How not to address an argument | Michael Knowles | Casually Debunked
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If you can’t attack the argument, you attack the character of the speaker. It’s ironic he is calling Hutchins juvenile.
It's all they ever have, that condescending sneer is at least one thing all religious people have no matter what the cult.
who the fuck is Hutchins?
@@JoeyP946 hmm have you ever seen a typo before? If not, a typo is when someone mistypes on their keyboard. It happens, and if you do not know who is being referred to by the typo of “Hutchins” then you may need to think a little bit more.
@@writerblocks9553 you have literally perfect grammar in your whole comment except for the name, which is arguably the most important thing to spell correctly.
You funny.
@@JoeyP946 Love that you grammer nazzis is always on the bawl.
Knowles making bad arguments and not listening to the ones made by others... SHONKING sir... shonking indeded
I, for one, am SHONKED! 😂
I drank some of your whiskey
Truly shonking behavior
Sir Siiiiiiiiiic🎵🎸
Hell yeah.
It's tragic that Hitch didn't live long enough to debate these Daily Wire clowns. He would have had a good laugh.
They aren't open to discourse outside of Shapiro and now Peterson, however they have both been made an example out of by Harris and won't debate him anymore. Its much better marketing to have their underlings like Matt Walsh and Knowles go out and debate with 19 year olds at college campuses.
They don't debate honestly.
They Gish Gallop over and over and over and then deflect and go WAY out of their way to avoid answering the actual questions.
You cannot debate that because it is not an honest conversation.
He didn't have to live long enough to debate them. He Hitch slapped them from the grave.
If presented with any of these two-bit performers, Hitchens would likely default to his response to nutjobs who ask questions from the audience: "You're wasting your time. You can speak, but I'm not responding to you. Once you finish talking, it's all over."
The skin would melt off Michael’s face if he saw Hitch in person.
The greatest trick Knowles ever pulled was convincing people that he's addressing other people's arguments.
I understood that reference.
@@GameTimeWhyThis version is totally superior. I WISH I lived in a world where most people didn't believe in the devil or everything else implied with his existence.
What time period was this person talking about, pre-Judaism when YHWH was still just a Canaanite Metallurgy God? Is that when the devil pulled off this trick? SMH.
@@AGNOSTIC_incomprehensibleXIV what does this have to do with what i wrote? Can you explain?
Basically every reactionary influencer does it. Knowles doesn't even have the honour of being slightly unique in his idiocy and dishonesty; and many people have their recommendations filled with this junk.
@@GameTimeWhy Nope. TH-cam has just forbidden me from explaining anything. I'm on your side and I wish you well. That's apparently all I can say before I work on getting a LAWYER tomorrow morning to sue these corporate, gaslighting bullies who I guess have targeted me for being Black since they refuse to explain themselves. I hope you have a nice life. Down with RACIST, CORRUPT TH-cam.
I'm glad Hitchens has people like you standing up for him. Keep doing what you're doing.
Knowles is like a really square 13 year old
PTSD from his days as a gay porn star...well, day. And bit player.
Michael Knowles couldn’t even hope to tie Christopher Hitchens shoes
Though I may not agree with every belief of yours, when it comes to religion, you are not one of, but THE GOAT! Keep up the good work!
Every time someone talks about something meta physical. Keep in mind that meta physical doesn't exist.
It should be titled "Michael Knowles debates dead intellectual and loses"
Thanks my friend. Always well presented.
Some apologists attempt to excuse the depicted event with the bears as if it should be read as a wicked youth gang with mischievous even evil intentions approaching Elisha, spite it literally spells out little children teasing him for his alopecia. Furthermore they tend to address the problem with it not being described as an immediate act of god, which raises the question why the part was required to be in there in the first place.
Thank you for doing this 🙏👏
to be fair, 4:08 table shows survey among „greater“ scientists (sorry einstein) while second table at 4:12 doesn´t mention scientists at all..
Great show!
I like being referred to as a a fellow ape, but not sure the librarian would appreciate it.
