LIVE DEBATE [Your God is Evil] 5-18-2026 (Justin at DZ Debates on YouTube)

TIMESTAMPS

4:25 Jesus Saves Forever Ron - Will a good being cause unnecessary suffering? Does God cause unnecessary suffering? Caller has a tough time answering questions

31:45 NatureVsAI - The universe doesn’t exist

33:10 Enema Enjoyer - Are natural disasters necessary? Will there be earthquakes when Jesus returns? Caller doesn’t believe in all of the Bible

53:23 (Enema Enjoyer) - Do we have free will; Does God mess with our free will? What happened with Pharaoh?

1:31:37 Leo - Caller is now a Christian; We need evil because it will help us eventually; The Bible is contradictory and we don’t need it; Unnecessary suffering is good

2:03:22 Xavier - It was indeed good for God to have babies unalived; Caller refuses to answer what they would do if commanded by God to unalive a baby

2:27:35 (Xavier) - Could people successfully follow the Mosaic Law? How long should we follow the Law? Was slavery good? Was the test of the bloody sheet a fair test (Deuteronomy 22)? Caller loses

3:12:50 Tiger [Friendly] - Caller expresses thanks to Justin for helping them deconstruct

3:16:45 40days_all - God is all good; What is evil? Caller can’t keep track of the conversation so gets dropped

3:36:02 Jodash Pillay - Are natural disasters necessary for free will to exist? Caller claims that we can cure cancer and prevent volcanoes

3:57:40 (Jodash Pillay) - Caller says it was good for the Israelites to unalive babies in 1 Samuel 15; Is it good to punish people 400 years after the offense? Is it okay to eat your own children? Pro-baby paste; Caller loses connection

4:35:12 Chris - Was it just for 70K Israelites to be unalived because David took a census (2 Samuel 24)? Response: you can’t understand God’s mind; Should David have been punished? A little bit of Sov Cit arguments leak in

4:57:00 (Chris) - Do we have free will if God knows our future (Romans 9)? Is slavery always bad? Get a little BHI arguments

5:23:40 Superchats and wrap up
Interview: 

https://www.youtube.com/live/iWpy2VktxC4?si=gwaB52tApl0-FYje

Animal Sacrifice Began as Feeding God, Not Forgiving Sin (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

Why would anyone burn a bull, dung and all, for a god? Dan McClellan traces animal sacrifice back to the way ancient West Asians cared for their dead, from a stele whose owner left instructions for his own meals to Jacob Milgrom's theory that sacrificial blood was a ritual detergent for the temple rather than the sinner.

Then the Dans follow that logic out to the land itself in Leviticus 18 and 20, and to the early Christians who reframed Jesus' execution as a sacrifice.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro
0:48 Thicker Than Water
1:13 Why sacrifice at all?
2:17 Feeding gods and the dead
4:24 The Katumuwa stele
6:44 What ritual is really for
7:13 The food never disappears
10:36 What sacrifice accomplished
11:07 "Only Jesus' blood"?
13:08 Blood as ritual detergent
13:36 Reading Leviticus 4
15:17 Milgrom's temple theory
17:32 The land vomits you out
19:22 Personal impurity
22:42 How rituals pile up
24:41 Exile and the Holiness Code
25:26 Jesus as sacrifice
28:19 Recap and the prophets
29:09 Outro

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/ycpXoR24i3Y?si=VuuNt4FA_IjFf2jP

The Pope Says No to the Death Penalty. Does the Bible? (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

When Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty "inadmissible," critics fired back that he'd clearly never read the Bible, a book that prescribes death for everything from kidnapping to gathering sticks on the Sabbath. 

But the Pope's argument is the same made-in-God's-image reasoning from Genesis 1:27 that abolitionists used against the Bible's slavery texts, and Jesus himself seems to land on both sides in the Gospel of Matthew. So does the Bible support the death penalty? It says the Pope is wrong, and it says he's right. 

