BIASED! Debate Teacher Reacts to Hate Comments

Poorly developed facial hair?

How dare you if I still had my mustache right now.

It would crawl right off my lip and slap you right across the face.

How dare you sir?

Welcome back.

Everybody got a brand new video for you.

If this is your very first time hanging out with me, well, you sure picked a doozy of a video.

Okay.

My name is Nate Zala.

I'm the president of a Christian ministry called wise disciple and here at wise disciple.

We're all about living effectively as Christians in today's culture as a lot of you know, I started a series back in

2020 When a lot of us had a lot more free time at home.

You remember that?

The series was called debate teacher reacts and the basic premise is I as a former debate teacher

Here in Clark County in Las Vegas, Nevada.

I look at I analyze I react to and I judge apologetics and theology debates.

The whole trick of the premise is a lot of these kinds of debates are more informal and Therefore

are not adjudicated more formally and so I lean more Formal and I talked about

who performed better who I would say won the debate if we were holding to a more formal Structure

and that means in these kinds of videos I call out what was good.

But I also call balls and strikes as it were and I declare winners and losers for most of the videos

and that Has caused many on the losers side to call me out.

And so today let's take a look at the quote -unquote hate comments.

What do I mean by hate comments?

Thanks for asking.

I mean not those comments where someone disagrees with me.

But comments where not only do they disagree, but they also strive to go above and beyond if I can

put it that way.

And also say things make general observations about my Intelligence my

bias and my overall general appearance.

So without further ado, I've got 10 ish hate comments in no particular order.

Let's go.

You should retitle this to Christian apologist reacts to debate.

Okay, that that still kind of flows off the tongue.

Actually, you know what that doesn't go far enough for me.

How about this Christian apologist who is a former debate teacher reacts to an apologetics debate?

Between a former atheist turned Christian and a popular skeptic who never makes a legitimate argument Dunder

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That's way better.

So there's a couple of things with this number one.

It sounds like I'm misleading people with these videos.

You know the titles of the videos say debate teacher reacts.

That's not untrue about me.

I am a former debate teacher.

The reason why I title these videos debate teacher reacts is because these are in the same vein of other

teacher react videos, you know Doctor react videos stuff like that where there's something on

the technical side that I want to focus on in these kinds of videos.

Also, just so we're all on the same page.

I don't consider myself an apologist.

Which is also why you don't see that in the title.

Okay haters can disagree but that's not how I see myself.

Alright, just being real.

I am a Christian.

I am a Protestant.

I.

I'm a teacher.

I'm a pastor and the president of a Christian nonprofit organization.

By the way, I say all this in the first minute of every video if you're paying attention.

But I just don't see myself as an apologist.

Okay, you won't find very many videos of me arguing for the Christian faith using apologetics arguments.

There are a lot of great ministries out there that do that kind of thing.

That's not where my heart is at.

My heart is in evangelism and discipleship.

Okay, those are the kinds of materials and videos you'll find here at this channel.

I hope this guy doesn't actually teach debate.

Oh Yes me teach debates me teach the debates for the students as a matter of fact.

I remember every year for student orientation I would sit in the cafeteria with a huge sign that said

join the debate team and win arguments against your parents.

Okay, that was just to get the students in the door to be technical.

I taught what is known as forensics.

So the second school I ever taught at here in Clark County in Las Vegas.

The forensics teacher was retiring and so they put it out in the staff email if anybody wanted to take over for her.

She was a very nice lady, and I was tremendously interested in debates.

But I didn't know anything about forensics.

Forensics is it's debate plus speech and Speech consists

of all kinds of you know subcategories.

You got humorous interpretation.

Extemporaneous dramatic interpretation duo interpretation and in the area of speech.

I really struggled.

I was like fish out of water that that was just not my forte at all.

Thankfully there was a varsity team in place that helped me find my footing with all that stuff.

But the debate was way more my speed as a matter of fact I would always end the year with a huge mock

murder trial.

I put together a whole murder case with Defendant and everything all students got involved and took

on roles and they had to go through the murder trial as prosecuting and defense teams Judge

jury it was a lot of fun.

It was it was sort of a culminating assignment of everything.

They learned in the year.

It was a really great time.

