Comments on: Checkmate: Christians Win

By: Steve Caldwell

Steve Caldwell — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:25:46 +0000

God knows everything except when you’re playing hide-and-go-seek (see Genesis 3:8-9):

“Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man, ‘Where are you?’”

God doesn’t sound very omniscient in that passage.

By: Arlen

Arlen — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:43:31 +0000

Eliza:

Arlen, could you explain, what part of this borders on offensive for you?

I was laughing along with the video, don’t get me wrong, but I worry that it didn’t make it clear enough that it was sarcasm. The sheer fact that so many people who saw it and bothered to comment on it here were confused about whether it was serious or not just shows that it wasn’t being very clear in it’s humor.

Jeff is right; he takes the most tired, backward arguments made by the most extreme Christians and tries to pass them off as representative of Christianity as a whole. That’s what sits badly with me.

By: Renacier

Renacier — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:03:50 +0000

Poe’s law at work, I suppose.
“Has Albert Einstein ever crawled out from under your sofa? Checkmate!”
I fell out of my chair. Brilliant.

By: overcaffein8d

overcaffein8d — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:12:05 +0000

it took me a bit to realize that it was a joke.

some people from around where i live are really that stupid.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:34:34 +0000

Well it is satire. I knew for sure after viewing some of his other you-tube videos. Its scary, though, that he was able to put some doubt in our minds at all. As I watched the first video, my first thought was that he needed to take the “God test” to better present his arguments… Then he just kept going “over the top”… It was funny, though, in a “rational response squad” kind-of way. I can see how some Christians would find his sarcasm offensive… Of course Christians should also be offended by their own kind making the same arguments. He just put all the typically heard bad arguments all in one video…

By: Elsa

Elsa — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:36:13 +0000

I detect a little bit of a Stephen Colbert influence in that first (second?) video…just a smidge….

By: Mriana

Mriana — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:34:50 +0000

IF this is parady, it’s pretty dumb.

By: Mriana

Mriana — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:33:05 +0000

This guy is insane! And actually, I can refute some of his points. God didn’t predict anything. It was all written by humans and writers generally know where they are going to go with something they write and they know what they are using for the idea of another story.

He’s totally living in a fantasy world.

By: Milena

Milena — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:57:00 +0000

Hehe, it’s definitely satire. You should check out his other videos. They’re hilarious.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:40:28 +0000

It’s hard to consider credible someone who centers their bullet points.