Chapters:

0:00 Welcome in
1:35 The Pope's death penalty post
2:26 Hasan and Christa Pike
3:57 The Bible's capital crimes
5:59 "You've never read the Bible"
6:48 Image of God vs. slavery
9:04 Pope Leo's AI encyclical
11:09 A pastor's double standard
12:16 Feelings first, reasons later
15:48 Did Jesus accept execution?
16:21 Cast the first stone
17:07 An eye for an eye
19:06 Just interpersonal ethics?
21:33 Matthew 15's death clause
22:45 One gospel, two answers
24:24 Genesis 9:6 cuts both ways
26:43 The forgotten blood rule
27:57 The Bible says both
28:36 Wrap-up and thanks

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/wvq6kcqzjRE?si=3UrWZQclyO4xqhZU

Dinesh D’Souza falsifies a quote from an eminent scholar

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi__u8fNmZc

 

Prove God. I'll Wait. July 14 (Jon Cohen, Unconvinced on YouTube)

If you have a compelling argument for God, we want to hear it!

TIMESTAMPS 

• 0:00:01 - Greetings & introduction 
• 0:05:52 - Don Julio - Claims God is real because white people exist and apparently white people are perfect. 
• 0:07:31 - Random thoughts - Accuses the hosts of being dishonest with themselves and having made up their minds about disbelief in God. Claims God is necessary to make truth statements 
• 0:31:27 - Bingo and superchats 
• 0:50:13 - Regen - Kid calls. Kid gets booted 
• 0:50:36 - Samuel 164 - Rude caller that pivots from topic to topic while alluding to the founding of America and British settlers in america and Gaza conflict to Biblical prophecies. Gets schooled on how conversation works 
• 1:03:31 - Gwaltz - Accuses Jon of being an incarnation of satan that preys on Christians on his livestream. Claims everyone will kneel before jesus 
• 1:24:51 - Rejoice talks - Uses fine tuning argument in different ways to claim there is a God 
• 1:51:46 - Bingo & Superchats 
• 1:56:41 - Lamont - Uses the emergence of irreducible complexity in life as an argument for God. 
• 2:19:22 - Superchats and Bingo 
• 2:21:49 - Apostle.K.G - Claims Atheism lacks necessary models to explain existence. Talks about modal symmetry, prioris and hard determinism problems. 
• 2:36:29 - Superchats 
• 2:39:02 - Footballfactory SCO - Scottish caller that asks jon why he does these debates and the motivation behind his campaign against religion. Uses watchmaker argument and the irreducible complexity of the human eye to debate for theism. Dr digg joins to educate about evolution 
• 3:14:11 - Superchats 
• 3:16:38 - God is real - Says God is not a science project and claims God has revealed himself to him in a non physical way. Quotes the bible for defence. 
• 3:44:36 - Superchats 
• 3:48:11 - Conor - Heavily uses biblical myths & supernatural claims and prophecies as evidence for God. Jon explains how science explains the evolution of the natural world, whereas the biblical prophecies & myths are anachronistic and fails to explain the natural world. 
• 4:15:38 - Superchats 
• 4:17:37 - Bible real or fIctional - Tries to argue for accuracy of biblical prophecies and accuses jon of not reading them in context 
• 4:29:32 - V_V - Claims human ancestors cannot map reality but modern humans abruptly can. Argues that this abrupt transition in epistemic capability is because of God. Tries to find gaps in evolution to fill God. Keeps asking 'teleological why/intention' to natural processes. Dr.Digg comes in to educate and point out the ignorance in seeking intention behind evolution. Questions dr.digg's authority. 
• 4:57:21 - Bingo & Superchats 
• 5:18:56 - AM PRO306 - Troll that crashes in with 'Ima beat yo ass' to Jon 
• 5:25:16 - Superchats 
• 5:35:16 - AAR - Claims Unfulfilled, endless desires are evidence for God . Uses C.s lewis' argument from desire. Claims Emotion and heart are required to reach God and not logic. 
• 6:16:28 - Superchats & bingo 
• 6:25:06 - Carbismark - Uses Personal experience/evidence of god. Criticises a rational approach to proving God. Claims God has not revealed himself to Jon. Gets killswitch'd thrice. 
• 6:53:33 - Superchats 
• 7:04:26 - Kim - accidental call 
• 7:06:20 - Youtube opposition comments & superchats 
• PSA on racism and using race to strawman people 
• 7:19:36 - Bismillah Biryani - cannot connect 
• 7:20:51 - Superchats & Bingo & innercircle credits 
• 7:27:11 - ChrisR - friendly caller that's asked to call back on friday. 
• 7:31:51 - Midwest - cant connect 
• 7:33:46 - Brandon - Arbitrary morals. Genetically engineering empathy. God cares for wellbeing 
• 8:07:11 - Superchats 
• 8:20:37 - SZP - Claims God is morally good and asks if Jon and Sean need proof for God's existence and God's goodness. Discusses the ontology of evidence vs proof. 
• 8:42:52 - Superchats & conclusion 
• 9:04:01 - Housekeeping, Bingo winners and rate a caller results.

