Mike Winger is essentially saying that if every fiber in your body screams that this cannot be true just keep on believing.

I develop games and I hate it when people say "you can't criticize game devs because you haven't developed games yourself". It is our job to listen to feedback and take it into account. I am pretty sure even my friends in culinary will tell you the customer doesn't have to be a master chef to tell you your food tastes weird. Imagine if politicians shut down criticism by saying the average citizen is ignorant of politics. Oh wait...

Evangenitals.... Right up there with Excusagists in the words you have invented I will enjoy for years to come.

Another good example of how religion demands that you "just believe" and "never question the lord". Notice that they once again blame _you_ for not blindly accepting their word. _You_ are the bad guy because _you_ want evidence.

If God's reasons are beyond our comprehension, then how does Mike know anything about God in the first place? How does he know that God portrays himself accurately? He can't.

Excusagists: “I don’t know what God is thinking, or why he does what he does, or what he is doing, or why things don’t quite seem all good, or really anything regarding God and how things work; I just know that it is totally awesome!”

The master mason doesn't drop whole segments of wall on your head and then tells you that's part of the design

MIKE: If I came up to someone who is committing a killing, they're a master murderer and I look at them and say, "What are you doing man, that looks so weird?" In my brain I can not understand any reason why you'd do that. It doesn't seem safe, or wise. But there's a little part of me, a little voice in my head, that says, "Mike, you don't know anything about this killing; or committing killings. You just glanced at it and you made a judgment. This is the master murderer, you should just let him do his job." A little voice in his head says "Mike, you don't know anything". That part is right, but otherwise he shouldn't listen to voices in his head.

You ever saw a child walk up to real master of their craft? And see those masters become kids themselves and share their passion with the kid? People that are afraid of beeing questioned are usually the insecure ones that are afraid of beeing found out as frauds.

I am sure apprentice and fellow masons make mistakes on their way to becoming masons, but all we know of from this “master world builder” is mistakes. He made a perfect garden, and left the world-ruining fruit right where someone would eat it. He made this beautiful planet full of his favorite creations, and had to drown everything because it wasn’t right. He somehow got his favorite folks enslaved for a couple hundred years, then botched nearly every step of getting them free. Then he forgot there were tenants on the land he saved for his favorites, and instead of flooding them away, he got a bunch of his favorites killed while eliminating the tenants. He wiped out multiple settlements because they didn’t work right. He couldn’t keep his angels in order, and one of them set up a competing shop. He sent his son down to fix things and intentionally committed filicide as his solution. A mason would never make it to master with this kind of embarrassing record. I guess the qualifications were lowered for the job of God.

That feel when Mike both believes his deity is a mysterious, incomprehensible being, and also definitely absolutely knows for certain exactly what this mysterious and incomprehensible being both wants and intends to do. Walking that fine line of both absolutely knowing and being completely ignorant of his deity has to be rough.

What knowledge did we get from eating from the tree of knowledge of right and wrong if something so obviously evil isn't actually evil? I've never gotten an answer to this question. "It collapsed into a pile of genocide!" Bwaa ha ha ha!

"Who are you, oh man, to question God!" Real thought stopper.

If god really is a "master mason", he's gonna lose that title when the building inspectors come in and see a lot of things aren't really up to code.

Mike W: Ahhhhhhh! Help!!! And the walls come tumbling down.

Mike Winger is stupid. When I was around twelve, I was watching the man pouring our new concrete driveway. He was doing a poor job and I told that to my mother. She told me that he knew what he was doing and to not bother her about it. When the job was finished, she was most unhappy with the results. She admitted that I'd been correct, but the damage was done. It's still there today.

Mr. Winger's god, unfortunately, is a master builder who has built a house with a BDSM basement, where he's going to sadistically torture people for all eternity. In Mr. Winger's world, there are no safewords for the non-believers.

This was a great reply to his analogy. Loved it!

As Steve Hofstetter said when an audient claimed, "You're not a woman, so you can't know anything.", "Yeah, I'm not a helicopter pilot either, but if I see one in a tree I know someone fucked up."

I can't say I know a master mason, but I know a guy that tells me he built this bridge in Brooklyn. And he's ready to sell it to me cheap. I wonder if they are related.

A master mason building a wall - except there's no wall and no mason. It's not just a case of the emperor's new clothes, 'cos there's no clothes AND no emperor

May the algorithm be with you.

Straighter than an arrow. All praise and glory (whatever that means) to Mr. Deity, telling it like it is for 18 years.

Some believed that Mr. Manson was Jesus, so there’s that.

