# Answering Bad Faith Questions

An episode of [Viced Rhino: The Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1536972599), 11 Sep 2026, 19 min.

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Lily Jay of TikTok asks a bunch of what she seems to think are gotcha questions, most of which have relatively straightforward answers. Cards: Questions for Atheists...Answered!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4mknmx0XVw Sources: Ask Ethan: Can We Really Get A Universe From Nothing?: https://tinyurl.com/y2j4fxhx The Anchor Bible: Genesis: https://tinyurl.com/29p8k7nf Evolutionary transition from a single RNA replicator to a multiple replicator network: https://tinyurl.com/y9tbaxlu Religion, spirituality and depression in prospective studies: A systematic review: https://tinyurl.com/2b4rvwke Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/viced-rhino-the-podcast--4623273/support. All my various links can be found here: http://links.vicedrhino.com This content is CAN credentialed, which means you can report instances of harassment, abuse, or other harm on their hotline at (617) 249-4255, or on their website at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org

## Transcript

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[0:23] Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to my channel vice Rhino here. Remember
[0:28] Speaker 2: a few weeks ago when I responded to a compilation
[0:29] Speaker 2: of TikToks asking questions of atheists? Well, a number of
[0:33] Speaker 2: you seemed really annoyed by LilyJ's inclusion in that video.
[0:37] Speaker 2: I had never heard of her before that, and as
[0:38] Speaker 2: a YouTuber, it is my solemn duty to troll my
[0:42] Speaker 2: audience whenever possible, so today I put together a bunch
[0:45] Speaker 2: of her questions for atheist videos and will be responding
[0:48] Speaker 2: to them. Now, while I am partially doing this because
[0:50] Speaker 2: of my apparent desire to annoy my audience until I
[0:53] Speaker 2: no longer have a job, patreon.com slash vice rano if
[0:55] Speaker 2: you want to support that effort, I did find her opening,
[0:58] Speaker 2: Hey Atheist, I have a question, got quite grating when
[1:02] Speaker 2: seeing it several times in a row, so I did
[1:04] Speaker 2: remove them from these clips. You're welcome. But it's also
[1:07] Speaker 2: kind of her thing, so it feels like I'd be
[1:09] Speaker 2: depriving you if I didn't include it at all, so
[1:12] Speaker 2: let's have them all at once and get them out
[1:13] Speaker 2: of the way.
[1:13] Speaker 3: Hey Atheist, I have a question.
[1:17] Speaker 2: Oh, shoot that shit right into my veins. Now that's done,
[1:21] Speaker 2: let's answer some silly questions.
[1:30] Speaker 3: It's so windy tonight. But you know what? Because I
[1:33] Speaker 3: can't see the wind, it doesn't exist.
[1:37] Speaker 2: Now, I recognize that in this one, she's responding to
[1:39] Speaker 2: a commenter that specifically asked how you can believe in
[1:42] Speaker 2: a god that you can't see. And honestly, that is
[1:45] Speaker 2: a good response to that question. So in this case,
[1:47] Speaker 2: the silly question is coming from the atheist. Being able
[1:50] Speaker 2: to visually detect something is not the only way you
[1:52] Speaker 2: can tell something exists. And it is trivial to show
[1:55] Speaker 2: that to be the case, as she just did. The
[1:58] Speaker 2: problem is that God is completely undetectable in any way.
[2:02] Speaker 2: So wind is not really analogous to God. You cannot
[2:05] Speaker 2: usually see the air molecules moving directly, but you can
[2:08] Speaker 2: detect them and see their impact on objects like leaves,
[2:11] Speaker 2: so denying their existence would be ridiculous. But with God,
[2:15] Speaker 2: as far as I can tell, not only can you
[2:17] Speaker 2: not see him, but he cannot be detected in any
[2:20] Speaker 2: reliable way. So far, the best way to detect God
[2:23] Speaker 2: is to have an experience while already believing that he exists.
[2:27] Speaker 2: Sucks to be a non-believer, I guess. So, everyone in.
