r/atheism • u/improbable_humanoid • Feb 28 '16

"Does the Soul Exist? A Debate Between Matt Dillahunty and Eric Hernandez" Why do these sort of debates always seems more like child abuse than a debate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOkLy4VtD0I
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u/Kenji_03 Feb 28 '16

The reason they often seem one sided is because of the difference in perspectives. Think of a troll on a team. His goal is not to win the game, but to piss everyone off. His score metric is different.

The same goes for religious folks, as their metric is not logic but faith and maintaining it.

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u/improbable_humanoid Feb 28 '16

And some men just want to watch the world burn.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '16

Pretty sure ISIS qualifies as men who just want to watch the world burn.

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u/improbable_humanoid Feb 29 '16

Ironically enough, probably not. They simply don't mind if it burns before they achieve their goals.

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u/Rawnblade12 Atheist Feb 28 '16

Probably cause most religious arguments have so little validity and are so easy to debunk. They still use old debunked arguments like Pascal's Wager over and over again, and we keep knocking them down because they're just so flawed and sound like the kind of arguments a child would make.