Great video! My first thought after hearing Mike's analogy was: How do you know this guy is a master mason? He admits he knows nothing of the subject, and by that admission, he has no way to judge the competence of the mason or the supposed creator of the universe. Glad to finally see a response addressing this.

If Mike disagrees with Allah, Vishnu and Thor he must be wrong in somewhere.

I really enjoyed your acting in this video. And your satire. And your humor. And your willingness to engage (obliterate ?) these antiquated ideas. Thank you!

Mike pretending that he knows what his deity thinks is the big fly in the ointment here.

Brian, I cannot tell you -- I simply don't have the words -- how GRATEFUL I am that, because of this video, I now know what "a $h!t ton" is! NOBODY's been able to define it for me before! Thank you! Thank You! THANK YOU! Now, if I can only get as precise a definition for the term, "$h!t show". I'm pretty sure I don't want that image festering in my brain, ready to jump out at every inappropriate moment, but there's this element of morbid curiosity . . . .

You say that there's nobody who looks like you, but I can think of a certain Kentucky Colonel who shares more than a passing resemblance.

He is not just assuming his imaginary sky daddy exists... but he also imagined that he is a "mason"... but not just an apprentice or ordinary one... rather a master one at that... what amazing imagination and wishful thinking.

Any excuse at all, right, Mikey? The difference is that I can learn about building a wall. I can't learn about non-existing.

Tell Mike there is nothing wrong with him. He is fine. There is no God Mike solve your own problems yourself.

The master mason builds the prisons of our minds "there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night" ~Voltaire

Took me 5 seconds to see the flaw in his master mason analogy. "Why won't God debate me?" indeed.

To be fair, the Dark Ages are looking like they are about to come back.

Would Mike Winger question the master mason if they were building a wall to seal (living) people inside a cave forever?

Praise to misterdeity & his videos!

We can assess how good the "master masons" of old were by the ease of which a marching band's worth of trumpeters brought down the Walls of Jericho.

Great video, Brian!

My inner master mason needs master…you know what

Indeed, one should find Mike's Master Mason jarring.

So, I shouldn't go up to the guy building the Galloping Gertie bridge and ask, 'Is it supposed to sway like that?' Or the designer of the Pinto, 'Is that really the best place to put the gas tank?'

If he were to question the mason about the process he is putting his ignorance in danger. Can't be learning new stuff as a Christian!

Oh my Hitch this was a great video!

Did he say "Evan-genitals"? 😂😂😂

Let's try yet another point of view: Mike wouldn't doubt a master mason, but he has no issue attacking scientists for scientific facts he has zero education into.

Such a clear demonstration of the `power of faith.` God exists, and must be perfectly good and just. Therefore, anything that appears to contradict that arbitrary axiom, must be my misunderstanding. I should just have faith, because the thing I believe in, must necessarily be what I say, even if it's completely inexplicable with no tether to reality whatsoever.

It is a mistake to attribute divine authorship to a collection of ancient texts

What?! You mean leprosy _can't_ be cured with incantations and the blood of a bird?

I love how you keep hammering the "no actionable knowledge" nail. Key word: actionable.

Always enjoy your educationally entertaining videos.

Love your use of concrete examples, Brian.

I always love it when they're called Evangenitals! It actually fits!

I used to think that some Master Excusegists were slightly better than others, and that ones like Mike Wingnut were the bottom of the barrel. But no, the only differences are the amount of sophistry they wrap their Excusegetics in.

I see what you did at the end there! "Master Manson!" I get it! I get it!

It is astonishing to think that people still believe the claims of ancient people, who were doing nothing more than making claims without supporting evidence. There cannot be any demonstrable facts to support Mike Winger's assertions, thus it is pointless to ask him for help.

Well, after all, God's mind and being is waaaay beyond human comprehension.........EXCEPT in somehow knowing his will like all the excusigists seem to know. Great video!

What is the basis for assuming his god is the Master Mason of universe building? We've never seen any other to evaluate it against. Maybe this is, in fact, a crap universe, and all the true Masters of universe building snicker behind Yahweh's back whenever the subject of his universe comes up. Maybe his mom would be embarassed to pin this universe to her fridge door.

I wrote a comment, and then watched the rest of the video where he made the same points. I deleted it. He said it better anyway.

I find it odd that theists would not understand that a god knows we would increase our knowledge of our reality over time. That at some point, some of the information in the bible would be wrong. It's as if they have made the bible their god.

Apologists; pretentiously postulating on pretentious prophesy. Commonly known as lying.