[2:30] Speaker 4: My comments, they keep saying, Big Bang, Big Bang, everything
[2:33] Speaker 4: came from the Big Bang. But where did the material
[2:36] Speaker 4: for the Big Bang even come from?
[2:38] Speaker 2: Short answer, we don't know. Long answer, that depends on
[2:42] Speaker 2: what you mean by material. To turn a creationist argument
[2:44] Speaker 2: on its head, remember the second law of thermodynamics. Energy
[2:47] Speaker 2: cannot be created or destroyed. Matter, or material, is, to
[2:51] Speaker 2: oversimplify it a bit, frozen energy. That's why splitting atoms
[2:54] Speaker 2: releases so much energy. So energy has always existed, and
[2:58] Speaker 2: matter is made from energy. But really, at this point
[3:01] Speaker 2: in history, with regards to the origin of matter in
[3:03] Speaker 2: the universe, all we can do is construct models regarding
[3:06] Speaker 2: what came before the Big Bang. Many have been constructed
[3:09] Speaker 2: and they all deal with the question differently, and realistically,
[3:11] Speaker 2: we have probably not yet developed the correct model. So ultimately,
[3:15] Speaker 2: we do not know.
[3:16] Speaker 3: Like, can something really come from nothing?
[3:19] Speaker 5: Hmm.
[3:20] Speaker 4: How does that work?
[3:21] Speaker 2: Yes, something could hypothetically come from nothing. That works in
[3:24] Speaker 2: one of two ways depending on how you define nothing. First,
[3:27] Speaker 2: if by nothing you mean what cosmologists typically mean when
[3:30] Speaker 2: they say nothing, their nothing contains the laws of physics
[3:32] Speaker 2: and quantum fields. And quantum fields, because of the Heisenberg
[3:35] Speaker 2: Uncertainty Principle, will contain energy known as dark energy. Dark
[3:39] Speaker 2: energy is, put simply, the energy that exists in otherwise
[3:42] Speaker 2: completely empty space-time. It is the energy behind the expansion
[3:45] Speaker 2: of the universe, and the amount of dark energy present
[3:48] Speaker 2: dictates how space-time will behave. After the Big Bang, dark
[3:51] Speaker 2: energy has been a constant, the cosmological constant, in fact.
[3:54] Speaker 2: But if the value of dark energy before the Big
[3:56] Speaker 2: Bang were significantly higher, then spacetime would have behaved in
[3:59] Speaker 2: a way that is consistent with the cosmic inflation model,
[4:01] Speaker 2: where spacetime would have expanded much more rapidly than it
[4:04] Speaker 2: does today. In order for that inflationary period to end,
[4:07] Speaker 2: the dark energy must be converted into matter and radiation.
[4:10] Speaker 2: The moment that happened is what we call the Big Bang.
[4:13] Speaker 2: But apologists will often object to this use of the
[4:15] Speaker 2: word nothing because the laws of physics and quantum fields
[4:18] Speaker 2: are not nothing, making it something. they usually insist on
[4:21] Speaker 2: what is known as a philosophical nothing, the complete absence
[4:25] Speaker 2: of anything. The way the universe coming from nothing would
[4:27] Speaker 2: work in this model, though, is that there are no
[4:29] Speaker 2: laws of physics. The laws of thermodynamics are what would
[4:32] Speaker 2: make something coming from such a nothing impossible, but we
[4:35] Speaker 2: have just agreed that such a nothing has no laws
[4:37] Speaker 2: of physics, so thermodynamics don't exist. In such a nothing,
[4:41] Speaker 2: there is literally nothing stopping something from spontaneously popping into existence,
[4:46] Speaker 2: and there's nothing that says that that couldn't be our universe.
[4:49] Speaker 3: So let me get something straight.
[4:51] Speaker 4: With an art like this, the atheists still want to
[4:54] Speaker 4: deny the artist? How does that work?
[4:58] Speaker 2: Easily. That's not actually art. That's nature. Our brains evolved
[5:02] Speaker 2: in a way that allows us to appreciate some things
[5:04] Speaker 2: as aesthetically pleasing, likely because of a variety of factors.
