July 15, 2019 Show with Jason Wallace on “The Atheist Illusion”

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July 15, 2019: JASON WALLACE, pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church of Magna, Utah (OPC), & producer of LDS.Video who will discuss: “The ATHEIST ILLUSION”

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01:20: This is Chris Arnzen, your host of Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, wishing you all a happy Monday on this 15th day of July, 2019, and I'm so thrilled to have back a returning guest on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, a dear friend and somebody who has proven to be one of my very favorite guests to interview.
01:39: His name is Jason Wallace. He is pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church of Magna, Utah, a congregation in the
01:45: Orthodox Presbyterian Church denomination. He is also a documentarian, a producer of lds .video.
01:53: He has produced videos not only on the Mormons, but on Roman Catholicism, on homosexuality, and atheism.
02:02: And today we are going to be discussing his latest documentary, which is absolutely superb.
02:08: I strongly urge you to get this documentary into the hands of everybody you know, especially young people, millennials, college students, and so on, because of the barrage of falsehoods they are no doubt going to be hearing wherever they go, whether it's a college campus or just hanging out with friends.
02:28: But the documentary is called The Atheist Illusion, and it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, my dear friend,
02:36: Pastor Jason Wallace. Chris, always a privilege to be with you. Praise God.
02:42: Well, before we go into our topic, the documentary, The Atheist Illusion, please tell our listeners about Christ Presbyterian Church of Magna, Utah.
02:52: We're a congregation, as you said, of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We stress expository preaching, simple reverent worship.
03:02: We teach the Bible. We preach the Bible. We sing the Bible, hymns and psalms. We pray the
03:08: Bible. We believe God's spoken. I'm sorry, I thought that your church was Presbyterian.
03:13: I'm only kidding. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, we started here 21 years ago and started from scratch.
03:28: The Lord's blessed us. We have a congregation here in the Salt Lake area on the west side in Magna.
03:36: The Lord's blessed us with a building. We have a sister congregation up in, used to be in Ogden.
03:42: They've moved a little further south to Clearfield now. We've had some people inquiring about possibly joining the
03:50: OPC existing churches and had an inquiry last week of somebody curious about seeing an
03:59: OPC church planted down in southern Utah. So we rejoice in how the Lord's blessed here.
04:05: Amen. Now, Ogden, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Ogden even more heavily saturated with Mormon residents than the
04:13: Salt Lake City area where you are? Not really. I mean, Ogden has always had more of what they call a
04:21: Gentile influence because of the railroad and various things. Military Hill Air Force Base is just south of Ogden, and for a number of reasons, it's like Salt Lake.
04:35: It's more cosmopolitan. Oh, okay. I think the nominal Protestant population, though,
04:42: I think this is just anything remotely Protestant, from the most liberal
04:47: Protestants across the spectrum. Anything just remotely Protestant is about 4 % in Salt Lake County and in Weber County, which is
04:58: Ogden. Okay. When you go to the next county south, though, Provo is what you may be thinking.
05:03: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of. Yeah, Provo is the home of Brigham Young University. It used to be under one -half of 1%.
05:11: Now it's up to about two -thirds of 1%. There's actually more
05:16: Protestants per capita in India, Egypt, China, and Japan than in Utah County with over half a million people.
05:27: Okay, well, if anybody is visiting Magna, Utah, the Salt Lake City area, or they live there already, or you have family, friends, and loved ones that live there, you want to direct them to a good, solid
05:39: Bible -believing church, go to www .gospelutah .org,
05:44: gospelutah .org, and hopefully I will remember to repeat that later on in the broadcast.
05:51: By the way, a very important piece of trivia,
05:56: I don't know if that's an oxymoron, important trivia, but anyway, our mutual friend, that means
06:02: Jason Wallace's mutual friend with me, Dr. James R. White of Alpha Omega Ministries, does make fairly regular trips out to Christ Presbyterian Church of Magna, Utah to put on conferences and so on, and has done so for quite a number of years.
06:16: Yeah, he has been extremely gracious to us. He did debates for us 20 years ago.
06:24: For a time, it got to where he had been coming to General Conference twice a year for many years before we got here, and then we started doing debates with him, but a number of things changed.
06:38: They put out the word to more debates within the Mormon church, and some other things happened, so he was gone for a while.
06:47: But the last several years, he's been here a good number of times, and it's been a great blessing to us and to the church here.
06:56: Great. Now, how did you get involved in making documentaries?
07:03: Because you do, and I'm not just saying this because of my frequently heard voice on your documentaries.
07:14: Sometimes I need to hire a medium to conjure up these voices of evil people to be a part of your documentaries.
07:21: I am kidding, folks. But your documentaries are absolutely superb.
07:29: I mean, if I were to see your documentaries on a major television network,
07:35: I would not hesitate to think that there was anything less than professional quality going on with your documentaries.
07:46: The only thing that might be different about your documentaries is that the truth was heard from beginning to end.
07:52: So I might be surprised by that if I saw them on major television networks. But they are absolutely the finest in documentaries
08:01: I've seen. So tell us how you got involved in these documentaries. Well, Chris, before I give that,
08:09: I just want to give a shout -out to Russ Bales. He's the genius on the visual side of things.
08:14: He takes all my images and text or voiceovers and things like this, and he makes them look so much better than I could have ever dreamed.
08:25: Yes, and Russ has been a long -time listener to Iron Trip and Zion Radio as well. Yeah, he is a good brother.
08:32: He does remarkable work in this. But as far as how we got into this, when we first moved here, we knew we'd have to be aggressive in outreach, and so we literally did hundreds of book tables.
08:44: It was through the book tables we met James, and then through James we put together debates.
08:51: I moderated the debates. Before I became a pastor, the Lord had a sense of humor.
08:57: The scariest thing I could imagine was public speaking. And I went to seminary with great trepidation because I didn't know whether I could actually be a pastor.
