it would be more accurate to say that it's not politically correct for me to take shots at your religious beliefs more so than it's not politically correct for you to take shots at my lack of them.

[00:08:30]But the more interesting thing that you said there was the notion you put forth that more and more people are waking up to the idea that atheism is a fool's game.

[00:08:40]Um would that be why the rates of religion are falling in all western countries while simultaneously rates of atheism are consistently rising? And it isn't just people leaving religion to become unaffiliated and basically be fencitting agnostics, but convinced atheist levels are on the rise and have basically doubled over the last 20 years.

[00:09:05]Would that also be why across most of Europe, rates of convinced god belief struggles to even hit 50% in most countries, with many countries having less than 20% of the population convinced of God's existence.

[00:09:19]And even where America is concerned, there's a number of states that report only about half who are assured in their belief in God. According to Gallup, surveying broad swaths of the American population, only about 74% of the population of the total United States profess a belief in God. And that is the lowest rate that the country has ever seen. That number hasn't gone up even a single percentage point in over 25 years. It's consistently on the decline.

[00:09:49]I mean, I bet in your most likely insulated Christian bubble, it may seem like people are giving their lives over to Jesus more than you've ever seen before, Brandon, but the world exists beyond the confines of your congregation. And many other congregations are recognizing that reality as they see their churches and religious communities crumbling.

[00:10:11]In 2024, an estimated 4,000 Protestant churches closed in the United States, while only 3,800 were started. That marks a critical tipping point where the net number of churches began to shrink.

[00:10:24]Projections for the rest of this year suggest that as many as 15,000 churches could close annually. Some experts predict that up to a 100,000 churches, or roughly a quarter of all congregations in the US, could close within the next decade.

[00:10:39]The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the country, lost another 390,000 members over the past year and are hitting another 50-year low, according to the annual church profile compiled by Lifeway Christian Resources. And again, not all of this means that everyone is leaving the church to become atheists, but some are, which is showcased in the increase in atheism across the board.

[00:11:06]But the bigger takeaway from the data is that if there's anything that people are waking up to the idea of being a fool's game, it's religion and more specifically Christianity.

[00:11:19]There is literally no justification.

[00:11:23]There's no reason for anyone to believe in atheism. And that's not I am a Christian. But I'm not saying that just because I'm a Christian. I'm telling you that because it's logically accurate.

[00:11:35]This should be glaringly obvious to anyone, but I want to show it to you anyway. Maybe you've never seen the breakdown like this. Maybe you've never seen the exchange. Sure, Brandon, because I'm sure you have some completely unthought of, unsaid, unexpressed cudigra to atheism that no professional apologist has ever come up with before.

[00:11:59]And even if this that you're about to drop on us is just old hat apologetics, I'm sure that myself and other atheists in the audience have simply never heard it before. Because it's not like people like you aren't on every other street corner procilitizing through a bullhorn.

[00:12:15]Or it's not like people like you weren't brought into our public schools to hold assemblies telling us to get right with God. even though that's expressly against the law, but the Christian administrators never seem to care about breaking rules so long as they were doing it in the name of Jesus. Or it's not like people like you haven't knocked on our doors on Saturday mornings and bothered us with your Bible blather.

[00:12:36]Yeah, we atheists, we we just haven't heard this stuff before. That's the problem because it couldn't possibly be that we've heard it all a bajillion times before and that we just were able to counter your apologetic BS 2 seconds after it tumbled out of your pie hole.

[00:12:52]Atheism has zero foundation. And I mean quite literally, there is no foundation for anything in the atheistic worldview.

[00:13:03]Look, [music] if you want to prove the atheist has no foundation, you simply need to ask them why. You might say, ask them why about what? About anything. You see, without a God [music] who exists, that is bigger than us, outside of us, who is the standard by which [music] all of us measure anything, and I mean anything, morality, logic, [music] science, everything collapses without a [music] permanent objective reality that is outside of all of us.

