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@MuslimSkeptic Defending Pirates, Slavery, and Apostasy and Blasphemy LawsArjuna highlights clips from his Modern Day Debate with Daniel Haqiqatjou in which the Muslim apologist openly defends the Barbary Pirates, slavery, and conquest as 'eat or be eaten', and argues this exposes a theology that sanctifies base urges instead of calling people to be better.Daniel Haqiqatjou · Lecture · 5m· May 2025
DEBATE Which Is More Violent, Islam or Hinduism @MuslimSkeptic Vs ArjunaIn a Modern Day Debate moderated by Dr. James Coons, Arjuna (Alex Gallagher) argues that Islamic violence is systemic and doctrinally rooted while Hindu violence is episodic deviation from Vedic teaching, against Daniel (Muslim Skeptic), who openly defends conquest, slavery, and blasphemy law as justified and attacks Hinduism via paleogenetics, caste, and shock passages from the Manusmriti and Vedas.Daniel Haqiqatjou, James Coons · Debate · 2h 50m· May 2025
How Skeptics Make Us Too Trusting and Discourages ThinkingArjuna argues that Stephen Woodford (Rationality Rules), in attacking Stephen Meyer over the 2016 Royal Society evolution conference, defends not science but an authority structure — relying on ad hominem, misrepresenting the conference's admission that neo-Darwinism needs supplementing, and ignoring the career costs (Günter Bechly) that silence dissenting scientists. · Lecture · 18m· Mar 2025
Christian tries to destroy HinduismArjuna answers a Christian short claiming an impersonal Hindu 'force' can't ground the world's wisdom: Hinduism is no monolith, the anti-impersonalist argument was made centuries ago by Vaishnava acharyas against Shankara, and the Bhakti God possesses every quality the creation displays. · Other · 7m· Feb 2025
The Bizarre Christian Defenses of Meat EatingArjuna argues, against Christian interlocutors from Facebook apologetics circles, that every standard Christian defense of meat eating fails — necessity is obsolete, soul-based speciesism parallels racism, and the skeptical attack on moral intuitions destroys the Christian's own ground — while the way ex-bhaktas resume meat only upon converting shows Christianity actively un-teaches animal compassion. · Lecture · 18m· Jan 2025
Interfaith Discussion on Atonement Theories w Jimmy AkinArjuna argues that atonement theories collapse unless they locate the problem the cross solves in us rather than in God or the world, and Catholic apologist Jimmy Akin largely agrees — rejecting penal substitution as unjust and unscriptural, offering sacrifice-as-gift as the primary model, and denying both the necessity of the crucifixion and Christian exclusivism.Jimmy Akin · Lecture · 1h 1m· Nov 2024
When online atheists miss the pointArjuna, responding to a Victor Stenger 9/11 meme and the Facebook firestorm his comment sparked, argues that theism/atheism is a nearly useless predictor of a worldview's harm, so atheist activists making converts achieve nothing — the productive work is targeting specific bad beliefs (like 'God damns outsiders eternally') inside any worldview. · Other · 17m· Nov 2024
Atonement Theories God's Anger ProblemIn a casual solo video, Arjuna sorts Christian atonement theories into three categories and argues penal substitution fails because it splits into two divine choices — forgiving us and punishing Jesus — the second of which is gratuitous unless God is subject to an external legal code or has an anger problem. · Lecture · 12m· Oct 2024
Is God's Existence PossibleIn a scripted response video, Arjuna argues that Matt Dillahunty's dice-in-a-bag routine against 'God is possible' equivocates between knowledge-based and reality-based senses of possibility, and — via Plantinga on Dawkins — that the argument-from-ignorance charge boomerangs onto the New Atheists themselves.Alvin Plantinga, Matt Dillahunty, Tracy Harris · Lecture · 10m· Sep 2024
Hinduism vs Christianity Which is More ProbableIn a formal debate hosted by Arjuna (Alex Gallagher), philosophy student Amos Wollen argues that anthropic reasoning and the problem of evil make 'mere Hinduism' (henotheism, karma, infinite reincarnation) more probable than Christianity, while Catholic John Buck counters that karma is morally paralyzing, infinite reincarnation is logically incoherent, and only Christian atonement resolves guilt.Amos Wollen, John Buck · Debate · 1h 58m· May 2024
Defending Islam While Making It Sound WorseArjuna answers an apologist's point that jihad, blasphemy killings, and apostasy punishments don't make Islam false (as even David Wood concedes) by noting the defence backfires: it concedes the doctrines are immoral, entailing a psychopathic god and believers licensed to act immorally.Jake · Debate · 1m· Apr 2024- When Defending Islam Makes it Sound WorseIn a solo reaction video, Arjuna argues that Jake the Muslim Metaphysician's and Daniel Haqiqatjou's defense of Islam against David Wood amounts to 'the Bible has it too' - a tu quoque that concedes rather than answers the moral charges - and that Jake's own fitra-based moral epistemology, used to reject the Canaanite genocide, equally refutes Islam's expansionist wars and apostasy killings.Daniel Haqiqatjou, David Wood · Lecture · 17m· Apr 2024
Christspiracy Debate ReviewReviewing the Cam Waters vs Tony Jones Christspiracy debate, Alex Gallagher argues that Thomistic 'humans have special souls' metaphysics is unprovable speciesism indistinguishable in form from racism, and offers the Vedic alternative: one kind of soul migrates through all bodies, so animal suffering matters even though not everyone must be vegetarian. · Debate · 17m· Mar 2024
Why Your Career Isn't Fulfilling & Why It MattersCareer Dharma authors Urmila (Dr. Edith Best) and Rukmini (Dr. Ruchira Dutta) argue to Alex Gallagher that career misery comes from working against one's nature, replacing 'anyone can get rich' self-help with the Vedic four fields of work and six prosperity types.Ruchira S. Dutta, Urmilā devī dāsī · Interview · 1h 46m· Mar 2024
A New Thoery on the Metaphyics of God and Space ft. Jonathan LyonhartChristian theologian Jonathan Lyonhart presents his book Space God's thesis — Henry More's idea that space is divine lets God be radically immanent without Spinozan pantheism and conceptually grounded Newton's physics — while Arjuna maps it onto Chaitanya Vaishnavism's simultaneous oneness and difference, and both close ranks against Advaita-style impersonalism.Jonathan Lyonhart · Lecture · 58m· Feb 2024
Controverial New Temple Has Muslims Upset & Hindus CheeringArjuna defends the Ram Mandir's construction in Ayodhya against Western media framing, arguing the story must start with the Mughal destruction of the original temple rather than the 1992 demolition of the Babri Mosque, and — using David Wood and Apostate Prophet clips — that Muslim outrage over the site is inconsistent with celebrations of Hagia Sophia's reconversion.David Wood · Lecture · 35m· Feb 2024
The Israel-Hamas Conflict A Bhagavad Gita Perspective ft.@ChaitanyaCharanofficialAlex Gallagher and Chaitanya Charan Das argue, against Western apologists for the October 7 attacks, that the Bhagavad Gita's three-modes framework shows extremism (not religion) drives atrocity, and that grievance must rise toward tolerance and transcendence rather than descend through vengeance into malevolence. · Lecture · 1h 22m· Nov 2023
A Deep Dive on the Pitfalls of Organised Religion @SwamiPadmanabhaSwami Padmanabha, author of Radical Personalism, joins Alex Gallagher in a loving self-critique of organized religion: 'requirement religion' of box-checking and over-absolutized gurus who pass unresolved trauma down as divine revelation, versus 'relationship religion' grounded in vulnerability, wholeness, and unconditional love.Padmanabha Swami · Lecture · 1h 14m· Oct 2023
Does Belief in Karma Lead to a Victim-Blaming AttitudeIn a solo essay, Arjuna argues the victim-blaming objection to karma fails: karma is for introspecting on one's own life while dharma governs duties to others, withholding help from a sufferer itself earns bad karma, and a God who lets only the deserving suffer is greater than one who assigns suffering capriciously. · Lecture · 22m· Aug 2023
The Eternality of Souls in Christianity and VedantaIn a clipped dialogue, a Christian and a Vaishnava agree souls survive death and will return to flesh — resurrection or reincarnation — while the Vaishnava clarifies that a soul's eternality means existing outside material time, not enduring through infinite time. · Lecture · 1m· Jul 2023- Comparing Christianty and Vedantic Traditions Dr. Graham M. SchweigHarvard-trained Vaishnava scholar Graham M. Schweig argues to host Alex Gallagher (Arjuna) that the personalism-impersonalism debate runs inside Christianity and Vedanta alike, that Shankara's Mayavada is better named 'mithyavada' — a world-denying delusion refuted by its own performative contradictions — and that interreligious unity lies in the practice of dialogue, not in the perennialist claim that all religions teach the same thing.Graham M. Schweig · Interview · 2h 9m· Jul 2023
- Reacting to Some Extreme Christian IdeasIn a solo video essay, Arjuna Gallagher reacts to Christian preachers who call yoga demonic and consign Hare Krishnas to hell, answering that Western yoga is mere 'Vedic calisthenics', Hindu devas are analogues of Christian angels rather than demons, Chaitanya Vaishnavism is itself monotheistic, and a personal God — unlike a vending machine — cares about intentions. · Lecture · 16m· Jul 2023