09:08: But the Lord kept opening doors and shoving me through them. Well, with the debates, I knew
09:14: I wasn't a debater, but I could moderate. And after a number of the debates,
09:20: I realized I knew their arguments as well as they did. And I'm not a debater, but I can preach.
09:28: And so when James couldn't come any longer, there were some Mormons who disregarded what was being said from down at BYU, you know, don't do any more debates.
09:38: And so I started doing some of the debates. And that led to an opportunity to do a weekly call -in show on a local
09:49: Christian TV station. And there was some teaching on there that was not very sound.
09:59: And I got frustrated with it, and I finally came to the conclusion, if you want to see something done better, you have to step forward.
10:06: And so in the Lord's sense of humor, here I am, by nature, painfully introverted, really not wanting to do public speaking at all.
10:19: I end up doing live television, no net, just live
10:25: TV. And we did interviews. We had an instructor from the
10:32: LDS Institute of Religion on 14 times over seven and a half years. We had the president of the
10:39: Atheists of Utah on. We had former Mormons.
10:44: Sandra Tanner was very gracious to come on numerous times. Yes, the great -granddaughter of Brigham Young. Yeah, and she's a tremendous blessing.
10:55: There might be a couple of extra greats in there. I kind of call it,
11:01: I think she's great -great. But we had a number of other authors, Charles Larson, who wrote by his own hand upon papyrus.
11:11: We had an interview with non -Christians who had written things about the
11:18: Mormon counterfeit murders that took place back in the 80s.
11:29: We had Will Baglione, who had done a massive historical work on the
11:35: Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857. And then we also just did a lot of Bible instruction.
11:43: And we did that for seven and a half years. They finally sold the station, the ladies who had it, sold it to a
11:50: Telemundo affiliate, and so it changed formats and the show went away. And it was great for what it was.
12:00: It was spooky how many people would watch. I was told by the instructor from the
12:06: LDS Institute that the president of one of the temples watched it regularly.
12:13: He tried to watch it every week. And people would come up to me on the street and things like this.
12:19: But with a live show, you're flying by the seat of your pants. You don't know what the other person is going to say.
12:25: You don't know what the callers are going to say. Sometimes the callers had really, really interesting questions or comments.
12:34: One of the reasons I have now, I used to have live call -ins. Now I have live email questions.
12:40: We figured that out on debates a long time ago, but we couldn't do it on the TV show. And so all
12:46: I knew was the person's first name and where they were calling from. But what they actually asked could have been completely different than what the person they spoke to was told.
12:57: So we did that, and it was fun. It was profitable. We had people tell us that it helped lead them to Christ.
13:08: But I was kind of frustrated that it was flying by the seat of our pants.
13:16: I wanted to try to crystallize what we had been doing there. And I saw the impact of video.
13:26: There's so much good stuff in print. I saw no reason to try to add to what's out there.
13:33: I just try to get people to listen or to read what people who are more competent than I have have written.
13:40: My old pastor, whom you've interviewed before, Terry Johnson, he's written some brilliant books. He'll point you back to the
13:48: Puritans. Why would I add to that? But I realized that a lot of people don't read much anymore.
13:55: And there's a power in video that you just don't have elsewhere. And I could take the best arguments from the
14:05: TV show, crystallize them, put them all together.
14:11: And there's a lot of things that deal with Mormonism in terms of its historic inconsistencies, in terms of various problems.
14:24: But they all tend to be short and narrowly focused or very long and narrowly focused.
14:31: But I wanted to present something that gave an overview of Mormonism and dealt with it thoroughly.
14:41: And so we ended up making an earnest plea to Latter -day Saints. And we go through basically five lives from history that are incontrovertible.
14:52: I mean, you can go to official Mormon sources now and verify these things.
14:57: But when we made it, most of them were unknown by 99 % of LPS.
15:05: And even today, 90 -plus percent of LPS don't know it. But we did some historical things.
15:11: But then we presented the gospel. The point is not just to turn people from Mormonism to another form of unbelief, but to point them to Jesus.
15:21: And so we dealt with the three big issues that God is an exalted man, that Adam sinned, that man might be, you know, they call literally the fall of Adam a fall upward.
15:33: One of their apostles called it one of the greatest blessings ever given to man. And then the final one, that they preached the restored gospel.
15:41: And so we showed them the real God, the real nature of sin, and the real gospel. And we've made seven other videos.
15:49: Five of them dealing with smaller subjects as sort of feeder videos to the big one for Mormons.
15:57: And then we made two videos for former Mormons, after Mormonism, atheism.
16:04: And after Mormonism, now what? And trying to help people deal with the baggage that they bring out of Mormonism.
16:12: Most people, when they leave Mormonism, become atheists. Yeah, it's a shame.
16:17: I've heard that about other cults as well. You mentioned something before. Before we go into the specific topic of atheism and the
16:26: Atheist Illusion documentary, you mentioned the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
16:31: A lot of people might not be familiar with that event. But if I'm not mistaken, and I've been mistaken before, just as I was a few minutes ago,
16:38: I believe the Mountain Meadows Massacre was the largest massacre on American soil of American citizens before 9 -11.
16:51: I'm not 100 % sure that that's correct, but I think it is true. Do you know if what
16:56: I just said is actually a fact? I've heard that claim. There are some that will dispute that.
17:05: There were other massacres of Indians, and there were potentially others, the
17:15: Tulsa Riots in 1921, things like this. I don't try to rank them, but Mormons will typically play the victim.
17:26: We were so persecuted, and there was persecution. I'm not taking away from that. But if you total up all the people killed in the
17:34: Missouri War, it was about 20 people. In one day, Mormons in the name of Mormonism killed 120 to 140 men, women, and children that were unarmed.
17:48: They promised them safe passage, and they executed every one of them that was above the age of eight.
18:00: These were travelers on their way, I think, to California, perhaps, or somewhere out west.
18:05: When they were traveling through Utah, the Mormons believed they were spies for the government or something nonsensical.
