The New Atheists
The arguments of contemporary atheism, taken on directly.
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When online atheists miss the pointArjuna, responding to a Victor Stenger 9/11 meme and the Facebook firestorm his comment sparked, argues that theism/atheism is a nearly useless predictor of a worldview's harm, so atheist activists making converts achieve nothing — the productive work is targeting specific bad beliefs (like 'God damns outsiders eternally') inside any worldview. · Other · 17m· Nov 2024
Is God's Existence PossibleIn a scripted response video, Arjuna argues that Matt Dillahunty's dice-in-a-bag routine against 'God is possible' equivocates between knowledge-based and reality-based senses of possibility, and — via Plantinga on Dawkins — that the argument-from-ignorance charge boomerangs onto the New Atheists themselves.Alvin Plantinga, Matt Dillahunty, Tracy Harris · Lecture · 10m· Sep 2024
Dawkins is Still Using This Bad ArgumentArjuna, using a Dr. Howard Resnick clip, rebuts Richard Dawkins's 'you'd be Muslim if born in Afghanistan' argument: religious affiliation demonstrably changes among serious seekers, and the argument is self-defeating since Dawkins's own atheism is equally an accident of his time and place of birth.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī, Richard Dawkins · Lecture · 4m· Feb 2023
Power Outage Interrupts @SansDeity #shortsA blooper short: Alex Gallagher's livestream with atheist Matt Dillahunty (@SansDeity) dies to a power cut mid-sentence — just as Alex is advocating compromise and incrementalism — with the self-deprecating note that the YouTuber-electrician's own stream lost power.Matt Dillahunty · Other · 1m· Oct 2022
Eastern Theology Meets Western Skepticism With @Matt DillahuntyArjuna (Alex Gallagher) introduces Hare Krishna theology — Vedic testimony, karma, Krishna's pastimes, and reincarnation research — to atheist Matt Dillahunty, who presses one objection throughout: every claim is either unfalsifiable or rests on accepting the Vedas, while Alex counters that skeptical standards are miscalibrated and that practice, not the armchair, is the test.Matt Dillahunty · Lecture · 1h 14m· Oct 2021
Curiosity and the Divine (a conversation on eastern philosophy) with @BenjaminABoyceHost Arjuna Gallagher argues to sympathetic skeptic Benjamin Boyce that abolishing religion produces not rational humans but a vacuum filled by untested value systems - with wokeness as New Atheism's accidental religion, a 'broken Christianity' with fall and punishment but no redemption - while walking Boyce through a first-principles tour of Caitanya Vaishnavism.Benjamin Boyce · Lecture · 1h 37m· Oct 2021
Debate Can There be Objective Morality on Atheism or TheismIn a four-way debate guest-hosted by Josh Wolfe (Alex was absent), atheist Tom Jump defends objective morality as an emergent 'imposition of will' property he concedes is an unprovable hypothesis, while theists Ram and Nama Madhurya, and Wolfe himself from a Gita perspective, argue that neither atheism nor reward-and-punishment theism can ground a truly objective morality.Josh Wolfe, Kane B, Nama Madhurya, Ram · Debate · 2h· Jan 2021
Is Atheism an Overreach TJump vs Josh WulfIn a moderated debate on whether positive atheism is an overreach, Hare Krishna programmer Josh Wolf argues material senses can never rule out a transcendent source who must instead reveal Himself through a descending process, while TJump counters that fallibilism plus the absence of novel testable predictions justifies concluding all gods are imaginary.Josh Wolfe, Kane B · Debate · 1h 28m· Oct 2020
Is the Argument From Inconsistent Revelation SoundArjuna formalizes the atheist argument from inconsistent revelation ('10,000 religions can't all be right, so none are') and argues it fails on every premise: religions are testable rather than mere say-so, their disagreements are dogmatic rather than deep, and the same headcount logic would refute atheism first.Michael Shermer, Richard Dawkins, Śrīla Prabhupāda · Lecture · 18m· Aug 2020
Aron Ra endorses Hare Krishna restaurant in DallasProminent atheist activist Aron Ra unreservedly recommends Kalachandji's, the vegetarian restaurant inside the Dallas Krishna temple, calling it a favorite destination for visiting atheists — a small emblem of warm atheist-Vaishnava relations.Aron Ra · Other · 1m· Aug 2020
Aron Ra vs Arjuna - Is religion sensibleAron Ra argues that religion is nonsense because faith-based traditions contradict each other while each claiming absolute truth and none can show 'there's a there there'; host Arjuna counters that disagreement is not evidence of falsehood and that Aron's own evidentialism rests on beliefs — other minds, an external world — it cannot verify.Aron Ra · Debate · 1h 47m· May 2020
What motivates atheist activistsArjuna grants that Stephen Woodford's anti-religion activism flows from sincere harm-prevention motives, then turns Woodford's own 'fallacy of division' defence of atheism against communism back on him: if communist atrocities don't indict atheism, religious atrocities don't indict religion — so oppose specific harmful beliefs, not religion wholesale.David Mitchell, Sam Harris, Stephen Woodford · Lecture · 10m· Apr 2020
The Inconsistency of the New Athiests - Aron Ra, Cosmic Skeptic and Rationality Rules exposedIn a five-minute short, Arjuna argues that three lack-of-belief atheists — Aron Ra, Stephen Woodford, and Alex O'Connor — betray their professed agnosticism the moment they call religion wrong or believers idiots, since mockery presupposes the positive claim that God does not exist. · Lecture · 6m· Apr 2020
People believe in God because it makes them feel good answeredIn a live Q&A with an atheist questioner, the lecturer turns the wish-fulfillment debunking argument around: everyone has faith per the Gita, atheism has its own psychological payoffs (being answerable to no one), and only theism is even testable — so the 'weird psychology' belongs to those who won't try. · Lecture · 12m· Mar 2019