Hopefully something the students will still talk about to this day look at all those exclamation points.

Oh.

So you'll tell us what to think sure would be bad if people thought for themselves.

What I.

Don't I don't know how to respond to this.

I.

Don't disagree.

I'm Ron Burgundy.

I Will say this I'm not trying to tell people what to think in these videos.

I'm trying to get people to understand what's happening from like an inside baseball, you know perspective,

you know a debate teachers perspective.

I'm assuming that if you click the video you already are thinking pretty well.

Like before you actually watched my video as a matter of fact, I ask everyone at the end of every video.

Who do you think won the debate?

So I do actually enjoy when people think for themselves.

That was that was a weird comment.

All right, moving on.

Oh, look another apologist that doesn't understand how logic or evidence work is.

Is is that the whole is there more was that the whole statement?

Is there some specific example to support this, you know, you know what it is?

I'm noticing a pattern with comments like these and what I mean is when a certain type of atheist or skeptic

who is largely Marked by a scientistic outlook, you know, they they adhere to some kind of

positivism or something like that.

When they see an apologist or a theologian in a debate talking about God or heaven or some of the more common

features of the Christian worldview they get angry because they think that evidence is only what can be shoved under a

microscope.

That's why you hear a lot of.

These kinds of folks say Demonstrate to me your God.

They like that word demonstrate.

I need to see what you're saying.

Demonstrated to me the problem with that is evidence is bigger than what these folks think it is.

All right evidence is anything that increases a person's warrant.

Okay, this is the Tolman model of arguing.

Is the Tolman model a Christian invention?

No, this is what a lot of schools use this is what I used in the classroom as a teacher the Tolman model

kind of goes like this if Someone makes a claim there must be data or evidence to

support the claim and then there must be a warrant.

A warrant is the explanation as to how the evidence supports and justifies the claim.

Okay, that's a proper argument under the Tolman model again is the Tolman model some kind of made -up Christian

apologist thing.

No, it's a universally recognized style of argumentation that many schools teach to their students.

It is not an invention of Christianity.

So then where do these folks get this extremely reductionistic view of evidence from well.

They get it from atheists and skeptics who only think evidence is what you can measure in the lab.

All right, that's absolutely not the case and it's a shame that so many people don't know any better

because I think Understanding what evidence really is will only seek to raise the level of discourse

in debates.

Man for somebody who's supposed to be entirely Neutral when watching these debates you pick the same side every

single time and say they did it better.

I Smell a biased agenda.

This isn't a Debate channel, it's a Christian reacts to Christian versus atheist debates and always picks

the Christian Channel.

I Love it.

I've turned these guys into Michael Scott over here.

Not.

So if you've seen the debate teacher reacts series, you know that that's not the case.

Okay, Christians lose these kinds of debates, too.

And I've declared a number of atheists the winner of various debates.

I think probably the most surprising winner to me I mean like considering who was debating was when

Richard Dawkins beat John Lennox in a debate.

My goal and I know this is hard to wrap your head around is not to be a Christian cheerleader.

It's to call legitimate balls and strikes when I see them.

It's not my fault that a lot of atheists don't do the hard work of research and development of thought when they hit the debate Stage.

Probably because they don't think they need to which if I'm right is just arrogant in my opinion.

See what I think is going on here is.

Maybe you're biased and you're drawing conclusions that are unjustified because you watched one or two of my videos

instead of actually Verifying whether or not I really do what you claim I do.

Please demonstrate how to prove a negative.

That actually wasn't that wasn't very very much of a hate comment.

All right, so I don't know who.

Well.

Okay, the law of non -contradiction is a universal negative.

Right.

So Should I say more the law of non -contradiction states is something

Cannot be both true and false in the same sense at the same time.

It's a universal negative and it's easily provable.

Okay, just plug away some examples and you'll see that it's true.

This is why it's a law of logic.

Okay, maybe I should say to the commentator here that The law of non -contradiction is easily

demonstrated.

It turns out you can prove a negative.

It's one of the laws of logic that I understand atheists and skeptics have no problem with right?

You guys are cool with the laws of logic, right?

Look, I'm not trying to be disrespectful I just I wish more people were open about

the things that they think they know.

