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For the sake of the world, the solution is God, I'm gonna be God, I'm gonna be God, I'm gonna be God, yeah.

Hello everybody, welcome to the Atheist Experience. I am your host, Russell Glasser, and with me today joining us for the first time is Ryan Bell.

Thank you, thanks for having me.

You may have recognized Ryan Bell from such blogs as Year Without God.

Today is Sunday, March 8, 2015. We are a live call in public access Atheist Television show based in Austin, Texas, dedicated to promoting positive atheism and the separation of church and state.

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We are going to be going to dinner at El Aroyo at 1624 West 5th Street, arriving at around 6pm.

Welcome to Austin.

Thank you.

Yeah, so we saw you do a lecture today for people who might not have heard that lecture or heard of you before. What's going on with you?

Well, I probably, a lot of people have heard, I've been doing this year without God blog and experience during 2014.

And back at the beginning of 2014, I had come to a place in my life where I was sort of at the end of my rope when it comes to religion and my faith.

I had been a pastor for about 20 years.

And I just decided I was going to take the next year of my life and really explore what atheism looks like, what the arguments are, what people who are atheists give as reasons why they've become atheists.

And just explore that as a possible answer to the many questions that I had accumulated over 20 years of ministry and probably 40 years of being a Christian.

So in January of this year, I decided that I was an atheist.

And yeah, it's one of those big decisions in life, I guess.

And so now I've been in San Antonio yesterday and Austin today talking to a couple of different groups and meeting new people and sharing my story.

So when you started this year without God thing, I guess a lot of people who had heard about you were a little suspicious about whether you were just going to use it as a way to showboat and go back and say, oh, I checked out atheism, all atheism has to offer and definitely come back to Jesus.

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