[00:13:39]>> Wow, I never heard of that before. No, you don't need God to exist as some kind of an objective standard in order for anything in reality to work. When it comes to physical reality itself, all one needs is the standards of physical reality itself. The speed of light is one. For instance, the speed of light is exactly 299,792458 m/s.

[00:14:05]It is simply the fastest that anything within spacetime can move through a vacuum. and it exists as a brute fact.

[00:14:13]There does not need to be a god in order to set it. It simply is what it is. And then we develop mathematics and equations and understandings of the physical world and the universe based on that brute fact. Same with the natural forces of gravity and electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces.

[00:14:32]They're naturally occurring aspects of the physical world. They don't need to be set against the standard of any kind of a god. They are their own standard around which the physical world developed. It's possible that the laws of physics must be the way that they are. We don't know if the constants could even vary. They might be a fundamental requirement of any stable system. And if the values of the universe were different than what they are, it's likely that the universe would have been unstable and collapsed long ago, long before our planet formed and life came about on it and then evolved to the point where it could wonder about these things.

[00:15:09]And one of the things that we know about how the physical world works is that systems seek stability. I mean, that's why bubbles form into spheres instead of cubes or pyramids or any other shape. A sphere is the most stable, most energyefficient shape to hold. That's also why planets form into spheres under the force of gravity because it's the most stable form. So too, the values and constants of the universe could just be what they are because stability is the most natural state for any system to seek and to hold to. And from those fundamental forces that govern the way the physical world works, we humans then developed logic. The development of logic was a transition from intuitive survival to formal systems. Before we had what we now know of today as formal logic, we had pattern recognition.

[00:16:00]Evolution favored organisms that could make if then associations. Like the idea that if there's a fresh footprint, then a predator is probably nearby. Or if I eat this berry and get sick, then the berry is toxic. Those who couldn't process these inferences didn't survive in order to pass on their genes. Our brains evolved to be prediction engines.

[00:16:24]And then we developed more and more complex systems of logic to help us better understand and navigate the physical world we live in. Neither of these things, logic or the physical world, require a god in order for them to work the way they do. Let me show you what I mean. Take morality for instance.

[00:16:42]Obviously, atheists try to be moral creatures. I'm not suggesting that you have to believe in God in order to be moral. What I'm saying is an atheist cannot explain why anyone should be moral at all. Ah, yes, the moral argument. Yeah, because no apologist has ever hit us with a moral argument before. What a unique and novel notion that you've come up with, Brandon. I'll say the same thing to you that I say to all other apologists who insist that you can't have an objective morality without God. One, yes, you can. But more importantly, two, morality isn't objective anyway. All morality is subjective. If morality was objective, like math or physics, we would expect to see a gradual convergence towards moral truths as humanity advances. Instead, we see persistent fundamental disagreement.

[00:17:41]What's considered a moral virtue in one culture, such as, say, honor killings or ritual sacrifice, is seen as a moral atrocity in most others. Moral truths shift over time. Concepts like slavery, which were once defended as morally acceptable or even divinely ordained by major civilizations, are now almost universally condemned. And that's not because of religious influence. Most of the time, religion allows for slavery.

[00:18:09]This suggests morality is a social contract that updates as society changes. From a biological perspective, we call morality is actually a set of pro-social behaviors that evolved to help our ancestors survive in groups.

[00:18:23]Cooperation, empathy, and fairness aren't transcendental truths bestowed upon us from literally on high. They're survival strategies. Animals that cooperated survived better than those that didn't. As philosopher David Hume argued, you cannot derive an ought from an is. Science tells us how the world is. It's descriptive, but it can't tell us how it should be. It's not prescriptive. And it can't do that without an underlying subjective goal like survival or well-being. And because all moral pronouncements and perspectives are rooted in a subjective goal like survival or well-being or human flourishing or respect for what are perceived as inalienable right or social cohesion, then the moral edicts that stem from those subjective goals, no matter how objectively they're applied to all people, are inherently subjective. And thus, all morality itself is inherently subjective. and none of it needs to have a god in order to set it. Furthermore, morality actually argues against the idea of a god because of the euthifer dilemma. If morality comes from a god, is it good because the god commands it? If so, then morality is arbitrary, subject to the god's whim and therefore subjective.

