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TheThinkingAtheist

A Letter to the Editor

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2015

⏱️ 93 minutes

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A listener on the TTA Facebook page recently asked Seth Andrews to respond to a "Letter to the Editor" posted in Seth's hometown paper, the Tulsa World. Usually, as skeptics, we let these kinds of posts slide, because they often don't accomplish much and/or they generate more trouble that they're worth.

But in this case, Seth responded, and this show chronicles the exchange, the fallout, and the curious tactics of the indignant commenters who couldn't prove the god they were defending.

Yes...it's a rant. (Gonna be one of those shows.) Enjoy.


Sam Harris: An Atheist Manifesto: http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/200512_an_atheist_manifesto

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Okay, here we go, the step-by-three, two, one, action!

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Assume nothing.

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Brash, bald face, blast from me.

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Question, everything.

0:12.0

I find it extremely hard to imagine.

0:14.0

Open your eyes.

0:16.0

It is quite alright to be an atheist.

0:18.0

The fastest growing group of people in the country

0:21.0

has been measured as being those who have no belief

0:23.0

or who are atheists.

0:25.0

You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.

0:27.0

Challenge the opposition.

0:29.0

You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.

0:33.0

And start thinking.

0:38.0

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