Responding to this garbage- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip1wimk7zq8

I think even atheist will respect this response as I hope to point out, the emperor atheist is philosophically illiterate. That is obvious by the title of the video, as it calls God “Sky Daddy” oh boy…this should be fun.

:40- You know how I feel about metaphysics, it’s not a real science

So only 40 seconds into the video and we have this. Yes, he is correct in that metaphysics is not a science, but does that mean we need we need to dismiss a whole branch of philosophy because it is not science? Metaphysics deals with cause and effect, existence and reality, he uses metaphysics in his videos and every philosopher uses metaphysics, especially in the theist/atheist discussion. So far it is either scientism or he just does not understand basic philosophy

. 2:08- 2:41- The greatest thing the mind can think of, they try to make it exist

No, emperor atheist, no theist is trying to make God exist, It is following basic modal logic. Contingent things exist in some possible worlds and necessary things exist in all possible worlds. Since God exists by the necessity of his own nature and he is maximally great, he exists in all possible worlds because if not, he would not even be maximally great, let alone necessary.

2:47- Just because you can think of something great in your mind doesn’t mean it’s real.

Right, I agree however, you are assuming that the theist is just imagining God into existence. Imagining God into existence would be something like this “I think God exists, therefore he does” but, that’s not what the MOA is doing, it is following modal logic, he really thinks theist philosophers are dumb but it really just shows he has 0 clue what he is talking about.

3:04-3:23- The maximally great steak

This is just too funny because he traps himself here. He uses the analogy of a maximally great steak, the definition of maximally great being omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent. By doing this, he tries to make a contingent thing necessary, even if I grant him that the steak has those properties, it wouldn’t be a steak anymore, it would be a necessary being, as a steak is contingent and the necessary being is not contingent.

3;44-3:50- I know some of you are thinking that can’t be the argument, yes it is

Your viewers might see it that way because you have misrepresented the argument, I’ve shown in my points above that emperor atheist does not understand philosophy or modal logic. He really thinks that distinguished philosophers just imagine God into existence without any thought. Most honest atheists agree that it is a good argument.

Note: He repeats points a lot in his video

5:15-5:27- This is how religious make their own definitions to fit their own arguments

Oh my, the 3 O’s I mentioned earlier are what the overwhelming majority of philosophers agree on what God is like. Like I have stated the argument follows basic modal logic, if something exists necessarily, it can not fail to exist. I do not see why he doesn’t understand these basic concepts. He also says we make our personal God, the uncaused cause, no where has Plantiga, Craig or any other philosopher said this will bring you to Jesus, Emperor pulled this up out of thin air.

6:03-6:05- I’m going to give a few more examples of why this fails.

Please don’t, I can’t take anymore!

6:20-6:35- Just because I think of big bird or scooby doesn’t mean they actually exist

Once again, these are contingent things. God by definition is not contingent. Also we aren’t thinking God into existence as you have said over and over which I have already addressed.

6:38- Just because someone thought of scooby doo doesn’t mean he exist on another planet

A possible world is not a planet, it is a hypothetical situation or a way the world could’ve been. I smell philosophical illiteracy.

7:45-7:50- What you think of as the greatest possible being, might not be what I think of as the greatest possible being

God is defined as the 3 O’s I mentioned earlier, which are the great making properties. I’ve already pointed out why you can not give these to contingent things.

8:50- Problem of evil

The problem of evil has been abandoned in academia for sometime now, this is a topic of it’s own that needs it’s own blog post so for now, if you are still convinced by the problem of evil, here are some videos:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=alvin+plantinga+free+will+defense

10:30:10:36- People are mad that more minorities are becoming atheist

What? No christian on youtube is mad that you became an atheist, and skin color has absolutely nothing to do with the atheist/theist discussion.

11:53- Theist, read some more

That is hilarious considering the fact that you have no clue what you are talking about , which I think I have shown.

God bless and thanks for reading!