Interview: 

https://www.youtube.com/live/OGH57Oz1V3g?si=Y3EH7Kgp8wXBf4H0

The Bible has been foundational in the western world to justify racism

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tm7ylSl481Y

 

The REAL Ending of Mark's Gospel 🤯 - Most Bibles Are WRONG #history

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ncgCbrWS8Rw

 

Ma’am are you sure???? (Part 1)

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Dvf3NRC7_o8

Horror Stories From My Evangelical University (Drew McCoy/Genetically Modified Skeptic on YouTube)

Interview:

https://youtu.be/52RhrFQy4YQ?si=nRZ7PNElX1L48jJE

Dayeus Ex Machina (Mega the podcast: satire)

In this satire of a megachurch, teenager and youth group member Day drops in to answer some questions from youth minister Grey. As usual, Day challenges lots of Grey’s ideas. 

(Day is played by Holly Laurent; Grey is played by Greg Hess.)

Interview:  

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dayeus-ex-machina/id1425141892?i=1000797992755

Bible is a joke #christian #biblestudy #deconstruction

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2KoHrFqmKOM

 

LIVE DEBATE [Pick Your Poison Topic] 5-13-2026 (Justin at DZ Debates on YouTube)

TIMESTAMPS

1:52 Meta Trash - A nice, quick crash out

10:25 Steph - Could people seeing a resurrected Jesus be hallucinating? What other accounts of missing bodies or empty tombs can we trust? What does Zechariah say about the end times?

46:05 Papa Bless - M’s joins; Can thoughts be accounted for in a materialistic worldview? Determinism and causality

1:16:35 God’s Sword - Do we have proof of evolution leading to new species? Some bad biology from caller

1:40:30 John Doe - Has Justin ever approached the Bible from a mythological or esoteric POV? Caller claims we all are gods and God is consciousness

2:01:35 Myke - Not a Christian and wants to just argue against abortion

2:11:05 Avail - Is it okay for God to unalive babies? Are Christian morals objective?

2:51:35 Yankee - Caller thinks aliens brought life to Earth a long time ago

3:04:10 PseudonymouslyBob - Does homosexuality break from the norm? Caller resorts to the dictionary definition of “wrong”

3:14:00 Constantine Chronicles [Philbro] - Caller is insulting and bad faith from the start; Justin and caller try to work through a syllogism but don’t get past P1

3:36:40 Justeen - Can premonitions be proof of God? What about Revelation and the mark of the beast? Do we have proof of miracles or possessions?

4:25:15 Catholic Thinker -Caller joins to help Justin clean up one of Justin’s arguments about James 2:10 and harden it against Catholic doctrine

5:16:00 alethia - Venus joins; If you abort a pregnancy, can you get forgiveness still? How did Jesus view the Mosaic Law? Caller questions the translations of the Bible

6:06:40 Superchats and wrap up

Interview: 

https://www.youtube.com/live/AXLNtQfNaHo?si=GKbH5yLrhV48zSHX

“It Shouldn’t Be Taken Literally”

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wJnVcm3pEPc

 

John’s Jesus Didn’t Pre-Exist. The Word Did. (w/ Dustin Smith) (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

"In the beginning was the Word," but what if the Word wasn't Jesus?

New Testament scholar Dustin Smith (Spartanburg Methodist College, host of the Biblical Unitarian Podcast) joins us to unpack his book Wisdom Christology in the Gospel of John, showing how John's prologue takes what Jewish tradition said about personified Wisdom (present at creation, tabernacling among humans, offering bread, wine, and life) and applies it to Jesus.

