S5E33 Atheism Part 2

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we continue our discussion of atheist arguments against the existence of God. We primarily talk about the problem of evil, and Gerrit discusses a point that both the atheist and Christian miss, which is that despite the suffering in this life, the suffering in the next life is much worse, and there is no opportunity for justice for the majority of God’s creations. Gerrit Dandometer: most controlled we have seen Gerrit in some time, but toward the end gets up to 402,836 Kristy’s KorneЯ (Last Minute Lesson Prep): Gerrit discusses the miraculous nature of the D&C 87 and the prophecy of the coming Civil War Sign up for our free monthly email (seldom monthly): ⁠ ⁠⁠https://standardoftruthpodcast.substack.com⁠⁠ If you have any questions or possible topics of discussion for upcoming podcasts, please email us at: ⁠⁠⁠[email protected] Clips played on the show came from the following YouTube videos: John MacArthur: Why Does God Allow So Much Suffering and Evil? - https://youtu.be/UTRm1go2Qw4?si=nwkqn18hic6HB7sw If God, Why Evil? | Dr. Frank Turek - https://youtu.be/V2eNyrknOAk?si=FaUq0z1bcl9XMrJ1 Arguments For Atheism Tier List - https://youtu.be/s_5vfQE6_yE?si=-nWylNO1qiuVy-Wb Alex O’Connor UNLOADS on Catholic Apologist: ”Your God Let This Happen?” - https://youtu.be/9gND_uHQtlY?si=n49K5tjR_gcO5sLP

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast. In this podcast, Dr. Garrett Dirk-Mott and Dr. Richard
0:08.2	Leduc explore the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the life
0:14.3	and teachings of the prophet Joseph Smith. They examine the original historical sources and provide
0:20.4	context for events of the past.
0:23.1	They approach the history of the church with faith, expertise, and humor.
0:36.9	Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard or Truth podcast.
0:40.6	I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my friend Dr. Richard LaDuke.
0:45.2	Hello, Garrett.
0:46.2	Thanks for having me back.
0:47.4	Very excited to continue our discussion of atheism.
0:52.7	And even though we didn't even really get to it in the last episode, we still named it that? We talked more about Christians, I think. Quite a bit more. I think we were, it seemed more like we were trying to make Christians become atheists than it was. Look, we're going to get you one way or the other. Either you're going to become one of us or nothing at all. Yeah, I mean, luckily we got baptism for the dead, so we got that going for us.
1:14.9	So we will go straight into Christie's corner as we discussed Doctor and Covenant Section 87, correct?
1:22.6	When you want to look smart in Sunday school, if you want your friends to think you're cool
1:27.9	when you want to seem wise and not a fool
1:30.6	it's Christy's Corner
1:33.0	Yeah I mean you knew that that's where I was gonna go
1:36.2	This is one of my favorite prophecies in fact I believe Richard plans to
1:40.0	We're gonna do a re-release of the full episode from season one episode 10. We'll do a re-release of the full episode from season one, episode 10.
1:44.5	We'll do a re-release as a bonus episode.
1:46.7	So if folks want to dive into that, they're welcome to a full hour of whatever.
1:55.2	This is, it is one of the greatest revelations as far as predictive prophecies that there is. And what's, what's
2:04.0	stunning to me is much like our last episode, how readily discounted it is. And it's readily
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