Who wants Dan to do a class on Critical Thinking and Logical Fallacies?

Always helpful, Dan. I've changed my narrative about the Bible, having read it cover to cover many times, studied contradictions, and understood how religious narratives were formed, which helped me understand what it is and isn't.

The weapons grade ignorance, mental gymnastics and outright lies of apologists are often breathtaking.

Remember kids: Google competently. 😊

I would love to see how Dan and other Christian scholar reconcile these facts with their faith. (From what i've seen, Dan is Mormon). As a person who basically lost all faith in the christian religion,(mainly due to videos like these which i am thankful for), but still wants to believe in some sort of Christianity or Theism, it would be interesting to hear what Dan has to say

If that content creator wanted to be honest with himself he should try this same thing with any other religion. I think he'll find equal, if not more, historical and archeological support for all major religions of the world. But we know that isn't his intention. Creators like that are not looking to inform or be informed, they are simply trying to convince others and themselves that his beliefs are right.

"The bible" is about 100 different books written by at least dozens of different individuals over a period of some 900 years. Those different books widely disagree with each other, so it is nonsensical to even ask whether "the bible" is true. Some of it is, most of it isn't.

Why didn't anyone tell Josephus about that time the tombs opened up and the dead wandered around Jerusalem? Or the time the tapestry in the Temple tore 8n two? Or the earthquake before the zombie parade? Or the three hours of darkness? Or the time Pontius Pilot let that murderer Barabbas go free because an Emperor appointed governor with his own legion "feared the Jews"?

I have seen a chart like that most often used in accompanying lists of contradictions found in the Bible that was prepared by The Reason Project.

I enjoyed the video, but had a hard time with it because I usually just listen to them while working.

I love the daily super hero T-shirts. Yes, I am also a big fan of the video content.

Do ancient Near Eastern scholars have groupies? I genuinely appreciate and admire the work that you're doing. You are what the elders would call "a class act". Keep on keepin' on. -JRL - a fan

When will believers give up attempts to prove a set of stories, dogma, beliefs whose central and necessary tenet is faith? BTW, Spawn was a great under-appreciated movie. Great T-shirt.

Based on how the initial question is phrased, I’m thinking this creator might have some intellectual bias 😂

As I continue to examine this very thing, I think more and more that it is a very early (maybe the first) thematic collection of short stories using the names, locations, and circumstances of the period. Written in such a way that creates the feeling that it could very much be the record of something that actually happened. A modern, well known example would be The DaVinci Code. It wasn't entirely accurate, but used many real world references that made it feel like it was a true story. Then again, maybe I'm off the mark on this one and it's just a wild thought.

With gullibility like that, I've got a few holy relics I could sell this guy. 😂

The dead sea scrolls really only show that these stories and writings existed during that time period. They do not confirm that the stories they contain actually happened. It would be like finding a pile of writing notes and first drafts from the harry potter series. It doesn't make the story any more true than it already is (it's fiction, if that was unclear). And Josephus doesn't confirm any of this either, the closest he got was describing what christians believe, not whether the events they claimed happened, like the resurrection, actually happened. Essentially it would be like me writing that flat earthers believe the earth is flat. I am not confirming that the earth is flat, I am simply documenting this group exists and this is what they believe. Josephus' writings was on that level.

The reason those connections are seen as evidence by those that believe it is the word of God is exactly the thing Dan mentions about them being the product of research done with the completed text and not something the ancient authors did intentionally. Remember the bible has dozens of authors over thousands of the year and yet today 2,000 years after it was written we find connections between different dispensations of doctrine within the bible that their own people and culture did not understand and yet today with the completed text we can see how it all fits together with mind boggling complexity that is not possible if the bible was simply the product of changing religious narratives. Additionally there are many instances of supernatural information in the bible that would be impossible for the authors to have written with their current understanding of the world. The main type of this information is of course prophecy which has no explanation beyond divine intervention.

There's a nice little bit of irony in slapping down religious claims while in Spawn gear, as if teaming up with the guy that took demonic powers and now fights evil to take down a different evil that would call Al evil, despite being so good he'd go against the personification of evil. Or maybe I'm just overthinking it.

My guess is that the chart of cross-references is there to suggests that it's one cohesive narrative?.. I don't know, it's not that impressive to me either.