Along the way: why "monotheism" once meant the doctrine of the Unitarians, why the women in John understand Jesus better than the Twelve, and why John's Jesus may be more human than you were taught.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro
0:38 Meet Dustin Smith
1:38 Monotheism once meant Unitarianism
2:59 What is Unitarianism?
4:06 Wisdom Christology in John
5:39 Christology 101
7:00 Lady Wisdom in Proverbs
8:37 Proverbs 31 embodies Wisdom
10:05 Wisdom made flesh in Judaism
12:14 Word, Wisdom, and Spirit
13:46 Wisdom in John's prologue
19:02 Did John read Philo?
20:36 Why "Word," not "Wisdom"?
21:49 Not a conscious Logos
23:06 The Word at the baptism
26:32 Did Jesus pre-exist?
33:34 Wisdom, Torah, and John 10
35:31 John's misunderstanding motif
37:47 "You are gods"
39:02 Why is Wisdom a woman?
44:24 Women as ideal disciples
47:32 The Samaritan woman
49:21 John vs. the Synoptics
51:09 John's very human Jesus
53:44 Can disciples share divinity?
57:20 Why this matters today
1:00:52 Wrap-up and new website

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/YYjWcwsPZtM?si=krhS4-K3X5m9BQUe

5 Bible Stories Christians Stop Reading Too Soon (Brandon at Mindshift on YouTube)

Chapters:

• 0:00 The Other Side of Bible Stories
• 1:20 The Contest at Mount Carmel
• 8:18 The Golden Calf
• 11:54 Daniel and the Lion's Den
• 16:01 Job's Kids
• 20:39 The 10 Commandments
• 25:50 Final Thoughts
• 27:39 Patron Thanks

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/ZANwFsuskMU?si=HR4eIlyhph0CYBWD

Demons are transgender?

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

 

LIVE DEBATE [Your God is Fiction] 5-11-2026 (Justin at DZ Debates on YouTube)

TIMESTAMPS

9:53 Isaiah Thomas - Marci joins; Caller believes in God because the world seems fine-tuned; Caller leaves abruptly

26:39 Vintage [Deconstructing] - What parts of the Bible could people use to back up the idea that Jesus is Satan?

51:05 Brian [Friendly] - How can caller debate against the anti-blood transfusion belief of Jehovah’s Witnesses?

1:02:25 Islamically Correct - Quantanaut joins; Caller wants to run the argument from contingency; Does the universe have a beginning?

1:37:05 (Islamically Correct) - M’s joins; Where does a man’s special fluid come from? What is wrong with Aisha being married as a child?

2:03:08 Leaf - Caller is a member of the Druze; Call doesn’t really go anywhere so gets dropped

2:09:08 Ben Randall - Will the new Jerusalem be a physical place (Ezekiel); Will we have to follow the Mosaic Law forever? Was Jesus a false prophet?

2:40:58 Chief - Lucy the hominid is fake; Where did life come from?

2:55:25 Davidestrada8634 - Can you believe scientific studies if you yourself weren’t there? Was Jesus from the physical seed of David? Has anyone seen God? Should males get the tip snipped?

3:42:55 Freegame - This call turns into Justin vs ChatGPT because caller doesn’t bring any of their own defenses to the call and can’t cite sources with specificity; If a religion says something false about history, does that make the religion itself false? Does Exodus 9:6 contain a contradiction (the ten plagues)? Caller doesn’t speak Hebrew but gets into a Biblical Hebrew grammar fight and misquotes the BDB

4:23:50 (Freegame) - Can we trust Biblical scholars? Does Matthew 1:11 have a contradiction (Josiah vs Jeconiah)? Is Michael Coogan, editor of The New Oxford Annotated Bible, a Christian?

4:49:20 (Freegame) - What does the Catholic Church say about Biblical contradictions? When was Jesus born (reign of Herod vs census ordered by Quirinius)?

