Thank you. I appreciate it.

I wanted them to tell him about the Clergy Project. I hope he found his way out.

@@yogi147 Brian? How are you doing re your beliefs?

@@yogi147 @YoGi147 Brian? I hope youre alright. Its not easy. Much like Matt, I wound up not convinced anymore after trying to defend the bible more. I was a christian and I understand how tough it can be.

@@RaulPerez-jj5jj thank you, Matt has changed my life forevermore.

Yes

"God is a tool" - Just as the theist. At least the trolls here. Edit: And the caller in the beginning of the call.

@@nobs997 Imaginary tool. He's the left-handed monkey wrench of the tool box.

People use God as a tool

@@MireVale They TRY to use god as a tool. :p

@Terrence Bullock I've been saying for years that if I was a supreme being who had created a universe, people claiming I cared about the clothes they wear, what they do with their genitals, etc. would make me quite irate.

Thank you. I was listening intently.

Thanks, I follow this show very closely since that call.

@@yogi147 9oo.o

I am doing well, and yes not long after this call I informed my friends and family, I also wouldn’t recommend doin it like that, I should have been way more casual with it.

@@yogi147 Brian? Goodness! Great to hear you're doing well!! Though it sounds like there's been some fallout with your close ones...

@@Toobielove that’s my twin brothers name, I was worried about the viewers tracking me down and telling my church members. But yea I’ve long since giving up supernatural beliefs.

@@yogi147 Oh wow! It's really nice to hear a follow up from someone with whom I know most of the audience empathised and were invested. Sorry if it hasn't been smooth sailing with your family. Maybe that situation will improve, but if not you still have a grasp on reality and therefore control over your life that sadly the religious can't achieve.

@@chriskelly3481 I’m looking toward the bright side of things. For the most part it’s been really good.

Yep. Me too!

2012-2014 Matt is my favorite 🙂

Just being honest and willing to admit defeat in an argument is the best way to get on his good and compassionate side.

Matt D is nice to listen to his early yrs till to 2016..after that maybe cos of his medical problem n age..he gets very angry n disrespectful to his callers.. although I side with Matt cos some of the callers are disgusting too..

@Deedak I agree. Halfway through, I began to download it. The caller was so courteous & genuine; Matt responded in kind.

There’s an 8 month old comment where someone claiming to be him replied and stated he no longer believes in fairy tales

@@jool7793 oh wow, thanks for letting me know! If the comment is legit that makes me super happy to hear.

I was never that guy!

He is now an atheist

Brian can't give himself credit for living his life, he must lay it to something else. How the hell do you get on doing that?

Me too. Big whoop hope he keeps searching

Lol. I literally thought the same thing 😀

Back when Matt actually enjoyed doing the show!

@@MarxistKnight 🤣😂🤣

@@MarxistKnight Back when you serious callers with serious questions! Now the callers are mostly insane, which eventually wears on you!!!

@@MarxistKnight Unfortunately, this caller (appears to be) the exception. Not the rule. It is simultaneously depressing and totally revealing how many theists choose the second option- faking it. That's when the willful ignorance and intellectually dishonesty begin. And from that one single crossroad, we get countless theists on the road to being insufferable and impossible to take seriously, rather than theists who became Atheists because they cared about whether what they believe is ACTUALLY true or not. From there, it's a short slope to "reality is whatever position is most convenient to me at any particular moment". And then it eventually leads to nothing but mind boggling projection. Keep in mind, these are the same people that preach "facts over feelings". Funny how the people who coined that phrase are almost always the same ones with the GLARING insecurities and the fragile widdle egos. I guess for them, deep down, all that matters is "whatever helps me sleep at night". It's so predictable, yet still pathetic nevertheless. The scary thing is how numerous and dense these people truly must be, to (even remotely) believe that anybody can or will take them seriously. Reinforcing the self delusion then becomes paramount in priority for them, because by that point it's "if I tell myself something is true enough times, then eventually it becomes true" (despite all evidence to the contrary). And when it gets too uncomfortable for them to ignore the obvious, accurate response by (rational) people living in the REAL world? It's burying one's head in the sand, running away, and starting over with parroting the delusions on the next thread. Willful ignorance. Project. Get exposed. Run away. Rinse, repeat. Over and over. Before you know it, your "Dr. (🤣) James Powers" or "Canadian Catholic". Don't be "Canadian Catholic". I guess when mere mortals will no longer tolerate you, you find a higher power.

