Yes, that is just a play off the title of his video, so don’t get your panties in a bunch, but when it comes to moral claims, Matt Dillahunty really has some problems. I saw, again, that he’s doing everything wrong, but you can watch the video and judge for yourself.

So let’s get to it.

 

So here’s the video in question, of course you can choose to watch or not, I’ll describe it as we go.

So the caller calls in and says that he finds the various humanist manifestos terribly stupid and his reasons are generally bad. He’s just trying to get to his religious beliefs and he gets rightfully trounced for it. However, after he gets hung up on, Matt goes on a rant, from about the middle of the video, where he really has a lot of problems.

These aren’t new problems, of course. I’ve talked about some of them in the past, at least, but Matt immediately sets about insulting the intelligence of anyone that disagrees with his take on secular morality, because what else can he do? That’s very standard for dishonest interlocutors these days. “You’re not equipped to have this conversation!” Why? Because you don’t agree with Matt. He spends a lot of time presenting his own subjective views as if they were demonstrable facts because he really likes the idea.

Where else do we see that on a regular basis? Yup, with the religious! Because people on the extremes of Matt’s political spectrum tend to behave almost identically to the people on the far religious right. They’re doing the same thing for the same reasons. They can’t actually demonstrate that their views are true, it’s all based on emotion and wishful thinking after all. When the only thing you’re running on is “how it makes me feel”, you are never going to get to rational, evidence-based arguments. You are never going to get to truth.

I spend most of my time online, talking to the religious, politically or theologically so, pointing out that they’ve got nothing of substance to say. I’m sure they are personally convinced of it because they’ve been brainwashed into it and it strikes those emotional chords that they’ve been taught are important, but that doesn’t actually mean anything, does it? They just really want it to be true.

That doesn’t mean anything.

That’s really why I’ve walked away from so many atheist YouTube channels of late. It’s fine if you can stay in your lane and be intelligent, but far too many of them can’t. Matt, more often than not, can’t avoid going into political topics that are just as emotional and irrational as the stuff he’s rightfully criticizing in the religious. He’s every bit as guilty as they are, but he cannot see the damning reflection in the mirror for his own side.  They’re all screaming “here’s stuff I like for emotional reasons so it just has to be true!” They’re all a bunch of idiots.

I am ever so sick of idiots, aren’t you?