Micheal K: Attack the person because you are so bombed out by the logic that you have NO answer…. FAIL
Michael Spicer is at the other end of Michael Knowles' ear piece.
Illiteracy is the highest virtue of the religious.
Great job man!
Hitch would be proud.
I doubt it.
At the end of the day, we just want Christians (and other religious people) to say is something like: 'there are some problematic sections and verses of our Holy text. But I don't take it in wholly and I interpret it in a way which I believe is positive and sacred, leading me to a better life.'
Something closer to a fruitful discussion can be had from there.
The anti-superstitious argument from non-theists is stupid btw, in my opinion.
That Shapiro clip killed me 😂
@ 4:00 🤔 "an edgy 13yo?" So he's saying that he can't refute an edgy online 13yo? 😂😂
And "only adults can understand his religion"?
Doesn't he Actually mean, "Only adults that have one of two issues, attempt to embrace his religion"?😏
1. Those that are near to (and fear) death
OR
2. Those that have been indoctrinated and/or lack critical thinking skills,
I'm just curious, is THAT what he's stating?
I'm asking for a friend😉🤣🤣🤣
Michael casually admitting that even edgy 13 year olds are smart enough to come to these conclusions, while he, the fully grown adult is still grappling with them. A hilarious self own.
I believe the joke is "The fool hath said that there is no God!
Well if even the fool understands it, why don't you?"
The annoying thing is that christian cretins post psalm 14.1 on the _internet!_
The rest of the psalm states that _everything_ Atheists do is corrupt, and that includes the internet, so them posting the verse _and_ using the internet to do so makes them massive hypocrites.
Oh, that's good 😂
Michael Knowles is not even the worst of the Daily Wire crew, which is sort of amazing
He's a strong runner up tho
Ironically he is also the handsomest. He looks like a male (gay) actor.
@@hanifarroisimukhlis5989 , And Ben sounded like a squealer getting it doggie style.
(Or, maybe the Lucky Pierre?)
That's why they have Candace Owens. It's better to have a black woman as top bigot.
The Wail-y Dire all offer a clear view into the American conservative mind.
Michael Knowles is so smart, educated and handsome. Any criticism towards his arguments is outta pure envy.
-His Mom
😂
@@MarcoS-yp9qf You don't understand what a pun is. It's not just a synonym for joke. This joke was not a pun.
NGL you had me going there for a sec. 😂
Pure theater kid, acting like a redpilled tradcath.
What, about half these posts make sense.
"When I was a child I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things." You know, like religion.
I don't know how many times this came to my mind during my deconstruction, but it was many.
So then you must know how important religion was to human evolution. Or are you too “enlightened” as an atheist to recognize the low birth rates, depression, and nihilism that permeate throughout the atheistic world?
@@pewtercamaro You are right. We have evolved. Some day, people may have no need for religion like Christianity. If we want to survive we'll probably need to discard it for something more useful, like the truth.
It was a handy way to scare people into actually working together and essentially forming particularly large tribes, sure, but it just has no beneficial place in the modern age. All it does is make people hate and judge each other nonstop, especially since literally every abrahamic religion emphasizes that everyone's innately a terrible human being and a sinner from the getgo, which is incredibly damaging to things like self esteem and mental health as a whole.@@pewtercamaro
@@pewtercamaro
What atheist worldview! When the world suffered with birthrates, depression and nihilism, the superstitious views were rampant and global. The only atheist worldview were the Christians who choose to reject the Roman gods for an improvised, faceless, omnigod.
The moment global suffering, decease and needless death and rejection of nihilism all decreased drastically was when the Church lost their literal athority over the sciences and what were allowed and not allowed to say and research and question, when they lost the athority to arrest freethinkers and those they didn't respect or agree with. That's when the *secular* worldview was free to develop and grow. All people lived, healthier and longer average lifespans as the generations passed and universal knowledge became common as opposed to sparse under religious theocratic rule. The world developed and people found that they could have profound meaning to their lives and in others lives without any arbitrary need to believe or follow an authoritarian higher power. Well being and moral discussion and growth was flourishing greatly when freed from living under the religious shadow. Miraculous feats and event were explained accurately and with predictive success one after another. Clear thought was replacing clouded superstitious thought.