18:13: Am I right on that? Partially. I mean, Brigham Young, when the
18:19: Mormons moved here in 1847, most people don't realize this was still Mexico. Their idea when they moved here was to create a new state, an independent republic like Texas, the state of Deseret.
18:37: It was going to go from the western slope of Colorado all the way to Los Angeles.
18:45: A lot of towns, people don't realize, Las Vegas was actually started by the Mormons as a stop along the trail from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City.
19:01: The statement was made by Brigham Young, give us ten years and we'll be ready. Within six months, they found themselves back in the
19:09: United States because of the end of the Mexican -American War. With the
19:16: United States' purchase of the southwest, the Mormons found themselves right back in the
19:21: United States, again, here in Utah. But Brigham Young really tried to control things.
19:31: There was no private ownership of land here. Everything was owned by God, his prophet.
19:39: And so Brigham Young would allot land and things like this. Well, the government's wanting to homestead and have people with individual ownership.
19:47: Well, that breaks the stranglehold of Brigham Young. Well, he did a number of things to antagonize the federal government.
19:55: He was the territorial governor. And finally, Buchanan had enough and he sent an army to remove him as governor.
20:06: And they had sent troops out and had burned the supply wagons to slow them down.
20:13: Well, it was in the midst of that in 1857 that the Fancher Party comes through Salt Lake City.
20:23: And the Mormons are preparing for war. I mean, they were literally talking about burning
20:29: Salt Lake to the ground, retreating to the Bitterroot Valley up in Montana. They had taken all kinds of blood oaths.
20:41: And the rumor got out, which I think was completely fabricated by Mormons, but the rumor got out that the
20:49: Fancher Party was boasting that they had been part of killing Joseph Smith. And Parley Pratt had just been killed in Arkansas, where they came from, by a jealous husband.
21:03: He had seduced this woman away from her husband, and then they went back to steal her children.
21:11: And the husband called Parley Pratt and killed him. And the jury acquitted him.
21:17: And so there were all kinds of things at play there. And basically, the
21:23: Mormons, their doctrine of blood atonement was that these people are unclean, and we're going to cleanse them of their sins by killing them.
21:35: The shedding of blood, according to Mormons, is necessary for salvation in regard to certain sins, like murder and so on.
21:47: Which is why, even until recently in history, Utah was one of the few states that continued to practice the firing squad for the execution of those on death row because of the blood that would be shed.
22:04: Do they still do that, if you request it? As far as I know, they got rid of it a few years, or a number of years ago.
22:14: I've been out here 21, so it all borders together. I remember Gary Gilmore requested it. He was on death row, and he was a
22:20: Mormon, at least. I don't know if that was one of those foxhole conversions or what it was.
22:29: Yeah, Gilmore wanted the firing squad. They did get rid of the firing squad for a time, but then they brought it back is the last
22:37: I heard. And as far as I know, it's still up to the prisoner whether they want to be executed in that form.
22:45: The Mormon church has so downplayed its historic teachings.
22:50: A lot of people poo -poo that now. But historically, it was very clear that there were sins that the blood of Jesus could not atone for, according to Brigham Young.
23:01: A man's own blood had to be shed. And ironically, the
23:08: Mountain Meadows Massacre occurred also on September 11th, in 1857,
23:14: I believe. Correct. That's quite a coincidence. But one of the reasons
23:20: I think it's very applicable to discuss not only the Mountain Meadows Massacre, but 9 -11 and other things, in a segue into atheism, is because one of the very well -known and often used elements of atheistic rhetoric is that more people have been killed on the face of the earth in the name of religion than for any other reason.
23:48: Now, let me start off by saying, when I hear that, I don't get as nearly indignant as some
23:56: Christians or conservative religious people get. Because I know there is only one true religion, the religion of Christianity.
24:05: And even though there have been many, like the Church of Rome and so on, who have masqueraded as Christians, who have committed atrocities on a grand scale, massive scale,
24:19: I know that true biblical Christianity is the only true religion, and that all other religion is false.
24:25: So that claim does not bother me. But in your opinion, from what you know of history, is that even a true claim?
24:32: No, no. It's the big lie that they just keep repeating, hoping that people will believe it.
24:38: And considering what our political system has become, people hear things enough times and they assume they must be true.
24:49: Most wars in history have had people claiming some support of some god for what they were doing.
24:59: But in terms of really religious wars, there's not nearly as many as the atheists make out.
25:07: And the atheists, they dismiss the hundred million that have been killed in just the last hundred years.
25:16: They say, well, that doesn't count, because atheism is only a negation of belief.
25:25: It's not a positive system. You can't blame us for anything any other atheist has done.
25:30: This ties into the whole illusion thing. It's games meant to deceive.
25:38: Anything done in the name of any god supposedly condemns every theist out there.
25:45: Anyone who believes in a god is condemned by anything that anyone does in the name of any god. And yet, anything done in the name of atheism is only the act of an individual.
25:56: That's just a scam. Of course it is. It's a deception. Especially since they have a set of beliefs, just like a religion does, that they militantly, quote -unquote, evangelize others to believe.
26:16: Wouldn't you say that atheism has really all of the elements of a religion, except it's just a false religion, and it has a key element of not believing in the existence of god?
26:26: But having a belief about god even would include you in a religion. Oh yeah.
26:32: I mean, especially the whole New Atheist Movement. They have a common creation myth,
26:39: Darwinism. They have a common ethical system, which tends to be progressivism.
26:48: They have their priest, the high priest or the college professors, and then the lower order of clergy are the public school teachers.
27:02: And they have their martyrs. We deal in the video with the
27:09: Scopes Monkey Trial, and they try to turn John Scopes into a fellow who's about to be hanged.
27:16: And it's all a lie. It's a publicity stunt. Yeah, that's one of the things that you clearly bring up in the documentary.
27:23: The gentleman who played the first Darren on Bewitched, I can't remember the actor's name.
27:31: Dick York? Yes, right. He was in that movie. Yeah, along with Spencer Tracy and Frederick Arch and sadly,
27:42: Claude Eakins, who's a distant cousin. A distant cousin of yours? Yeah.
