{"id":23396,"date":"2016-11-29T14:12:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T19:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=23396"},"modified":"2017-10-27T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:48:45","slug":"the-atheist-delusion-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/29\/the-atheist-delusion-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atheist Delusion (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"atheistdelusion\"<\/a>One of the many aspects that I love about Ray Comfort\u2019s mercifully short documentary about challenging the views of atheists is that Comfort just eventually gives up. Mid-way through his hour long masturbatory self-promotion fest that doubles as an ego shining for Comfort, he just outright gives up trying to convince his interview subjects and spends about five minutes badgering them in to submission. He relentlessly bugs them in to admitting begrudgingly that they believe in a God, and that they are simply in denial. Ray Comfort is beyond the capacity of accepting that atheists exist, and spends at least a good stretch of the final half of the film insisting: \u201cCome on, you know God exists. Admit it. Admit it. You know it in your heart. You just like to sin, that\u2019s it. Admit it. Do it. Do it!\u201d<\/p>\n

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At one point he even goads someone with the declaration \u201cYou love your porn,\u201d as a reason for their unwillingness to admit to a God\u2019s existence. Hey I love my porn, but if you’re going to give me a compelling argument for another viewpoint that doesn’t rely on the bible, or ancient theological debate traps and pitfalls, I’ll be willing to listen. Then when he can’t guilt his subjects in to submission he turns his God in to a boogeyman insisting God saw them when they were having erotic thoughts, and thinking sinful things. And you better believe or he’s gonna get you!\u00a0 Ray Comfort doesn’t offer any kind of new or outstanding argument. “The Atheist Delusion” is more “How to argue like a stereotypical Evangelical Christian.” Ray Comfort’s \u201cThe Atheist Delusion\u201d isn\u2019t so much a documentary as it is a glorified segment of the Jay Leno skit \u201cJaywalking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than research various scientists and discussing ideas and issues with atheists and skeptics, he merely walks in to various environments and tries his best to badger various people that claim they are indeed atheist. And of course he confronts people that are either unprepared for his interview, or simply don\u2019t believe and aren\u2019t experts in the science of evolution and biology. So with crafty editing, Ray Comfort helps his subjects fall in to the clich\u00e9s of what an atheist is. They\u2019re elderly and senile, young and \u201cgoing through a phase,\u201d or someone who maybe had such a tough life they denounced their obvious belief in a deity out of childish spite. Those kinds of fallacies and leaps to conclusions are just lazy if classic fallbacks for someone like Comfort who simply can\u2019t think outside the box and is unwilling to consider new ways to challenge the atheist viewpoint.<\/p>\n

Along with the aforementioned there\u2019s also the watchmaker argument, the chicken or the egg argument, and yes, even the \u201cGod is in the Gaps\u201d argument. But hey, at least we get some insight from Tim Allen. Th-that\u2019s rock solid proof of a God right there.<\/p>\n