Personal Experience with God = Evidence for God | Luke - St. Louis, MO | Atheist Experience 22.40
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- The Atheist Experience 22.40 October 7, 2018 with Matt Dillahunty and Phil Session.
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I ran out of toilet paper once, so I asked God to help me, I went looking around the house but couldn't find anything then eventually i found a Bible.
The pages were pretty rough, but thanks God.
Vladimir_Bone Spur_tRump
Hahaaaa yeah it's not good for much at all is it
Vladimir_Bone Spur_tRump
Not even real good for that, maybe if the cover is nice n thick.
Vladimir_Bone Spur_tRump
Thanks you just gave me an idea. :)
Vladimir_Bone Spur_tRump
The flying spaghetti monster will protect me :)
Robert Kelly
Really? is that why they're always on the ground.
"please reveal yourself to me, god"
Instead of revealing himself he's a jerk by making his car breakdown just so he can send an ambiguous messenger.
@Harvest Laborer why would I prove that when it's clearly the caller who believes this and not me? I didn't explicitly state this, but it is very easy to infer.
@Harvest Laborer He was being ironic.
Harvest Laborer its a joke/ irony to show the ridiculousness of the caller’s situation/ story.
Yet another mindless brainwashed, incoherent child (caller), showing their sadness in a public forum. These callers could be depressing if one were so inclined, especially after the freedom of being an atheist!
And god put juice in my battery ...................@@Multi1628
As an atheists, I have helped dozens of people, I have never met, without asking for anything in return. Now if God had used a lightning bolt, that would have been an impressive use of Thor's power.
god helps jumpstart this dude's car yet lets millions of people die from starvation, violence, sickness, disease etc...🤪
Hahahaha, ikr.
Because god is as mysterious as an 8-ball’s answers!
I know, seriously this is totally first world problems. We think more selfishly about how god is going to help us, when like a billion of people are literally suffering.
Danny Spitzer---didn't you know that god gave man free will.....and it is evil people that CONTROL who gets the food....and who doesn't....YOU WOULD THINK....that if god is almighty and powerful......and loved us.....HE WOULD STEP IN AND TAKE OVER.........but apparently i am wrong.....
Yeah, but that's god's plan. LOL.
My clock reads 11:11 twice a day. It's a miracle!!!
Mine only does once! Guess there are no miracles
24 hr digital clocks are the work of the devil.
John Wescott just the way we measure time here in Sweden. Since were fairly secular, were basically all doing the devils work, I guess.
+John Wescott .. yeah.. sorry to bust everyone's miracle celebrations here.. 11:11 is actually 671 minutes after midnight.. or 40,260 seconds after midnight.. not that impressive now, just like the guy's 111.1 miles which are really about 178.8 km..
"Western clocks hit it twice a day whereas most of the rest of the world will only see it once a day. Proof that Americans are God's Chosen People®!"
That’s wholly unremarkable. I had a guy come and help me change my tire 3 months ago. Didn’t pray for him to come by.
Was in a torrential downpour in the middle of nowhere last week. Didn’t have my phone either and my car wouldn’t start. Waited 5 minutes then it started. A week later the battery totally died.
Religious people put massive significance on seemingly trivial mundane details.
The best proof of god we ever hear are the most mundane happenings ever...
@kentonbaird878 so not proof of anything
Me: *sneezes
Stranger: God bless you
Me: OMG GOD IS REAL!!
Excellent summation of this call
What if the stranger had said, “Gautama buddha sent me to you bro... “
There's another explanation for the guy saying, "This is your blessing from God." He says it all the time, whenever he does some good turn for anyone. We all know people who, when you ask how they are, they say, "I'm blessed." It becomes almost a verbal tic.
or he took a chance that being stranded, he may have resorted to praying for God to send help, so he was just making a tongue in cheek reference. If he said "Luke, I am your blessing from God" without him telling him his name, that would have been freaky
I'll summarize the guy's story. His car battery died in a parking lot. A stranger drove up, pulled out some jumper cables, and started the guy's car. The guy says, thanks, to which the stranger replied, "No need to thank me, this is your blessing from god." . . . I get it. Just the other day I was like 'I haven't ever watched Buckaroo Bonzai' and then later than week, it was on Showtime. Therefore God. BOOM!!!! LOL
Sea Dog No matter where you go...there you are.