27:49: Wow. Well, we are going to go to our first break right now. And if anybody would like to join us on the air with a question of your own about atheism, or about this documentary specifically,
28:01: The Atheist Illusion, our email address is chrisarnson at gmail dot com, chrisarnson at gmail dot com.
28:07: Please, as always, give us your first name at least, your city and state of residence, and your country of residence if you live outside the USA, and only remain anonymous if your question involves a personal and private matter.
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37:35: So I hope that anybody in Long Island in that area without a church home will visit
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37:50: It's one of the primary reasons, if not the primary reason, Bill Shishko chose that town to plant this church.
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38:04: We are now back with Jason Wallace, pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church of Magna, Utah. We are discussing his documentary,
38:12: The Atheist Illusion. And our email address, if you have a question for him, is chrisarnzen at gmail .com,
38:17: chrisarnzen at gmail .com. Now, just to get some definitions correct, can you tell us the difference between an agnostic and an atheist?
38:28: Honesty. Well, I've heard,
38:35: I've even heard from Bill Maher that he calls himself an agnostic, which is, in his mind, doubting the existence of God, rather than an atheist who knows for certain that God does not exist, because he said, has said, that to claim to be an atheist is a claim to know all things.
38:54: Would that be an accurate statement by Bill Maher, one of the few accurate statements by Bill Maher? Sure, and one of the points that we try to bring out in the video is, atheists have a problem whenever they try to make any truth claims, because to know anything for certain requires omniscience, it requires comprehensive knowledge.
39:16: You don't know whether what you're perceiving is correct or not, and so atheists are completely inconsistent.
39:28: Most people will hedge and say, well, technically I'm agnostic, and you get people like Dan Barker who says that the odds are 99 .99997
39:45: % that there's no God. He's just making numbers up. If you really press him, he doesn't know anything with any certainty, and so any claims to truth at all, any idea of assigning probabilities is just foolishness.
40:02: Now, wasn't that a highlight in the debate that you featured, a part of the debate, a very short clip of the debate that you featured in your documentary, with our mutual friend
40:12: Cy Ten Bruggenkate, the presuppositionalist Christian? Yes, most definitely, and just as an aside before I go there, during the commercial break,
40:22: Bill Shishko and John Sampson are actually two of the voices in the video, besides yourself.
40:29: John Sampson is the voice of Charles Darwin, and Bill Shishko is reading from the
40:37: Civic Biology book that was at the center of the Scopus Monkey trial. Yes, an om -typical
40:43: Christian. No, no, you were reading about typical
40:50: Christians, you were the voice of, oh, I can't think of the guy's sign -on, but basically,
40:57: Kfir, he was an unbeliever, but you were the voice of an atheist. Right.
41:03: But yeah, back to the debate, Cy hammered this, and he asked
41:14: Matt Dillahunty, who was at one time a professing Christian, and has now chunked it all,
41:26: I've reached the age where I've watched a bunch of people who really didn't care about Biblical Christianity when they were professing
41:34: Christians, they actually despised historical Biblical Christianity, but still proclaimed to be
41:42: Christians, and then they become atheists, and they still hate historic Biblical Christianity. But Matt Dillahunty is a very, very vocal atheist.
41:56: And Saiten, Brew and Kate did a debate with him a few years ago. I know they did one that was actually hosted by an
42:05: Orthodox Presbyterian church, but I don't think this one was. But he pressed
42:13: Dillahunty, what is one thing you know with certainty?
42:21: And Dillahunty jumps all around, what do you mean by no? Are we using my definition of true or your definition of true?
42:29: And he just keeps pressing him. By your standard, what one thing do you really know?
42:38: And there's nothing. And we have the
42:44: Nobel laureate, Feynman, saying he doesn't know anything with certainty.
42:53: And he thought that was a good thing. Well, of course he doesn't. They don't live that way.
42:58: Right. In their minds. Right. I mean, basically, atheism is a lot like Mormonism.
43:09: It's about men trying to make themselves into gods. Right. And they decide what's true.
43:15: And they think that they can sit in judgment of the God of the Bible. Right. If they were merely atheists, which, by the way, would you agree that because of what we read in Romans 1, there really is no such thing as an atheist?
43:28: Oh, definitely. And that's... Psy does a brilliant job of just demonstrating that.
43:36: Because nature reveals to all men that God exists. It doesn't give us enough information to know the gospel, but it gives us enough information to condemn us if we reject
43:45: God. Yes. We were having an intramural joke there about Baptists and Presbyterians.
43:52: I love the fact that many Reformed Baptists have discovered Greg Bonson and Cornelius Fantil, who are
44:00: Orthodox Presbyterian ministers, who really drove home with presuppositional apologetics.
44:09: The problem of unbelief is not a problem of ignorance. We are all created in the image of God.
44:17: We have the evidence for God all around us and in us. And the problem is not the head, the problem is the heart.
44:28: We're actively suppressing the truth. We don't want to face that truth. As a good friend of mine says, the heart of the problem is the problem of the heart.
44:41: And we try to demonstrate that. One of my favorite clips in the video is
44:46: Oxford professor Peter Adkins, who was appearing on Unbelievable. And he was asked...
44:55: That's the British television and radio program that actually I was on as well. Right. And I apologize to the host, his name just went out of my head.
45:06: Justin Brierley. Yes. Justin Brierley asked Peter Adkins, What evidence would be sufficient for you?
45:16: Because atheists love to pretend that they are coming to the reasonable conclusion simply based on the evidence.
45:25: Well, the reality is they only consider as evidence what they choose. And they come to it with a bias.
45:33: And they're going to make it fit their predetermined conclusion. Well, Peter Adkins, Oxford professor, like Dawkins, he's asked, what would be sufficient?
45:45: And he said, well, and he basically reels off this complicated formula for entropy.
45:54: He said, maybe if that appeared. He said, but then on second thought, I would just think it was a forgery.
46:01: And Justin Brierley asked him, what if the star spelled out, Peter, I'm here.