But religious beliefs hang on throughout the decades regardless out of tradition and habit. As aswell for being a successful economic triangle scheme that paid their way into the future of modern day and to hide kiddie fiddling from the law alongside many dedicated years of tax evasion.
So it's not clear what you think you're getting at, you're just coming off very lost in what you think you're talking about as opposed to what you would have talked about were you at all experienced with the subject over piecing partial bits of information incoherently together and just assuming you got it all right..🤷♂️
I'll engage in an ad hominem.
100 years from now, people will still be reading and discussing Christopher Hitchens, while Michael Knowles' entire existence will have disappeared like a fart in the wind.
Lol I love this
Knowles calling Hitchens a 13 year old is absolutely hilarious. Projecting much?
Experiencing a moment of recognition, I find it unsettling to realize that not too long ago I could have been swayed by Michael Knowles' argument without recognizing the logical fallacies present. Back then, I lacked an understanding of these fallacies, making them seem convincing and genuine. Particularly, his concluding presuppositionalist argument would have left an impact.
I extend my gratitude to educators like you who have illuminated the path of skepticism and rational thinking. Your endeavors are genuinely appreciated.
It's really scary once you realize how we really are not born with logical thinking and we need to learn things that afterwards seem obvious.
Hitch would have eloquently "slapped" this ego theist into next month if he were still here.
The more we learn about how these texts were compiled over the centuries, the more exhausting it becomes to deal with people who axiomatically refer and defer to them.
👏 👏 👏 Very Well said 👍🙂
Even the supposed historical events, people and places we are finding out are not true. Nothing in reality supports what the bible says happened.
Have you seen the Codex Sinaiticus online? Every page is beautifully reproduced with translations in several languages. And it has a search function. Look for the end of Mark, then look for John 8:1 to 8:11. (So much for the "unchanging" word!)
Yes, it is a tiring and repetitive argument. The amount of evidence against the bible being reliable that we need to hold their hand through is very time consuming.
I would pay good money to watch Hitchens wipe the floor with this guy
No amount of money can make that happen.
@:/
@ AI has entered the chat.
He is in hell, he can call in from there.
@@gsp3428yeah, because hell is real 😅. Thanks for the laugh.
6:52 He's clearly not a physicist, computer scientist, or mathematician. Anyone familiar with electric circuits knows that even subatomic particles can engage in logic. Combine that with pattern recognition in observation of the physical world (which helps to set the appropriate axioms) and you have the basis of logic, mathematics, and all other knowledge.
I can see how Michael's argument would appeal to teenagers. 😂
Teenagers from a certain decade anyway
Yes, teenagers are notorious for being devoutly religious
spot in
@@johnnybaxter1953 I think the point the OP is making is that the argument is juvenile. However, even as a little kid, I could see that christianity was obviously bollocks.
Now, decades later, the nonsense squawked by the religious just sounds beyond infantile.
@@pineapplepenumbra Everyone worships something. Better to worship a benevolent creator than your iphone or television, or worse yet - yourself. People seem to indulge in that now more than ever
How is this person not embarrassed to go on camera thinking he can debunk Hitchens armed with nothing but ignorance and arrogance?
Does he not have a single person in his entire team to just nudge him and let him know that he's making a fool out of himself?
As long as he keeps making money he will continue being an idiot.
His viewers will eat this up
If you understand The Daily Wire viewers he curates his content to please, you realize there’s no embarrassment necessary.
Beautifully said: "Divine dictatorship."
"the suicide bombing community is entirely faith based." - Christopher hitchens.
wait until you find out who spent lots of money convincing religious people that their text actually supports suicide bombing in a great reversal of the original readings. Ghost Wars, by Steve Coll was a fun read on that one.