[5:07] Speaker 2: Our ancestors who saw beauty in the unknown would have
[5:09] Speaker 2: been more likely to wander off and explore new places,
[5:11] Speaker 2: thus spreading out our population and allowing us to survive
[5:14] Speaker 2: location-based disasters. Those who saw Beauty and the Familiar would
[5:17] Speaker 2: have been more likely to stay at home and build settlements,
[5:20] Speaker 2: developing agriculture and industry, allowing our population to boom. But
[5:24] Speaker 2: if you are going to say that beauty is proof
[5:25] Speaker 2: of God, then what of the ugly side of nature?
[5:28] Speaker 2: That video contains a large body of water. Within that
[5:32] Speaker 2: body of water, there are undoubtedly parasites causing pain to
[5:35] Speaker 2: their hosts. There are animals starving because they can't find
[5:38] Speaker 2: enough to eat. And to tell a personal anecdote here,
[5:40] Speaker 2: once upon a time, I tried to breed angelfish. One
[5:43] Speaker 2: of the first things you learn about breeding them is
[5:45] Speaker 2: that they suck at being parents. They will probably eat
[5:48] Speaker 2: all of their own eggs the first few times they mate,
[5:51] Speaker 2: before they even get a chance to hatch. And if
[5:52] Speaker 2: they do hatch, you have to remove them immediately to
[5:55] Speaker 2: stop the parents from feasting on the flesh of their children.
[5:59] Speaker 2: Similar things are undoubtedly happening in the water right behind her.
[6:02] Speaker 2: The ugliness is hiding, just beneath the surface. Literally.
[6:06] Speaker 4: So you call religious people crazy for believing in miracles, right?
[6:10] Speaker 5: Nope.
[6:11] Speaker 2: I know there are some atheists who do that, but
[6:13] Speaker 2: as a former Christian, I used to believe in miracles myself.
[6:16] Speaker 2: I don't think I was crazy back then, so why
[6:18] Speaker 2: would I assume that someone who believes in miracles today
[6:20] Speaker 2: must be?
[6:21] Speaker 4: But you believe in the most preposterous miracle of all,
[6:24] Speaker 4: that the universe was created from nothing.
[6:27] Speaker 2: Not to be nitpicky, but I don't actually believe that
[6:29] Speaker 2: the universe was created from nothing. The universe being created
[6:34] Speaker 2: from nothing is the position that you hold, unless you
[6:37] Speaker 2: believe that something existed before God created anything. So …
[6:41] Speaker 2: I guess the creation story that you believe in is
[6:43] Speaker 2: the most preposterous miracle of all. Also, now seems like
[6:47] Speaker 2: a good time to clarify her talking points are nearly
[6:49] Speaker 2: indistinguishable from Christian ones in these clips, but she is
[6:51] Speaker 2: a Muslim, not a Christian. I am not as familiar
[6:54] Speaker 2: with Islam as I am with Christianity, so it is
[6:56] Speaker 2: possible that I'm wrong here and that Muslims view the
[6:58] Speaker 2: creation story differently from Christians. After all, there is enough
[7:02] Speaker 2: ambiguity in the original Hebrew of Genesis to allow for
[7:04] Speaker 2: God having created a universe out of primordial chaotic ocean
[7:08] Speaker 2: sort of stuff rather than pure nothing. But I feel
[7:11] Speaker 2: like she might not have the most nuanced view of scripture,
[7:13] Speaker 2: so assuming that she believes God created out of nothing
[7:16] Speaker 2: seems warranted. Also, I did do a bit of Googling,
[7:19] Speaker 2: and it appears as though Muslims largely share the same
[7:21] Speaker 2: view on creation as the Christians do. God created out
[7:24] Speaker 2: of nothing, not pre-existent material. So by her own admission here,
[7:28] Speaker 2: she believes in the most preposterous miracle of all.
[7:31] Speaker 4: You say religious people are stupid for believing that the
[7:34] Speaker 4: universe was created by.