Even more condensed: A guy prays for a sign from God and then a week later his car quit working. A stranger helped start the car. The guy says, "Thanks", to which the stranger replied, "No need to thank me, this is your blessing from God".
Oh, Oh..I got a good one. One time I was driving at night with a bud. I was trying my hardest to remember the name of a song. All I could remember was there's a line about "a deuce" but it sounded like "a douche". Then a car drove by without turning off their high beams and I said, "I'm blinded by that car's light!"...............that was it, "Blinded by the Light" So God sent that asshole down that road at that moment to fry my retinas with his high beams to give me the name of that song!
If the guy who jump started his car had been a Hindu and said, "No need to thank me. This is your blessing from Ganesha.", I wonder if he would have converted to Hinduism...?
In what sense is God even supposed to have been involved in this situation? Did he mind control the other guy and force him to stop to help? Cause if not, God didn't actually do anything it was all the other person acting of their own volition.
I live North Alabama, people seem to go out of there way to be overly christian when talking in public. Especially to strangers.
I pray to God for a big lottery win and I still haven't won...............maybe I should buy a ticket?
The next Mega Millions Jackpot this Tuesday is estimated to be 654 million. You could pray to see the winning numbers in a dream and then write down the numbers as soon as you wake.
If you look at this situation, it was the human that helped this guy not god !!
11/11/11 Skyrim released (for the first time). Sign from god?
darkasday you could say god gifted his creation with one of the best rpgs ever
You know, when you say that you have proof of god’s existence - I expect to hear actual reason and not just some guy’s personal experience!
What about muslims or hindus or some neo-pagans? They all can tell their experience of some unexplainable occurrences - should I believe them all?
My dad is the Pastor of the 2nd church of God.
I guess the 1st Church is better, oh well.
I'm from the 45th church of christian god variation number 34 B subsection 3, and WE are better than the 1st church of god! And the second.... and third..... The fourth is pretty good, mind you; they have a bitchin' coffee machine....
I'm not sure what response this guy was expecting. For Matt and Phil to agree that it was a message from gods?!
I think ... that was what he hoped. Hey, this morning I opened the fridge door, and a light went on. Yes ! There is a god ! You know, a god would be nice if for example he could prevent World War III by just killing one guy ... but you saw a man that jumpstarted your car ? That's ... euhm, not in the same ball park.
I usually just get beaten with a pair of jumper cables when I pray.
"Personal Experience with God = Evidence for God"
Only for the person that has the experience....and only if it isn't a delusion, misinterpretation,etc.
What happens when you say you have evidence for god because you had a personal experience with god & someone tells you that they also had a personal experience with god & god told them that you are mistaken because your experience was a hallucination?
What I dislike about these "prayers answered" stories is that the vast majority of them are vague, everyday things. "I prayed that I would beat the test", "I prayed my sickness would get better", "I prayed for a vague, unspecified sign".
If they prayed for crazy unnatural stuff that could never happen, like "I wish the Incredible Hulk was real and in my living room as soon as I open my eyes, but he's really friendly and wants to my buddy". Then, these prayer arguments would have merit.
I can’t find my headphones. Could you guys pray for me to find them? I like to listen to My Favorite Murder while I do house work.
Oh My Me! I found them!
Sure although I don't know how good it will do. These are not car keys after all.
Good choice of Podcast!
I prayed to Cthulhu that you'd find them.
Its always similar long winded uninteresting stories that convince these people that god is interfering with their lives, its amazing.
I am an atheist and I stopped to help jump start a guys car a few months back. Does that disprove god? Pleeeeze...these stupid stories, give me a break.
(gasp) maybe it was you who helped this guy out! LOL......That would make you God in the story......or at least an Angel? God doesn't waste his time with dead batteries, he has people for that. LOL
KillaHawke1 ok, I fess up. I am actually god. I was on my way to meet the pope and saw this dude in trouble and I thought...what the hell, his Holiness can wait 10 minutes.
Hey, while I got you God, can you do something about that Trump fella? Oh, and if I promise to stop cussing, will please make me a 30 inch waist again? Okay....um....thank you....um amen.