[00:19:45]But if God commands it because it's already good, then goodness exists independently of God. And we're back to square one trying to find where goodness comes from. So if morality comes from God, then there's no actual objective good. And if there is an actual objective good, then it can't come from a God. You see, the atheist has to steal from a Christian worldview [music] in order to even say that's wrong or you shouldn't do that. There are no should statements or ought statements that can flow naturally [music] out of atheism.

[00:20:21]>> Well, allow me to retort.

[00:20:24]>> First, let's deal with this pervasive and frankly idiotic notion that for atheists to be what is considered moral in modern day, we have to steal from Christianity. as if modern concepts of morality were all birthed in Christian ideology.

[00:20:40]News flash, Brandon. Literally everything that you view as moral behavior and belief, all of which you think comes from Christianity, it all predates the formation of the Christian religion. And Christianity in fact stole it all from other philosophies.

[00:20:57]The foundational principles of morality which are empathy, justice, social cooperation, things like that, they all predate the religion of Christianity by thousands of years. The development of modern morality can be traced through three distinct layers. Biological evolution, ancient legal codes, and classical philosophy.

[00:21:18]First, biological evolution informing our psychology. Before humans even developed language or religion, morality existed as a biological necessity.

[00:21:29]Evolution favored early humans who cooperated with each other. I'll help you, you help me. Because individual humans couldn't do much on their own and needed to work in groups in order to thrive. That kind of cooperation isn't a religious command. It's a survival strategy. Observations of chimpanzees and bonobos show that they exhibit fairness, consolation, and conflict resolution. Since these traits exist in our common ancestors, moral behavior likely existed millions of years before any organized religion ever came about.

[00:22:04]Second, ancient legal codes. Thousands of years before the New Testament, there were complex civilizations developing written moral and legal frameworks to maintain order within their societies.

[00:22:16]Ancient Egypt back in 2400 B.CE had the concept of maat representing truth, balance, and justice. Egyptians followed 42 declarations of purity that included things like I have not stolen and I have not told lies that mirror later commandments that would come about in Christianity.

[00:22:38]Also, the very famous code of Hammurabi that comes from Babylon 1750 B.CE. This is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length. It established the principle of lexianis an eye for an eye and it provided protection for the weak such as widows and orphans.

[00:22:57]So that all existed long before Christianity came about and Christianity took its cues from these moral systems that existed before it.

[00:23:07]Then classical philosophy. Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers developed robust moral systems based on reason rather than divine command. Aristotle in the 4th century B.C.E. developed his Nikomian ethics. Aristotle argued that morality is about cultivating virtues like courage, temperance, and justice to achieve human flourishing.

[00:23:30]Also, there was epicurionism and stoicism. These schools taught that morality was a path to a tranquil life.

[00:23:36]Stoics in particular believed in a universal law of reason that applied to all humans regardless of their personal religion or local gods. So sorry Brandon, but despite what your pastor may have told you, and you had no cause to doubt since you probably slept through everything in your history classes and it was all nerd beta male stuff anyway, but everyone was not just running around lawless and hedonistic and immoral wretches until Jesus and Christianity came along to temper the sinning masses.

[00:24:06]Then as far as the no justification for morality under atheism goes, well, a better way of putting it would be secularism rather than atheism. Or basically saying, can we explain morality without appealing to a god? And absolutely we can. It was the first of the three things that led to moral development pre-Christianity that I just got done explaining. Evolutionary biology. Evolutionary biology provides a purely secular or atheistic explanation for how complex moral behaviors and intricate biological systems emerge without need of a designer. It treats life as a series of solved problems where the solution is simply whatever allowed an organism to survive long enough to reproduce.