That's all I strive to do that.

Lord knows I've changed my mind on lots of things heck I was an atheist until I was 30 years old.

Wouldn't it be great if we all tried to be more open -minded and less dogmatic, you

know?

What what a world that could be right?

How can you call yourself a debate teacher and not even understand that there are more than two positions to

take?

Positions like What is it like job positions?

Oh like in a debate?

Is that is that what they're trying to say?

So in debates, well, that's not true in debates.

There are what's called the F or the affirmative on the topic and the neg or the negative.

That's it.

What what would a third position be in a debate like how could you even draw out Clash

from a third position on a given topic.

I'm not following this.

Maybe what's going on is this person means like in regular conversations?

There can be more than one position to take especially when it comes to issues related to God.

Okay, fine, but debates are not normal conversations, you know that that's the point.

They're supposed to be about two interlocutors who are Providing arguments like the

best arguments and evidence for and against a specific topic.

Debates are meant to help the audience think through the best thoughts on either side of an issue.

But see that's not what I'm seeing with a lot of these debates.

I don't know how many episodes we've done now.

Somebody can tell me so far.

I'm seeing one side.

Mostly the Christian side do a lot of the work and the other side the non -christian side

just kind of Leaning back and folding their arms and doing nothing of substance and people wonder why the atheist

loses those debates.

It's because they fail to do the hard work.

It doesn't get more complicated than that.

Keep wearing that tight white shirt with the tie.

I'm sure that will make it easier for your Lord to find you tight white shirt.

What can I say?

Covid has been too kind to my midsection.

All right, I like doughnuts blueberry doughnuts.

First off super humble name you picked for your channel.

Second thought I was about to get a fair summary of the debate, but then I found out you were a Christian.

As soon as I saw your very humble channel name and knew that it wasn't that that wasn't going to be the

case effing sad.

Wow.

Okay.

Gosh every time I see somebody write a comment and then end it with sad.

It reminds me of Donald Trump.

You don't have to be a fan of his or anything to remember this.

But do you remember it's like some of Trump's Twitter rants as a matter of fact.

Let me try this thought I was about to get a fair summary of the debate.

Very fair.

A lot of people a lot of people want fair.

So many people they don't want masks.

No more masks.

A lot of people are telling me this thought wise disciple was gonna be fair but found out he was a Christian.

Very sad very sad.

I Will say this okay wise disciple the

name is not about me.

All right.

It's not describing Nate Salah's intelligence or anything.

It's not meant to make me seem like I'm better than anybody else if you are reading into that that's

not my intention.

So I'm happy to clarify Wise disciple comes out of Jesus command for his own disciples.

All right in Matthew chapter 10 verse 16.

He told them Behold, I'm sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves.

Therefore be wise as serpents and innocent as doves if you notice the logo from my

ministry.

It's a serpentine formation with wings on either side.

Wise as serpents.

Innocent as doves.

Okay, you see it.

The name is not trying to make myself unique and special.

The name wise disciple is a reminder of of Jesus comment to all Christians everywhere.

This is what Jesus expects of his followers the debate preacher.

Hey, yeah, see what you did there the debate preacher aka average

disciples.

Poorly developed facial hair.

Means his comments should be ignored.

Poorly developed facial hair.

How dare you if I still had my mustache right now.

It would crawl right off my lip and slap you right across the face.

How dare you sir?

You know, it's interesting about this.

I'm half Samoan.

Okay, and so in a way I kind of have Keanu Reeves beard.

You know, I mean you ever see this Keanu Reeves when he has a beard right splotchy Keanu Reeves is part Hawaiian

and Probably because of this this is my argument because of that his beard it just doesn't fully grow

in.

You know, it's kind of Incomplete in places no criticism of Reeves like I love Reeves and I love his movies,

but I have a similar issue.

Okay, I'm half Samoan and I'm also part Arabic and if you put that together It makes a Filipino

apparently because everyone thinks I'm Filipino.

All right, or Hispanic.

I get Hispanic sometimes.

So there are areas of my face where the hair grows in full.

Like my mustache and then other areas of my face that have just decided to stop growing and go surfing.

Why did I spend so much time on that question, I don't know.