46:10: And he would say, I just chalked it up to madness. One of the things
46:16: I was going to say that I sidetracked myself when I... I forget,
46:23: I can't even remember what I sidetracked. But anyway, atheists and atheism would really not pose
46:32: Christianity or even the population of the world at large, wouldn't really pose a threat to us at all if atheists just simply denied the existence of God and their personal ideology and went on to mind their own business and went about their lives.
46:57: The only harm they would be doing primarily was to themselves and perhaps to their children. But the fact that they really are a religion, whether they call it that or not, that is really why they pose a threat, not that they pose a threat to the church of Jesus Christ, which will remain forever until Christ himself returns and brings us into heaven with him.
47:24: But it does pose a threat to the thinking of people.
47:30: It is because of the aggressiveness and the dogmatism with which they treat their ideology, which has no distinction between a religion and what they claim is just a personal denial of God.
47:49: Yes, it's funny that you'll have Dalkins presenting a materialistic worldview, saying that we live in a universe of blind, pitiless indifference.
48:00: No good, no evil, nothing. And you'll have
48:05: Dan Barker saying, you know, there is no purpose to life.
48:14: In the cosmic sense, we matter no more than broccoli matters. Yeah, I remember hearing that in your documentary.
48:20: Right, well, they get up there and they say these things, but they don't live that way. Right. And part of...
48:27: They have to borrow from our worldview. Oh, most definitely. Steal from it. Exactly.
48:32: Well, there's an absurdity to it all, that they try to take induction, which is based on the idea that there's a reasonable
48:48: God who has made a reasonable universe who has communicated truth to us. And it was this thinking that led
48:57: Newton and Kepler and most of the men of the scientific revolution to...
49:11: They want to take the method and divorce it from the God of the Bible and say, well, science is our standard, and only what science can prove is true.
49:23: Well, they laugh at us because we say that the
49:30: Bible is true, and they accuse us of circular reasoning. Well, all reasoning is based on presuppositions.
49:38: Our system is consistent, theirs isn't. Theirs is circular as well.
49:46: They start with certain assumptions, but if you want to argue that science is the only way of knowing truth, then how do you know science is true?
49:55: Science can't prove the image. It deals only with matter and motion. It can't deal with the immaterial principles on which it's based.
50:03: The scientific method is immaterial. God and the soul are immaterial.
50:08: They say, well, that's just like believing in Santa Claus. Well, what about math? What about logic? What about the scientific method?
50:16: But they suppress the absurdity of their position, but there is an active evil.
50:26: One of the slights of hand, as we portray it in the video, is that if you have a naturalistic universe where there's no good, no evil, it's just blind, pitiless indifference, what's the point?
50:41: Why are they so concerned about scientific advancement? Why are they concerned about convincing others?
50:48: Why are they concerned about living? And the reality is they use a naturalistic universe to try to dismiss
50:58: God, but one of the big deceptions of atheism is they don't leave it there.
51:06: They put themselves in his place. And to convince themselves and others of the reality of it, the theory of atheism has been one of trying to build utopias.
51:20: And we'd go through and we'd document what happened when atheism became the state religion of France during the
51:30: French Revolution. Most people don't realize the cult of reason was the only legal religion in France.
51:39: And so we'd go through and explain that. We'd show that continuing thought through the
51:46: Bolsheviks, through Mao, through Pol Pot, and a host of others.
51:55: It's all a bunch of lies. We have to go to our midway break right now, which is the longer than normal break because of Grace Life Radio.
52:05: That's 90 .1 FM in Lake City, Florida. They need a longer break in the middle because they air their own public service announcements and commercials while we air our own globally heard commercials.
52:19: Before I go to that break though, I'm going to read you a question from a listener, a very faithful and generous listener to Iron Trip and Zion Radio, Grady in Asheboro, North Carolina.
52:28: I'm going to read his question and then I'll have you answer it when we come back. His question is, Great show brothers
52:34: Chris and Jason. I know Dan Barker and others claim to having been
52:40: Christians before becoming an atheist. About what perfect of atheists do you think now claim
52:54: I think he meant to say percentage. About what percentage of atheists do you think now claim to have been
53:02: Christians? Of course, we know they never knew Jesus Christ. So we'll have you answer that when we come back.
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01:11:24: And I hope that if you live in that area especially, you make every effort to attend, and if you are able to take a train, plane, or automobile out to see him in Hockley, Texas, it will be well worth your while hearing
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01:11:54: And that's going to be held August 2nd through the 5th, 2019.
01:12:01: That's a Friday through Thursday at The Church at Friendship.
01:12:09: The Church at Friendship in Hockley, Texas. Then I am going to be packing up my bags in December.
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01:13:37: Then in January, I am going to be packing up my bags again and heading down south this time.
01:13:43: Once again, that's January 16th through the 18th in Atlanta, Georgia at the
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01:13:58: I am so excited about this conference, as I always am. The speakers are always extraordinary.
01:14:03: The lineup is always breathtakingly long and amazing. The lineup includes
01:14:10: Kosti Hinn, who, yes, if you recognize that name, Hinn, he is, believe it or not, the nephew of the notorious charlatan and heretic
01:14:20: Benny Hinn. Kosti doesn't mind me saying that because a great part of his ministry is spent exposing his own uncle and all of those heretics within the
01:14:29: Word of Faith movement as being the dangerous and deadly and damning liars they are.
01:14:37: Kosti is not only a Reformed Baptist pastor in California now, he's also a cessationist, and he is spending much of his ministry exposing the
01:14:47: Word of Faith heresy and warning people about it. He had, a number of years ago, repented of that heresy that he was raised in and, as I said, is not only a
01:14:57: Reformed Baptist today but a cessationist. So Kosti Hinn is on the lineup. Daryl Bernard Harrison, a really gifted writer.
01:15:06: I've never heard him speak yet. I'm looking forward to it. He is now on the staff, just recently added staff, to John MacArthur's Grace to You ministry.