Why would suicide bombing be any more morally indefensible than conventional bombing? Both are just as abhorrent as each other yet the former is treated as somehow worse. The only difference is that the bomber gives their own life up in the process, but we have largely convinced ourselves that long-ranged conventional bombing is somehow more morally righteous.
Also that's not even true, off the top of my head I can think of one non-faith based group who engaged in suicide bombing, the PFLP who did so against the state of Israel, and they are a largely secular and atheistic group.
@@emiloguechoons9030 I'm not sure who has convinced whom of this moral hierarchy, but I certainly disagree. Besides - even if it was true, you would be missing Christopher's point: Take away religion and you will also take away suicide bombers. Those people would not become long-range bombers instead. A moral comparison is irrelevant.
It is hilarious when he tries to cite Hitchens as immature. It's through maturity and reasoning that people leave religion behind. It is the ever present, ever pervasive projecting of the right wing calling everyone else what they are that leads to their massive hypocrisy. 😊
On Michael's video, you'll see an endless flow of comments of people describing how they reverted to their faith after having been misled by Christopher, and the shame and embarrassment they felt for having been misled as such - but not a single coherent take on any charge that Christopher actually made against religion.
His catalogue of debates against religious leaders is enormous, and you only need watch them for yourself to see how when the ministers of religion finally meet a fearless spirit, and someone who understands their crappy texts better than they do, they're forced very quickly to either evade, lie, or fold.
Christopher single-handedly exposed and exploded religious mythology once and for all time. He never shielded himself away from criticism, never looked for compromise, never allowed a poor argument to remain uncontested, and never lost a debate on religion. If someone can't cope with these facts, it's not my problem.
Been a Hitchens fan for a few years now and read most of his work. Truly a remarkable brain and an absolute gift to us all.
Lolz ok bro. Hitchens was practically a commie. “That wasn’t real socialism bro!!” Dude never escaped his teenage anarchy phase. Thank god he’s gone. Worlds a better place.
@pewtercamaro lololololol, oh your serious. Dude get help !!
@@pewtercamaro I doubt if you even know what a Communist is.
"Dude never escaped his teenage anarchy phase. Thank god he’s gone"
*Oh the IRONY!*
@@pineapplepenumbra i bet you call everyone right of Marx a nazi
@@pewtercamaro "i bet you call everyone right of Marx a nazi"
That's not only a bet that only an idiot would make, but sounds suspiciously like the post of someone prone to making logically fallacious arguments.
Christopher Hitchens is so enjoyable to watch & listen to. I watch him every now and then just like I watch a movie I've seen often but watch it again. 10 years gone and he is still leading the charge. He is sorely missed.
5:16 According to Knowles, it's as if Jesus was just saying shit to be edgy, like a 13-year-old.
It's so cringe watching someone use childish reasoning not long after accusing Hitch of sounding like a 13 year old. All Mikey did was make assertions.
1 and a half mins in and Michael Knowles trying to look learned and intelligent while listening to Mr Hitchens is cracking me up. I didnt expect this to get so funny so early.. anyhoo, on with the rest of the video..
I don't understand how anyone takes him seriously.
10:05 Ben Shapiro moaning was not something I needed to hear
Michael Knowles accusing Hitch of unsophisticated thought is one of the most hilarious things I've ever heard.
I was once told by a Christian that I was not 'theologically qualified' to criticise Christianity. And yet without one single reading of the Koran he was quite happy to criticise Islam
So do Muslims about Christianity.
I was a Christian until I was about 15, I’m a homosexual, I’ll criticise their religion all I desire.
@@CeruleanSword Criticism is being feared by those who have something to hide. Criticism is in its base healthy.
Aside from the ridiculous Daily Wire shenanigans that you debunk (Which I love). I just wanted to mention that I am incredibly grateful to you and the current age atheists like Alex O'Conner and Forrest Valkai. You are overwhelmingly under-appreciated. Through your vids I have learned alot along with my own research into philosophy and theology. So, thank you Stephen!