@TJump & Michael Egnor Debate MaterialismNeurosurgeon Michael Egnor argues against atheist TJump that metaphysical simplicity, qualia, abstract thought, intentionality, and free will show the mind cannot be material, while TJump counters that every immaterialist move is an argument from ignorance and every Thomistic argument can be mirrored by a mindless 'naturalistic pantheism'.Kane B, Michael Egnor, Unknown Audience Member B · Debate · 2h 43m· Jul 2023
A Philosophical Defence of the Doctrine of KarmaIn a solo opener to a video series, Arjuna Gallagher lays out the Gaudiya Vaishnava conception of karma, drawing on Akshay Gupta's doctoral work, as a reformative rather than punitive mechanism that shapes desires across lifetimes via samskaras, and pre-empts the fatalism, victim-blaming, and memory objections he will answer for Christian critics in later videos. · Lecture · 16m· Jul 2023- A Philosophical Defence of the Doctrine of KarmaIn a solo opener to a video series, Arjuna Gallagher lays out the Gaudiya Vaishnava conception of karma, drawing on Akshay Gupta's doctoral work, as a reformative rather than punitive mechanism that shapes desires across lifetimes via samskaras, and pre-empts the fatalism, victim-blaming, and memory objections he will answer for Christian critics in later videos. · Lecture · 16m· Jul 2023
Christian Exclusivism Debate Arjuna Vs Mark TanArjuna argues that a God who damns sincere practitioners of other faiths over honest theological conclusions is not all-loving — proposing 'universal religious principles theism' instead — while Malaysian lay pastor Mark Tan defends exclusivism on the ground that affirming a different Jesus just is rejecting the real one, on a debate hosted by Marlon's Gospel Truth channel.Mark Tan, Marlon · Debate · 1h 45m· Jun 2023- How Christians Believe in KarmaIn a clipped exchange, a Christian guest tells Arjuna that Christianity already affirms karma's core — Saint Paul's 'you reap what you sow' — while insisting it is not ironclad, since repentance brings God's mercy. · Lecture · 1m· Jun 2023
Karma as Divine JusticeIn a clipped exchange, a Vaishnava speaker argues the world is hard to explain without karma as God's supreme justice, and a Christian dialogue partner agrees the concept captures Christianity's own conviction that God's universe is fundamentally just. · Lecture · 1m· Jun 2023
Philosophy of Religion & Some Politics w Michael HuemerAgnostic philosopher Michael Huemer argues to host Arjuna (Alex Gallagher) that original sin, penal substitution, and eternal hell violate the self-evident principle that nobody deserves punishment for a crime they did not commit, while Arjuna answers with the Hare Krishna alternative — karma as fitting, reformative punishment with unlimited chances — and defends spiritual practice against Huemer's unfalsifiability charge.Michael Huemer · Lecture · 2h· Jun 2023
What Makes us Saved Christian vs Vedanta SoteriologyCatholic apologist Jimmy Akin and ISKCON guru Howard Resnick (Hridayananda das Goswami), hosted by Arjuna, argue that Christian and Gaudiya Vaishnava soteriology converge on love of God, grace, and post-mortem purification, and diverge only where revelation — resurrection and atonement versus reincarnation and karma — settles what philosophy cannot.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī, Jimmy Akin · Lecture · 1h 55m· Jun 2023
@DrJamesTour vs @ProfessorDaveExplains Debate Review - Are We Clueless About Origin of LifeArjuna and Christian layman Michael Shipman review the James Tour vs Dave Farina origin-of-life debate, arguing that Tour showed prebiotic chemistry is nowhere near explaining life while Farina substituted ad hominem and paper-waving for argument — and, more interestingly, building a method for how non-experts can rationally adjudicate a battle of experts.Michael Shipman · Debate · 1h 44m· Jun 2023
An Atheist and a Theist Discuss Philosophy of Mind Dualism vs MonismAtheist philosopher Ben Watkins defends a Searle-style neutral monism (minds are real but inseparable from brains) against Arjuna's Hare Krishna substance dualism, with the whole dispute converging on the pairing problem — why is this mind attached to this body — which Arjuna answers with the soul as a situated occupant, like a driver in a car.Benjamin Watkins · Lecture · 1h 34m· May 2023
Scientific Gas LightingIn a solo talking-head video, Arjuna argues that dismissing a well-read layperson's view with 'the experts disagree' is gaslighting: appeal to authority is the very dogmatic, top-down epistemic structure New Atheists condemn in religion, and anyone - scientist or layman - pushing a strong opinion owes proportional study of the dissenting case, including Stephen Meyer's. · Lecture · 11m· May 2023
@MajestyofReason Reacts to Philomena Cunk Doing PhilosophyPhilosophy YouTuber Joe Schmidt (Majesty of Reason) uses Philomena Cunk's absurdist interview clips as springboards for real epistemology — the logic of definitions, why Cartesian certainty fails and phenomenal conservatism succeeds — while host Arjuna presses him on solipsism, degrees of reality, and what separates philosophical atheists from internet atheists.Joe Schmid, Philomena Cunk · Lecture · 1h 15m· May 2023
The surprising Reason for Dysfunction in Religious Organizations - W Dr. Urmila Edith BestDr. Urmila Devi Dasi (Edith Best), an ISKCON educator with a doctorate in educational leadership, argues to host Arjuna Gallagher that religious organizations become dysfunctional when their form contradicts their function - imposing corporate, bureaucratic, centralized models on what Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and Prabhupada explicitly demanded be an organic, decentralized, family-like body.Urmilā devī dāsī · Lecture · 1h 46m· May 2023
How Acharya Prashant Embraces Atheism Without Embracing itIn a solo response video, Arjuna argues that Acharya Prashant's Advaita teaching — 'the soul is a myth, even God is a myth' — meets Graham Oppy's definition of atheism while refusing the label, and that its claim to include all traditions insults the Vaishnava, for whom the personal Deity is a beloved, not a stepping stone. · Lecture · 24m· Apr 2023
Dawkins is Still Using This Bad ArgumentArjuna, using a Dr. Howard Resnick clip, rebuts Richard Dawkins's 'you'd be Muslim if born in Afghanistan' argument: religious affiliation demonstrably changes among serious seekers, and the argument is self-defeating since Dawkins's own atheism is equally an accident of his time and place of birth.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī, Richard Dawkins · Lecture · 4m· Feb 2023
Chaitanya Charan Answers Questions on Skepticism, Karma, Salvation & MoreIn an audience Q&A hosted by Arjuna, ISKCON monk Chaitanya Charan Das answers skeptics and Christians alike: karma is an expansion of the cause-effect principle science already assumes, hell punishes actions not beliefs, religious diversity reflects levels of consciousness rather than causing war, and salvation works by redirecting love to Krishna while God manages the karmic account. · Lecture · 58m· Feb 2023
3 Arguments Against Reincarnation AnsweredArjuna answers Trent Horn's three patristic arguments against reincarnation — Ambrose's human/beast incompatibility, Tertullian's uniform infancy and population growth, and the memory-loss-equals-death claim — arguing each smuggles into 'soul' what Vaishnava theology assigns to the body.Trent Horn · Lecture · 19m· Feb 2023- Why Atheists Leave Eastern Traditions AloneA short clip arguing that atheists target Christianity and Islam rather than Buddhism or Vedic culture because exclusivism invites ridicule — each of Islam's 70-plus sects consigns the other 69 to hellfire, while Vedic teaching offers rebirth and good karma instead of damnation. · Lecture · 1m· Feb 2023
The Real Reason the Roman's Persecuted Early Christians Response to @drcraigvideosDr. Howard Resnick, with host Arjuna, answers William Lane Craig's defense of Christian particularism: Rome punished divisive fanaticism rather than monotheism, and an exclusivism that rejects rational criteria for spiritual advancement de-rationalizes religion and leaves no answer to any fanatic who claims God's authority.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī, William Lane Craig · Lecture · 46m· Jan 2023
Is Jesus the Only Way a Coherent Idea Response to @drcraigvideos w Dr. Howard ResnickReacting to a Reasonable Faith video, Dr. Howard Resnick (HD Goswami) and Arjuna argue that William Lane Craig's Christian exclusivism is assertion without argument — 'tribal monotheism' — and that a God who offers many paths, judges by earned reciprocity across lifetimes, and never dies is more coherent than one proven by resurrection.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī, William Lane Craig · Lecture · 28m· Jan 2023
Personalism vs Impersonalism ExplainedArjuna (Alex Gallagher) and Gaudiya Vaishnava sannyasi Swami Padmanabha argue that Advaita Vedanta's 'radical non-dualism' collapses under the Maya problem while theistic non-dualism preserves both oneness and loving diversity — and that the most dangerous impersonalism is the kind practiced unknowingly by personalists themselves.Padmanabha Swami · Lecture · 2h 7m· Dec 2022
Vedanta Philosopher and Humanist Philosopher Discuss Mind, Physicalism and the Nature of SelfTranshumanist philosopher David Pearce defends non-materialist physicalism — quantum fields whose intrinsic nature is experiential — while Vedanta philosopher Akhandadhi Das argues consciousness, mind and matter are three distinct function-sets unified only at a deeper substrate, with the persistent experiencer as the datum physicalism cannot dissolve.Akhaṇḍādhi Dāsa, David Pearce · Lecture · 1h 27m· Dec 2022