01:15:13: David Miller, what a wonderful preacher he is. Derek Thomas, who is surely known to the vast majority of Reformed listeners.
01:15:21: What an extraordinary writer and preacher and teacher he is. My friend, mutual friend of my guest,
01:15:28: Jason Wallace and mine, Dr. James R. White of Alpha Omega Ministries is on the lineup. Dr.
01:15:34: Joel Beeky, president of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. And the list goes on, but as you just heard moments ago, when
01:15:43: Todd Friel and Phil Johnson were doing their advertisement for the G3 conference,
01:15:48: John MacArthur has been added to the roster. So I am even more excited now.
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01:20:57: Jason Wallace, on atheism, and specifically on his documentary, The Atheist Illusion.
01:21:05: That's chrisarnson at gmail .com, chrisarnson at gmail .com. And we had, as you may remember,
01:21:13: Pastor Jason Wallace, a question from Grady in Asheboro, North Carolina, who wants to know if you are aware of what percentage today of atheists, especially obviously the apologists, how many of them, what percentage of them, claims to have once been
01:21:33: Christians. Well, quick note before that, Chris, if people would like to see the video, it's free.
01:21:42: It's on YouTube. The easiest way to find it is atheism .video. We have the
01:21:49: Mormon videos. We have lds .video for the gay Christian video dealing with the claims of what calls itself the gay
01:21:58: Christian movement. It's gaychristian .video. For Catholicism, it's romancatholic .video.
01:22:04: This is atheism .video. As far as the people that are former professing
01:22:13: Christians, it seems that probably about half of the ones that I've seen that are the outspoken ones would claim to have been
01:22:26: Christians before, some like Sam Harris, raised in a secular Jewish setting. Richard Dawkins was nominally
01:22:36: Anglican, but not, I don't think his parents were very devout at all.
01:22:43: You do have some people that I've seen that some of the most rabid ones do come out of Christian backgrounds.
01:22:54: Bart Ehrman, clearly. Bart Ehrman. In fact,
01:22:59: Bart Ehrman, if you see Bart Ehrman, like for instance, as you may know, there are cable networks that during Christmas and Easter especially, they will air documentaries on Jesus, some aspect of Jesus' life.
01:23:17: And typically for networks that despise the Bible and despise the actual
01:23:24: Jesus of the Bible, they will have agnostics and atheists primarily featured in these documentaries.
01:23:33: They'll have agnostics, atheists, and Tim Keller. And what's his name,
01:23:40: N .T. Wright, on these documentaries. But they will have Bart Ehrman featured on these.
01:23:46: And if you don't know who Bart Ehrman is, you might mistakenly think he is actually a
01:23:51: Christian because he believes that Jesus as a man actually existed. And when he's referring to archaeology and things like that, you might be deceived into thinking he's a
01:24:03: Christian. I mean, he was a Christian and was Professor Metzger's pride and joy.
01:24:11: He thought that Bart Ehrman was going to be a rising star in the evangelical Christian movement, etc.
01:24:18: Am I right on that? Yeah. And one of the videos on the back burner right now, we're trying to make an earnest plea to Muslims right now, but I want to do one called
01:24:31: The Bible vs. Bart Ehrman to try to bring together, you know, there's a number of things out there.
01:24:39: I think it's powerful to let people speak for themselves and then show what the reality is.
01:24:47: And Bart Ehrman, if you listen to him long enough, he makes completely ridiculous statements.
01:24:53: He hangs himself. And that's powerful in a book, but I think it's far, far more powerful if you can actually see him do it and show his contradictions and show just the lies of the man.
01:25:08: He's not an honest man. But in terms of people becoming more rabidly anti -Christian,
01:25:17: I think there's something to that. I mean, you look at the man who created
01:25:28: Playboy, Hugh Hefner. He was raised in a Pentecostal home.
01:25:33: Really? I didn't know that. Oh, yeah. Dan Barker was Pentecostal, and my grandmother was
01:25:42: Pentecostal. She prayed for me every day, and I came to faith 11 years after she died.
01:25:50: But we've seen in our own congregation, one of our former deacons, he started compromising.
01:26:02: He moved from us to a more theologically liberal
01:26:07: Presbyterian church, then he moved to an Episcopal church, and now he and his wife are self -described atheists.
01:26:15: I think there's something to be said for the fact that when people are exposed to light, it drives them crazy if they're unbelievers.
01:26:27: The more light they see, the more they hate it. One of the comments we got last week on the atheism video, right after we released it, this is from a professing
01:26:39: Christian. He says, Wow.
01:26:57: By the way, I've heard Armenians say that about Calvinists. Any god who selects some of humanity and overlooks others and condemns them to hell is that same monstrous god that you just described?
01:27:12: Yeah. Unbelief comes in a host of different flavors. To me, it's just a difference of fashion.
01:27:23: You can dress it up in liberal Catholicism, you can dress it up.
01:27:29: In Mormonism, you can dress it up in atheism. It's all the same hatred of the god of the
01:27:36: Bible. Now, one thing that's noteworthy, I think, is that we have a disproportionate...
01:27:44: A lot of people in other parts of the country, they have a vague sense there's a god, and they just don't worry about him.
01:27:53: But here in Utah, we're seeing a dramatic rise in atheism, because the
01:28:00: Mormon Church has been teaching people for years that the only alternative to Mormonism is atheism.
01:28:06: Well, when people begin to realize that the Mormon Church has been just lying to them, and they keep redefining themselves.
01:28:15: First, you had to be a polygamist, and now they're excommunicating polygamists.
01:28:22: Until 1978, it was by a revelation from God that blacks could not receive the priesthood, which every other male member received.
01:28:31: And they couldn't change it because it was a revelation of God. Well, 1978, all of a sudden, it's not a revelation anymore. And they just keep redefining things.
01:28:41: And now they're becoming... They're morphing into, honestly, the Episcopal Church, in terms of their being very welcoming of homosexuality.
