Atheist Debates - Does the Christian God exist? Matt Dillahunty and Braxton Hunter

If Matt objects to slavery why does he own so many people?

Every time I hear someone saying, "If atheism is true..." I know they're stupid.

"This isn't special pleading, I'm just pleading something special." ~Special Pleader

"People experience miraculous healing all the time." *guy in a wheelchair asks the next question.

Time stamps. 0:11 Formalities. Host Introduction of speakers and general rules. ~20 minute speeches 6:07 Braxton Hunter. 25:49 Matt Dillahunty. 46:17 Braxton Hunter. 56:20 Matt Dillahunty. 1:06:34 Formalities. Host lays out rules for cross examination. Q&A between Speakers, ~ 6 minutes 1:07:31 Braxton Hunter. 1:13:42 Matt Dillahunty. 1:20:46 Formalities. Host lays out rules. Q&A between Speakers, ~5 minutes 1:21:26 Braxton Hunter. 1:26:37 Matt Dillahunty. 1:32:42 Formalities. Host lay out rules Q&A from audience to speakers 1:33:36 Directed at Matt Dillahunty. 1:36:23 Directed at Braxton Hunter. 1:39:44 Directed at Matt Dillahunty. 1:42:38 Directed at Matt Dillahunty. 1:47:36 Not directed directly at speaker, but question pointed at Braxton Hunter. 1:51:54 Directed at Braxton Hunter. 1:53:25 Directed at Matt Dillahunty. 1:55:20 Directed at Braxton Hunter. 1:58:32 Directed at Matt Dillahunty. 2:00:53 Directed at Matt Dillahunty. 2:02:48 Directed at Matt Dillahunty. 2:05:33 Host preaching...?* (I don't know what to label this neutrally.) *I generally don't put personal opinions into time stamps, but this took me a back a bit. because the host so far was doing a decent job at being a host.

Braxton: “stay with me here it’s about to get complicated” and “you’re not gonna like what I say here.” Proceeds with overly complicated non-answers. It annoys me how 99.9% of Christians debaters can’t answer a question straight. Matt Dillahunty was once a Christian who answered questions straight. Now he’s an atheist.

Wow, that preacher right at the end actually asked his audience to please not think with their minds but instead to act purely on emotion and be very very careful to never ever let logic or experience turn them away from that. If evil existed, that would be it right there. What an absolutely reprehensible belief system. I'm compelled to go off on a big angry rant right now, and it's taking a lot of discipline to acknowledge that would be pointless and not do it.

"The universe cannot be eternal...and our god is eternal." - every Christian apologist

Christian opener: If you think you have free will, the Christian God exists. Amazing....

The moderator clearly didn't think that Braxton did a good job with that desperate and dishonest ending.

I swear if Matt hadn't said anything about telling people "you didn't believe strongly enough" that dude was ready to say that exact thing

Braxton Hunter's opening speech is giving me motion sickness.

"We shouldn't be moved by cliché's. Anyway, here's the Kalam."

Audience member : "Why do you define yourself as atheist?" Same audience member 5 seconds later : "I don't care how you define things"

Did this man just really do a whole sermon at the end

"Recalibrated plausibility" must be the theist version of "alternative facts". Edited to include timestamps: 0:11 Introduction of the format 5:58 Braxton's opener 25:48 Matt's opener 46:03 Braxton's rebuttal 56:20 Matt's rebuttal 1:06:33 Cross examination #1 by Braxton 1:13:35 Cross examination #1 by Matt 1:20:43 Cross examination #2 by Braxton 1:26:31 Cross examination #2 by Matt 1:33:09 Q&A period

“Oh shit, this debate was a bad idea, Matt made some really good points. I better do some last minute evangelizing so these people don’t become atheists.” - Moderator

That moderator should've stayed quiet at the end

The moderator appealed to Pascal's Wager. Wow.

I love that the absolute BEST argument that theists can bring up is to squeeze out the logic that PERHAPS a god-like being exists. They have absolutely zero evidence that it’s Yahweh, or that Jesus was the Messiah, or that the prophets were real...they say “Wow, a space pixie? That sound like God! We win!” 🤦🏽‍♂️