@fediken83no, hitch is way better than Dawkins now, Dawks has fallen far
@fediken83 it’s a scientific fact that gender is different to biological sex (and has been since at least the 50s) - Hitch would have been able to see that easily from just a few examples like CAIS. He’d have seen through the ad-hom tactic of calling it ideology
@fediken83 Dawkins hasn't kept up more like. Forrest has only presented historical facts with gender and sex.
Does something become "ideological" once it conflicts with your views? Because that sounds like cognitive dissonance to me and something you should work on.
@@HistoritorJimaldusWell said
@fediken83 CAIS isn’t ‘conjecture’ - gender being different from sex isn’t conjecture - people wanting to change gender and successfully doing so isn’t conjecture. ‘Psychological analysis’ doesn’t even come into it at that stage
Imagine Hitch in this insane age of Trump and endless Grifters
Hitch participated in reality , theists dont.
to be fair, jesus didn't actually write anything down, and it's argued over how long after he died that anyone thought "gosh, that thing, what was it jesus said? i must write that down, when it comes back to me" no one has a clue what jesus might have said.
There also is no real evidence Jesus even existed. The Romans sure failed to notice him. The evidence for Jesus’s existence is just as valid as that for the existence of Mithras, Romulus, Dionysus or Osiris.
❝ It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; from the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.❞
- Thomas Paine (American political activist, 18th century)
Its sad that a dead Hitchens still beats the apologist. Hitchens wasn't a messiah, he wasn't a god we all follow out of blind allegiance. He was a man who simply called a spade a spade, and called out bs when he saw it. I often disagreed with Hitchens, but I respected his experiences and his genuine desire to follow the truth. With religion, though, he was a hundred percent spot on.
Thanks so much for helping me learn skills of logic and skepticism
I find it funny when Christians get upset about RR "strawmanning" and then immediately go into ad hominem and strawman.
On the last video I commented that it's insulting that he thinks he's even on the same level as Hitchens. Then somebody replied that it's insulting he thinks he's on the same level of an average human being. I agree.
Thats called pleading to authority.
Please do more take downs on Michael Knowles, it’s my favourite
I really love it when Hitchens tells religious people that they are holding an empty sack. It’s the most vivid analogy for religion ever.
"he talks like a 13 year old, that is weak sauce"
When Knowles say “Christianity isn’t a pacifist religion, that’s true” he isn’t agreeing with Hitchens that bad things are caused by it. He’s saying that pacifism is bad.
So religion doesn't cause people to do bad things, because when religion cause people to do those things, then they aren't "bad" anymore.
When Knowles says: Chrstnty isn't a pacifist religion, what Knowles means is: Chrstnty isn't a pacifist religion.
I don't why you decided to assume Knowles meant to say something he didn't say.
@@jackalsgate1146 Christianity is what Christians make it. The point is that Knowles, as a Christian Nationalist, is not ceding anything to Hitchens when he acknowledges that Christianity isn’t pacifistic. This isn’t a problem for him, it’s a plus.
@@Jd-808
You -
Chrstnty is what Chtstns make it.
Response -
Lmfao . . you got that right and it certainly ain't pacifism.
daily wire is just soooo frustrating. Stay strong everyone.
I'm perfectly happy for Knowles to cite the frequently debunked Presuppositionalist stance that logic/language/etc are evidence of sonething divine: it just shows how weak his case was from the outset.
Knowles is an intellectual mite.
I intended to give this comment a thumbs up, but then I hit 'more', and read your line about Knowels' 'intellectual mite'! I gave this the ole 'sensible chuckle' I'd never heard this quip before. Nice!
@@jazzfan999 tbh, "mite" wasn't the thing I typed first. I had "amoeba" & then "bacterium", but I kept seeing them as having redeemable qualities. I gave up on the perfect analogy & went with "mite".
Isn't it a bit condescending to retrospectively say that your Jesus fella didn't mean the words he used? "Jesus didn't tell ppl to give up fanily and everything to follow him." Oh? Then why use the book which clearly says he did then??