01:28:54: They've repackaged themselves. Even their artwork looks like Episcopal stuff from 20, 30 years ago.
01:29:01: And so people are realizing the Mormonism lied to them. Well, they still believe the lie that if Mormonism isn't true, nothing else is.
01:29:12: It's one of the reasons we made the video, is that it's so big here. And I think that when people feel cornered, when they realize...
01:29:31: For the Mormons, crazy is to start with. Mormonism is not a theistic religion. Mormonism doesn't have a big
01:29:40: God who made everything. It has lots of supermen ruling little parts of an eternal creation.
01:29:46: Great way of putting it. And they think they're going to be supermen of their own planet someday. That's like...
01:29:53: They believe in something similar to... Even though they probably wouldn't describe it themselves this way, but henotheism?
01:30:02: Sort of, kind of. There are greater gods amongst the infinite sea of other gods?
01:30:12: Yeah, but I mean... The old line Mormons would even say that they don't worship Jesus. Wow. Because they see
01:30:20: Jesus as a different god. He's our elder spirit brother. He's not Heavenly Father. And so, the funny thing is, the deeper you go into Mormonism, the more it's really not that different from atheism.
01:30:36: Atheism puts forward a more naturalistic view up front, but then they bring in their exaltation to godhood a different way.
01:30:44: They think that evolution is now allowing us to establish purpose, and we can define things, and we can rise above.
01:30:53: And it's like, the more you listen to Dawkins, and the more you listen to the
01:30:59: Mormons, you realize this is the same basic story with different trappings.
01:31:08: By the way, speaking of Richard Dawkins, this is a good segue. I am going to play a clip from your video, your documentary, that should make any person with a conscience, that should make their skin crawl, a very disgusting and nauseating and monstrous discussion between Richard Dawkins and Peter Singer of Princeton University, two renowned atheists.
01:31:38: And this is, as I said, a clip from your documentary, and I want you to give your commentary after this clip is completed.
01:31:48: So, here we are with the clip of the Richard Dawkins interview with Peter Singer of Princeton University.
01:31:58: I think you must be one of the most moral people in the world. You certainly got one of the most logically thought -out ethical positions in the world.
01:32:05: And yet, precisely because of its logical consistency, you seem to get a lot of flack coming from two quite different directions.
01:32:14: Well, that's certainly true. On the one hand, I'm critical of the attitudes that people, most people in society have towards animals.
01:32:21: I think that we don't take the interests of animals seriously enough. And in a way,
01:32:26: I think it's an implication of Darwinism that we should take them more seriously, or at least that it breaks down some of the barriers that have separated us from animals.
01:32:37: But on the other hand, because I don't think that humans are special just in virtue of being a member of the species
01:32:42: Homo sapien, I think that if you have humans who are, for example, severely damaged at birth, that it's not wrong to end their lives.
01:32:53: So I think that in some cases, human beings don't have a right to life because they don't have the possibility of having a worthwhile and meaningful life.
01:33:04: And so, of course, I get flack from conservative moralists and conservative Christians from that perspective.
01:33:11: Well, that seems to me to be completely logically consistent. What about infanticide?
01:33:19: Strictly morally, I can see no objection to that at all. I would be in favor of infanticide. But I think
01:33:25: I would worry about... I think I would wish at least to give consideration to the person who says, well, where does it end?
01:33:34: And I know that Ingrid Newkirk, who's the head of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has actually said that she would like her body to be eaten.
01:33:43: She's making a statement by that, you know, when she dies, that she would like her friends to barbecue her because she's trying to make the point,
01:33:51: I guess, that this is not so different from what people do. In fact, it's morally better. Steve Gould once speculated about the possibility of a hybrid between humans and chimps, and he added that he could think of no experiment that would be more immoral to do.
01:34:05: I couldn't get that. I mean, it seemed to me that it might be a very moral thing to do precisely because it would have the effect of breaking the barrier of the wall around homo sapiens.
01:34:21: Quite remarkable, quite chilling, revealing the evil hearts of these men.
01:34:30: I think that you could have readily heard this same discussion in a documentary, one of those films that we have seen that the
01:34:43: Nazis used to create, and I believe that they often, in Nazi Germany, would play these films that they created before movies in the movie theater that the general populace would see defending things like so -called mercy killing of the mentally retarded and disabled and deformed and so on.
01:35:08: But if you could comment on this, because it's really bone -chillingly grotesque, and I think a lot of people, if they hadn't heard these things coming from the mouths of these prominent atheists, they would tell you that you're lying.
01:35:23: Yeah, what you heard there was several excerpts run together. It's a little easier to see the separations in the video because of the changing imagery.
01:35:34: But we try to let these people speak for themselves. Dalkins tries to distance
01:35:40: Hitler from Darwin and says that it's a lie, that what the
01:35:48: Germans were doing in the Final Solution was actually Darwinian, and he just insists that it's not connected.
01:35:57: But when he gets pressed, he admits that, yeah, it really was connected. And we've got a clip of him saying, yes, you can say that, but this is why he says we can't live by Darwinian natural selection.
01:36:14: Darwinian natural selection supposedly tells us how we got here, but we're going to do something better because Darwinian natural selection, yes, it's survival of the fittest, it's genocide, it's all these things, but we have something better.
01:36:28: Well, the reality is it's not better. Like the Nazis, they think that they've evolved to a higher state.
01:36:38: We follow up that clip with an image that shows a quote from Peter Singer's Practical Ethics where he says the life of a newborn is of less value than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee.
01:36:57: And part of the con of atheism, they can't live in a truly materialistic world and have any purpose.
01:37:06: We're not human. There's no point in going on.
01:37:12: And so they try to basically create purpose out of themselves.
01:37:23: It's deifying themselves. And they view the rest of humanity to a great extent as just animals, but they are divine.
01:37:36: And so do the Nazis. And so what does it come to? It comes to we're going to put ourselves in the place of God.
01:37:42: We're going to decide what rights there are. We're going to say that children who are born with some handicap, they have no right to life.