If Non-water can Produce Water, Can Brains Produce Consiousness Response to @TJumpArjuna Gallagher answers TJump's claim that 'consciousness can't come from non-consciousness' is a composition fallacy by distinguishing weak from strong emergence: walls and water are fully explained by their causes (as physicist Stephen Barr's water-simulation example shows), whereas consciousness from brains would be a rabbit out of a hat unless consciousness is fundamental.Kane B, Stephen M. Barr · Lecture · 7m· Nov 2022
Is Christianity Responsible for the Advent of ScienceHistorian Michael Granado argues against the apologetic claim that Christianity uniquely birthed science — citing Gupta India, Mesoamerica and the Islamic Golden Age — while 'Of Popes and Unicorns' authors David Hutchings and James Ungureanu answer that Christianity was still science's greatest benefactor and the real enemy is the conflict thesis; Arjuna closes with a Vedic panentheist critique of the 'de-deified' nature that made both science and ecological abuse possible.David Hutchings, David Mitchell, Michael Granado · Lecture · 1h 7m· Nov 2022
@MuslimSkeptic's Hypocritical Arguments Against other Religions AnsweredArjuna, with clips from Nimai Hedmark, rebuts Daniel Haqiqatjou's 'Curse of Polytheism' video by arguing that Hinduism is not classically polytheistic, that every 'unique' virtue Daniel claims for Islamic monotheism exists in other traditions, and that his unreferenced atrocity claims about Vedic texts are a hypocritical smear.Daniel Haqiqatjou, Nimai Hedmark · Lecture · 1h 4m· Nov 2022
Discovering Hare Krishna Views on Social IssuesAtheist broadcaster Matt Dillahunty and first-generation Prabhupada disciple Yogeshwara (Joshua Greene) find startling agreement, hosted by Alex Gallagher: Yogeshwara argues Krishna consciousness must stop behaving like a religion, drop its bastardized karma vocabulary, and engage hard social issues or collapse into sentiment.Matt Dillahunty, Yogeshwara (Joshua M. Greene) · Lecture · 1h 34m· Nov 2022
Matt Dillahunty vs @AdherentApologetics Debate Did a Perfect Mind Create the UniverseChristian Zach Sickler argues Bayesian-style that a perfect mind is the simplest hypothesis with the most explanatory power over moral agents, moral knowledge, and fine-tuning, while Matt Dillahunty counters that mere consistency with facts is trivial non-evidence, that a 'perfect mind' can neither be defined nor identified, and that theism explains nothing at all — with Arjuna hosting and staying out of the ring.Matt Dillahunty, Zach Sickler · Debate · 1h 32m· Oct 2022
Power Outage Interrupts @SansDeity #shortsA blooper short: Alex Gallagher's livestream with atheist Matt Dillahunty (@SansDeity) dies to a power cut mid-sentence — just as Alex is advocating compromise and incrementalism — with the self-deprecating note that the YouTuber-electrician's own stream lost power.Matt Dillahunty · Other · 1m· Oct 2022
Islamic Exclusivism Response to Zakir NaikArjuna dissects a Zakir Naik Q&A exchange, arguing that Naik's case against Vedic scripture rests on a fallacy (many versions therefore none authentic), on cherry-picked verses, and on a 'final prophet' doctrine that incoherently cuts off God's mercy.Rahul, Zakir Naik · Lecture · 19m· Sep 2022
The Worst Debate I've Had ReviewedArjuna reviews his 2-on-2 debate against Indian Christian apologists Jerry Thomas and Praveen Kumar, arguing their gish gallop, quote-mined Devi Bhagavatam, and caste-system red herring never touched the case for reincarnation — while their own atonement claims face the feeble-God and gratuitous-earthly-life objections. (Duplicate upload of the same review video; brief mirrors source 0e59d443.)Jerry Thomas · Lecture · 27m· Sep 2022- The Worst Debate I've Had ReviewedArjuna reviews his 2-on-2 debate against Indian Christian apologists Jerry Thomas and Praveen Kumar, arguing their gish gallop, quote-mined Devi Bhagavatam, and caste-system red herring never touched the case for reincarnation — while their own atonement claims face the feeble-God and gratuitous-earthly-life objections.Jerry Thomas · Lecture · 27m· Sep 2022
When Science Becomes Religious with Michael CremoForbidden Archaeology author Michael Cremo and Arjuna argue that mainstream science operates like a priesthood - a self-appointed expert consensus ('cognitive authoritarianism') that marginalizes dissent for ideological rather than evidential reasons - and that a genuine free marketplace of ideas, which Cremo turns reflexively on his own Puranic commitments, is the honest alternative.Michael Cremo · Lecture · 1h 48m· Sep 2022
How Christianity Differs from Hare Krishna with Graham M. SchweigVaishnava scholar Graham M. Schweig, questioned by host Arjuna and Christian co-panelist Samuel, argues that religions cannot be equated — Trinity is not the Hindu triad and Jesus is not Krishna, because each tradition's meaning comes from its own axis and rasa — while defending a charitable 'raw theism' reading of Shankara against both the Mayavada charge and Christian divine simplicity.Graham M. Schweig, Samuel Watkinson · Lecture · 2h 7m· Aug 2022
Epistemology Discussion with Shivananda SharmaArjuna and Shivananda Sharma — a Hare Krishna actuary doing a philosophy PhD — argue that Enlightenment evidentialism and classical foundationalism are self-defeating, and that religious experience, embedded in a systematic mystical practice (Alston's doxastic practice, Plantinga's reformed epistemology, Vaishnava pramana theory), is as rational a source of knowledge as sense perception.Shivananda Sharma · Lecture · 2h 18m· Aug 2022
Finding the Same Essence Bhakti in World Religions David Bentley Hart & Graham SchweigDavid Bentley Hart and Graham Schweig, moderated by Arjuna, argue against the modern 'separate religions' model — Hart contending religion is one universal human virtue with local schools and degrees of revelation, Schweig that comparing traditions should be sharing (the root sense of bhakti) rather than competing, with both finding direct harmonies between Krishna bhakti and Christian mystical eros.David Bentley Hart, Graham M. Schweig, Samuel · Lecture · 1h 38m· Aug 2022
When Science Becomes a Religion with @TheJollyHereticAlex Gallagher and evolutionary psychologist Edward Dutton argue, against the 'trust the scientific consensus' crowd, that modern academia has the epistemic structure of a church — status-seeking conformists displace truth-seeking geniuses, so appeals to consensus are religious appeals to a priesthood, not scientific arguments.Edward Dutton · Interview · 1h 28m· Jul 2022
Do Intuitions Justify the basis of our Knowledge Epistemology Discussion with Gabriel LyonAlex Gallagher (Arjuna) defends a phenomenal-conservative epistemology on which seemings — up to self-evident, incorrigible experience — justify belief, while agnostic ex-Pentecostal Gabriel Lyon argues from contradiction thought experiments and mirage-style undercutting defeaters that seemings cannot always justify, and that spiritual experiences at best license a thin, underspecified spiritual reality.Gabriel Lyon · Lecture · 2h 19m· Jul 2022
Discussion with David Papineau on Physicalism, Dualism and the Hard Problem of ConciousnessLeading physicalist philosopher David Papineau argues the case against dualism is empirical, not conceptual — science looked for mental forces in the brain and found none — while host Arjuna presses neuroscience anomalies, parapsychology data and quantum indeterminacy as openings for the Vedantic soul.David Papineau · Interview · 1h 59m· Jul 2022
Theist and Atheist Scholars Discuss the Meaning and Value of LifeVaishnava scholar Howard Resnick (HD Goswami) and atheist philosopher Ben Watkins both take the second horn of the Euthyphro dilemma and agree value is objective, then split over whether value needs God: Watkins deploys Laplace and the shopping-cart test to show morality runs without the hypothesis, while Resnick answers with Callicles' tyrant, the how/why distinction, and a God too free to be the conclusion of an argument.Benjamin Watkins, Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī · Lecture · 1h 22m· Jun 2022
The Problem of Evil (interfaith discussion) with @InspiringPhilosophyChristian YouTuber Michael Jones (InspiringPhilosophy) argues to Arjuna that reincarnation delivers only 'deficient soul-building' because memory and the rational agent don't survive death, while Arjuna argues karma plus rebirth guarantees no suffering is ever finally wasted — a debate that ends at annihilationism versus universalism.Michael Jones · Lecture · 1h 6m· Jun 2022
Reincarnation and the Problem of Animal Suffering With Akshay GuptaAkshay Gupta, with host Arjuna, argues that the Vedantic three-body doctrine — an eternal soul plus a subtle body that carries impressions across lives — dissolves the problem of animal suffering that cripples Christian soul-making theodicies, using a Michael Huemer/Graham Oppy discussion as the foil.Akshay Gupta, Graham Oppy, Michael Huemer · Lecture · 46m· Jun 2022
The Bible vs the Puranas, Which is More Scientific Debate Review (w Sidharth Chhabra)Reviewing Siddharth Chhabra's debate with Christian apologists, Chhabra and Arjuna argue that the Puranas' startlingly precise cosmological dates and higher-dimensional framework make them more scientifically credible than the Bible, and that alleged Puranic errors dissolve once vantage point and the tradition's own hermeneutics are understood.Jerry Thomas, Praveen, Siddharth Chhabra · Debate · 1h 9m· Jun 2022
A New Defence of the TrinityChristian philosopher Jonathan Lyonhart argues to host Alex Gallagher (Arjuna) that believing the logically contradictory Trinity is rational because the same being-becoming contradiction underlies every account of the universe's origin, while Gallagher counters that Chaitanya Vaishnavism's acintya-bheda-bheda-tattva already locates that mystery in a simpler, fully personal God.Jonathan Lyonhart · Lecture · 1h 52m· Jun 2022
