5 Things Christians & Atheists (DON'T) Agree On (Greg Koukl Tactics)

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  @stephenjames2951 · 6 years ago

  Tactics, when facts aren’t on your side.

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• PH

  @Phreemunny · 6 years ago (edited)

  “I can win an argument against you if I tell you what your side of the argument is!” <br><br><br>—Greg Koukl, essentially

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• DE

  @devb9912 · 6 years ago

  I always get annoyed with the &quot;I know what you REALLY think&quot; BS. Dude, you can&apos;t read my mind, stop telling yourself you can and join the rest of us in reality.

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• RI

  @rickschofield3131 · 6 years ago

  Wow this guy knows our thoughts and draws conclusions about how we would act in a situation and tells us it’s wrong. I choose to dismiss his thoughts because he offered no evidence for this ability

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• JO

  @josiahvonb3426 · 6 years ago

  &quot;God&quot; didn&apos;t claim anything, people claimed that a god claimed something.

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• SB

  @sbunny8 · 6 years ago

  I&apos;m so tired of theists playing word games and thinking that proves something. Paul, you said it beautifully at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMKsdTCsgDI&amp;t=266">4:26</a> &quot;pouncing on the imprecise nature of the English language for communicating nuanced topics and then, rather than asking our conversation partner to clarify what they mean, we&apos;re going to insist on our own definition, in order to assert that they are contradicting themselves.&quot; You nailed it.

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• RE

  @reasonablespeculation3893 · 6 years ago

  Confusion through equivocation is the tactic.<br>Winning the argument is the goal.<br>The &quot;truth&quot; is the position held by the winner of the argument.

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• KO

  @Koragg-KnightWolf · 6 years ago

  This is some fancy bait and switch God smuggling here. He seems a more condescending version of Sye Ten in my opinion. If that&apos;s possible.

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• AC

  @ACindyDerg · 5 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMKsdTCsgDI&amp;t=900">15:00</a> Nobody ever ACTUALLY wants to die, they only want to end the suffering they are in/prevent suffering in the immediate future. When the potential for suffering is outweighed by the potential for positivity in the future (usually because the pain is temporary), suicide removes a lot more potential good than bad from their life. We know that many people who are prevented from committing suicide are later glad that they went on living. Hell, some people just need someone in that moment to prove that they care enough about them to prevent them from killing themselves to make them realize that their life is worth living.

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• MA

  @MasamiPhoenix · 6 years ago

  I want to cover two things on the whole &quot;life has a purpose&quot; thing<br><br>First, I personally have never once asked myself &quot;what is the meaning of life?&quot; &nbsp;I&apos;ve only ever thought about it when others bring it up. &nbsp;Even when I was a Christian, I never thought about a purpose or a reason that I was alive. I&apos;m here, I experience life, I set my own goals. &nbsp;That has always been the way I thought.<br><br>Secondly, does being Christian give you a purpose of life? &nbsp;I&apos;ve heard two main answers, and I&apos;m going to try not to strawman them. &nbsp;<br><br>First is that you have a purpose just by being alive and doing what God intended you to: You are a cog in his ineffable plan. &nbsp;But while that gives God a purpose in you existing, it doesn&apos;t give YOU a purpose. You can base no plan of action on this thought, because whatever you decide to do is undoubtedly what God intended you to do. &nbsp;By this logic Paulogia is doing God&apos;s will and fulfilling his purpose by being an atheist Youtube personality.<br><br>The second one I&apos;ve heard is that our purpose in life is to worship God and be a good Christian. &nbsp;But is that really a purpose? &nbsp;Who benefits? &nbsp;God is perfect, so he doesn&apos;t need our assistance, or our prayers. &nbsp;So our &quot;purpose&quot; in life is just to sing praises to a being who does not actually benefit from it. You could say it&apos;s our purpose because then we get to go to heaven, and life an eternal life, but what is the purpose of THAT life? &nbsp;It still doesn&apos;t provide one.

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• TG

  @tgandwhatever · 6 years ago (edited)

  I think there&apos;s one thing that Christians and atheists can agree on: Evangelical Christians think they&apos;re &quot;special&quot;. &nbsp;To &nbsp;paraphrase &quot;The Omen&quot;-- &quot;It&apos;s all for YOU, Christian!&quot;

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• TR

  @trevorlunn8442 · 6 years ago

  As for guilt, there seems to be a total lack of it in regards professional apologists using <i><b>dishonest rhetorical tactics</b></i><b></b> when defending their book sales.... oops, I mean, their religious faith.

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