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Aug. 8, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
08:17
How Did Atheists Respond to My Unjust Deplatforming?
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Now, quick question.
Millions of atheists listen to my show over the last 20 years.
Atheists say, the truth is essential, regardless of personal discomfort.
How did atheists respond to my unjust de-platforming based upon falsehoods?
My whole life is a moral experiment to see if people have integrity.
to what they say.
You must tell the truth, the truth is much more important than any personal discomfort.
Well, atheists knew, of course, that what was talked about with regards to me were falsehoods.
And I was unjustly de-platformed.
How did they respond?
Come on, we know this.
We know.
How do they respond?
They vanished.
They ran away.
They did not stand with me, did not stand by me, they did not invite me on their shows, they didn't, I mean, I've actually done shows with atheists, strong atheists, knew that I was unjustly de-platformed.
The truth is important regardless of your personal emotional difficulties with it.
Okay, so lies were told about me, somebody that they, you know, had some respect for and millions had interacted.
Did I get email messages, even if you just want to create an anonymous account, say it's totally wrong, I'm so sorry, blah, blah, blah.
Did I get any messages?
Did I get any invitations to shows?
Did I get any articles written about how unjust and wrong it all was?
Because remember, the truth is important.
It doesn't matter if it upsets you personally, it doesn't matter if it's difficult emotionally, the truth is essential.
So, of course, when I go to atheists and I say, hey, what are your reasons for telling the truth?
Did you tell the truth about what was said about me that was false?
I mean, you understand the basic principle is they de-platform some pretty horrible people, which I don't agree with.
and free speech absolutists, they de-platform pretty horrible people so that when they de-platform people who aren't horrible, they get mixed into the same values.
fat, a vitriol, right?
So, yeah, how did...
Did they say, well, you know, we've made a lot of Christians, we've made, you know, hundreds of millions of Christians uncomfortable over the decades with our very tough questions, but we've told them you must stand for the truth no matter what.
Oh, a prominent atheist is being lied about?
I wish I could do this Homer Simpson disappear into the hedges behind me.
But, yeah, I mean, that's just the reality.
So then an atheist come and say, well, you know, I guess I was just raised better than you.
I guess I just value the truth more than you do.
I guess I just have better morals than you do.
Come on, come on.
Stop lobbering as a moral hero.
I mean, just stop it.
I don't mean this with any contempt.
I don't mean this with any hatred.
But you have to have a clear-eyed view of who you are and who you aren't.
Right?
If you're fat, but you think you have abs, you're not going to lose weight.
If you're cowardly, but think you're brave, you can't get braver.
You can't get the virtue courage if you think you're already courageous.
So when the atheists say to me, well, I know I know I tell the truth and I have morals and I have virtues and it's good for society and it's good socially, it's like, okay, then why didn't you tell the truth about the lies told about me?
Millions of you knew about it.
Or hundreds of thousands.
I mean, I had a combined you know close to two million set of followers at that time I was de-platformed I had three quarters of a billion views and downloads so I don't think it's that unfair to say that millions of atheists knew about me and ID platforming was kind of talked about.
And they all just despawned.
They went to the backrooms.
And they didn't even send me anonymous messages of support.
Which is fine.
It's fine.
And it's data.
And it's a whole lot of data.
Now, Christians were actually quite kind.
Christians were actually, you know, hey, we know what it is to be persecuted, man, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
You can't undo that knowledge in me.
And it wasn't, it wasn't two to one.
It really wasn't two to one.
Five to one, ten to one.
It was.
was a lot to, I mean, I'm thinking zero.
I'm thinking zero.
So as far as personal integrity, upholding the truth despite emotional discomfort, I mean, morals are not for what you want to do.
Morals are for what you don't want to do, right?
Diet is for things you shouldn't eat or things you don't want to eat, but you should.
Exercise regimes are for when you don't want to exercise, right?
Discipline is required for the things you don't want to do.
This is why, but the atheists, if they say, well, I just don't like lying i don't like lies and liars never prosper is like bro you you're talking to a guy whose life work was erased because of lies and very successful lies you're literally talking to a guy whose life work was erased through lies saying well lies don't work man lies are impractical what again i'm not saying that i'm not saying everybody needs to know my history but i think most people do i think most people do so yeah i mean this this
is the thing right as you get older I mean, particularly if you have a sort of moral, a real moral backbone.
I mean, obviously I've got my flaws.
I've got my faults.
I've got my pecadillos.
But I've never disavowed anything I know.
I have disavowed anything I know to be true.
And I have talked about things that are true, that are really important to society, that are very controversial.
You know, I think, you know, if anything, I fall a little bit on foolhardiness, which is an excess of courage.
And that's a fault.
That's a flaw.
I'm not saying this a little humblebag.
Look how.
But fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
I definitely have that fault to a degree.
I'm working on it.
And actually one of my characters, I wrote a book in my early twenties called Just Poor.
You can get it at freedomame.com slash books.
And one of the characters who's old and wise.
Wise says to a young person who tells truths that are very dangerous.
He says, The truth is not a sword to be drawn at all costs.
Hmm, should have listened to old nodded Bob, but I mean, I did what I did before love came to town.
So, yeah, I mean, I have my faults and flaws, but as far as courage goes, you know, not bad.
Again, a bit too much, a bit too cocky.
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