[00:24:51]One of the biggest hurdles for early evolutionary theory was explaining altruism. Because why would an animal sacrifice its own safety for that of another?

[00:25:01]But biology answers this through the lens of the selfish gene. An individual may risk its life to save a relative because that relative shares its genes.

[00:25:11]By saving a sibling or cousin, the individual ensures the survival of their own genetic throughine. And as I mentioned earlier, there's reciprocal altruism that developed because of evolutionary biology. The notion of I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine.

[00:25:28]In social species like primates or wolves, individuals remember who helped them and who cheated them. This led to the evolution of fairness and gratitude.

[00:25:37]Fairness and gratitude to reward helpers and indignation or guilt to punish or prevent cheating. Groups that cooperated and looked after the weak members of their tribe often outco competed groups who were based purely on selfish individuals. This created a biological pressure for tribe loyalty and collective ethics.

[00:25:57]Now, I know, I know all this sciency talk, this is all nerd [ __ ] Why can't we just say God did it and move on?

[00:26:05]Well, because God didn't do it. Even if God exists, which I don't believe he does, evolution is still the proven way that humans developed empathy. And from that flowed morality, and from that flowed everything that we have today in regards to ethics and laws. Much like how the Bible was conclusively wrong about humans coming about through a magic spell in Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the Bible was also wrong about how morality developed as it didn't come from God's decree and wasn't magically written onto our hearts. The real and proven answer to both questions, human existence and morality, is the same.

[00:26:45]evolution.

[00:26:47]I mean, think about it. If we're all just random particles bouncing through a random [music] universe that has zero rhyme, zero purpose, then why does anything matter? Not all atheists are nihilists. Brandon, this is another core misconception apologists regularly have about atheists. Not believing in God does not automatically lead one to not believe that anything matters.

[00:27:12]Why does anything matter to me as an atheist?

[00:27:15]Because it does. Life matters to me.

[00:27:18]Because I like life and I want to live it. Why does morality matter to me?

[00:27:24]Because I have a functioning sense of empathy and I want to hold and hold to a moral framework. Why does humanity and human flourishing matter to me? Because I like humans and I want us to get along happily and healthily.

[00:27:38]Ultimately, the answer to any question of why things matter to me as an atheist is simply because I want them to. And the dirty little secret is that that's not a far cry from the ultimate reason that anything matters to most Christians as well. Because let's flip that same line of questioning over to you. So, why does life matter to you as a Christian?

[00:28:01]Oh, I'm sure common answers might be things like because God has a plan for me and I'm on a path that he wants me to walk and so on and so forth. But no, dig a little deeper. I mean, why does God's plan matter to you? Why does God's path matter to you? Why does following God's supposed moral edicts matter to you? Why does holding to the Ten Commandments matter to you? Why does God herself matter to you?

[00:28:29]And let's be real, it's because you want to go to heaven when you die, right?

[00:28:34]Because if you don't obey God's commands, you'll burn in hell. So basically, this life, your path, God's plan, it only really matters because you want to get something out of it, right?

[00:28:47]How is that any better than an atheist believing things matter because they personally want them to? Frankly, the atheist position is more altruistic because the atheist isn't expecting to get any kind of an afterlife reward for anything that they do. They just act morally or with empathy because they want to. And I don't actually think all Christians are just self-interested in trying to get to heaven. I think most Christians are motivated by the same thing as atheists. empathy, care for others, care for humanity, and interest in life for life's own sake. I think we're all motivated to find meaning and purpose in life in the exact same ways.