KillaHawke1 i would do, problem is I am also an atheist so I have some self confidence issues on delivering on this..... I will chat to the pope, see what he says.
3:55 "this is your blessing from god"
He got his battery boosted. So the god is Thor, god of thunder.... thunder is caused by lightening...lightening is electricity.
.... OR
Guy boosting your car: "this is your blessing from god"
You: you have a lot of nerve! How ARROGANT do you have to be to claim you are MY god?!?!?!?!
I live in St. Louis and it is known as one of the most friendly cities in the country. People in St. Louis are very kind and friendly to others in general.
Yep, only 205 killings last year. You must live in the good part.
I live in the city, but lived in the county as well. The point is that IN GENERAL people in St. Louis treat other with kindness unless they have already proven they don't deserve to be treated with kindness. There are exceptions like everywhere else but it isn't proof of a God.
You can find me in st. Luuuway,
Where the gun play rings all day,
Some sell dope and some sell yay,
Others just smoke the funk all day.
I remember once I was doing some shopping and I was in the queue at the checkout when a young lady was paying for her groceries and was 10p short so I went into my wallet and gave her the 10p.. Therefore I am God.
Did you threaten to burn her if she would not accept your gift?
2:41 - That's not how batteries work... You actually want them "cold" to run properly... (but not too cold)
I'm feeling a bit chilly in my house today so I've opened the doors to let the cold out.
I cannot believe this guy thinks it's a blessing from god that someone pulled over and gave him a jump. Lmfao
If the battery had come back to life three days later it would be a better example.
Oh ffs. How are some people even able to get dressed in the morning and walk around with the rest of us?
Childhood disease proves an all powerful all loving God cannot exist. This is to say nothing about whether a truly good God would even want to be worshipped
Would that guy be a muslim now if he said "don't thank me, this is your answer from mohamad,"?
Yep. I have never been a believer. When I lift the hood up ppl stop. 3 ppl stopped the last time I stopped and lifted the hood up, the last person who stopped, waited till my husband arrived. They were 3 kind ppl. That's it.
He could also pulled a gun, and killed you. Actually, that has happened before. So, if that god working ?
This guy is a sharp as a freaking marble
You ever broken one? That shit will cut you.
@@denverarnold6210
As sharp as a used tea bag.
3:40 Wait, you started a car with jumper cables ? OK, THATS IT, I'M A BELIEVER NOW !!!
11.11.1918 at 11h The first world war stopped
So here in Belgium 11.11.11 became a symbol of peace and solidarity
Do people listen to themselves while they are on here. lol. My father always told me son you cant put brains in statues
~ Thank you, Matt and Phil, for truth and logic in 2019!! Words as rabbi, pastor, minister, iman, priest, and any other such words make me want to throw up a little in my mouth, and I kinda sorta disdain the whole superstitious, nonsensical theist construct of all stripes. I want my spent youth and my foreskin back, and many years wasted on religion and religious dogmas. Cheers, DAVEDJ ~
G'day from Australia. A couple of months ago I was putting fuel in my car, and I noticed an elderly lady trying to check her tyre pressures and inflate her tyres to correct psi. I had an inkling that something wasn't right, she tried to get the attention of some nearby workmen who pretty much ignored her. I paid for my fuel and then walked over to her and said hello, do you need some assistance there? I look a bit rough around the edges, she turns around and sees me and looks startled at my appearance. I politely assured her that I'm here to help. She says yes, I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I think my tyres are getting flatter. I check the tyre inflation machine. It is set to only 4 psi. I reset it to 34 psi. I then connected the hose to the passenger side tyres, they were down by only a few psi. Then I checked the driver side tyres that she'd been trying to inflate. They were down to 15 and 17 psi. I inflated both to 34. She asked me, was I one of the nearby workers. I said no, while I was filling my car, I noticed what was going on and realised she needed assistance so I walked over to help. She said thankyou, god bless you sir, you have a kind heart. I said I'm an athiest. She replied, but you're so nice and polite, I thought athiests are supposed to be horrible! Yeah, right! Theists don't have a monopoly on good deeds. We are all capable of helping strangers in need. Imagine if it was god who sent the only athiest to help. Only there isn't a god. It was the right thing to do at the time. No god involved. It's my duty as a fellow human to help others in need when the opportunity presents itself.