Not entirely, I lied about my first name.

@@yogi147 Regardless of your beliefs, you're among friendly folks, sir.

@@Tupelo927 thanks 😊

@@yogi147 Hiding from your church and buybile thumping family isn't anything to be ashamed of. My mother is a fundamentalist buybile thumper and still holds out hope that not only will I start going to church, but also become a powerful preacher winning souls for Cheesus. She knows that I know the content of the buybile, she doesn't know that I'm a hard core atheist and that chit (me becoming a preacher) is never ever going to happen. I will never reveal to her my stance, not only will she not be able to accept it, she'll disown me and has made that clear. I'm not going to allow her primitive childish belief to destroy what relationship we do have.

@@theanti-anti-intellectual5026 You are awesome!

@SPEIRS OMNHURST I'd rather have questions you can't answer than answers you can't question.

Atheism isn't intended to provide answers. It's a starting point not an end point. It's like alcoholism: you can't do anything to help yourself until you acknowledge you have a problem. Theists are drunk on God and the 'answers' they claim to see are really just illusions feeding their addiction.

@SPEIRS OMNHURST Athiesm is a single position on the belief in a god. Athiesm makes no pronouncements regarding any other question other than the existence of a God….so what answers do you think they should be giving? Theists believe in a god. Athiests ask if Thiests can provide evidence for this belief……and so far theists have failed to do so. Please tell me an answer for any issue that religion offers an answer for , that a secular world view doesn’t also provide an answer for? Can you provide evidence that ANYTHING supernatural exists? Because the only LOGICAL way to approach life is to withhold belief until you are provided with sufficient evidence.

@SPEIRS OMNHURST The point is that god-believe is not an answer to anything if you really care about if your believes are true. You could stick in god for any question that you don't have an answer to so it has no explanatory power at all. If you don't care and think that you need an answer to lead a healthy life no matter if that answer is true then sure religion is a way to do that. But to suggest that someone needs made up answers to lead a good life is demonstrably false. In short: Theism has no answers either.

@SPEIRS OMNHURST ZERO ANSWERS ASSERTED WITHOUT EVIDENCE. Isn't that a beautiful thing? Do you want actual answers? Because I can sell you the Brooklyn bridge if it makes you feel better.

There are over a billion Christians and over a billion separate, independent denominations of Christianity!

Exactly. They make up all sorts of stories to rationalize god on the fly, in response to what Matt says. Brian was doing a lot of this here.

@@paulmorris8188 And they can’t agree!!!! Smh!

I turned out okay 👍

@@yogi147 ...Hey! Buddy! ...the Brian I know is right handed! ...you must be some sort of Brian imposter!!!

@@Yossarian. haha I was!

@@yogi147 ...It was a rare moment of compassion on my part for a floundering theist, normally I'd recommend a sharp blow to the back of the neck with a seal club; ....except something about the short pauses Brian took before responding and his resigned replies, you could see he was having an epiphany right there before our eyes....it was refreshing....and something I'd never seen before. ...probably my favourite athiest experience episode. All hail Matt.

It was a bit like that.

I know. This is really the same dilemma people who were in a band for all of their young life face, when the band reaches the end of its viability. Almost all of us have to adjust at some point or drown basically.

@@skippy675yip, great analogy. The only difference I can see is that walking away from a band typically doesn't include suddenly distant and cold shouldered friends and family who think that the devils got ya!

I'd like to know what the point of this purpose is.

I do see this, but I don’t see the need to call back in as people wanna hear theist callers and I’m now an atheist. But yea I’m here and I read the comments.