They will still maintain it’s giving people free will. Like when a robber holds a gun against your head and says: “Your money ore your life” you have a choice.
Not one jot or tittle shall change; honour your father and mother; You better hate your family or else. Hmm, no contradictions.
I mean this is like picking on a child, but it sure is fun!! what a clown lol
This is not a cat video.
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You love easy
@@matimus100and? Maybe you prefer loving it hard? Different strokes for different folks.
@@matimus100 Ah, but so true ;-) Goodnght matie!
Michael's body language is his worst enemy, like with all religion pushers you can spot they're only parroting and know themselves that they're on very soft shakey ground and just hoping they'll pull it off again.
Very well done, again.
An ancient proverb says: „after listening to Knowles, I know less“. I believe this is quite accurate even in today’s times…
Great video as always!
Religion should never have been constitutionally protected.
It inflicts injustice on society legally.
It is pure dissonance.
The concept that an all powerful god needs the help of the founding fathers is moronic.
Would you be able (and willing) to point out fallacies in the statements that Forrest Valkai makes on your channel? If not, why not? Would you deny that his statements are quite rich of ad hominems, strawmans and other fallacies? Are they not worth being pointed out? Do you prefer to turn a blind eye to fallacies that are made to support views that you tend to agree with? Would not that be a little bit hypocritical?
The apologetics he spews for his brand of nonsense is ok in his eyes.
Yet here you are on his channel.
@@gabenorman747 So? What does this have to do with my questions?
Michael Knowles can’t win an argument v a dead Hitch, imagine what the breathing version would do
Michael is a pygmy throwing stones at a giant!
A cowardly one at that, who waited until the giant was dead before daring to throw his stones
A Daily Wire pundit harping on about "sophistication" and adolescent edginess is hilarious.
Rationality Rules, Stephen! Excellent debunk of michael! Now, I got Debunked! But my Mom and sis won't play with me until we see it played! 👍💙💖🥰✌
Yet a man cannot be a woman or a woman cannot be a man. But hocus pocus, magical beings , oh yes that exists.
Finally ordered Debunked. My kids enjoy playing card games like this and I figure it's a fun way for them to learn how to detect bullshit 😊. I feel like I need it as well, growing up in a Christian home where critical thinking wasn't really taught or even encouraged, I want my kids better prepared for facing the world than I was (am).
Good luck. I don't know whether the game you bought will help, but I agree with your goals and wish you succes as well as fun with the game.
In Matthew 19, right after Jesus fails to convince a rich man to follow him by giving up everything he has, Peter wants to know what the disciples can expect in the World to Come from what they've sacrificed: 'Then Peter said in reply, “See, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?”' (Matthew 19:27). In Matthew 12, Jesus gives his explicit views on who he thinks should count as family when someone tells him his mother and brothers are waiting to see him: 'But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”' (Matthew 12:48-50). If context is considered, when Jesus told you to hate your family and your entire life, it's clear he meant pretty much what he said. What reason to apologists have for suggesting otherwise? I've heard the response Knowles parrots here so many times, without justification from a contextual, theological, or linguistic perspective. The only justification seems to be, 'BUT JESUS WAS JUST SO NICE, SO HE CAN'T HAVE MEANT THAT.' The late Hector Avalos has made the case that in Luke 14:26, the Greek worked used for 'hate' is 'miseo', and it's about as unambiguous as you can get.
I've read a quote attributed to Hitchens: "The mark of an independent mind is not what it thinks, but how." And that is perhaps the most fundamental difference between him and Michael Know Nothing. Even when I disagreed with Hitchens, I understood his line of reasoning, and could tell he came to his own conclusions regardless of what people close to him thought. Indeed, his own brother who disagreed with him on practically everything still acknowledged that tendency for independent thought. Knowles is a propagandist who parrots things he's heard from other propagandists, and unfortunately, people will still lap that up.