If you don't go to church how will they take your money?
"God will bless you with more money" lol
@@Sammie551 LOL. Makes perfect sense
Bahah ‘11.11’ is super common around my area.
Let's assume that the person who helped him start his car and said "this is a blessing from god" was a MUSLIM?
David blaine ‘performed’ more miracles than jesus
. _"Bicycle repair-man! But how!? '_ (Monty Python)
That reference! I'm so happy! Odin bless you!
"Well that certainly was a narrow escape!"
I just reprised that line while watching a Bill Murray film. At a dire peril / jump cut/ driving away moment.
I bet his dad's church is not *actually* "the first church of god" in that town. For one of several reasons.
This guy is NOT a good story teller.
Lol. Seems like a nice guy tho. Bless him.
These long rambling stories seem to be characteristic of religious claims. It's as if, by adding lots of irrelevant detail, the claim will somehow become more credible.
This isn't an entirely ridiculous notion if you consider how deeply embedded storytelling is to human cognition. The capacity for critical thinking would have developed much later - and clearly has not fully developed even now, in many people.
A while back my odometer read 111111.1. I pulled over by the side of the road as the last 1 came around and lined up. It was a couple miles from my son's house. Now every time I pass that spot (a rural county road with a wide dirt shoulder overlooking a horse pasture) I keep looking for the miracle that must be there. Once I saw five antelope. Is that the miracle? (Once I saw them about two miles up the road too, but that wasn't the same place.) Just asking!!!
No
@@miggs5324 After FOUR YEARS wait, that's the best you can do????? Why isn't that a miracle???? I have certainly read reports of other people with a lot less evidence for their miracle???
@@jonerickson2358 counting the hits and ignoring the misses. How is that in any way a miracle? What’s miraculous about it? Is that the best YOU can do?
@@miggs5324 Since you obviously have difficulty understanding satire, I will explain it for you. My miracle has as much evidence for it being God acting as about all the miracles I hear people describing on the internet. "I prayed and God healed my grandma!" "I got a check in the mail that was the exact amount I prayed for!" "I prayed and God showed me where I lost my car keys!" Bullshit is bullshit regardless the form. Some people just have trouble processing the information. If you believe, you can attribute ANYTHING to God!!! Your understanding this without an explanation would have been a miracle!!!
....."maybe the sun will warm up the battery enough to start"...? This dude shouldn't be allowed to drive if he's that dense.
"111 on the Godometer. Okay, well that;s the Trinity. So God's sayin heads up.
Hey, isn't that Jerry Something? From back in high school?
That's some good proofidating, I tell you whut,That's Jesus FTW right there."
"a "rare" thing happened to me a week after I started looking, therefore god exists!"
Jesus built my hotrod.
So here's my question if this guy had just watched the Back to the Future trilogy and then a week later the guy who helped him said "see you in the future" would he think people from the future were traveling back in time to protect him?
This guys sounds like he is setting us up to be Rick Rolled.
Also, "the sun will warm up the battery so the car will start..."
I'd rather be Rickrolled than hear this boring story ever again.
Maybe caller should just give the glory to the dude who jumped him off
and if it did happen? what kind of God would do that?
If person experience is evidence for a god. Makes absolutely no sense
It's like
2 people standing in a room
ONE says. Omg it's so hot in this room...
And the other person says
NO TRUST ME ITS COLD IN THIS ROOM, TRUST ME. ..
AND WE GET ABSOLUTELY KNOWHERE.
The human mind is capable of great acts of self delusion.
I would want to ask the caller what the chances are that, just as his god might be helping him get his car started, not too far away someone else - maybe a Christian leaving in church - was in a tragic car crash that killed them. Thanks, God!
Your dad was a "pasture?"
It's simply tragic what happened to his dad. Eaten by cows, y'know.
Yahweh punished him by draining his battery for eating a shitty breakfast at McD's instead of having a proper breakfast. The fact that he has to sit there for a while in front of a busy location in the Bible Belt with his hood up and nobody, including the police, was helping tells me something about the Bible Belt. Also, was so difficult about asking somebody at the cash register if you could borrow a phone to call a tow truck?