Q & A with Chaitanya Charan DasArjuna and Chaitanya Charan Das field viewer questions from their Jordan Peterson episode and argue that the bhakti tradition answers standard Western objections — blind faith, the problem of evil, idolatry, and arbitrary grace — differently and better than mainstream Christianity does. · Lecture · 2h 21m· Jun 2022
Physicist and Vedanta Scholar Discuss What is MatterCatholic particle physicist Stephen M. Barr and Vaishnava Vedantin Akhandadhi Das argue that matter dissolves into mathematical structure and that physics cannot in principle capture consciousness, converging against physicalism before splitting over whether animal minds and reincarnation follow from that.Akhaṇḍādhi Dāsa, Stephen M. Barr · Lecture · 2h 39m· May 2022
Comedian Investigates Hare Krishnas for Disinformation #Shorts @Ryan LongA Ryan Long comedy sketch reposted by the channel satirizes self-appointed disinformation police auditing a Hare Krishna temple, with the devotees flipping the premise: the real universal disinformation is believing you are your body rather than a soul. · Other · 1m· May 2022
A Jordan Peterson Style Approach to Bhagavad-Gita Psychological Insights from the VedasMonk Caitanya Charan argues to host Arjuna Gallagher that Jordan Peterson's psychology of meaning - structure, voluntary responsibility, facing distress - is anticipated and deepened by the Bhagavad Gita's three-level reality, three gunas, and a karma doctrine that is prognosis rather than predestination.Caitanya Charan Prabhu · Lecture · 1h 54m· May 2022
Response to Lukas's Defense of Eternal Hell @Deflate2020Arjuna responds to Lucas (Deflate2020), who defends eternal hell with William Lane Craig's self-perpetuating-sin argument, contending that the doctrine's load-bearing premise — that nobody can change their mind after death — is absurd, unbiblical, and dissolved entirely once reincarnation is on the table.Lucas, Stephen Woodford · Debate · 20m· May 2022
Interfaith Discussion Vedanta vs Thomism, w Michael Egnor and Akhandadhi DasCatholic neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and Vaishnava theologian Akhandadhi Das, lightly moderated by Arjuna (Alex Gallagher), build a converging case that neuroscience itself — phrenology's failure, absent calculus seizures, split-brain conceptual unity, Penfield's volition experiments — refutes materialism, while mapping where Thomism and Vedanta genuinely diverge on the soul.Akhaṇḍādhi Dāsa, Michael Egnor · Lecture · 2h 7m· May 2022
Debate Advaita Vedanta vs Hare Krishna with Unknown KnownsArjuna (Alex Gallagher) defends the Gaudiya Vaishnava view that ultimate reality is a personal God who is the source of all qualities, against Jock (Unknown Knowns), a 20,000-hour meditator arguing the Advaita position that everything is equally divine Brahman and that personal forms of God are provisional.Jock · Debate · 2h 33m· Apr 2022
Is Allah Loving or Egotistical for Punishing Misplaced Worship Reaction to @DrzakirchannelArjuna answers Zakir Naik's defense of eternal punishment for worshiping other than Allah: Naik's analogies all trade on intrinsic consequences while eternal hell is an extrinsic penalty that forecloses all benefit, and his self-sufficient God who gains nothing from worship makes deep loving relationship with God impossible.Unknown Questioner, Zakir Naik · Lecture · 20m· Apr 2022
Jordan Peterson on Religious Inclusivism and His Concerns about Religious ViolenceAlex Gallagher splices Jordan Peterson's exchange with Muhammad Hijab about two evangelizing religions 'going head-to-head' together with Prabhupada and Howard Resnick clips to argue that Peterson's inclusivism — the better we are, the more alike we become — matches Vaishnava teaching, and that fanatic violence follows validly from one monstrous premise: a God evil enough to torture souls forever for joining the wrong church.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī, Jordan Peterson, Muhammad Hijab, Śrīla Prabhupāda · Lecture · 9m· Mar 2022
A Vedanta Solution to Skepticism w Ashish DalelaAshish Dalela argues to Arjuna that Western skepticism self-destructs at its Cartesian root — a skeptic who drops Descartes' God has no way to establish that the external world exists — and that only a Vedantic account of graded volitional control and consciousness monism can rebuild reality from 'I exist'.Ashish Dalela · Lecture · 1h 39m· Mar 2022
Why Religious Experience Can't Prove One Religion to the Exclusion of OthersArjuna argues that the cross-traditional spread of religious experience and character transformation — the William James/John Hick problem Harold Netland concedes — refutes exclusivism and atheism alike, while fitting perfectly with inclusivist 'universal religious principles theism.'Harold Netland · Lecture · 7m· Mar 2022
Atonement Theories on Trial Interview with Joshua R. FarrisArjuna (Alex Gallagher) presses Christian theologian Joshua Farris on why an all-good God cannot simply forgive sin without a blood payment; Farris disowns penal substitution's popular 'Christus odium' extreme as picturing a petulant God and retreats to an Anselmian debt-of-honor theory, which Arjuna argues still fails.Joshua R. Farris · Interview · 2h 10m· Feb 2022
Discussion on Christian Exclusivism with @Deflate2020Arjuna argues that Christian exclusivism turns God into a bureaucrat and that an all-loving God would reach seekers through many traditions, while Christian YouTuber Lucas (Deflate2020) counters that truth itself is exclusive and every position — including Arjuna's own meat-eating and consciousness criteria — draws salvific lines somewhere; the debate becomes a negotiation over where exclusivity bites least absurdly.Lucas · Lecture · 2h 4m· Feb 2022
Does God Play Flute Dialogue with @MajestyofReason and Dr. Howard ResnickSanskritist and Vaishnava guru Howard Resnick (HD Goswami) argues, against the classical theism Joe Schmid articulates as devil's advocate, that the greatest conceivable God must be personal, embodied, and emotionally responsive — and Schmid ends the dialogue admitting he is more open to divine form than when it began.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī, Joe Schmid · Lecture · 1h 2m· Feb 2022
Is Materialism a Reasonable Worldview Two Mike's DebateNeurosurgeon Michael Egnor argues that materialism cannot even define matter and is refuted by split-brain research, the absence of intellectual seizures, and quantum mechanics, while lay materialist Mike Dufton defends materialism as a minimal-assumption epistemic stance and charges Egnor with the incredulity fallacy.Michael Egnor, Mike Dufton · Debate · 2h 3m· Jan 2022
The Eastern Orthodox Monks who were Persecuted for their Faith in the Holy NameIn a scripted documentary, Alex Gallagher tells the 1913 imiaslavie ('name glorification') story — Russian Orthodox monks on Mount Athos water-cannoned, bayoneted, and deported by their own church for believing the name of God is God himself — and argues the persecution was politics, class, and threatened clerical power rather than any real theological refutation, with the doctrine paralleling Hare Krishna teaching on the holy name. · Lecture · 54m· Jan 2022
Discussion with Dr. Howard Resnick on Eastern and Western PhilosophyHarvard-trained Vaishnava scholar Howard Resnick (HD Goswami) argues against host Arjuna's academic clichés that the real East–West divide in philosophy is historical, not intellectual: Europe's murderous theological fanaticism drove thinkers into secularism, while India's freer debate culture never needed to split philosophy from theology.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī · Lecture · 1h 27m· Jan 2022
Recent Reincarnation Debate Follow up Interview with @MichaelGranado1In a follow-up to their Capturing Christianity debate, philosophy professor Michael Granado cross-examines Arjuna — who argues children's verified past-life memories make reincarnation the best explanation — and Seth Hart, who grants the phenomenon a 50/50 chance of being real but rates reincarnation only ~10% likely against rivals like morphic resonance, with the exchange turning on evidence standards, Occam's razor, and the unsolved nature of memory.Michael Granado, Seth Hart · Interview · 53m· Dec 2021
Debate Is There Good Evidence for Reincarnation Hosted by @CapturingChristianityOn Capturing Christianity, Arjuna Gallagher argued that children's spontaneous past-life memories, as documented by Ian Stevenson and Jim Tucker, make reincarnation the best explanation of a real phenomenon, while Christian PhD candidate Seth Hart countered that the methodology is too flawed to establish the phenomenon and that even granting it, five rival paranormal hypotheses are simpler, capping the probability of reincarnation near ten percent.Cameron Bertuzzi, Seth Hart · Debate · 1h 42m· Dec 2021- Debate Is There Good Evidence for Reincarnation Hosted by @CapturingChristianityOn Capturing Christianity, Arjuna Gallagher argued that children's spontaneous past-life memories, as documented by Ian Stevenson and Jim Tucker, make reincarnation the best explanation of a real phenomenon, while Christian PhD candidate Seth Hart countered that the methodology is too flawed to establish the phenomenon and that even granting it, five rival paranormal hypotheses are simpler, capping the probability of reincarnation near ten percent.Cameron Bertuzzi, Seth Hart · Debate · 1h 42m· Dec 2021