[00:29:30]You just tell yourself that there wouldn't be any meaning or purpose to it all without God. And so, you've convinced yourself that there therefore must be a God. But atheists don't need a God to want to care about this life and the things in it. And an interesting thing is with many atheists being former believers, it isn't uncommon for people to recognize that belief in God is not necessary to continue to find meaning in the world, even if they once thought it was. But I want you to just think about it for a second. If culture is what drives or decides what's right or wrong, well, what happens when cultures shift?

[00:30:08]I mean, it wasn't really that long ago when slavery was not just accepted in the United States of America, but it was celebrated [music] and it was the law and it was completely normal to own another human being. But we all know slavery is not right. [music] Excuse me. The [ __ ] did you just say?

[00:30:31]The irony. The delicious, delicious irony.

[00:30:37]A Christian trying to use slavery as his chosen example of something that we know to be universally objectively not right.

[00:30:48][sighs and gasps] Slaves, be obedient to your human masters with fear and trembling in sincerity of heart as to Christ.

[00:30:55]Ephesians 6:5. Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, and do it not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord.

[00:31:08]Colossians 3:22.

[00:31:11]All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their master worthy of full respect, so that God's name and our teachings may not be slandered. 1 Timothy 6:1.

[00:31:22]Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, and not to steal from them, but to show them that they can be fully trusted. Titus 2:9.

[00:31:36]And of course, let us not forget Leviticus 25:44.

[00:31:41]Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you. From them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country and they will become your property. You can bequath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life.

[00:32:02]A Christian is going to sit there and tell me that slavery is objectively wrong after having insisted that atheists are fools because it says so in the Bible. The implication being that the Bible is always right and is wholly inherent.

[00:32:18]And then completely ignore the plethora of passages within his own holy book that condone, endorse, codify, excuse, and normalize slavery. Right down to saying, as it does in Exodus 21:21, "Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result. But they're not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two since the slave is their property.

[00:32:47]>> So you saying you going to whoop my black ass with a rod for as long as you like and as long as I get up after a day or two, we all good?

[00:32:54]>> Brandon, dude, your theology said that slavery is absolutely a-ok. Okay.

[00:33:01]But then shifting culture, changing with the times, evolving social norms and empathy-driven philosophies change the laws and ultimately change the mindset of the people within those societies, thereby showcasing the everchanging, impermanent, evolving, subjective, and ultimately not religion or god-derived nature of morality.

[00:33:26]And you're going to sit there and try to use that as an example that proves God and moreover Christianity whether to laugh or cry at your ignorance.

[00:33:37]>> Does it mean that right shifts from one point to another point [music] based on time or based on cultural shifts? I mean, can we really say the Nazi regime under Hitler was right? Because the overwhelming majority of Nazis thought that it was right, and it was what the culture had deemed as not only right, but good. Uh-oh, God went alert. Also, another fumble for the ignorant Christian apologist.

[00:34:12]Not the least of which because the Nazis were a thoroughly Christian movement.

[00:34:18]But let's ignore that for now. But also, Brandon, your historical ignorance is staggering.

[00:34:25]A, the Nazi party was obviously rejected by the vast majority of the rest of the world. And we aren't talking about back in ancient times where individual countries could be cultures and societies unto themselves. We're talking about the 20th century where most countries of the world and certainly within the European continent were highly interconnected and one cannot say that German culture and society was divorced entirely from the rest of Western society. Again, it was a Christian country with Christianity making up a major part of German culture and they shared that with basically all other Western countries.