Let's let's move on biased debate teacher thinks the burden of proof the burden on proof.

Okay.

Bias debate teacher thinks the burden of proof is on the one who does not believe.

Corrected your title.

Thank you so much.

Here's another one related to this.

Nate Sala is just another god -loving fool who is obviously biased.

Here's another one.

There is so much bias oozing from this commentary.

Oozing has probably got to be the most gag reflux word I've ever heard in my entire life oozing.

There is so much bias oozing from this commentary.

Okay, I'm gonna be honest with you every time I hear the word bias in these comments.

It sounds like that Thomas Dobie song.

She blinded me with bias.

Here's the deal you ready for this.

I am biased but wait a sec, so are you.

So is everyone else?

All right.

Everyone has a set of biases with regard to their own particular worldview.

Okay, even if your position is agnostic guess what you're biased against theistic arguments since you have not

assented to them, correct.

That's my point.

Everyone who enters into a metaphysical discussion has their own biases.

So what to say that I'm biased says nothing actually to suggest that I'm

not objective.

Because I'm biased it that's probably what you're trying to say.

So I'll help you out here if you want to critique me try to critique me in this area.

Nate.

You're not remaining objective because your biases have overruled your objectivity.

Okay fair enough now show me where that's happened.

I lay out my criteria for adjudicating debates.

I talk about them all the time.

I talk about laying a framework.

I talk about who better engages with the topics.

I talk about who brings up questions that have nothing to do in cross -examination.

I talk about a lot of different kinds of stuff because that's the stuff that I'm actually paying attention to but that's not what is.

That issue with people who comment in this way nine times out of ten.

What these folks do is they get mad at me?

Because I understand evidence to be greater than what they allow it to be and now we're back to what I said previously.

Look, it's not my fault that your view of evidence is too reductionistic.

Okay.

It's not my fault that I actually remember the history of philosophical ideas and how they died

out in the past.

Because let's face it a lot of skeptics on YouTube are like digging up old dead theories to win arguments

against Christians.

I mean, how many times can someone bring up the euthyphro dilemma and still think that they've said something significant?

I'm not sure what else I can say about this.

I mean really seriously like try to stop being so closed -minded and.

Maybe take a class or two or three by the way.

Even the greatest YouTube videos do not replace reading the literature.

Also, can we just go back for a second bias debate teacher thinks the burden of proof is on the one who does not

believe.

Yikes, like let me say this.

The burden of proof is on anyone who makes a claim period that is a general axiom of philosophy.

You get that when you go to like remedial philosophy.

All right, that's one of the first things they teach you.

The burden of proof is on anyone who makes the claim.

Now, I get that sometimes with more formal debates.

One side holds the burden of proof.

Okay, that's great.

I acknowledge that no problem, but you have to ask yourself.

Why is that the case?

The reason that is the case in my opinion is because of the way that the topic is worded in more formal

debates.

With a lot of these apologetics and theology debates number one, the debates are not formal.

They're way more informal.

And number two, the topics are worded in the form of a question, you know.

Does God exist?

Right, that means if you take the F on that you're gonna make your case to prove that yes God does

exist.

But if you take the neg on that you also need to make your own case that God does not exist.

Look at the end of the day.

Our goal should be to watch debates with the attitude of genuinely seeking truth.

Okay.

If you do that, then you should want to hear clear contentions and arguments from the negative side as well

from both sides.

If not if you just want to watch these things to cheerlead your favorite speaker then don't get

mad at the rest of us because our Aspirations are more noble than yours.

All right.

Got a little yellow spicy there at the end.

Sorry about that.

Look the reality is if you have commented on my videos Thank you so much for watching my sincere hope and the

reason why I do what I do is to have an extended Conversation with folks who are genuinely seeking truth.

All right, that means sometimes Christians win debates and sometimes they lose.

So be it.

We're all the better for it when that happens.

Thanks very much for watching this video.

As always if there is a particular debate that you would like me to react to let me Know in the comments below or if you want to disagree

with me Go ahead and throw those in the comments to just be prepared to get a response from me every now and then.

All right in the meantime Thanks so much for watching.

I'm so grateful for all of you who continue to come back and interact with me.

I'm going to take a break and I'll say bye for now.