"Contemporary evangenitals". I'm gonna use that :-)

Some more Mike's mental mastering. 🤗😉 In the words of George Carlin "at least when I'm finished I got a little something to show for it."

Love the hammer analogy. That reminds me of a joke. Why was Jesus unique among the prophets? He was the only one who could whistle with his hands.

Evangenitals and Master B…s would seem to go hand in hand. I’m sensing a theme here.

Would be nice if you made a video about project 2025

You don't have to be a master chef to know if the food's inedible, or a cinematic genius to know that the movie you're trying to watch is terrible, or a master -bator- sorry, _mason_ to know the wall's all crooked and it'll fall over if a gnat farts on it. You do nave to be a master excusegist to pretend to believe that god's plan will make everything all right in the end.

You have to be very gullible, if not downright stupid, not to see that your dear contractor keeps screwing up his work.

Always a delight to be reminded of the worst sides of humanity by you. And perhaps we should tear those old walls down some more and build something truly beautiful, like a future.

First time I saw a freemasonry note under a vid lol

:''Master mason....Mister Manson." 😂👍

Mike Winger is the Winger of apologists. Beavis and Butthead fans will understand. Cheers

Was this Master Mason hiding? Was he one of three equal but separate Master Masons?

Q: How do you know that God exists? A: Because it makes logical sense that he does. Q: But these particular things make no sense. A: They make sense to God who knows so much more than you Q: Wait .... hold on....

I hadn't heard about Martin Mull. I had to pause and watch some Fernwood 2 Night before continuing. RIP

Thanks for the Martin Mull shout out. Truly one of the beautiful people. He was "flexable".

Mike Winger says the dumbest things. Plays so well with his desperate audience.

RIP Mr Mull. His Col Mustard from Clue was great!

Master masons like all master craftsman create masterpieces that work perfectly. Not crappy things that go wrong fall apart that can be made by nearly everyone. Crappie like us humans with defects within us that fall can kill us. If there was a creator he's no master anything 😂 More like bottom of the class/high school drop out.

Message for Mike: There is not one major structure from the ancient world that was not built by slaves.

He can’t seem to comprehend that even if a god existed, it could very well be a god that is not all good. Why does he believe the god is all god in the first place?

I'd say to poor Mike: suit yourself, you're the one who's going to live your eternal afterlife in the attic of that house of which you already admit that the walls are questionable... maybe this would be helpful to Mike: imagine if you had a Ferrari, and you could park it everywhere, would you park it right next to that wall? or would you park it far enough away?

All in all it’s just a… nother brick in the wall….

The ancients were just as intelligent as we are (if not more so, given that the selection pressure on humans today primarily favors resistance to disease and stress). However, they didn't have the instruments to probe the world with anything more than their innate senses, and their recorded knowledge reflects that limitation. If a "higher power" of some kind truly had communed with ancient people, that being/entity could have trivially left an unambiguous sign for the benefit of the industrial civilization that followed. How about something like, "water is one of the eighth plus two of the first-you don't know what this saying means yet, but memorize it and write it down?" Or maybe, "cleanse your hands frequently with a solution of water and a form of fat rendered and combined with lye." The possibilities are unbounded, but we don't seem to find any wisdom in ancient texts that was outside the bounds of human comprehension when the authors composed them. Apologists have to make hay out of a few anachronisms or heavily reinterpreted poetry. A group of people in communion with the Creator would have an insurmountable advantage over others and not famously be oppressed or excluded.

i waited really patiently for this episode. why didn't three come at once?

The Amish are awful. The misogyny is…horrifying, to just mention one aspect.

What about a Master Baker?

"5 metric tons"!

2:26 I needed that conversion factor today to calculate my junk video consumption

I wouldn't be so sure about how "nice" the Amish are. They might ACT nice to some outsiders because they make all their money from the sale of goods and services so if course they're going to act nice when they want you to buy stuff. There's a KZfaqr who grew up Amish and his channel talks about the Amish community he came from. One of his videos talks about how "nice" they really are behind closed doors and why he left that cult.

Poor Mike. At least he tried but lost it.

Thank you for explaining EXACTLY what a $h!t Ton is. I've been trying to figure that out for decades!😊

Lol @ KZfaq putting in a warning about Freemasonry.

Is Mike a master bater?

"Don't fence me in!"

No master bakers however. Leave that to mike, the verbal variety

Has mickie never been to Machu Picchu?

Oh yeah we all know his deity is a sadist.

Make sure you can tell the difference between a male and female goat before you learn how to milk them, LOL🤣