5:28:17 (Freegame) - Catholic Church and contradictions continued; Caller wants to physically fight Justin and call turns to meta

5:47:10 (Freegame) - What evil stuff has the Catholic Church done or endorsed? Circling back to Quirinius

6:25:08 Make the case AKA SaucyNugs - Philodragon and Cyber join; Does the universe exist? Could Justin ever not exist? What necessarily exists? Caller keeps trying to twist words throughout the call

7:24:10 Bob [Agnostic] - A discussion of agnosticism and beliefs

7:43:28 Superchats and wrap up

Interview: 

https://www.youtube.com/live/cor504yN8is?si=mq7NokaSW-3N75D3

No, Noah's Ark Was Not Just Found in Turkey (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

The Daily Mail says the resting place of Noah's ark is "100% confirmed" on a hillside in Turkey, which is very exciting unless you look at any of the evidence.

On this "Artifacts and Fiction," the Dans dig into the new radar scans and core drilling at the Durupınar formation, and the awkward fact that a geophysicist who badly wanted it to be the ark already drilled this site in 1988 and hit bedrock.

Plus: why Genesis never actually says "Mount Ararat," why the formation is far too wide to be the boat the Bible describes, and what the peer-reviewed geology has said since 1996.

Chapters:
0:00 A Flood of Misinformation
1:36 The Noah's Ark Scans Videos
2:24 Ron Wyatt's Boat-Shaped Formation
4:35 Radar Scans and Right Angles
6:29 How Core Drilling Works
7:24 The "100% Confirmed" Headline
8:28 The Donate Link
9:52 They Drilled Here in 1988
12:08 How the Hype Plays Out
13:45 Why People Want It True
14:51 The Mountains of Ararat
18:27 A Boat on a Mountaintop?
20:05 Cubits and the Ark's Width
25:37 Can Wood Last That Long?
28:00 Radar, Drills, and Limestone
30:42 Even a Boat Proves Little
33:37 The 1996 Peer-Reviewed Verdict
35:36 Thanks for watching!
Interview: 

https://youtu.be/PKVSmAgup9g?si=coMAibwVyZGWSlvx

Was Mary a Virgin? (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast) It's In the Code Ep. 207

"Was Mary a virgin?" 

Dan Miller unpacks the question in layers. 

First, the textual evidence: the Greek word parthenos and its relationship to the Hebrew alma; plus Mary's line in Luke 1:34, which together explain why the tradition reads her as a virgin. 

For Dan, the bigger question is why the claim matters theologically. He traces how it underscores the miraculous nature of Jesus' birth, how it ties female virginity to purity, and how the doctrine expanded into the perpetual virginity of Mary (before, during, and after the birth). That expansion goes back to at least the second century, was affirmed at the Second Council of Constantinople, and was held by reformers like Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, and Wesley, despite New Testament references to Jesus' siblings. 

The episode argues that the doctrine's staying power, even against that counter-evidence, shows how much is riding on it. It becomes a flashpoint for critics because it encapsulates the tradition's ties to purity culture, patriarchal assumptions, and the devaluation of embodiment and sexuality. 

Listeners are invited to send more questions and topic ideas for the series.

Interview: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-in-the-code-ep-207-was-mary-a-virgin/id1441649707?i=1000792444640

The Messiah Wasn't Supposed to Die (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

Everybody knows the word "Messiah," but what did it mean before it meant Jesus?

In this "What's That?" segment, we follow the anointed one from oil poured on the heads of Israelite kings and priests, to the Persian emperor Cyrus (whom the Greek text of Isaiah has God calling "my Christ"), to the apocalyptic deliverer of Daniel and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Then comes the big pivot: how a messiah expected to restore Israel's political independence became, after the crucifixion, a spiritual savior from sin and death.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:45 What Is a Messiah?
1:24 Christ Is Not a Last Name
3:13 What Anointing Meant
4:34 Anointed Ones, Not "The Messiah"
5:02 Cyrus, God's Anointed
7:07 David's Line and the Exile
9:56 The Eschatological Turn
11:48 Two Messiahs at Qumran
13:13 Jesus and the Big Pivot
15:38 Was Isaiah 53 Messianic?
16:16 Why the Pivot Worked
17:37 Reinventing the Messiah
19:10 The Great Delay
19:36 How Bleak Did It Get?
20:24 Origins of Eternal Torment
22:34 Wrap-Up

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/vW3m0p-c2Es?si=NlTEwJp7yM0YMpHp