On the question of morality, secular humanism always leads its staunchest advocates into the most absurd and circuitous arguments.
Sunday on YouTube, the Jubilee Media channel posted a video called “20 Trump Supporters Take on 1 Progressive,” the latest iteration of the channel’s popular debating series in which a lone ideological stalwart, in this case progressive podcaster Sam Seder, takes on a host of rotating challengers.
More than 25 minutes into the 90-minute video, a conservative Christian social media figure named Eleazar Perez, who regularly films himself engaging in street debates over politics and religion, had the generally insufferable (though in this instance admittedly polite) Seder chasing his own rhetorical tail.
Perez began by asking if Seder considered himself an atheist. The progressive replied that he lacked a “strong belief” in God but also did not consider religion altogether “bad.”
What exactly “bad” means apart from the existence of a Creator who has moral purposes Seder did not say. No secular humanist can answer that question without illogical and circuitous absurdity, as Perez soon proved. […]
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