[7:35] Speaker 3: A God that's invisible, right?
[7:37] Speaker 2: Again, I don't think that I was stupid when I
[7:40] Speaker 2: was religious, and I don't think my intelligence suddenly shot
[7:43] Speaker 2: up when I stopped believing, so I wouldn't say that
[7:45] Speaker 2: religious people are stupid. But if I were to say
[7:48] Speaker 2: something along those lines, it wouldn't be because God is invisible.
[7:51] Speaker 2: It would be because God is completely undetectable. Plenty of
[7:54] Speaker 2: things exist that are invisible, but God is in the
[7:56] Speaker 2: same category as chi energy and the astrological force that
[7:59] Speaker 2: supposedly allows a planet's position to dictate your personality traits. Actually, no,
[8:04] Speaker 2: that's not fair to astrology. People's personalities are detectable, and
[8:08] Speaker 2: in enough statistical noise, you can find patterns, so while
[8:10] Speaker 2: there isn't actually any such force, there are at least vague,
[8:14] Speaker 2: observable things that can be gestured at to support their points. Sure,
[8:17] Speaker 2: they also have to ignore a ton of conflicting data,
[8:19] Speaker 2: but at least it's something.
[8:22] Speaker 3: But do you know what's even crazier?
[8:24] Speaker 4: Believing that something can come from nothing.
[8:26] Speaker 3: Now that is crazy, because it's scientifically impossible.
[8:30] Speaker 2: Yeah, so some of these are repeat questions. See my
[8:34] Speaker 2: earlier answer about what is meant by nothing, along with
[8:36] Speaker 2: the implications that go along with whatever definition of nothing
[8:39] Speaker 2: you prefer to use, as well as the accidental cell
[8:41] Speaker 2: phone that happened when she described her own position as
[8:43] Speaker 2: crazy or stupid without realizing that that's what she's doing.
[8:47] Speaker 3: How can you believe this universe was created from nothing?
[8:50] Speaker 3: Can this simple copy make itself?
[8:52] Speaker 2: Not as such, but do you know how many consumable
[8:55] Speaker 2: items humans have accidentally discovered because something went bad all
[8:58] Speaker 2: by itself in just the right way to create it?
[9:01] Speaker 2: Basically anything fermented, like alcohol, yogurt, cheese, some sauces like
[9:05] Speaker 2: soy sauce and vinegar. All of those things trace their
[9:08] Speaker 2: origin to something going bad, but someone eating it anyway
[9:11] Speaker 2: and discovering that it was good in a different way, actually. Now, sure,
[9:14] Speaker 2: today it's all done in a very controlled way to
[9:17] Speaker 2: make sure nothing harmful ends up in it, but the
[9:19] Speaker 2: initial discovery of these food products would almost certainly have
[9:22] Speaker 2: involved something sitting around for too long, resulting in a
[9:25] Speaker 2: new food making itself.
[9:28] Speaker 3: What's the purpose of life? You leave. You die. Now what?
[9:33] Speaker 3: Is that it? How does that work?
[9:36] Speaker 2: You live, you die, that's it. That's how it works.
[9:40] Speaker 2: I mean, you skipped over a bunch of stuff that
[9:43] Speaker 2: you can do while you live. People you can love,
[9:45] Speaker 2: places you can visit, foods you can try, billionaires you
[9:48] Speaker 2: can execute. That is the real meaning of life. None
[9:53] Speaker 2: of this tell-God-how-awesome-he-is-for-eternity bullshit. Actual, meaningful experiences. Remember, scarcity is
[10:03] Speaker 2: one of the biggest factors in determining something's value. Our
[10:06] Speaker 2: lives are scarce, therefore they are valuable. But if this
[10:09] Speaker 2: life is just the test run for an eternal life
[10:11] Speaker 2: after death, then our lives become meaningless. The idea that
[10:15] Speaker 2: your life cannot be valuable if it is temporary is
[10:17] Speaker 2: exactly backward.
[10:19] Speaker 3: So I just made this beautiful meal, right? Could you
[10:22] Speaker 3: honestly say this meal cooked itself? Doesn't have a chef?