@@yogi147 I think we would all be really interested to hear what convinced you, and whether life is as rewarding without a god etc

@@nicolab2075 not one specific thing, but if I had to point to one thing, it would be the atheist experience being put on KZfaq. I had reasons, I realized it, and gave them up. I’m happily married to the girl of my dreams, and I’m doing much better without believing in supernatural stuff.

@@yogi147 Really pleased it worked out for you xxx

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@dayone Is there any necessity for God to be all-knowing and all-powerful? I do not think so. But God should have sufficient power and knowledge necessary for creating the universe. That much is needed. But that does not make God all-knowing and all-powerful.

@@udaybhanuchitrakar8812 So are you saying that there are certain things god cannot do because it’s not powerful enough? Are you saying that there are certain things that god does not know? What about learning? Are you suggesting that god had to learn how to be god? Who taught it, and how? From what, some kind of god textbook? Is there a school for gods? What kind of a weak ass ignorant god is this?

@Jimmy James “𝘐𝘍….𝘐𝘍….𝘐𝘍….𝘪𝘧 it’s proven that life was the result of a creator…” That’s a pretty big fucking 𝘐𝘍 Jimmy. Your whole argument is based on 𝘐𝘍 something happened. You yourself don’t even know if it happened, you’re just assuming that it did so that you even have an argument to begin with. You accuse atheists of making backwards claims, but that is exactly what you are doing here. You assume god exists and then work backwards using his existence as a reason for life, without proving that he actually exists in the first place. You must prove that this god or yours exists before using it as an explanation for something. Right now, universe farting pixies are just as viable as an explanation for creation as your god is.

I can understand his fear of fallout with people he associates with. It's happened to me. I have had relationships ruined and an engagement broken off because they were more in love with their church / religion or so fearful of accepting someone who thinks and believes differently that they felt I was a threat.

Praise cheesus.

You’re right, I gave up my belief not long after this call

@@yogi147 Are you Brian from the call? If so, I admire your honesty. As an Irish ex-Roman Catholic, I can empathise with the psychological and emotional turmoil associated with letting go of such a deeply entrenched and insidious belief system. The lock-in and lock-out clauses, that are central to such rigid and irrational doctrines, are deliberately constructed to cause these very human distresses. That being, "believe unquestioningly, or be lost for eternity", and "To question or doubt, is the Devil's work". I hope things have gotten clearer for you since and you're enjoying the immense liberation that comes with shedding a deeply flawed weight of baggage ?👍 It's far from easy, but the rewards are very real and immeasurably outweigh the alternative.

@@skateboardingjesus4006 that is me thank you

@@yogi147 proud of you man - it happened to me as well - you get to a point with the rational thinking that you have to let go and the fear goes with it. The whole world becomes a better place

Not that I'm aware of, but I'd wager TOS/TNG

Wow if it really is you that's great to hear that you came out of it. Really enjoyed this clip and I think it may have helped a lot of other people.

@@WolfgangBrozart thanks me too, you can verify but going to my personal account and listening to my voice in one of the videos, it’s me. I also play video games.

So are you an atheist now? 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@@galaxylinds yuppers

@@yogi147 how do you feel looking back on this video

He’s a Scientologist now

@SPEIRS OMNHURST Too bad nobody can find any proof for that fairy tale. That’s why theists have been failing for thousands of years.😈

@SPEIRS OMNHURST That's not proof, that bull shit assertions. You must have been pretty young when you decided to be superstitious, otherwise you would have chosen to believe in a bad ass god like Allah.

@SPEIRS OMNHURST Wrong- you could prove a “Non-Temporary cause”. But you would still have to prove that that cause was, concious, intelligent, & had intentionally created this universe.

