Hi hotjer,
I've seen Evid3nc3's videos before and I find them fascinating. For a start, they are very well put together. The art direction is great and the voice-over is a cut above some of the wooden narration we normally find on Youtube.
As an atheist, I find these interesting because they offer an insight into religious thought, as viewed from the inside. One thing that especially interested me was what Chris had to say about his personal experience of the Holy Spirit. This seems to be a common theme in Christian apologetics and it's one that I've often heard being brought up by believers. Evid3nc3 seems very keen to convince other Christians that
really was a real Christian, that his experience of the divine was every bit as real and powerful as theirs. Nonetheless, he still has to deal with "You-were-never-a-real-Christian" accusations on his comments page. The gradual realisation that this Holy Spirit experience was simply a simulacrum is, I think, a key insight and one that Christians would do well to consider.
Another thing that jumps out at me is just how difficult this process was for Chris. His inner battle between faith and logic seems to have been very painful for him, mostly because he simply had too much intellectual curiosity and honesty to lead an unexamined life. Every day, millions of theists must be going through this struggle, facing the glaring flaws in a philosophy that has been presented to them as being all-encompassing and all-important. All that angst; over what? A fantasy. It's a shame.
Mutate and Survive