July 28, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| I mean, that's the beautiful wrapped-in-a-bow meta-narrative of what I was up to for the last couple of days. | |
| I wanted to ask the atheists, why shouldn't you lie? | |
| Knowing that they were going to come right in and lie. | |
| And they did. | |
| And if you lie, you can't progress, right? | |
| If you lie, you cannot progress because you actually are doing the opposite of the truth. | |
| And the pivot to the attack upon Christianity was a way of covering up those lies. | |
| Of course, and, you know, I mean, they're much more likely to criticize Christianity than, say, Islam or Judaism or Hinduism or something else, right? | |
| So that was really fascinating to have my sort of abstract theories about how atheists were going to respond. | |
| And it's kind of cool being back on X because I have access to a much wider and larger group of people, right? | |
| So on the other platforms, I would say that it was like a jazz club. | |
| I mean, small, intimate. | |
| I really enjoyed those years talking. | |
| And we still do that, like Sunday mornings, the 11 a.m. | |
| We're still doing subscriber-only conversations. | |
| So I'm not going to say it was a trap because it's an open question. | |
| Why should you not lie? | |
| And every atheist who came in, lied, claimed to have knowledge they didn't have, which meant they had faith in a truth they did not have. | |
| They pretended a knowledge they did not possess and resisted all attempts to correct them. | |
| In other words, they criticize the Christians or other religious groups for claiming to know something that they don't know. | |
| The existence of God, the divinity of Jesus, and so on, right? | |
| And the atheists say, how dare you? | |
| How dare you pretend to have a knowledge you don't have? | |
| Oh, sorry, one sec. | |
| I got to go talk to staff and pretend I have a knowledge about secular ethics that I don't have. | |
| But you see this mirror image, right? | |
| So yes, I remain a strong atheist. | |
| I've talked about this with Dr. Murphy in a show we did. | |
| We recorded it last week. | |
| It just came out this week. | |
| So, I mean, because I can't overturn the arguments against the existence of God. | |
| I remain a strong atheist. | |
| And although, as I mentioned with Dr. Murphy, I am going to church. | |
| I have done a whole series on Bible verses. | |
| And some of the best people in my life. | |
| Yeah, I think some of the best. | |
| I can't think of, I mean, the best people in my life tend to be Christians. | |
| I mean, and obviously philosophers and philosophy people and so on, right? | |
| So, yeah, because that's not up to me. | |
| It's not up to me. | |
| It is up to reason and evidence. | |
| And again, I'm opening my heart to the evidence. | |
| We'll see what happens. | |
| But yeah, I remain a strong atheist, of course. | |
| I mean, I can't overturn that. | |
| But my goal, of course, was to shake the complacency and vanity. | |
| Because if all you do is compare your imaginary, pure, idealistic, scientific, and rational syllogisms and thoughts to what is, of course, at its essence, a faith-based mission like religion, then you're going to feel like you're in the right and they're in the wrong. | |
| And I understand. | |
| But if that's all, if that's the only place you stay, if you never get somebody serving to your soft spot, you never grow. | |
| And it really was fascinating. | |
| Honestly, I'm telling you, this is going to be studied for centuries. | |
| Like this tweet and its response, I was very conscious of this when I write every response. | |
| It's going to be poured over for centuries. | |
| I'm not kidding about that. | |
| I mean, I know most people won't believe me. | |
| It doesn't matter. | |
| I've got 20 years in the history of philosophy. | |
| I know how this stuff works. | |
| Yeah, it's going to be studied because to have all of these people attack others, like Christians, for claiming a knowledge they don't have, while themselves claiming a knowledge they don't have, for responding to a tweet, why tell the truth by lying and never admitting it, is just absolutely fascinating. | |
| It's fascinating stuff. | |
| And I really do thank all the atheists who came in. | |
| And I hope that the atheists get some humility. | |
| You know, one of the things that's great about Christianity is the humility. | |
| And I hope that the atheists come in and recognize that they don't have good answers for ethics. |
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