The flood story lost credibility imo when i read the epic of gilgamesh.

Will people of the future believe animals could speak, especially English? With so many examples in cinema, it must be true. Disney alone presents many examples.

When did steve-o get so quiet?

Using the dude's logic, Metal Gear Solid historically happened.

Every time another copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 turns up, it’s that much more proof that Spider-Man is factually true.

What sort of answer to the original question would you feel comfortable with?

Two things that are real. 1. The One Piece (Whitebeard credible attested to this) 2. The Dunning-Kruger effect on display in the original video

Boom! 👍🏼

Superstitious mythology is fun.

I have to laugh at theists who say I believe in Jesus but not the Bible. Or almost as silly is ok the Old Testament has problems, but I just believe in the New Testament😅😅

So I have a problem with the last argument. You imply that stories such as the Epic of Gilgamesh helped inspire the Biblical stories but here's the thing scholars never mention when they mention similar stories from the ancient Near East, the *whole world* shared similar stories. The scholars/critics who do mention argue for syncretism. The problem? We have ancient Indian petroglyphs from Spirit mountain which *predates* the arrival of the Europeans of the Europeans and these petroglyphs tell a story quite similar to the Bible. So it's not a bad argument, but when looked at when regarding the entire world?? There are going to be issues with many of the assumptions put out by critics and scholars. Most of these stories are flood stories, although you'll find other similar creation stories like the Hawaiian god Kāne creating the first man from mud and sending a flood after humanity due to anger of their actions. EDIT: I definitely could've worded and said that a whole lot better but you catch the drift.

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Is this channel a document of a his journey from Mormonism to atheism? I find it confusing, for a man with a faith he focuses an awful lot on what he doesn’t believe. It would be interesting to here what he does believe because I don’t think you can present data comply removed from dogma

Jeez Dan! Why do you have to be such a buzz kill and shoot down all these peoples nonsense

The fact that this man turned away from the faith and keeps his mind on the Bible and all of his KZfaq time. Let you know that God exists and is living in his head. And most of the mockers everything in the Bible is revealing itself and everything will open up soon enough. This guy will have these Puppetd on a String straight down the tube.

Dear Dan, Suppose you are 100% correct in everything you state. Stipulated. Question: what possible difference does it make, other than to make small-time nobodies (who you don't debate but merely comment on) look foolish, or at least wrong? I'm truly curious: what is your point?

It has truth in it,but it is confounded as mankind's language was confounded , Revelations 10 , that mighty angel is Enki,in his hand is the original account of the days of ATLANTIS and how mankind was created,it what the bible was copied from, the bible is not the absolute truth

Amen! 😇 *Did you memorize the short prayer Jesus told us to pray? I did when I was just a boy in school and here it is.* *"Our Father **_who_** art in heaven hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done **_on_** earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our **_trespasses_** as we forgive those who **_trespass_** against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory for ever amen."* *Those words are no longer printed in any translation of the bible on earth! The words "who, on, trespasses and trespass" have been **_magically_** changed to "which, in, debts and debtors"!* *There are many more changes in the Bible too and here's why!* Amos 8:11 “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:” Amos 8:12 “And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, _(it was south),_ they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.” *The first verse has already been fulfilled but the second one hasn't (yet). But they keep saying that the lights are going to go out which will instantly fulfill it.* *Type in PROOF OF BIBLE CHANGE RESIDUE JUNKIE with your Bible open and receive an unimaginable strengthening of faith when you see proof of the supernatural fulfillment of prophecy and how close we are to our Savior's return!* *God bless you all!!!* ❤✝️💪 *P.S. After people have taken all of the required 💉's, they will apply a quantum dot invisible tattoo to their head or hand, but anyone who has had just one has a bluetooth mac # that can be read by any smart phone and when you walk through the deal at an airport they know if you have it. The no buying or selling is happening incrementally and will be complete when cash is abolished and worship can be defined as "to fear, obey and trust in someone or something" which is what they are doing with the Beast System and the Image of the Beast, (NWO and TV!). Yes, this absolutely is it, and if you write me at the address on my about page I'll send you 15 **_shocking_** films that will PROVE it to anyone who has the courage to watch them.*

When did Steve-O become a religous nut?