66 Books, 40 Authors, 1,500 Years: Does the Bible Hold Up? (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

It's everywhere right now: the Bible is 66 books, written by 40 authors, across 1,500 years, on three continents, all saying the same thing.

This week we take that apologetic apart piece by piece — the canon that was never fixed, the authorship attributions that arrived centuries after the fact, the Hebrew that didn't exist yet, and the "three continents" that fit inside a circle smaller than the Mediterranean. One part of the claim actually checks out, and we'll happily give it up.
Interview: 

https://youtu.be/G5ptvRsgyCs?si=Bfep2Iz1gBlMJDC4

Things We NEED To Stop Saying ASAP!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5y6BgWgCMg

 

I loved this apologetic argument... Then I learned history.

I used to use this argument for the resurrection. I don't anymore — and once you understand where the empty tomb stories actually come from, you'll see why. This video responds to a popular apologetic case built on three claims: the empty tomb, early creeds, and eyewitness testimony. I'm focusing on the empty tomb claim specifically — and the problem starts with a simple fact: Paul, our earliest source, never mentions an empty tomb at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wmxlu8Is5A 

Answering the "Who Created God?" Question (Impact response) (Paulogia on YouTube)

Where did God come from? Some Christians believe God was always there, but for a lot of skeptics, this answers is troubling.

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/rQxyp8H63x8?si=j-3O0YPpqjo4noMr

Apologist Embarrasses Himself on Diary of a CEO (And Christians Loved It) (Paulogia video podcast)

John Lennox, billed as the world's number one Christianity expert, sat down with Steven Bartlett on Diary of a CEO and Christians across YouTube couldn't stop raving about it. There's just one problem. When Bartlett repeatedly asked for actual evidence, Lennox had none.

Interview: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/apologist-embarrasses-himself-on-diary-of-a/id1518399038?i=1000773564505

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LIVE DEBATE [God is Fiction] 3-16-2026 (Justin at DZ Debates on YouTube and podcast)

TIMESTAMPS 

8:39 Skepticus joins  

11:00 David - Philbro nonsense; What is Justin’s foundation for his view of the Bible; Contradiction in 1 Chronicles 21 & 2 Samuel 24

46:15 Joe Ja - Starts with fine tuning; Were the Israelites slaves to God?

1:21:43 VanTam - Caller talks non-stop; We have a creator because everything has one; Caller misunderstands infinity; Was time created? Justin gives caller 2 minutes to talk at the end of the call

2:06:50 RegularJohn - Caller believes in God because he sees patterns in people’s name; If you use your story for why God is real, why wouldn’t you trust the story of other people and their God?

2:24:20 Darth Mark [Agnostic] - Believes we live in a simulation; Caller believes they have precognitions that come true

2:49:35 Duke Tree - Christianity is true because of all the believers that have died for their faith; Is Genesis 3:15 a prophecy? What about other prophecies?

3:33:50 (Duke Tree) Is a choice by coercion an actual choice (follow God or burn forever?) Caller: yes, it is still a choice and Hell isn’t a lake of fire and torment

3:56:20 Alfie - What Christian scholars does Justin recommend?

4:01:40 Jared - Humans are the only creatures that say God isn’t real; Caller believes everyone knows God is real and non-believers are lying

4:22:00 James - How do atheists account for logic and knowledge? Is God contingent? How about Jesus?

4:46:15 (James) - Even if God isn’t real, living as if he is the best way to live your life; Are God’s morals objective?

5:10:29 Superchats and wrap-up GGs

Interview: 

• YouTube video, with viewer comments: https://www.youtube.com/live/ow-VuBA52j0?si=cTgFsajnCZRO5MS5
• Podcast, audio only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2026-03-16-fiction-atheist-live-debates/id1837730286?i=1000759287917

Monte Mader Deconstructs Alt-Right Christian Nationalism (Find Out podcast on YouTube)

We're mixing things up on this episode of the Find Out Podcast with our guest, Monte Mader. Monte is not only a culture critic, musician and podcaster, she was raised in a far right Christian Nationalist community who has flipped sides and now offers guidance to white, ex-Evangelical Christians who want to leave the MAGA movement.

Monte explains to us deeply engrained her family was in Christian Nationalist Republican politics. Growing up in a deeply religious household in Wyoming, her father home schooled and raised her to believe that you can't be a Christian and a Democrat. We find out what caused her to finally leaver the Christian Nationalist community and why they worship Donald Trump.