Vedic Geography with SoolabaPuranic-geography researcher Soolaba argues to Arjuna that the Vayu Purana names Earth's real continents — Australia as Angadweep, Papua, Java, Sumatra, Africa — evidencing an ancient Vedic maritime civilization, while the two work out how a scriptural literalist can hold such claims responsibly against skeptical objections.Soolaba · Lecture · 1h 17m· Dec 2021
Do Souls Exist Discussion with David Calton and Benjamin WatkinsBenjamin Watkins argues from five neuroscientific evidences that minds probably imply matter (his 'argument from physical minds' from neutral monism), while Hasidic dualist David Calton counters that laughter, joint attention, memory of a non-existent past, and karma are better explained by an immaterial soul controlling the body as its receiver.Benjamin Watkins, David Calton · Debate · 1h 55m· Dec 2021
Graham Oppy & Howrard Resnick Debate the Problem of EvilAtheist philosopher Graham Oppy cross-examines Vaishnava theologian Howard Resnick's karma-based theodicy — that a perfect moral agent permits only the minimum suffering needed for an essential good, and karmic 'matching' means no innocent ever suffers — in an unusually cordial exchange where Oppy repeatedly strengthens his opponent's case.Graham Oppy, Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī · Debate · 1h 24m· Dec 2021
Answering Claims That ID is Pseudoscience Stephen Meyer & Seth Hart on the Demarcation ProblemStephen Meyer, pressed by devil's-advocate Seth Hart, argues that every demarcation criterion used to brand intelligent design pseudoscience (falsifiability, methodological naturalism, unobservables, no mechanism) either fails on its own terms or equally disqualifies Darwinism, so the ID debate must be settled by evidence, not definitions.Seth Hart, Stephen Meyer · Lecture · 1h 48m· Dec 2021
A Basic Introduction to Krishna Consiousness with Dr. Graham M. SchweigVaishnava scholar Graham Schweig argues to host Arjuna that the essence of every religion is bhakti — love shared through dialogue — so proselytism, hell-based exclusivism, and skeptical demands for proof of God all misunderstand what religion actually is.Graham M. Schweig · Lecture · 2h 3m· Nov 2021
The Real Reasons why Religons Have so Much AbuseIn a scripted solo essay, Alex Gallagher — a believer, against New Atheist blame-religion framing — argues that abuse in religious institutions is driven by three corruptions rather than inherent features: misplaced trust in leaders, repression without healthy outlets, and above all the shielding of perpetrators from the secular justice system. · Lecture · 10m· Nov 2021
The Hare Krishna Conception of God Discussion with Dr. Ryan Mullins and Dr. Kenneth ValpeyChristian philosopher Ryan Mullins cross-examines Hare Krishna scholar Kenneth Valpey (Krishna Kshetra Swami) to locate the Gaudiya Vaishnava conception of God among Western models, concluding it is best classed as a panentheism with a passible, temporal-yet-eternal, personally omniscient God who creates countless universes without effort, out of love, for the exchange of ever-expanding bliss.Kenneth Valpey, Ryan Mullins · Lecture · 2h· Oct 2021
Mark Solms & Michael Egnor Disucuss Materialism and NeuroscienceNeuropsychologist Mark Solms (dual-aspect monist, agnostic) and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor (Thomistic dualist, Christian) agree against mainstream neuroscience that consciousness does not reside in the cerebral cortex and that materialism is an unexamined and incoherent metaphysics enforced by academic cancel culture, disagreeing only on whether the underlying reality is Spinoza's impersonal God or a personal one.Mark Solms, Michael Egnor · Lecture · 1h 48m· Oct 2021
Eastern Theology Meets Western Skepticism With @Matt DillahuntyArjuna (Alex Gallagher) introduces Hare Krishna theology — Vedic testimony, karma, Krishna's pastimes, and reincarnation research — to atheist Matt Dillahunty, who presses one objection throughout: every claim is either unfalsifiable or rests on accepting the Vedas, while Alex counters that skeptical standards are miscalibrated and that practice, not the armchair, is the test.Matt Dillahunty · Lecture · 1h 14m· Oct 2021
The Hare Krishna Conception of God WIth Kenneth Vapley (Krishna Kshetra Swami)Oxford-trained Gaudiya Vaishnava scholar Krishna Kshetra Swami (Kenneth Valpey) lays out the Bhagavan conception of God — an ocean of mutually contradictory qualities defined by plenitude and relationship — and argues with host Arjuna that Western classical theism describes only the Brahman aspect that Vaishnava theology both affirms and exceeds.Krishna Kshetra Swami · Lecture · 2h 7m· Oct 2021
Curiosity and the Divine (a conversation on eastern philosophy) with @BenjaminABoyceHost Arjuna Gallagher argues to sympathetic skeptic Benjamin Boyce that abolishing religion produces not rational humans but a vacuum filled by untested value systems - with wokeness as New Atheism's accidental religion, a 'broken Christianity' with fall and punishment but no redemption - while walking Boyce through a first-principles tour of Caitanya Vaishnavism.Benjamin Boyce · Lecture · 1h 37m· Oct 2021
Debate Does God Exist Matt Dillahunty vs Michael EgnorMichael Egnor argues that ten classical proofs make God's existence irrefutable and that atheists like Matt Dillahunty reject arguments they cannot even state, while Dillahunty argues from divine hiddenness and burden of proof that no God-claim has ever been demonstrated and that objective morality needs no divine mind.Matt Dillahunty, Michael Egnor, Nathan · Debate · 2h 22m· Sep 2021
Interview with Dr. Ryan Mullins on Conceptions of GodAnalytic theologian Ryan Mullins maps the five major models of God — classical, neoclassical, open, panentheist, pantheist — and argues all four classical attributes (timelessness, immutability, impassibility, simplicity) should be rejected, while Arjuna tests each model against Gaudiya Vaishnava theology and argues Shankara's Advaita is just classical theism taken to its consistent extreme.Ryan Mullins · Interview · 2h 1m· Sep 2021
Should we Wager on God Discussion with Liz JacksonPhilosopher Liz Jackson and host Arjuna rebuild Pascal's wager in Gaudiya Vaishnava terms — a dominance argument where wagering pays in this life and the cost of not wagering is finite rebirth rather than infinite hell — and argue the standard objections (many gods, belief-at-will, locked-from-inside hell) dissolve once the wager targets practice rather than belief.Liz Jackson · Lecture · 1h 28m· Sep 2021
Materialism and the Nature of Consciousness Debate James Fodor vs Akhandadhi DasVedanta philosopher Akhandadhi Das argues against physicalist neuroscientist James Fodor that qualia and the unified experiencer are real functions no brain-only account can locate, while Fodor counters that anything beyond the brain is an ontological cost with zero explanatory payoff.Akhaṇḍādhi Dāsa, James Fodor · Debate · 1h 59m· Sep 2021
Reincarnation Debate Arjuna & Sidharth vs @TJump & G ManArjuna and Siddharth Chhabra argue that Ian Stevenson's verified child past-life cases, wound-matching birthmarks, and blinded mediumship experiments constitute genuine evidence for reincarnation, against TJump's counter that parental coaching plus expert-consensus gatekeeping explains it all and G-Man's Christian objections that a transmigrating soul should retain every memory and that demons plant the memories.G Man, Kane B, Siddharth Chhabra, Unknown Host · Debate · 1h 58m· Sep 2021
Debate on The Evolutionary argument against Naturalism @JamesFodor vs @MaverickChristianWade 'Maverick Christian' defends his formalized upgrade of Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism — that on naturalism and evolution alone, reliable cognition is improbable and belief in both is therefore self-defeating — while atheist James Fodor argues the machinery proves too much, collapsing into a global skepticism that would defeat naked theism just as easily.James Fodor, Maverick Christian · Debate · 2h 5m· Sep 2021
Interview on Research About the Benefits of Chanting Hare Krishna with David B. Wolf, Ph.D.Arjuna (Alex Gallagher) hosts psychologist-devotee David B. Wolf, who defends his placebo-controlled studies showing Hare Krishna chanting outperforms a fake mantra on stress and depression, argues that scientism implicitly claims 'I am God,' and answers the problem of evil with karma as self-applied 100% responsibility that must never be preached at victims.David B. Wolf · Interview · 2h 4m· Sep 2021
@KaneB & Arjuna Discuss EpistemolgyArjuna and Adi Purusha Das test a 'realness'-of-cognitions epistemology drawn from Indian philosophy against Kane B, a philosophy-of-science PhD whose radically permissive pragmatism concedes theism is rational — while rejecting metaphysics, inference to the best explanation, causal realism, and moral facts.Adi Purusha Das, Kane B · Lecture · 2h 2m· Aug 2021
Erika & Michael Cremo Evidence for Extreme Human Antiquity @GutsickGibbonForbidden Archaeology author Michael Cremo argues, from a Vedic knowledge tradition and Kuhnian philosophy of science, that the full history of archaeology contains credible reports of extreme human antiquity that paradigm-bound scientists filter out, while biological-anthropology PhD candidate Erika (Gutsick Gibbon) counters that his 19th-century anomalies dissolve under modern methods — geofacts, reworked strata, radiometric redating — and that his hypothesis predicts a ubiquity of human remains through the geologic column that simply is not found.Erika, Michael Cremo · Lecture · 2h 30m· Aug 2021
