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"Your ability to reason and question God's existence..." Oh, wait, no, that gets you eternal damnation in a pit of fire.
The notion expressed in just the first few minutes of the video that we are only good because of God is such a cop out because it completely ignores the other dogma that God allegedly made us in his image and, in doing so, gave us the ability to critically think and engage in free will. It perpetuates the hateful myth that non-believers simply cannot be good people and I yearn for this sort of hateful speech to be drowned out in the future by others vocally dispelling this notion. Heck, not too long ago I had a very Christian judge (Liberty grad, likely future Trump appointee if Trump wins) tell me that he would never support me for judge because an atheist cannot be trusted to do the "right thing" due to a lack of any sort of moral code and threat of consequence if such a code is not followed. I was dumbfounded as my career demonstrates nothing but ethical advocacy and respect for the law. But, as is obvious with the linked video, this remains a popular dogmatic principle for Christians and they will illogically and blindly judge others in accordance with it (despite that perhaps not falling in line with some of Jesus's more inclusive teachings). This needs to stop. It's as irrational as somebody like me refusing to hire an associate attorney because he or she is Christian because I unwisely assume he or she will not follow my state's laws as closely as he or she should because religious dogma will permeate and overly taint the legal principles.
In addition to the above, the mental gymnastics and logical fallacies in the video are just abound. I very much appreciate these videos being linked because they do, in my opinion, correctly flesh out the accurate dogmas of the Christian faith - but I think it's also important for believers to understand that when we see and hear guys like the ones in the video they comes across as the equivalent of a snake oil salesman. To be clear, I don't think the guys in the video are inherently evil or anything and they are learned on the topics they discuss, I just think it's important to explain a different perspective - in essence, that two, well-meaning people can genuinely perceive something so differently (as clearly BobbyLayne champions these guys as some sort of experts and I look at them in the same light as some ******** celebrity medium) and that's okay.
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