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“I’m an Atheist”

333 views · Mar 1, 2022

Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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there's this argument that people encounter all the time yeah how do i know there's a god so my response is always do you believe in god most people say yes i said that's it you know good he says what if somebody says i'm not really worried about that yeah these are these are the arguments and uh it's an amazing sort of a thing i'm in the field a long time i'm in the field a long time and you have people say things like now you have them but i used to run an organization called ncsy long island high school kids and i'd have a ninth tenth grader 14 15 years old and say to me i'm an atheist i say you're an atheist you know there's no god that's right there's no god i said well have you ever studied classical philosophy

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  6. 2:35he's an atheist yeah an atheist an atheist means that you know something you can't you…
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