The Amazing Atheist reviews God's Not Dead

[PickelledEggs]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFk83C2awyA

[Hydra009]

Uggh.  That argument that God is the basis of morality is such B.S.!  I mean, let's think really hard about this for a second:  gee,  why might a professor not allow his students to cheat?  Maybe because his job is to teach the class material (just as students are presumably there to learn it) and cheating obviously circumvents this process.  Boom!  Goals and rules to match them.  And not a god in sight, how strange!

Also, theistic morality is, in practice, a far cry from its advertised moral absolutism (which is fortunate for people who have had to shelter Jews and had to lie about it)  What's right and what's wrong varies from congregation to congregation, with both factions citing scripture as their support.  This is morality where sacrificing your son is fine one day and not the next.  Where "having a pray about it" changes policy.  This is not morality carved in stone.  This is as arbitrary as arbitrary comes.

Also, I'd challenge the idea that there has to be some external, metaphysical thing that we have to tie our morality to.  Either you're good without god or you're not.  In the first case, you're moral whether or not there's a god.  In the second case, you're basically a psychopath held in check only by belief in God and Hell.

[Shiranu]

I passionately dislike The Amazing Atheist, but I dislike the concept of that show even more. I will give it a check out in a bit.

[stromboli]

I passionately dislike The Amazing Atheist, but I dislike the concept of that show even more. I will give it a check out in a bit.

Yeah, I don't like him either. He is hard to watch.

[Hydra009]

I passionately dislike The Amazing Atheist

Eh, aside from the e-begging, he seems okay now.  For a while, it looked like he was cracking up (really melancholy and nasty), but he seems to have recovered from it.  Plus, it helps that he picks really easy targets to ridicule:  Sarah Palin, Justin Bieber, etc.

but I dislike the concept of that show even more. I will give it a check out in a bit.

It's Kevin Sorbo + this.  Fun fact:  he alleges that being Christian hurt his career.  That and not voting for Obama.  If only we came up with some sort of system where people could vote anonymously.  Like some sort of Australian ballot or something...

[PickelledEggs]

I can take Amazing Atheist in small doses. Sometimes his rants are flat out hilarious.

[wolf39us]

I actually watch his episodes as they come in.  He does a lot of advertising... but so do a lot of YouTubers.

He does make a living doing this so, he's got to pull in the money somehow.

[Shiranu]

It wasn't bad, kinda funny. My philosophy professor was a very devout Christian who wasn't afraid to share that in class yet didn't push it on anyone. The atheist professors I have had were also the same, though they didn't really bring it up. I don't think I have met a professor who was even remotely like the professor in this video, atheist or religious.

[rex]

I can't stand amazing atheist. The way he talks makes it unbearable.

[Sargon The Grape]

I can't stand amazing atheist. The way he talks makes it unbearable.

I can watch him in small doses.