[10:25] Speaker 4: How could you think that this universe, which is so
[10:28] Speaker 4: much more complex and so much more intricate, could possibly
[10:31] Speaker 4: be made without a creator?
[10:33] Speaker 3: How does that work?
[10:34] Speaker 2: There are plenty of naturally occurring phenomena that we have
[10:37] Speaker 2: observed that are more complicated than cooking a meal, and
[10:40] Speaker 2: yet they all happen without direction all the time, and
[10:43] Speaker 2: we see them happening without direction. As an example, in 2022,
[10:46] Speaker 2: researchers in Japan set up an experiment where a single
[10:49] Speaker 2: self-replicating RNA was allowed to develop and evolve on its own.
[10:53] Speaker 2: And over the course of the experiment, it diversified into
[10:55] Speaker 2: five distinct lineages that formed both cooperative relationships and parasite-host relationships,
[11:00] Speaker 2: making its own tiny little ecosystem. So we can see
[11:03] Speaker 2: that in systems that contain self-replicating molecules, the complexity of
[11:06] Speaker 2: the system will tend to increase over time. Life has
[11:10] Speaker 2: been around on Earth for some 3.5 billion years, so
[11:13] Speaker 2: that is plenty of time to account for the complexity
[11:15] Speaker 2: that we see today. And yes, she was talking about
[11:18] Speaker 2: the universe, not life specifically, but as I've already answered
[11:21] Speaker 2: that question earlier in this video, I went in a
[11:23] Speaker 2: different direction here.
[11:25] Speaker 4: What if atheists are right and God isn't real? What
[11:28] Speaker 4: if I spent my entire life believing this lie?
[11:31] Speaker 2: Then you've wasted the one and only life you get
[11:33] Speaker 2: dedicating yourself to a lie.
[11:34] Speaker 3: If that's the case, what have I really lost?
[11:39] Speaker 2: Literally everything.
[11:40] Speaker 4: This lie encouraged me to live a life as a
[11:44] Speaker 4: good moral person.
[11:46] Speaker 3: This lie helped me to avoid cheating, lying, and stealing.
[11:49] Speaker 2: If you need to be lied to about a guy
[11:51] Speaker 2: who will send you to hell if you don't believe
[11:53] Speaker 2: that way, then that speaks to your moral character, not
[11:56] Speaker 2: the quality of life that your religion enables you to have.
[11:59] Speaker 2: I have all of those same things, but without being
[12:01] Speaker 2: threatened with eternal torture in order to coerce those things
[12:04] Speaker 2: out of me. And while I have often seen religious
[12:06] Speaker 2: people give credit to their religion for their not being
[12:08] Speaker 2: a bad person, to which the typical atheist response is,
[12:11] Speaker 2: if you need to believe a lie in order to
[12:12] Speaker 2: not murder people, then go ahead and keep believing that lie,
[12:15] Speaker 2: but I would challenge that. In most cases, I think
[12:18] Speaker 2: that the people saying that sort of thing are better
[12:20] Speaker 2: people than they are giving themselves credit for. And I
[12:22] Speaker 2: say that because that was me when I was a Christian.
[12:25] Speaker 2: I would have told you that it was God who
[12:27] Speaker 2: enabled me to be a good person, but I didn't
[12:29] Speaker 2: fundamentally change when I stopped believing. I stayed a good
[12:32] Speaker 2: person and managed to do so all on my own.