01:37:55: And it's not up to the parents. The state can decide for them. And the Nazis before World War II invented the term euthanasia, good death.
01:38:04: And so they, as you were saying, they put the chronically ill, the mentally retarded, and others to death.
01:38:13: That's what the eugenics movement, the eugenics movement in this country forcibly sterilized tens of thousands of women.
01:38:23: It was under state laws. Women were taken. They were strapped down to a table and butchered with the full consent of the
01:38:34: Supreme Court. The great hero of the atheist, the man who invented the term living constitution,
01:38:45: Oliver Wendell Holmes, said, I believe the quote was something along the lines, three generations of idiots is enough.
01:38:56: This was the Kerry Buck case in 1925. And so they have no problem with killing people.
01:39:05: They have no problem with cannibalism because the rest of us are just human.
01:39:14: I mean, we're just animals. There's no humanity to us. Humanity is an artificial construct.
01:39:21: Like Dan Barker says in the video, on a cosmic scale, we matter no more than broccoli matters.
01:39:27: But then you come around to the human -ape hybrids, which Stalin tried to do. Stalin literally tried to create human -ape hybrids for a number of reasons.
01:39:36: Wow, I didn't know that. Oh, yeah. One of the few historical things, actually, on the
01:39:42: History Channel anymore. When they're not bashing the Bible or presenting ancient aliens or pond stars, there's actually a little bit of history once in a while.
01:39:54: But, yeah, he wanted to create a...
01:39:59: I mean, if you could imagine guerrilla fighters. I mean, guerrillas are massively powerful.
01:40:06: Imagine... Right. In fact, I know that there were bodybuilders that were using guerrilla hormone at one point.
01:40:13: Yeah, so Stalin did this, but part of it also was part of Stalin's war against Christianity.
01:40:20: We document... You know, he was trying to destroy Christianity entirely, which the atheists lie through their teeth.
01:40:30: We give direct quotations, and we give the actual references to him saying he had a five -year plan for atheism.
01:40:42: Now he backed up from it when the Soviet Union started falling apart. But his plan was, within five years, to destroy every church in the country.
01:40:54: And we have footage of him destroying the cathedral there in Moscow. But he created the
01:41:02: League of the Militant Atheists. Three and a half million people vowed, bound with an oath, to destroy all religion in the
01:41:11: Soviet Union and throughout the world. And part of his motivation in trying to create human -ape hybrids was to prove
01:41:20: Darwin. And it didn't work out so well for him. We have to go to our final break right now.
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01:54:19: We have a question for you, Pastor Jason Wallace, about atheism from Mary in Cork, Ireland.
01:54:27: She wants to know, what is the more biblically faithful model to evangelize, especially atheists?
01:54:33: Would it be the presuppositionalist model or the evidentialist model?
01:54:41: I think in general, I mean at our base, we have to embrace presuppositionalism that people know there's a
01:54:49: God. Now, there are people who are in a position that they have false information that you can correct them.
01:54:59: I don't think that you divorce presuppositionalism from evidence, but you don't allow the unbeliever to sit in judgment of God.
01:55:07: The tone that we've tried to make clear in the video, this idea that we have the knowledge, the power, the insight to judge
01:55:20: God is blasphemy. We know there's a God.
01:55:28: I think that you can share evidences with people if you look at the other videos we've done.
01:55:37: We deal with historical aspects of Mormonism and Roman Catholicism and things like this.
01:55:43: We deal in this video with the lies that atheists often tell.
01:55:51: But we don't let them assume that they can sit in the judgment seat over God.
01:56:00: They will be judged by God. We try to show that their whole worldview is a con.
01:56:09: It's an absurdity. That they can't live consistently with it, and they don't try.
01:56:18: They're desperately like a pressure cooker that's not sealed properly.
01:56:23: They're trying to hold the lid down. They're suppressing the truth and unrighteousness. And this idea that if people just had all the facts, they would come to the right conclusion,
01:56:36: I think it is a farce. That doesn't mean we don't present the evidence, but we present the evidence in the context that we have truth behind us, but you don't get to sit in judgment over God.
01:56:49: You know there's a God. And the problem is not ignorance. The problem is rebellion.
01:56:56: And whenever I have a presuppositionalist such as yourself on my show,
01:57:02: I have to remind our listeners that there are great men of God, both living and in heaven, who were evidentialists such as R .C.
01:57:11: Sproul and John Gerstner, but now both in eternity with Christ. They even wrote a book on evidentialist apologetics.
01:57:20: So just to throw that in there, even though I agree with you, I am a presuppositionalist myself, but I thought that I'd just include that there.
01:57:29: And I have great respect for both men. I was in the same room with R .C.
01:57:34: Sproul and never had a chance to meet him. I did have the opportunity to meet John Gerstner before he passed. And they were brilliant men that I can't begin to stand next to their gifts and a host of things.
01:57:48: But I think that I think that they tended to view presuppositionalism through I don't think they had a proper view of it.
01:58:04: I think it tended to be very esoteric and very circular in their thinking.
01:58:11: And it's really not, in my opinion. Well, they're presuppositionalists now. Well, I want to make sure.
01:58:20: They're also Presbyterian now. Yeah, they're members of the
01:58:29: Free Presbyterian Church of Northern America, which predominantly practices Credo Baptism. Well, anyway, we are out of time now.
01:58:38: I want to make sure that our listeners have not only your church's website, but the website for the documentary.
01:58:43: First of all, GospelUtah .org is the website for Christ Presbyterian Church in Magna, Utah.
01:58:52: GospelUtah .org If you could give us the website again for The Atheist Illusion. Atheism .video
01:58:59: Atheism .video Thank you so much, Pastor Jason Wallace. I look forward to your return to Iron Trip and Zion Radio.
01:59:05: Perhaps we could even continue on this same subject or anything else you'd like to discuss. I want to thank everybody who listened.
01:59:10: And I want you all to always remember for the rest of your lives that Jesus Christ is a far greater Savior than you are a sinner.