[00:35:06]Then B, even within Germany itself, Nazism was never supported by the overwhelming majority in any statistically measurable way. At the peak of their popularity in 1932, the Nazis won 37.3% of the vote. While this did make them the largest single party, over 60% of Germans voted for other parties, such as socialist or communist parties. After rising to power, Hitler instituted massive efforts to punish and oppress disscent and free and fair elections were eliminated under the brutal control of the regime. So that whole Godwin example was terrible. But to the larger point, yes, if the overwhelming majority of a society considers something to be good and laudable, then within that society it's good and laudable. And if the overwhelming majority of a society considers something to be bad and wrong, then within that society, it's bad and wrong. I I don't even know why this is a point of contention. Of course, that's the way it is. Which is exactly why ancient Christian society considered slavery to be good and correct to engage in. It's only through a different moral lens that you can look at how a different culture practiced its conception of morality and judge it as wrong because you're using a different moral lens. One that was imposed upon you largely by the culture that you live in. And because you come from a modern American/Western culture and are viewing things through that moral lens, you view slavery as wrong. Despite the fact that your own theology has historically cemented itself in insisting that it's right, your time and place and culture dictate your moral lens. But if you'd been born 2,000 years ago a Christian in Jerusalem, you would almost certainly be engaging in slave owning unless you were yourself a slave or at the very least you'd be agreeable to the practice of slavery. It's utter foolishness. I mean, not only is it foolishness, there has never been an atheist that wasn't also a glaring hypocrite. What atheist do you know that walks around consistently living according to his worldview? I would argue that atheists are at least as consistent in living by their worldviews as any Christian who wears mixed fabric or eats shrimp. Or if those little bugaboos don't hit you that hard, how about as consistently as Christians who cheat on their spouses, get divorced, have premarital sex, lie, cheat, steal, covet, dodge calls from their parents, thereby not honoring their father and mother, take the Lord's name in vain, and occasionally skip church when they might miss kickoff of their favorite sports team. All humans are hypocrites at some point or other, and no one lives 100% consistently with their views of right and wrong. But oh, isn't it convenient that when a Christian regularly and even routinely fails to live up to their worldview, then it's just, "Oh, we're all sinners.

[00:38:16]Forgive them their trespasses."

[00:38:18]But when an atheist doesn't live up to their worldview, it's hypocrite, hypocrite. Oh, your entire philosophical position has utterly collapsed because you cannot live up to it 100% 24 hours a day, every day of your life. But when your ilk can't live up to your philosophy for more than a day or two, if even that, well, that's perfectly fine because apparently Christians aren't expected to live up to their worldview in order for it to be valid.

[00:38:47]And we atheists are the hypocrites in this equation. What do I mean, you ask?

[00:38:52]This is what I mean. If you go up to an atheist and you slap him in the mouth and you take his wallet, what's he going to do? He's going to yell. He's going to scream. Maybe he'll fight you. [music] He'll get angry. He'll call the police.

[00:39:04]Why? What was wrong with what I did? I thought that it was good to take your wallet. I wanted the money. After [music] all, don't you believe in the survival of the fittest?

[00:39:16][groaning and screaming] >> The amount of stupid you just said is astonishing. Brandon, let's start with that last line that you said. Survival of the fittest. It's not about who's the strongest and who can just do whatever they want. Survival of the fittest is not akin to might makes right. In nature, the strong often die out while the weak, who are also clever or efficient or can engage in cooperation with others of their species, tend to thrive. In biology, fitness is measured not by strength, but by one singular thing. How many of your genes pass on to the next generation?

[00:39:57]If a massive, powerful lion is too aggressive and gets killed in a fight before it can mate, its fitness is zero.

[00:40:05]If a small, timid bird manages to hide from predators and successfully raises five broods of chicks, its fitness is exceptionally high. The fittest is simply the one who fits the environment the best. And as I've already explained multiple times in this very video, humans thrived because we are cooperative and develop the idea of reciprocal altruism. That means that we are successful when we respect one another, not when we oppress one another. Some of the most successful species on Earth like ants and bees and us humans are physically unimpressive compared to other larger stronger predators.

[00:40:44]They didn't survive by conquering through individual strength. They survived through social coordination.

