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The Counsel of Trent

#370 – Unusually Enjoyable Atheists on Twitter

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Trent sits down with Ben Watkins of Real Atheology to talk about why most Internet atheism is garbage and how the “Real atheologians” are taking on the best cases for the existence of God.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

0:10.3

Social media can be a dark, unfriendly, toxic place.

0:15.3

But every now and then, you find elements of social media that are bright spots that

0:19.6

are people you actually enjoy talking to, including people who hold world views that are

0:24.5

very different from your own.

0:26.4

So on today's show, I want to talk to, I'm interviewing, actually, one of the atheists

0:30.4

behind my favorite atheist Twitter account.

0:33.9

This is the Council of Trend Podcast.

0:35.5

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

0:38.9

And today we're talking with Ben Watkins of the Real Atheology Podcast.

0:43.0

So they have a Twitter account with a little over 10,000 followers.

0:46.9

And what's interesting is if you go to my Twitter account, I only follow two people.

0:51.2

I follow Catholic Answers and the Pope.

0:54.1

And that's it.

0:55.1

What do you expect?

0:56.4

But there are other accounts that I enjoy looking at.

0:59.3

So I don't follow them, but my search bar on Twitter does have them kind of his favorites

1:04.8

that I go and I click down to see what's happening.

1:08.5

And so one of these that pops up is Real Atheology.

1:11.5

I really enjoy.

1:12.7

I really enjoy their takes on atheism and arguments for and against the existence of God, because

1:19.8

I find it thoughtful.

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