Is Intelligent Design Pseudoscience How is Science DefinedArjuna (Alex Gallagher) hosts Durham PhD student Seth Hart to react to clips from Sabine Hossenfelder, TJump, Genetically Modified Skeptic, Matt Dillahunty, Aron Ra, and Michael Shermer, arguing that every popular criterion for demarcating science from pseudoscience — falsifiability, simplicity, model-fit, novel prediction, progress, methodological naturalism — fails, so intelligent design cannot be dismissed as pseudoscience, only as contested science.Joe Schmid, Kane B, Matt Dillahunty, Sabine Hossenfelder, Seth Hart · Lecture · 2h 22m· Aug 2021
Nathan & Arjuna discuss Dualism, Reincarnation and moreArjuna (Hare Krishna host) and agnostic ex-Calvinist YouTuber Nathan of Digital Gnosis debate whether the soul is an ad hoc explanation, contesting near-death experiences, telepathy research, divine hiddenness, and ending with a negotiated six-month chanting experiment as an empirical test of Krishna consciousness.Nathan Ormond · Lecture · 2h 19m· Aug 2021
Hare Krishna Reacts to Jordan Peterson's TheologyVaishnava scholar Howard Resnick (HD Goswami), reviewing Jordan Peterson clips with host Alex Gallagher (Arjuna), argues that Peterson's psychologized, long-timeframe God is an 'indirect theology' — metaphysical values wearing a God label — that cannot be loved, cannot play, and wrongly suffers and loses faith, while crediting Peterson's intellectual honesty and dismantling Sam Harris's religion-as-gullibility argument along the way.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī · Lecture · 2h 1m· Aug 2021
James Fodor & David Pallman Debate Epistemology Coherentism vs FoundationalismAtheist philosopher James Fodor argues that beliefs are justified by the explanatory coherence of one's whole cognitive state, against Christian apologist David Pallman's classical acquaintance foundationalism, with the debate converging on whether concept-laden perception can ever serve as a non-inferential foundation for knowledge.David Pallmann, James Fodor, Vraj · Debate · 2h 32m· Aug 2021
Michael Egnor Interview Problems for Materialism and Problems from MaterialismNeurosurgeon and Thomist Michael Egnor argues to Arjuna that materialism fails physics (causal closure is violated four ways), fails philosophy of mind (every materialist theory collapses), and fails neuroscience (split-brain, Penfield, Libet, NDEs all point to an immaterial intellect), concluding materialist neuroscience is ideology defended at any cost.Michael Egnor · Interview · 2h 16m· Jul 2021
The Caste System Debunked with Urmila devi dasi (Dr. Edith Best)Urmila Devi Dasi (Dr. Edith Best), pressed by Alex Gallagher with the standard Christian-apologist and progressive objections, argues that varna-dharma is a proclivity-based division of work that any healthy society needs, and that hereditary caste — Brahmin privilege by birth, untouchability, the mistreatment of Karna — is its racism-like perversion, not its content.Urmilā devī dāsī · Lecture · 1h 11m· Jul 2021
A Repsonse to @CapturingChristianity's Solution to the Problem of EvilReacting to Cameron Bertuzzi's (Capturing Christianity) admission that Christians lack a good answer to animal suffering, Arjuna and Adi Purusha Das argue that karma and reincarnation supply what skeptical theism, soul-building and eschatological 'theosis for animals' cannot: tailored, non-arbitrary, non-gratuitous suffering with unlimited chances of salvation.Adi Purusha Das · Lecture · 56m· Jul 2021
Interfaith Discussion on Kabbalah (Jewish Mysticism) @doooovidDovid Kelton lays out classical Lurianic Kabbalah — tsimtsum, four worlds and ten sefirot, reincarnation, radical impersonalism — while Arjuna maps each doctrine onto Gaudiya Vaishnava parallels and differences, converging on personalism versus impersonalism as the real fault line between the traditions.Dovid Kelton · Lecture · 1h 49m· Jul 2021
Aryan Invasion Theory DebunkedHarvard-trained Sanskritist Dr. Howard Resnick argues to interviewer Michael Granado that the Aryan invasion/migration theory rests on malleable evidence and colonial-era academic dogma, and that the Rig Veda itself — a super-sophisticated text memorized to the phoneme by people who 'forgot where they came from' — is the strongest argument for an indigenous Vedic homeland.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī, Michael Granado · Lecture · 1h 5m· Jul 2021
Atheist Philosopher and Christian Neurosurgeon Debate Materialism Michael Egnor vs David PapineauThomistic dualist neurosurgeon Michael Egnor argues from logic, qualia, intentionality and seizure evidence that the intellect is immaterial, while physicalist David Papineau counters that causal closure leaves dualism nowhere to act and that positing soul-stuff merely relabels the mystery.David Papineau, Michael Egnor · Debate · 1h 5m· Jul 2021
A Comparative Religion Discussion on Hermeneutics Hare Krishna and ChristianAnglican theologian Keith Ward and Vaishnava scholar Krishna Kshetra Swami (Kenneth Valpey), hosted by Alex Gallagher, converge on the claim that sacred texts are intrinsically multivalent and every human reading partial — so 'I alone have the one correct interpretation' is the great hermeneutical heresy — while testing that thesis against Sanskrit's claim to be an absolute sacred language.Keith Ward, Kenneth Valpey · Lecture · 1h 11m· Jun 2021
The Problem of Evil @MajestyofReason & Adi PurushaJoe Schmid (Majesty of Reason) argues that hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary animal suffering is strong Bayesian evidence for naturalism over theism, and Adi Purusha Das (Akshay Gupta, Cambridge PhD candidate) answers with a Gaudiya Vaishnava karma-reincarnation theodicy on which the goods of suffering accrue to the sufferers themselves — with Josh Wulf hosting, not Alex.Adi Purusha Das, Joe Schmid, Josh Wolfe · Debate · 1h 8m· Jun 2021
Josh Wulf vs Ben Watkins The Problem of Evil (Debate)Atheist philosopher Ben Watkins lays out axiological and deontological evidential arguments from evil against perfect-being theism, and Josh Wulf — hosting and debating at once — answers with a Bhagavad Gita theodicy in which God is the source of evil too, the world is virtual-reality play, karma settles accounts across lives, and the panentheist oneness behind it all is a move Watkins concedes is philosophy of religion's most promising.Benjamin Watkins · Debate · 2h 1m· Jun 2021
David Bentley Hart & Ranchor Prime Discussion Our Relationship With GodEastern Orthodox scholar David Bentley Hart and Vaishnava author Ranchor Prime, hosted by Alex Gallagher, argue that relationship with a personal God is the shared core of Christian and Vedic tradition — clashing sharply over whether Christianity retains an integral teaching of the eternal spirit.David Bentley Hart, Ranchor Prime · Lecture · 1h 49m· Jun 2021
The Ancient Indian Science for Understanding Scripture Krishna Kshetra SwamiOxford-trained ISKCON scholar-monk Krishna Kshetra Swami lays out Gaudiya Vaishnava epistemology and hermeneutics for Alex — Jiva Goswami's elimination of fallible ways of knowing down to shabda (received testimony), the sadhu-shastra-guru triangulation, and a qualities-principles-tools method that reads scripture as a living tradition rather than a legalistic rulebook.Krishna Kshetra Swami · Lecture · 2h 19m· Jun 2021
5 Scientific Facts Reported in The Puranas Which Science Can't Explain SidharthData scientist Siddharth Chhabra argues to Arjuna that five precise Puranic figures - the age of the universe, the sun's birth and death dates, the end-Permian extinction date, and the heliopause distance - match modern measurements within about 0.3%, vindicating descending (revealed) epistemology against the empirical method.Siddharth Chhabra · Lecture · 1h 31m· Jun 2021
Errors in Aron Ra's Arguments for Evolution Seth HartArjuna (Alex Gallagher) hosts Seth Hart — an Oxford PhD student whose thesis defends Darwinism — to catalogue factual and philosophical errors in Aron Ra's popular evolution videos, from a fabricated Darwin prediction of Archaeopteryx and a misrepresented Richard Owen to the crocoduck strawman and the misuse of 'fact' and 'proof', before sketching what genuinely strong evidence for evolution looks like.Seth Hart · Lecture · 2h 4m· May 2021
The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism Debate @MaverickChristian vs David PallmannMaverick Christian defends his reformulated, epistemic-probability version of Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism — that mental states are effectively epiphenomenal on naturalism, so evolution gives no reason to trust our cognitive faculties — against David Pallmann, whose local-vs-global phenomenology objection collapses under cross-examination until he concedes on air that this version survives his objections.David Pallmann, Josh Wolfe, Maverick Christian · Debate · 2h 6m· May 2021
Is the Existence of Consciousness Consistent with Physicalism Ben Watkins vs David CaltonAtheist philosopher Ben Watkins defends dual-aspect monism — consciousness is real and irreducible yet requires no second substance — against Hasidic dualist David Calton, who argues from a century of scientific failure and the consensus of the sages that consciousness cannot arise from matter.Benjamin Watkins, David Calton · Debate · 1h 58m· May 2021
The Fossil Record, Evolution, and Intelligent Design Erika & Günter BechlyDiscovery Institute paleontologist Günter Bechly argues to primatologist Erika (Gutsick Gibbon) that fossil-record 'explosions' and population-genetics waiting times refute the neo-Darwinian mechanism — while himself accepting universal common ancestry — and Erika counters that transitional fossils and fulfilled predictions vindicate evolution while intelligent design still lacks a testable model.Erika, Günter Bechly · Lecture · 3h 29m· May 2021
