Answering Atheism: A Response to ALEX O’CONNOR

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3 months ago

I respond to Alex O’Connor’s video “Every Argument for Atheism.”

See Alex O’Connor’s original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emn-iSm1oHc&t=23s
See Alex O’Connor’s opening remarks to a debate on atheism vs. theism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emn-iSm1oHc&t=23s

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00:00 Introduction: On the Hunt for a Dispute
02:28 Does Christianity bring about wars and violence?
06:09 Does Christianity cause more violence than atheism?
11:23 Are religions historically, or geographically, determined?
18:09 Biblical consistency, or inconsistency?
24:45 Religion and tradition.
27:46 Christianity, scholarship, and memory.
37:17 Did Christianity support slavery?
49:04 The problems of evil and suffering
56:04 Is evil the absence of good?
58:27 Is the idea of God self-contradictory?
01:02:10 The problem of evil (again)
01:03:34 Why does God hide himself from the seeker?
01:10:04 Closing remarks: Why open the conversation?

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