The United States is home to the second largest passenger vehicle market of any country in the world, second now to China. Overall, there were an estimated 263.6 million registered vehicles in the United States in 2015, most of which were passenger vehicles.
What the hell is the significance of the number 1111? I've never heard that before.
1111 : Pizza Pizza in Toronto Canada. He was meant to go out for Pizza with the friend and order a 15” Pizza. He missed all the signs!
If the guy didn't have his hood up, and was praying for help and no one was around and someone came out of nowhere and asked if he needed a jump and said God told him he needed help then he MIGHT have some reason to think it was God
Wait, putting your hood up to warm the battery is a thing?
Over 2 billion Christians in the world. It was more mathematical that he would say as much being how he needed help as opposed to jumping off the car then say fuck you. Lol. The winter was the key
Bias confirmation is a gift from god...
Wait so that hot chick that said "God Bless You" to me last night after I sneezed was sent from God?? Holy Hell, If I'd known that at the time I would have closed the deal.
Can you pray for my leg to grow back please?
I live in St. Louis and I've heard the 11:11 thing from a couple of people. I'm wondering if it's a regional thing.
Nope. Not regional. I'm on the other side of the country from you and I've heard about it.
Maybe it was a different god, not the christian god. Thor?
My personal experience told me there's no God
I wish things like 11 11 didn't get time wasted on them
and your logical fallacy is ''post hoc ergo propter hoc''
i dont get it whats 111.1 got to do with 15?
I've never owned a car so new it had only 111.1 Miles on it. So only people with new cars can have this sign? I'm guessing they're talking about a Trip meter and not the odometer. As far as 11 11 I've only heard in respect to clocks
It was the trip meter.
Toothpick time baby
Such a small god that lives in these poor peoples minds
People like this walk among us. Wow. 🤪
Its not just a jumpstart he could use, God needs to get this man some antidepressants.....he sounds sad.
Pray to J. I did the same old, same old
caller chooses to interpret his experiences in a way favorable to reinforcing his delusions which is wholly unremarkable given his detrimental religious background.
I had no idea that 11.11 is significant at all! But I do notice things that always looks cool.. like I might had noticed, oh shit my odometer is reading 1111.. kinda like how we might take notice with dates such as, 11/11/11 but I think that's all due to the rarity of the number of times it can happen. Not becuz of something divine lol
Wow just wow, guy with jump cables proves God, are they really getting this desperate to believe ?
Seems like that. Wonder what's next ...
Have a magically enchanted day.
Praise Merlin!
Aron!
Why did god leave the request for a week? Is he a bad temp in an office?
My car showed 666 on the odometer....so what
It's very obviously and most definitely a sign from Satan.
Don't be a fool, have the vehicle burned and crushed immediately!
Only then may you beg forgiveness from our Lord and saviour.
That is a sign, as soon as he said that...I️ knew it. ✊🏽💡🔥🙌🏽
Why can't believers ever get to the point !
How the hell can it take almost five minutes to say "I got help jumpstarting my car, and he said something". Sheesh.
Because deep down, they understand how stupid and embarassing these arguments/evidence are.
It's the reasonable, logical part of their brain fighting against their indoctrination.
Mary had and experience with god and ended up pregnant. Was Luke's experience this sexual or did god just want to be friends?
Dude is hella superstitious!
Omg 111.1 is not 11!
Eat at McD for breakfast...'Murica 🤦
We've got that shit down here in Oz too mate.
I can't think of anything more nauseating than having a feed of Macca's for brekkie, fuck no, I'd chunder me guts up!
The story is too long. Gotta go.
So this "god" lets Luke end up in an uncomfortable situation, just to send him help generously afterwards? That's pretty abusive IMO. This god dude has some serious issues...
😳
That's St.Anthony, the guy who finds the keys and gets them baby's out of purgatory. Anthony, Anthony look around help me find my keys... you have to promise to say prayers like some Hail Marys. I think like 10 of them would be good enough. And you get to rescue babies from Hell or purgatory + find your shit. Amen. And then maybe you should probably say some Our Father's too just in case. Like 10 of them would be good. Okay. All right. All good.
Some people need a life 😂
Yes, personal experience with god counts as evidence for god if you can PROVE it’s a personal experience with god.🤡