Wow. Over half a million people thought this was a clever takedown.

It wasn’t—and here’s why.

The atheist in this video is making an argument from analogy. That’s when you point to similarities between two things to argue that what’s true of one must also be true of the other.

In this case: If a husband says to his wife, ‘Love me or I’ll set you on fire,’ we should all agree he’s unloving.

So if God says, ‘Love me or go to Hell,’ … we should all agree He must be unloving too.

See how this works? It sounds powerful—but it fails badly. Why? Because for an argument from analogy to work, the similarities must be meaningful and the differences must be superficial. However, if there are significant differences, then it’s a false analogy, and the whole argument falls apart.

And that’s exactly what happens here. Here are three reasons this is a false analogy.

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