Chapters

00:00 I Took My Bible & I Threw It Across The Room
01:24 Raised At The Intersection of Republican Politics & Religion
05:52 Christian Apologetics
08:51 What Was the First Seed of Doubt?
12:41 The First Time I Realized I Was Intentionally Lied To
16:11 Realizing Christian Nationalism Is The Problem
23:51 My Dad Held Trump To The Same Moral Standard He Held Clinton
29:38 James Dobson, Eugenics, Larry Ellison & The Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger
36:19 What's The Difference Between Trump's Iran Plan & Trump's Vietnam Plan?
42:17 Matt Schalpp of CPAC Has Been Credibly Accused
45:40 Ronald Reagan Was A Piece Of Sh*t
49:10 You Cannot Expect or Demand Apologies From People That You Victimized
57:34 Let's End On Something Hopeful

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/VoQhokCN3w4?si=Pdu0fUsV8Z4GFoXR

He Tried to Defend Old Testament Violence… Scholars Push Back (feat Dr Kipp Davis & Dr Joshua Bowen) (Paulogia podcast)

In a recent interview with Melissa Dougherty, Christian apologist Paul Copan attempts to defend the violence of the Old Testament—arguing that passages about conquest and destruction are widely misunderstood. 

But when those claims are examined alongside the work of biblical scholars like ‪@DrKippDavis‬ and Joshua Bowen of ‪@DigitalHammurabi‬ , serious questions arise. Do Copan’s explanations actually hold up?

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/xK_QByqlRRs?si=BKnMcy608OEQ7oe_

There's a Hole in my Heart (Viced Rhino on YouTube)

My heart is holey. Can you fill it, or do I need god?

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/y4VYvOyRqY0?si=lgm2trIi9w8eYsut

Can apologists rehabilitate this disgusting Bible verse? (Dan McClellan on YouTube)

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/spyhMQVB5IM?si=Ni815wre7sUFID28

PROOF God Exists Using 3 Simple Arguments (Impact response) (Paulogia on YouTube)

Does God exist? Impact Ministries explores three compelling arguments for God's existence: the Creation Argument, the Design Argument, and the Moral Argument. Do these logical and philosophical perspectives provide strong reasons to believe in a higher power?

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/X6deiyhwc-I?si=WfMjU23_MZ-nw7HL

Two Jacked Christians FLEX on Soyboy Atheism (Wes Huff response) (Paulogia on YouTube)

Two alpha Christians try to flex their way through the toughest atheist arguments — from the Big Bang to moral realism and the resurrection. But do the arguments hit as hard as the bench press? In this breakdown, we separate muscle from logic and see what really holds up under pressure.

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/TMKwr-yNk-o?si=4bFGcIgpVphf82A-

Immaculate Apologetics? (Dan McClellan; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

Tucker Carlson and Jeremiah Johnston don't know what they're talking about when it comes to history. Johnston recently went on Tucker's show (he still has a show- weird, right?), and claimed, among many other things, that Jesus and his crucifixion are better attested by the evidence than Julius Caesar. It's an odd apologetic, but is it possibly true?

Then we'll discuss the immaculate conception, which everybody thinks they understand, but only half of them are right. But even if you correctly understand what that phrase is referring to, is it Biblical?
Interview: 

https://youtu.be/XC0oJyopPgo?si=fc2mbwQCQmTcrBAP

"Christian Apologetics 101" gets his first bible lesson | Guest Starring ‪@Leavingfaith‬ (DZ Debates -- YouTube)

A younger tiktoker named Christian Apologetics 101 ( / breakingdownchrist ) has a difficult conversation about the bible and gets his first real bible lesson. I am also joined by the intelligent ‪@Leavingfaith‬.

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/9uxkgE9vGpI?si=XxlZ4uol5dXBCTfR

What Bayes’ Theorem Really Says About the Resurrection (feat Brian Blais/Than Christopoulos resp)

Is the "Maximal Data Case" for the resurrection of Jesus a sophisticated historical argument, or just "for the Bible tells me so" with extra steps? 

When apologist Than Christopoulos accused YouTuber Paulogia of "mathematical malpractice" for his skepticism, Paulogia enlisted physicist and statistical inference expert Dr. Brian Blais to respond. 

This video features Dr. Blais's detailed breakdown of the debate, where he corrects the Bayesian equations, reframes the data, and argues that the apologist's own math reveals a conclusion baked in from the start, turning a theological debate into a fascinating lesson on logic and probability.

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/v6QenX4Oo78?si=FHbX29CaIbBytTmL

God’s Top 100 Defenders Tried to Prove Him… Yikes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozozoz8aC3k

 

How Apologetics Sounds to Skeptics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a4-vGxc3G4

 

WOTM: More Excusegists! STAT!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5JzaDM4soE

 

“You Need to be Open to Other Perspectives” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)(It’s in the Code Ep 136)

If someone is working through faith deconstruction, it’s a virtual guarantee that they will be confronted with this dismissal of their questions and critiques at some point. 

But what exactly is going on when a partisan of high-control Christianity says this? 

What response are they trying to bring about from the person deconstructing? And how is this response intended to insulate high-control religion from criticism and honest questioning? 

Join Dan this week for answers to these and other questions.

Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/its-in-the-code-ep-136-you-need-to-be-open-to-other-perspectives/

Was biblical slavery “fundamentally different”?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANO01ks0bvM