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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 deplatformed.
How did they respond?
Come on.
We know this.
We know.
How did they respond?
They vanished.
They ran away.
They did not stand with me.
They did not stand by me.
They did not invite me on their shows.
They did not.
I mean, I've actually done shows with atheists, strong atheists, knew that I was unjustly deplatformed.
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 invites 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 deplatform some pretty horrible people, which I don't agree with.
I'm free speech absolutist.
They deplatform pretty horrible people so that when they deplatform people who aren't horrible, they get mixed into the same vat of vitriol, right?
So, yeah, how did our good friends, the atheists, do when a prominent atheist was deplatformed for lies?
Did they say, well, you know, 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 the men atheists 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 lobbing 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 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 2 million set of followers.
At that time, I was deplatformed.
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 my deplatforming was kind of talked about.
And they all just despawned.
They went to the back rooms.
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?
So, I mean, I have empirical evidence that empirical, direct personal evidence that Christians behaved infinitely better than atheists when it came to upholding the truth or providing sympathy for somebody who was being unjustly persecuted.
You can't undo that knowledge in me.
And it wasn't two to one.
It really wasn't two to one, five to one, ten to one.
It 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 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, with the atheists, if they say, well, I just don't like lying, I don't like lies, and liars never prosper.
It's like, bro, 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 works erased through lies, saying, well, lies don't work, man.
Lies are impractical.
Again, 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 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 peccadillas, but I've never 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 little humble brag look how, but I 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 20s called Just Poor.
You can get it at freedom.com/slash books.
And one of the characters who's old and 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.
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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