Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist Trent Horn.

And today I'm going to engage a video from the Atheist YouTuber, Stephen Woodford, also

known as Rationality Rules, and his video is called Why Theism Is Irrational.

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All right, so saying something is irrational is a really strong claim.

You're not just saying that a belief is false.

You're saying that a human being with a functioning brain shouldn't believe this.

You've done something really stupid or you've gone really against reason to believe something

that's irrational.

For example, if I think that it's 10.15 AM because the clock in my car says it is, but I

forgot the clock is two minutes slow, I have a false belief, but I'm not being irrational.

It's an honest mistake.

So if I think it's 10.15 AM, just because my car clock says so, when it's actually 10.15

PM, because I messed up the AM PM settings, that's not just an honest mistake.

I'd be irrational to believe the clock, in spite of the obvious fact that it's the middle

of the night all around me, and not 10.15 in the morning.

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