I just stumbled across this, but I think it’s an excellent addition to “you’re doing the same thing you criticize”, which I think we realize happens all the time. This comes from an old Atheist Experience video, and it’s contained only at the beginning, although it’s probably a decent enough video to watch all the way through. So first, you’ll get the video itself, watch the first bit where Matt is talking about morality, and I think you’ll see where the problem is. Otherwise, I’ll explain below the fold. Ready? Let’s get to it!
I went on an unintended trip down the proverbial rabbit hole today when a video showed up in my feed on “where woke people go wrong” or something like that. It dove into all the places that the political left take leave of their senses, which I wholeheartedly agree with, but at the very end, it said something about “the real place we get knowledge and morals is God!”
I know I’ve done this a million times, but it keeps coming up so I’ll keep pointing it out. The political left is doing EXACTLY what the religious are doing, yet they are completely blind to their own failures.
I just saw a video over on Matt Dillahunty’s channel, which I’ll link to below, about a new “secular religion” called Mystrikism. He went through some of the stuff on their website, which I’ll also link to below, but I had a lot more to say on the subject.
This is one of those things that you just shake your head at and find it hard to believe that it just happened but it did. I stumbled into this thing in the middle, so I don’t know how it started, but over on Reddit, there was a discussion going on about determinism and free will and I asked the self-identified hard determinist a question.
I ran into this yet again, in another throwback episode of The Atheist Experience. Matt really has problems not understanding the words that come out of his own mouth.
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve lost all respect for bullshit. I don’t put up with it anymore. I’ve got more important things to do. Nowhere is this more true than in discussions online, where people will just throw crap at the wall and hope it sticks and when it doesn’t, they just make excuses.:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/1100px-Classical-Definition-of-Kno.svg-56a04bc13df78cafdaa0f2e8.jpg)
I had a discussion with someone on Reddit about epistemology and it didn’t go well. That got me to thinking about things and I was going to make a video, but then I caught a Rationality Rules video scroll by and even though I don’t subscribe to him anymore, I watched it anyhow, since it was fortuitously timed, and figured I’d do it here.
I have had more than one conversation about this recently and this is kind of a “why I really dislike a lot of philosophers” thing. They are looking for things that just aren’t real. It comes off a lot like religion, which I think is a very similar mindset.