[00:40:50]A lone wolf might be stronger than a single human, but a group of humans using language and tools is fitter than the wolf. Evolution often selects for empathy, altruism, and communication because these traits allow a group to survive where an individual strong one would fail. So in furtherance of these notions of aiding one another and respecting one another as a survival and thriving strategy, we developed laws and codes of pro-social behaviors. Those laws and those pro-social cultural norms say that you cannot walk up to me and punch me in the face and steal my wallet. And if you really want me to stringently abide by the idea of survival of the fittest, then when you do walk up to me and physically assault me and steal from me, I can have you arrested, incarcerated to the full extent that the law allows, and wave at you from your prison cell while I'm breathing the sweet air of freedom. I'll be downright fit as a fiddle.

[00:41:49]Also, it should go without saying that being an atheist does not mean that one subscribes to lawlessness or hedonistic mindsets. of do whatever the hell that you want. I don't believe in a god. I do believe in being a functioning member of society complete with the social responsibilities that that entails. I do believe in adhering to a moral framework that's rooted in empathy and filtered through a culturally imposed lens. I do believe in the biological necessity of cooperation and collaboration between humans as a survival trait. And I do believe that you do not need a God to be a decent person. And also that many a complete [ __ ] justify their dick-headedness through their belief in God and their notion that God hates all the same people that they hate, even if they call that hate Christian love.

[00:42:41]>> You are full of hate and loathing. And I got to tell you, I love it.

[00:42:44]>> And that's about all I can take of Brandon Poor for today. It's pretty clear he wasn't working from a script or structured talking points. I mean, that's got to be more of that nerd [ __ ] because he rambled quite a bit, just reiterating the same [ __ ] points over and over again throughout his video. And what were those points? Well, they were largely complete misunderstandings of atheism, which I should have seen coming right from the start when he referred to atheism as a worldview, which of course atheism isn't. Worldviews have claims, edicts, beliefs, etc. Atheism does not. Atheism is the lack of religious claims, edicts, or beliefs. One cannot make a worldview out of a lack of things that comprise a worldview. That would be like saying you made a brick house out of no bricks. He insisted that morality has to be objective and thus must come from a god.

[00:43:38]Even though objective morality wouldn't be able to come from a god, as any god-derived morality would be arbitrary, per the Uifro dilemma, and then tried to use slavery as an example of objectively immoral things, the knowledge of which must flow from his Christian God, even though his Christian god explicitly condones morality in his supposedly inherent holy book. You know, it did give me to wonder if he even knows about that, all the pro-slavery stuff in the Bible. Given the ridiculous amount of times I've seen Christian proilitizers absolutely bulk when confronted with the reality of the Bible's endorsement of owning people as property, many a Christian literally have no idea that that happens over and over and over again within its pages. Well, largely because most Christians don't bother to read their own holy book. Or at least in Brennan's case, read any modern history book either, as his argument regarding the popularity of the Nazis was about as historically accurate as his Bible is scientifically accurate, which is to say, not at all. He insisted that all atheists are nihilists and don't believe in anything, but then insisted that all atheists do believe in survival of the fittest. I mean, get your accusation straight, pal. Which is it? Do we believe in things or don't we? But then also completely bastardized what survival of the fittest even means and relegated it down to just big man with muscles can do whatever him like. Oh, and he's delusional enough to think that people in general are rejecting atheism even as atheism grows larger than it ever has been before. and deluded enough to think that his theology makes obvious sense, even as Christianity is hemorrhaging parishioners at a greater rate than it ever has before. I feel like we're only a decade or two away from people like Brennan looking around the empty pews of his failing church, the dwindling crowds at his apologist speaking engagements, which also will be increasingly fewer and farther between, and wondering just what the hell happened. When did Christianity tank so hard? even though it was always happening throughout his entire life, he just had his head shoved too far up his evangelical ass to notice it. So, that is where we'll end things for today. So, thanks for watching everyone. Don't forget to like this video, comment, and subscribe so you'll always be notified when a new video comes out. Check me out on Twitter, Blue Sky, and Patreon if you'd like to support my work directly.

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