Vedic Economics with Dr. Howard ResnickHarvard Sanskritist Howard Resnick (HD Goswami) argues, against host Alex Gallagher's Sowell-inspired free-market case, that there is no 'Vedic economics' — only markets constrained by spiritually grounded ethics — and that Marxists and laissez-faire capitalists share the same naive view of human nature.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī · Lecture · 1h 31m· May 2021
Evidence for Reincarnation Children Who Remember Past LivesIn a solo video essay, Arjuna marshals Ian Stevenson's and Jim Tucker's research — corroborated child memories, statistically matched birthmarks, and the Robert Snow regression — to argue reincarnation is the best explanation of the strong cases, answering fraud, cultural-transmission, and no-mechanism objections.Akhaṇḍādhi Dāsa, Jim Tucker, John Martin Fisher, Robert Almeder · Lecture · 26m· Apr 2021
The Hard Problem of Consciousness David Papineau & Akhandadhi DasPhysicalist philosopher David Papineau argues that conscious experiences simply are brain processes, dissolving the hard problem, while Vedanta scholar Akhandadhi Das counters that the format of qualia and substrate-level mind-matter interaction show consciousness is a distinct function that physicalism cannot accommodate.Akhaṇḍādhi Dāsa, David Papineau · Debate · 1h 21m· Apr 2021
William Lane Craig Responded to my Question About Exclusivism Response VideoArjuna replies to William Lane Craig's on-stream answer to his own question, arguing that renaming exclusivism 'particularism' and invoking free will both miss the point: an all-loving God would judge by universal criteria and give unlimited opportunities, under which every soul eventually chooses him.David Bentley Hart, George Carlin, Ryan Long, William Lane Craig · Lecture · 14m· Mar 2021
James Fodor & Arjuna Epistemology and Foundational Intuitionism DebateArjuna (Alex Gallagher) defends a Vaishnava foundational intuitionism on which purified consciousness yields self-evident, even certain, perception of spiritual and moral truth, against James Fodor's explanatory coherentism, which holds that every belief, including religious experience, is justified only by its fit within a web of mutually supporting beliefs.James Fodor · Debate · 2h 26m· Mar 2021
Has Physics Done Away with God Dr. Stephen M BarrCatholic particle physicist Stephen Barr argues to Arjuna that physics fully explains everything non-sentient but consciousness, reason, and free will simply do not follow from the equations — and that since matter dissolves into mathematics, mind is the more plausible fundamental — before the two compare Catholic apostolic authority with Vaishnava disciplic succession.Stephen M. Barr · Lecture · 2h 32m· Feb 2021
Debate The Problem of Evil - James Fodor vs Adi PurushaAtheist James Fodor argues that apparently pointless suffering is best explained by an indifferent universe, while Cambridge PhD candidate Adi Purusha Das defends a Hare Krishna theodicy of free will, karma, and reincarnation, with the debate deadlocking on whether an omnipotent God could reform souls without suffering.Adi Purusha Das, James Fodor, Josh Wolfe · Debate · 1h 53m· Feb 2021
A Western Perspective on the Hare Krishna Conception of GodLogician and Hare Krishna practitioner Ricardo Silvestre attempts the first philosophical reconstruction of the Bhagavad Gita's concept of God — proposing 'conceptual plausibility' as a new criterion between coherence and existence — while Christian theologian Ryan Mullins classifies the Hare Krishna view as a passibilist panentheism and concludes it sits surprisingly close to Christian conceptions of God.Ricardo Silvestre, Ryan Mullins · Lecture · 2h 15m· Feb 2021
Debate Can There be Objective Morality on Atheism or TheismIn a four-way debate guest-hosted by Josh Wolfe (Alex was absent), atheist Tom Jump defends objective morality as an emergent 'imposition of will' property he concedes is an unprovable hypothesis, while theists Ram and Nama Madhurya, and Wolfe himself from a Gita perspective, argue that neither atheism nor reward-and-punishment theism can ground a truly objective morality.Josh Wolfe, Kane B, Nama Madhurya, Ram · Debate · 2h· Jan 2021
Debate Do Scientific Accuracies in the Puranas Provide Evidence for KrishnaData scientist Siddharth Chhabra argued that three Puranic dates matching modern cosmology to within 0.1-0.3% prove the Puranas are divinely sourced knowledge, while atheist neuroscientist James Fodor countered that the matches are manufactured by two novel interpretive assumptions and unconstrained researcher degrees of freedom.James Fodor, Josh Wolfe, Siddharth Chhabra · Debate · 2h 1m· Jan 2021
Debate Does The Accuracy of Vedic Cosmology Suggest Divine Origins @Tjump vs Sidarth ChhabraData scientist Siddharth Chhabra argued that Puranic dates match modern cosmology to 0.1% once his factor of 2 is applied, while atheist debater Tom Jump (TJump) - checking academic sources live on air - countered that the factor of 2 contradicts scholarly consensus, the surrounding accounts are false, and sorting the hits as physical while relocating the misses to unfalsifiable 'higher dimensions' is cherry-picking plus ad hoc reasoning.Josh Wolfe, Kane B, Siddharth Chhabra · Debate · 2h· Dec 2020
The Relationship Between Christianity and Other Religions with David Bentley HartDavid Bentley Hart argues to Hare Krishna host Arjuna Gallagher that every tradition's claim to exclusive, literal, complete revelation — Krishna consciousness's included — is fundamentalism, while defending total universalism against William Lane Craig's free-will 'particularism' and locating real interreligious unity in a shared metaphysical horizon rather than in any one creed.David Bentley Hart, Samuel Watkinson, William Lane Craig · Interview · 2h 26m· Dec 2020
Debate review @TJump vs Adi Purusha The Rationality of TheismArjuna and Adi Purusha review Adi Purusha's debate with atheist TJump, arguing that TJump's 'everything is imaginary until proven otherwise' epistemology is self-refuting - it cannot validate itself, sense reliability, the external world, or induction - and that once properly basic beliefs are admitted, religious experience and theism qualify as rational.Adi Purusha Das, Kane B · Debate · 45m· Dec 2020
Are There 2 Million Year Old Human Fossils Michael CremoForbidden Archaeology author Michael Cremo defends his Puranas-inspired thesis of extreme human antiquity against the standard objections Alex relays — arguing that a 'knowledge filter' of theoretical preconceptions, not conspiracy, removed anomalously old human evidence from the record after Java Man fixed the evolutionary timeline in 1894.Christopher Hitchens, Michael Cremo, Michael Shermer · Lecture · 2h 4m· Dec 2020
The problem of evil Debate @Tjump vs Adi PurushaAtheist debater Tom Jump argued against Hare Krishna theology student Adi Purusha Das that a world where consent cannot be violated is demonstrably better than ours, so no all-good, all-powerful God exists; Adi Purusha countered with a three-tier Krishna theodicy in which loving relationship with God, not bare choice, is the highest good, while the host's Socratic needling exposed that Jump's consent principle ends up condemning reality itself as evil.Adi Purusha Das, Josh Wolfe, Kane B · Debate · 2h 1m· Dec 2020- The problem of evil Debate @Tjump vs Adi PurushaAtheist debater Tom Jump argued against Hare Krishna theology student Adi Purusha Das that a world where consent cannot be violated is demonstrably better than ours, so no all-good, all-powerful God exists; Adi Purusha countered with a three-tier Krishna theodicy in which loving relationship with God, not bare choice, is the highest good, while the host's Socratic needling exposed that Jump's consent principle ends up condemning reality itself as evil.Adi Purusha Das, Josh Wolfe, Kane B · Debate · 2h 1m· Dec 2020
@MajestyofReason & Arjuna Consciousness, Explanation, Causality, and Religious ExperienceArjuna (Alex Gallagher) argues to agnostic philosopher Joe Schmid (Majesty of Reason) that theism explains consciousness, cosmic order, and religious experience better than naturalism, while Schmid answers nearly every argument with a symmetry objection — whatever primitive the theist allows himself, the naturalist may take too — yet concedes key ground on religious experience, foundationalism, and solipsism.Joe Schmid · Lecture · 1h 13m· Nov 2020
Dr. Graham Oppy & Arjuna Gallagher Epistemology DiscussionGraham Oppy argues against Arjuna Gallagher and Akshay Gupta that no special faculty of intuition or self-evidence underwrites theism — belief rests on testimony and best-theory comparison — while conceding, against the popular atheists whose clips open the show, that theistic belief is rationally permissible.Akshay Gupta, Graham Oppy · Lecture · 2h 42m· Nov 2020
Reincarnation & the problem of Evil Seth Hart vs Adi PurushaChristian theologian Seth Hart argues the reincarnation system trivializes freedom, offers only finite grace and forgoes justice, while Gaudiya Vaishnava scholar Adi Purusha Das (Akshay Gupta) counters that infinitely many distinct lives guarantee universal salvation — with host Josh Wolfe (not Arjuna, despite the speaker mapping) pressing both on hell and the unevangelized.Adi Purusha Das, Josh Wolfe, Seth Hart · Debate · 2h 12m· Nov 2020
The Rationality of Theism Debate @Tjump vs Adi PurushaAdi Purusha Das argues Gaudiya Vaishnava theism is rational because chanting Krishna's names yields genuine, condition-dependent experience of God, while atheist Tom Jump insists no belief is rational without a method — novel testable predictions — that differentiates imagination from reality.Adi Purusha Das, Kane B · Debate · 1h 48m· Nov 2020
