An atheist debate and a response
Todd Friel debates Dan Barker over the existence of God. Watch this 4 min segment and get a taste of the debate that took place. A full debate is available in audio below the video.
Note: If you choose to listen to the podcast, keep a barf bag handy.
A rational response:
Note: If you choose to listen to the podcast, keep a barf bag handy.
A rational response:
Comments
I've seen those guys use that same little trick on their website. You can watch videos of the same guy, and Kirk Cameron, witnessing to people in the street.
They pull that same "liar, thief, adulterer at heart" line out every time.
It seems the average person is dumbstruck by it, whether they take it onboard or not. It's really frustrating when their lack of experience doesn't allow them to hit back with the obvious come backs.
It's like watching someone be mentally victimised in front of your eyes with nothing you can do to stop it.
It was refreshing to see that Dan wouldn't let them have it all their way this time.
So they just had to try and stumble on through it all and then cut him off... all the while making fun of him.
I think even their own listeners, with any sense of fairness, will see who really came off looking worse out of that.
They'll brush it off easily enough though.
He actually refers to his technique as 'bypassing the intellect'.
You've got to admire his honesty!
He certainly does catch people off guard with his questions. You can see why the technique is successful.
But it isn't just the intellect that gets bypassed. Comfort conveniently ignores the most important question - the one on which his, and every other ministry depends: 'Is the bible actually true?'
Ah!, there's the rub!
If he's intent on bypassing the intellect, then my first objective would be to get him back on the right road.
There was even an ad for a board game that would teach people the "truth" about Intelligent Design...so it's still all sell, sell, sell, isn't it?
What he doesn't mention is that the bananas we buy in the shops have been specially bred (you could call it artificial evolution), and that wild bananas are much rounder and full of big seeds.
Even better though is when he rings up several airlines asking if he can take an orangutan with him on a plane (in the cabin). When he is told that he can't, he expresses his astonishment that they won't allow SOMEONE OF THE SAME SPECIES AS US on board.
Then he and Kirk take an actual orangutan (he's called Charlie if I remember correctly) to a 'restaurant', which obviously had no qualms about letting Charlie in. (I would have admitted Charlie and barred Ray and Kirk myself).
Sitting at a table in the studio, sorry, 'restaurant', Ray and Kirk then start expressing their amazement at Charlie's naughty antics - 'Look, he's grabbing the table cloth!' etc.
'How could he possibly be related to us!'
Actually Ray and Kirk, watching you only confirms it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yArPNtiQDcM
'Behold, the atheist's nightmare!...
...it's even curved towards the face!'
What an amazing compassionate and merciful God! What kind of God would punish me for what my great-grandfather did.
This guy stops short of the evil side of God. I wonder why he never finished out the paragraph that includes this verse.
Hmmmm. Dumb ass
Two things this doesn't explain
1. Oranges, which can be hard to peel AND frequently squirt you in the face (did God not create those?)
2. How banana's can be from God because of the way they fit in your hand and your mouth, but how oral sex between two consenting gay adult males is from the devil...
The tactic is incredibely unfair because they're making counter-arguments that the speaker cannot argue against. For all the viewers know, he had perfectly good rebuttals that he didn't get to use.
Post a Comment