Just Who is Matt Dillahunty?

There is a little cable show that hails from Austin, Texas called The Atheist Experience.  One of the hosts is a gentleman named Matt Dillahunty.  Now Mr. Dillahunty is an excellent spokesperson for atheism in that he is well educated on both sides of the issue and seems to have a good grasp of logic and its application to arguments.

If you don't have the time or inclination to watch any of the archived shows on their website, and even if you do, this is a link to a YouTube video that answers the question "why did you name your blog Punch Your Fat Head In For Jesus?".

   I'm assuming that someone is asking the question, that is.  You'll have to watch the whole video or just let it download and then go to the end.  Some day I'll have to ask the Atheist Experience if I can use an audio sample of it for this site.

To summarize, the caller seems to be someone who will not retreat into irrational arguments or who is denying the logic of Matt's responses, but you can detect a change in the voice tone of the caller along the way that I attribute to increased stress as they realize that their arguments don't stand up to scrutiny.  At the end the caller breaks.  Priceless.

I wonder what the caller would say now?  Has he retreated into the world where fear rules or has he poked his head out through the hole that was punched in  his beliefs and discovered a world where he may not need to be ruled by fear?  Has he abandoned all hope of justifying his beliefs with facts and/or logic or is he still searching for the argument or evidence that will prove his god?

"Fear will keep the local systems in line.  Fear of this battle station."

- Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, AKA George Lucas

I'm sure I'll have more to say about fear and intimidation as time goes on.  If you don't read about what I have to say on the subject then you may, or even will, fall victim to the most horrendous torture that I can imagine, so don't take the chance that you're wrong about not caring what I have to say.  If the cost of not reading my thoughts on fear is the worst imaginable torture, do you want to risk it?