[12:35] Speaker 2: Religion lies to you about how broken you are so
[12:38] Speaker 2: that they can sell you an unnecessary fix. Now, I
[12:41] Speaker 2: also know that this is not universal. There are actually
[12:43] Speaker 2: people for whom religion is necessary to make them a
[12:46] Speaker 2: better person. David Wood, for instance. He has antisocial personality
[12:50] Speaker 2: disorder and did time in prison for attempted murder. I
[12:53] Speaker 2: fully believe him when he says that he would be
[12:54] Speaker 2: a violent and dangerous person without his religion. But in
[12:57] Speaker 2: most cases, I'd argue that not only are people better
[13:00] Speaker 2: than their religion gives them credit for, but they are
[13:02] Speaker 2: worse people because of their religion. How much bigotry and
[13:05] Speaker 2: hatred in the world is based in religion? Don't get
[13:08] Speaker 2: me wrong, I am under no illusions that all world
[13:11] Speaker 2: conflict would cease if everyone became an atheist today, but
[13:15] Speaker 2: so much of the world's violence and atrocities are motivated
[13:18] Speaker 2: by religious beliefs. Belief that God promised that land to us,
[13:21] Speaker 2: so it doesn't matter that you were here first. Beliefs
[13:24] Speaker 2: that infidels must convert or die. Beliefs that God wants
[13:27] Speaker 2: homosexuals stoned to death. Now, honestly, whether these religious motivations
[13:32] Speaker 2: are the cause of the violence or merely an excuse
[13:35] Speaker 2: for what violent people would be doing otherwise is kind
[13:37] Speaker 2: of a chicken and egg problem. But I would wager
[13:40] Speaker 2: that it varies with the individual. Well, I would never
[13:43] Speaker 2: have called for the execution of LGBTQ people when I
[13:45] Speaker 2: was a Christian. I was definitely against them having equal rights.
[13:49] Speaker 2: But that was one of the first non-religious beliefs that
[13:51] Speaker 2: I ditched when I lost my faith. Because for me,
[13:53] Speaker 2: religion was itself the cause of my bigotry. I found
[13:57] Speaker 2: that without religion, there really was no good reason to
[13:59] Speaker 2: be a bigot, so I stopped being one.
[14:01] Speaker 3: It helps me to fight depression, to have reliance on
[14:05] Speaker 3: God's plan and free me from anxiety.
[14:07] Speaker 2: And that's where this message crosses the line into actual
[14:10] Speaker 2: danger territory. Depression and anxiety can be serious conditions that
[14:13] Speaker 2: require actual treatment, not religion. Now, the relationship between religion
[14:18] Speaker 2: and mental illnesses like depression and anxiety is a complex one,
[14:21] Speaker 2: And while it can be a protective factor, it can
[14:23] Speaker 2: also make things worse depending on your situation. In a
[14:26] Speaker 2: systematic review of studies looking at the link between depression
[14:29] Speaker 2: and religion, 49% of their included studies found that religiosity
[14:32] Speaker 2: did predict a decrease in depression over time. But of
[14:35] Speaker 2: the studies that looked at people who struggle with their religion,
[14:37] Speaker 2: 59% of them found that depression increased over time. People
[14:42] Speaker 2: with physical illnesses also don't see a protective effect from religion.
[14:45] Speaker 2: This was also rather localized. While there isn't enough data
[14:48] Speaker 2: from Europe and Asia on the subject to form any
[14:50] Speaker 2: firm conclusions at this time, what data we do have
[14:53] Speaker 2: suggests that the protective effect of religion only exists in
[14:56] Speaker 2: places that are already highly religious. My takeaway here is
[14:59] Speaker 2: that religion itself is not the protective factor. It's spending
[15:03] Speaker 2: regular time with like-minded people. So to recommend religion as
[15:06] Speaker 2: a treatment for depression rather than recommending that someone talk
[15:09] Speaker 2: to a mental health professional is dangerous. It can lead
[15:12] Speaker 2: to death.
[15:14] Speaker 4: It teaches me to treat my friends and family with kindness,
[15:17] Speaker 4: respect and dignity.
[15:19] Speaker 2: I treat my friends and family with kindness, respect and
[15:21] Speaker 2: dignity because I value them as human beings. I don't
[15:24] Speaker 2: need to be told to do that with the threat
[15:26] Speaker 2: of hell if I fail to obey.
[15:27] Speaker 3: To not be selfish, to try and help others less
[15:30] Speaker 3: privileged than me.