@SPEIRS OMNHURST Your argument is circular. You’re saying that the only way that the Universe can exist is if it had an intelligent designer. Then you are saying that because the universe exists, that proves God. You don’t just get to assert that the only way the universe comes into being is by intelligent design. You would first need to demonstrate that this universe did indeed come into existence (Since we cannot blobserve beyond the Planck time, there is no way of proving that our universe hasn’t been here forever & the Big Bang was part of a cycle of expansion & contraction) Then you would have to rule out; Multiverse theory, Experimentation by advanced Aliens, Giant space monsters that shit out universes etc…. Anyone can come up with a magic explaination for everything- but they shouldn’t be believed until they have proved their explaination actually exists. So you do not get to claim “The only way the universe could happen is if it was created by an intelligent being” - Until you have demonstrated that such a being even exists. The Bible!? Really 🤦🏻‍♂️ The Bible is a collection of manuscripts from anonymous authors, with no originals- only copies of translations from dead languages based on source material dated 100s of years after the events it described. Multiple manuscripts have been removed & others have been replaced with forgeries, just to keep up the magical lie it’s trying to tell. If the Bible is true then even if some god exists, it’s clearly not Moral or Loving. •Drowning the entire world because you gave them free will then didn’t like how they acted? = Psycho/Murderer/Immoral •Banning the eating of shellfish but not banning Slavery = Idiot/Immoral/Evil •Commanding Witches to be killed even though there’s no such thing as Witches = proof that the Bible is a bunch of myths,legends & superstitions of Iron Age Sheperds that men have altered and corrupted over the centuries to gain control over uneducated & gullible people (Like you) PROVE TO ME THAT YOUR GOD EXISTS. Or you DO NOT get to offer it as an explaination and offer the Bible as evidence. Because I can offer Magic fairies as an explaination & offer all the books about Fairies as my evidence.

@@Ben-no4lz That’s the resident troll here. I call him moist rock moron. He keeps losing all credibility on one account, so he starts another account and destroys his credibility again with the same stupid crap.💩 He just craves attention.

Not the one with the leemings

Indeed, but it does bring a smile at the chance that after hearing him, he just may wake up and start living his life free from the shackles

It was a long journey

I was also raised without religion and very thankful for it. Poor Brian, i was almost crying when he said "but where will i go, what will i do?" I hope he didn't have to choose between clear thinking and a warm social circle. I hope he got both!

There is a lot of redefining words going on as past wee while, " rioting, looting burning, attacking police is now defined as peaceful protest,Fascism is now Anti fascism, facts is now hate,regressive is now progressive, racism is now anti racism,opinions are now facts, failure is success, cowardice is courage,men are women,the list just keeps growing.

@@megamus3 Religious apologists have been doing that for years.😂

@@megamus3 Damn it dogs are cats and I've been taking my cat for long walks

Nope I gave it up not long after the call

@YoGi147 Welcome to the dark side. Hail Satan my brother

You’re right, I did let go.

I bet he's free.

@@nicolab2075 you’re right. I am.

@@yogi147 Are you Brian? How are you doing?

@@nicolab2075 yes and no, I gave my twin brothers name when I called as I was worried about the viewers hunting me down, but yea that’s me in the call.

@@nicolab2075 I’m doing well!

@Neal Fernan _evidently you don't know scripture all that well.

@Neal Fernan see, the problem is the bible is a fairy tale. Once upon a time...

@Neal Fernan I actually feel a little bad that you went to such lengths to respond. However, implicit in every word is the notion that there is an eternal afterlife. There is an episode of "Westworld," where the robots are recycled. They are told they, too, are going to Paradise, and are taken through a door, where they are disassembled. You have no soul, not any part of the individual survives. Sorry you so desperately cling to your selfish dream of eternal life. I can tell you, you have already lost big chunks of the one life you DO have!

@Neal Fernan I doubt Jesus was a person, but it doesn't matter to me. YOU have to believe it, or there could be no resurrection, which is essential to your stories. The bible stories are supposed to explain the mysteries of the world to superstitious men who were terrified of the dark. Every culture and sect has them. No, I do not believe there is a god, or a devil, angels, spirits, or ghosts. There is.not, nor will there ever be, a battle of good and evil, no Armageddon. The only reason people even heard of Jesus is that the Roman Empire adopted the religion and spread it BY THE SWORD. You are a fish that is unaware it lives in water.

@Neal Fernan Sounds very authoritarian doesn't this god thing