Epistemology Debate Review Matt Dillahunty & Dr. Howard ResnickArjuna, Adi Purusha Das, and Amala Gaura Das review the Dillahunty-Resnick debate and argue that Dillahunty's demand that spiritual claims be empirically demonstrable is scientism resting on ungrounded presuppositions, while conceding Resnick never clearly laid out the Vedic epistemology (pratyaksha, anumana, sabda) that would have answered him.Adi Purusha Das, Amala Gordas, Matt Dillahunty · Lecture · 1h 38m· Oct 2020
The Mind Behind Atma Paradigm, a lecture series on consciousness & science with detailed metaphysicsInterviewed by Alex Gallagher about his Atma Paradigm lecture series, Vedanta philosopher Akhandadhi Das argues that physicalism is unacknowledged philosophy sold to the public in the name of science, and that non-temporal consciousness imposing information on matter is a scientifically explorable third alternative to both evolution and creationism.Akhaṇḍādhi Dāsa · Lecture · 2h 31m· Oct 2020
Is Atheism an Overreach TJump vs Josh WulfIn a moderated debate on whether positive atheism is an overreach, Hare Krishna programmer Josh Wolf argues material senses can never rule out a transcendent source who must instead reveal Himself through a descending process, while TJump counters that fallibilism plus the absence of novel testable predictions justifies concluding all gods are imaginary.Josh Wolfe, Kane B · Debate · 1h 28m· Oct 2020
Matt Dillahunty & Dr. Howard Resnick Discuss EpistemologyBhakti scholar Howard Resnick (HD Goswami) argues to Matt Dillahunty that a communal, practice-based 'spiritual science' is a legitimate path to objective knowledge that outsiders are unqualified to judge, while Dillahunty counters that any reliable method would simply become science and that Resnick never provides a test that could distinguish a true religious claim from a false one.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī, Matt Dillahunty · Lecture · 2h 15m· Sep 2020- Matt Dillahunty & Dr. Howard Resnick discuss epistemology as it relates to theism & atheismBhakti scholar Howard Resnick (HD Goswami) argued that a 'spiritual science' can be genuinely objective while answerable only to qualified practitioners, and Matt Dillahunty pressed one question for two hours - how could an outsider tell whether Resnick's claims are true - concluding that an epistemology without demonstrable reliability is special pleading.Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī, Matt Dillahunty · Lecture · 2h 15m· Sep 2020
Epistemology and Free Will Discussion with Tom JumpOn Tom Jump's channel, Arjuna (Alex Gallagher) defends a self-evidence epistemology, a filter model of the brain, and desire-based free will against TJump's insistence that novel testable predictions are the only evidence and that neuroscience leaves nothing for a soul to do.Tom Jump · Lecture · 1h 45m· Sep 2020
Is the Argument From Inconsistent Revelation SoundArjuna formalizes the atheist argument from inconsistent revelation ('10,000 religions can't all be right, so none are') and argues it fails on every premise: religions are testable rather than mere say-so, their disagreements are dogmatic rather than deep, and the same headcount logic would refute atheism first.Michael Shermer, Richard Dawkins, Śrīla Prabhupāda · Lecture · 18m· Aug 2020
Josh Wulf and Arjuna carry on discussion following the debate with Aron RaWorking through audience questions after the Aron Ra debate, Arjuna argues consciousness is fundamental — via qualia, veridical NDEs, zombies and the quantum observer — while fellow devotee Josh Wulf pushes back from inside the tradition, holding that qualia is material (kshetra, not the knower) and that AI consciousness cannot be ruled out.Josh Wolfe · Lecture · 1h· Aug 2020
Aron Ra endorses Hare Krishna restaurant in DallasProminent atheist activist Aron Ra unreservedly recommends Kalachandji's, the vegetarian restaurant inside the Dallas Krishna temple, calling it a favorite destination for visiting atheists — a small emblem of warm atheist-Vaishnava relations.Aron Ra · Other · 1m· Aug 2020
Is the Mind Material Aron Ra vs Josh Wulf (Sitapati)Hare Krishna software engineer Josh Wulf (Sitapati) and atheist activist Aron Ra debate whether the mind is material, and both concede the mind itself is — Wulf relocating the immaterial to the conscious observer (atma) required for quantum wave-function collapse, while Aron Ra counters that observer-dependence arguments only bite at the boundary of physics and self-destruct by devaluing all knowledge.Aron Ra, Josh Wolfe · Debate · 1h 22m· Aug 2020
Has the Argument From Improbability been Debunked @rationality rulesArjuna answers Stephen Woodford's 'Debunked' video on the argument from improbability, arguing that the significance of functional outcomes (proteins, winning streaks, coherent text) is objective rather than arbitrarily assigned, and that the 'who designed the designer' retort fails against a self-existent fundamental mind.Stephen Meyer, Stephen Woodford · Lecture · 16m· Aug 2020
The Problem of Evil Christian vs Hare Krishna perspectiveIn the first Seth Hart vs Adi Purusha debate, hosted by Arjuna, an Irenaean Christian theodicy of grown virtue, angelic falls and monergistic grace meets the Gaudiya Vaishnava theodicy of curious souls, pedagogical karma and guaranteed return — and the two systems keep converging until the sharpest objections on either side are about the residue that remains.Adi Purusha Das, Seth Hart · Lecture · 2h 21m· Jun 2020
Aron Ra vs Arjuna - Is religion sensibleAron Ra argues that religion is nonsense because faith-based traditions contradict each other while each claiming absolute truth and none can show 'there's a there there'; host Arjuna counters that disagreement is not evidence of falsehood and that Aron's own evidentialism rests on beliefs — other minds, an external world — it cannot verify.Aron Ra · Debate · 1h 47m· May 2020
Religious Exclusivism DebunkedArjuna argues exclusivism must be false because God's all-lovingness is a primary religious claim that overrides it — and that atheist critics like Hitchens and Alex O'Connor score real hits against exclusivist theologies but overreach, since inclusivist traditions like Gaudiya Vaishnavism are impervious to their argument.Alex O'Connor, Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī, Śrīla Prabhupāda · Lecture · 11m· May 2020
William Lane Craig shows the absurdities of moral relativismA short clip of William Lane Craig (debating Sam Harris) affirming that moral values are objective — the Holocaust would remain evil even if the Nazis had won and brainwashed everyone — and crediting Harris's Moral Landscape for condemning atheistic moral relativists who won't call genital mutilation objectively wrong.William Lane Craig · Lecture · 2m· Apr 2020
What motivates atheist activistsArjuna grants that Stephen Woodford's anti-religion activism flows from sincere harm-prevention motives, then turns Woodford's own 'fallacy of division' defence of atheism against communism back on him: if communist atrocities don't indict atheism, religious atrocities don't indict religion — so oppose specific harmful beliefs, not religion wholesale.David Mitchell, Sam Harris, Stephen Woodford · Lecture · 10m· Apr 2020
The Inconsistency of the New Athiests - Aron Ra, Cosmic Skeptic and Rationality Rules exposedIn a five-minute short, Arjuna argues that three lack-of-belief atheists — Aron Ra, Stephen Woodford, and Alex O'Connor — betray their professed agnosticism the moment they call religion wrong or believers idiots, since mockery presupposes the positive claim that God does not exist. · Lecture · 6m· Apr 2020
Richard Dawkins' claim that religions contradcit one another debunkedIn a translated live lecture answering Richard Dawkins' claim that the world's religions mutually contradict, the speaker (credited to the channel's host in source metadata) argues that religions disagree only on dogmatic-historical claims while converging philosophically on God, soul, and nature — and that Rupa Goswami's greatest-conception principle turns comparing them into a rational, quasi-scientific inquiry. · Lecture · 23m· Sep 2019- Richard Dawkins' claim that religions contradcit one another debunkedIn a translated live lecture answering Richard Dawkins' claim that the world's religions mutually contradict, the speaker (credited to the channel's host in source metadata) argues that religions disagree only on dogmatic-historical claims while converging philosophically on God, soul, and nature — and that Rupa Goswami's greatest-conception principle turns comparing them into a rational, quasi-scientific inquiry. (Duplicate upload of the same lecture; transcription differs trivially.) · Lecture · 23m· Sep 2019
People believe in God because it makes them feel good answeredIn a live Q&A with an atheist questioner, the lecturer turns the wish-fulfillment debunking argument around: everyone has faith per the Gita, atheism has its own psychological payoffs (being answerable to no one), and only theism is even testable — so the 'weird psychology' belongs to those who won't try. · Lecture · 12m· Mar 2019
Hare Krishna Brainwashing Debate Ted Patrick vs Hridayananda Das GoswamiIn an archival televised debate from the height of the American cult scare, deprogrammer Ted Patrick charges that Hare Krishna chanting is self-hypnosis producing 'mindless robots', while Hridayananda Das Goswami and Bala Vanta answer that ISKCON presents the documented oldest religion in the world, demand evidence for the charges, and counter that secular universities are the real coercive indoctrination.Bala Vanta, Gene Greisman, Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī, Sandra Sachs, Ted Patrick, Unknown Audience Member B · Debate · 35m· May 2015
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