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Hey everybody, we're live. This is the atheist experience. It's April 7, 2013.

I'm Matt Delhoney, this is Jeff D. Hi folks. How you doing? Good man. I know there's actually a red light on the camera, which I hadn't ever seen before.

So who knows if it works on all three cameras or not. So it's a live public access television program sponsored by the 8th, this can be of Austin as you saw at the beginning. But anyway, we finished last week there was no show.

We were at the American atheist 50th anniversary annual convention right here in Austin, Texas. It was awesome. I was basically going non-stop from about the Tuesday before the convention is when people started calling or showing up and you know, hey we need to ride here.

We're going to do this or get together. It's a great, great time. And the announcement next year's convention will be in Salt Lake City, Utah. So I am lobbying very hard to be a speaker at that convention as well.

Because that just tickles me pink. I missed it. I was out of town. And you were missed. I was doing a gaming convention in Columbus.

There were a number of people who came up and said, where's Jeff? Where's Jeff? And I said, I don't know if he's coming or not. But I couldn't do it. I'm sorry. We still live in a cool town.

But quick note, before we actually get to calls, this is a live call and show and they'll have the number 40 to bottom of the screen. And after it's over, those of us involved in the show get together for dinner. And we've been going to Threadgill's 301 West Riverside Drive.

But Beth and I went to church this morning. So to kind of give the quick back story and then address the church thing real quick.

Last week, just before the convention on Wednesday evening, there was an event that was put together kind of hastily. And I think it was called like Meet the Christians or something like that.

But it was a panel discussion. They had Dave Silverman and Kathy Johnson from American Atheists and also Professor Acy Grayling on one side of the table. And on the other side are three pastors. And I apologize because I don't know all their names.

So I'll just skip that part. But basically it was a good discussion talking about, for example, what is something that you think the people on the other side of the table think about you that you'd like to correct.

And so it was not it was not a debate. It was more of a discussion. And I met with all the pastors afterwards. And they were all familiar with this show and some of them expressed that they were fans of the show and enjoyed watching it.

And one of those invited me, I think we're going out for dinner or drinks tomorrow night to talk a little bit, but also invited me out to his church.

And so this morning Beth and I went and I won't go through the whole service or sermon or any of that stuff. But it was church doesn't feel the same to me anymore.

I mean, not just because we've moved into this mega church era of let's put up a band and have big screen TVs.

In this particular church has multiple campuses in Austin. And so the pastor wasn't actually at the church that I was. I just watched him on the TV, which I guess I could have done at home because I'm pretty sure they live stream it too.

But I don't want to go through the entire sermon, but one of the things that came up was this idea that Christianity isn't a religion.

And his big point was that religions are created by men. They're religions spawned from men in particular, men who look around at the natural world and then try to find a causal explanation for it and appeal to a God and then invent these things down here.

And then Christianity is different because it is originates from God. God sees a need in human beings. And that's where Christianity comes from.

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