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Brian Keith Dalton has become God again in the latest episode of his Mr. Deity series. This time he shows what it’s like to be All Knowing, and how horrible it would be to hang around someone who’s omniscient. I like the bit where Jesus asks him if he finally understands the Trinity. At 4:30 the bit ends and Dalton does three minutes of self promotion and asking for Patreon-age—an ad that goes on a bit too long. But, to be fair, I’ll direct you to his Patreon page: here.
Here’s a 20-minute video in which Brian Dalton (formerly “Mr. Deity”) debunks the old canard that passionate atheists are as bad as religious fundamentalists. At about 3:30, he disposes of the similar claim that atheists always interpret scriptures more literally than do believers. He later argues that religious moderates rather than fundamentalists are the believers who really “pervert the faith.”
Dalton’s bit about the baby and the bathwater at about 12:30 is nice, and don’t miss the powerful summing-up beginning at 19:15.
Of course Dalton’s vigorous defense of anti-theism and criticism of religion is certainly going to brand him as a “fundamentalist atheist.” For in the Thesaurus of Accommodationism and Faitheism, “fundamentalist” is another word for “passionate.”
Here Brian Keith Dalton, in his “Way of the Mister” series (he’s not playing God here), discusses the Chapel Hill murders of three Muslims by Craig Hicks, and the subsequent rush to pin that crime on atheism. His point is that those who pin the violence on New Atheists (none of whom call for violence) while defending religious scriptures (which explicitly call for violence) are simply hypocrites.
We heard Stephen Fry’s response when asked what he’d say to God were he to meet Him, but Richard Dawkins actually got the chance. Here he is in a new video with Mr. Deity. There are a lot of “ingroup” references here, so listen carefully. It’s one of the better Mr. Deity videos I’ve seen in a while.
One plaint: I don’t think the recurrent laryngeal nerve of the giraffe would be only 2 inches long if it didn’t loop down around the aorta. It would, I think, be substantially longer than that.
There’s a mock ad at the end, which is okay, but you won’t miss much by stopping at 5:50.
Using uncharacteristically strong language meant to explicitly demonstrate his rights, Mr. Deity (Brian Dalton) calls out Pope Francis for saying that there is no right to criticize religion. (TRIGGER WARNING: Maybe not for kids?)
Many of you know that Brian Dalton (“Mr. Deity”) used to be a Mormon. Here, speaking from his nearly three decades in the faith, he takes the religion apart in a video that’s remarkably “strident” for Dalton. And much of what he says applies to religion in general.
He’s clearly ticked off that he wasted so many years believing in fairy tales. ~
Here Mr. Deity sheds his persona of God and simply becomes Keith Dalton, going full-out against religionists. In his latest video, “The Way of the mister: In defense of killing babies,” he takes apart an column by Dennis Prager (see below), defending the Noah’s Ark story as not only historically accurate, but, despite its aqueious genocide, “one of the most moral stories ever told”! Dalton is as biting as ever.
Below is Bill Maher’s original tirade about Noah’s Ark (you’ll have to watch this on YouTube by clicking on the link in the screenshot below, for embedding is forbidden).
Dennis Prager is a Jewish conservative columnist and radio talk-show host who’s constantly decrying the erosion of America’s “Judeo-Christian values”. And here’s his original essay defending the morality of the Noah Story, “Noah: One of the most moral stories ever told” . Have a look, but only if your stomach is strong!
That piece shows the ability of apologists to rationalize anything, no matter how hideous, as part of God’s benevolence. I look forward Prager’s explanation for the Holocaust.