What a brilliant argument Michael made there: 'We have thoughts, therefore the supernatural exists.'
But, of course, it's atheists who are making arguments that appeal just to 13 year olds. What a laugh!
Hitch still ruffling feathers from beyond the grave.
It’s easy to take shots at dead men, they can’t answer back.
Weak. Sauce.
I’m pretty sure that the reason Knowles didn’t even try to debunk the “totalitarian dictatorship” argument, is that he actually likes that fact and doesn’t want to debunk it.
Let’s not forget that Knowles did a politic spectrum test and he was quite proud that he was put in the authoritarian quadrant.
Quality entertainment.
I feel like going after Michael Knowles is almost too easy. There must be some smarter delusional religious people that you can debunk.
0:16: 🎥 Michael attempts to debunk Christopher's objections to miracle claims and fails to address them adequately.
2:13: 💥 Christopher argues that the nefarious beliefs and practices associated with Abrahamic religion are inherent to religion itself, pointing to Jesus' teachings as examples.
4:03: 📚 The video discusses the misinterpretation of a Bible verse about abandoning family to follow Jesus.
6:22: 📖 The speaker discusses the issue of recognizing the evils in the Bible as calls to violence and oppression due to Divine command theory.
8:27: 🔍 The video discusses the points made in the course of Miracles and the argument about Christianity being a totalitarian dictatorship.
Recap by Tammy AI
@1 Jesus also said: "No one can come to the Father except through me." So you have to "hateth [.. ] his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also" What a killjoy! Ain't that lovely?
Nice bite sized destruction of terrible argumentation. For some reason I forgot about this channel for like 2 years due to TH-cam not showing me anything despite being subscribed. Glad to get this back in my life. Love your work RR.
How coward he is to attack a death man?, ignoring what it is in the bible is being blatantly dishonest, apologetics are so pathetic, someone, is ignoring something, Luke 19:27. King James Version, But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me, this is not a peaceful religion, it is intrinsically violent, can he scientifically proof that a metaphysical layer is real?
5:17 Where was the word abandoned uttered? It said "hate" and last I checked the word hate and abandon have different definitions.
Hating yourself and family IS bad, I'm just saying it's not the same as abandoning them.
Michel Knowles... More like Michel Know less.
Gottem Boys. If he wants a dialogue like a 13 year old, we can give him one.
I had an argument with my religious dad.
when i ask him how he's even know god is good his reply that this is a childish argument.
I'm was not a Christian, i was a religious jew.
those replies are common in Abrahamic religious indeed.
Christopher: quotes the bible to prove he's right.
A christian guy: you're behaving like a teen!
Great argument =D
Talk about a huge case of selective hearing, did he not even listen to most of Christopher Hitchens' arguments? He's criticizing these scriptures for the harm that they have caused on societies, and it's the rhetoric made in these scriptures that have influenced so many people throughout history and still in modern times to so easily harm and cause Misfortune on others including random strangers directly because of what these things that were said in these scriptures. He is a complete moron for saying Christopher Hitchens sounding like a ranty thirteen-year-old. If you watched enough of these recordings of Christopher Hitchens, you would have all the contacts you would need to know what point he is trying to get across and why.
Fun fact about me : I am an atheist yet my favor class to role play in D&D is a cleric (All kinds) almost like I view deities as fantasy and enjoy them in such settings
oh i learned something new today. this "gish gallop", i see right wing clowns using that technique all the time, ben shapiro most of all, but didn't know it had a name.
The only reason ol' Mikey here converted to Catholicism is because he finally found a well-paying grift after failing as an actor. Had he been successful in his first endeavor, he'd probably be partying it up with the rest of us "sinners".
Judging by his performance here he must’ve been a sh!tty actor.
everything knowles says is B.S. and i can smell it fromm here. i guess the supernatural is real. my bad
Michael Knowles is little but a sheltered catholic school boy. He projects to others that they are 13 but he looks and sounds like his mother still dresses him.
“WeAk SaUcE”
-Mike Knowles