[15:31] Speaker 2: Because this is the only life that we know for
[15:33] Speaker 2: sure we will get, it makes sense that we do
[15:36] Speaker 2: what we can to make it as good as possible
[15:38] Speaker 2: for as many people as possible. No God required.
[15:41] Speaker 3: This lie gave me purpose in life because I believe
[15:45] Speaker 3: in something greater that is controlling everything.
[15:48] Speaker 2: I feel like the existence of a greater power that
[15:50] Speaker 2: is controlling everything would take meaning away from life. Doesn't
[15:54] Speaker 2: matter what you do or don't do. God is controlling everything.
[15:58] Speaker 3: But atheists, if you're wrong and God is real, good luck.
[16:05] Speaker 2: Did she not hear herself in this one? She spent
[16:08] Speaker 2: the whole thing saying how her religion teaches her to
[16:10] Speaker 2: treat people with love and kindness and to do what
[16:13] Speaker 2: she can to make other people's lives better. But if
[16:16] Speaker 2: you disagree with her about religion, then she's happy that
[16:18] Speaker 2: you'll be burning in hell.
[16:21] Speaker 3: Why do you get so mad in my comments when
[16:23] Speaker 3: I mention God? Like, how can you get offended at
[16:26] Speaker 3: something that you don't even think exists?
[16:28] Speaker 2: I'm not mad at the thing that I don't think exists.
[16:31] Speaker 2: I'm mad at the behavior of the people who do
[16:33] Speaker 2: think that thing exists.
[16:35] Speaker 3: You don't get mad at Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy.
[16:38] Speaker 3: But God makes you mad? How does that work?
[16:40] Speaker 2: It works because Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy don't
[16:43] Speaker 2: have legions of followers wreaking havoc all across the globe.
[16:46] Speaker 2: The various gods do. It's quite simple, really.
[16:49] Speaker 5: So you're telling me that all this natural beauty is
[16:54] Speaker 5: here by itself and doesn't have a creator? But the
[16:58] Speaker 5: phone that you are watching me on has a maker,
[17:01] Speaker 5: has a designer, has a creator?
[17:02] Speaker 3: Like, how does that work?
[17:04] Speaker 2: Natural things form naturally. Non-natural things form non-naturally.
[17:10] Speaker 3: Easy peasy.
[17:11] Speaker 2: That's it for this one. Today's comment of the day
[17:13] Speaker 2: comes to us from Kees Buddy, who says, Having nothing
[17:16] Speaker 2: to do with the idea of deities, I honestly don't
[17:18] Speaker 2: understand the idea that eternal destruction is not as bad
[17:21] Speaker 2: as eternal punishment. Well, this really is quite easy. It's
[17:26] Speaker 2: the difference between being in a deep, dreamless sleep and
[17:28] Speaker 2: being tortured. If you could choose one of those two,
[17:32] Speaker 2: which would you prefer? I think that's a fairly easy
[17:34] Speaker 2: choice personally. Thanks for watching! I'll be back next Friday
[17:37] Speaker 2: with more, but if you need to get your Rhino
[17:38] Speaker 2: fix in before then, I livestream a service every Wednesday
[17:40] Speaker 2: at 8.30 Eastern on my other channel, The Watering Hole.
[17:42] Speaker 2: Thanks to Piper for being my editor, and special thanks
[17:44] Speaker 2: as always to my patrons, who are the... F *
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[17:58] Speaker 2: slash vicerano, or if you're supporting the channel on one
[18:00] Speaker 2: or the other, that's the second channel, links are on vicerano.com,
[18:02] Speaker 2: which is also where you'll find links to my other projects.
[18:04] Speaker 2: If for whatever reason you want to send me stuff,
[18:06] Speaker 2: my mailbox address is in the description. See you next time!
[18:36] Speaker 2: I don't know if I went unhinged there.
[18:39] Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
[18:39] Speaker 2: I don't know what happened, but it's good, so keep it.
[18:42] Speaker 2: Because Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy don't have legions
[18:45] Speaker 2: of followers wreaking havoc.
[18:47] Speaker 3: Hav-rick.
[18:48] Speaker 2: Wreaking hav-rick.

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