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

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

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

And on today's show I want to talk about this question are at least some atheists as

dumb as rocks.

Now, there are smart atheists out there.

Gram-Oppy, Paul Draper, people I've interacted with at the Real Atheology Channel and

Smart Non-Theist, people like Joe Schmid.

But are some atheists just as dumb as rocks?

Well, it depends on how you define atheism because some people might get pretty mad at me.

Trent, that's really uncharitable.

How can you say that there are atheists out there who are as dumb as rocks?

That's really mean.

Well, I saw a tweet several months ago from a prominent online atheist, Aaron Raugh.

And he was responding to someone else who was tweeting saying all the things that he disagreed

with or he was sick of.

And one of the things he was sick of was saying that rocks are atheists.

You know, atheism cannot be defined simply by a lack of belief.

And so Aaron Raugh simply tweets rocks are atheist.

And quote.

And so there's a lot of people who define atheism in this way and say, well, atheism is a lack

of belief.

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