Edward Current

Stick figure

Like and subscribe YouTube

Up next

Hbomberguy Wife with a Purpose RageAfterStorm Jean-François Gariépy Milo Yiannopoulos The Young Turks Mark Collett Betty Bowers Greg Locke Brittany Venti Allie Beth Stuckey Iilluminaughtii v - t - e

This might be Skepticism

But we're not sure

Skepticism essays Skeptics Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Advertising Standards Authority Woo Metabunk.org

Who's asking?

Antony Flew Epicurus AronRa Holy Koolaid Mark Hoofnagle Bill Nye v - t - e

Edward Current (his music name, Eddie Current and his real name/pen name, Karl Coryat) is a YouTube contributor and famous musician. He is a progressive atheist who plays a bigoted and ignorant Christian in his parody videos. Said videos parody common arguments from creationists. (That said, they are astonishingly close to the real arguments. Poe's Law doesn't mean that the satire isn't biting.)

As of 2020, Current currently (get it?) has over 80.1K subscribers, 24 million views, and 177k "prayers said for Edward Current". No, really.

Antitheism videos

One of his most popular videos features his boneheaded persona smugly rattling off a series of absurd fallacies and spawned the satirical "Checkmate, Atheists!" Internet phenomenon. Current satirizes the "atheists hate god", saying: "As always, waging war on the atheists who hate our Heavenly Father. And by atheists I also mean agnostics, who are people who aren't sure if they hate our Heavenly Father."

Some of Current's videos are also pseudo-educational, e.g. in his "Christian meets Invisible Pink Unicorn" cartoon video he demonstrates the meaning of "emergence."

9/11 videos

Current was originally a 9/11 truther; then, he noticed that his beliefs on the WTC7 collapse fell into the category of an argument from incredulity. To test the gullibility of 9/11 truthers, he created a hoax video of WTC7 collapsing, and truthers overwhelmingly took the bait. He came out as a paid government shill, inclusive of a $1,000,000 paycheck from Langley, Virginia, and later, as a long-time crisis actor. And, he made an ad for "TruthR" — the dating app for 9/11 truthers.

See also

• RationalWiki:Vlogroll

Mentions

Skeptic Content

• Huffpost
• Digital Journal
• Patheos

Jeopardy! Game Show

• Jeopardy!
• Wired
• The Atlantic

Music Career

• https://www.soundonsound.com/people/doves-producing-kingdom-rust

External links

• Channel at YouTube
• User at Metabunk (yep, we are totally stalking him)
• User at Twitter
• Page at Patreon
• Page at Wikitubia