Alix Jules: Religion & Race in the Year of Donald Trump

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🗓️ 3 May 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Alix Jules is a secular activist, writer, and President of Black Nonbelievers of Dallas, Texas. He chairs the Dallas-Fort Worth Coalition of Reason's Diversity Council, is a founding member of the Fellowship of Freethought, and is an advisor to the Council for Secular Humanism's Africal Americans for Humanism Initiative.

His atheism and activism have gained national attention.

In this one-hour conversation with Seth Andrews (recorded in Dallas on April 9th, 2016), Alix speaks candidly about religion, race, politics, equality, and the rise of black secularism throughout the United States.

VIDEO of this conversation is here: https://youtu.be/OkP0eCMn1XQ

Alix Jules' blog on Patheos: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thegraffitiwall

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go. The step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.3	Branch ball face blasphemy.
0:10.5	Question. Everything.
0:12.3	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.0	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.4	or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:44.5	You know, it's interesting. There are times
0:46.4	in everyone's life when they stop and they think,
0:50.1	why am I so lucky?
0:53.0	How did I get here? How did this happen to me?
0:55.8	Why am I so fortunate to have had this
0:58.0	specific opportunity?
1:01.6	And I actually had that thought just recently
1:04.7	when I was informed that I had the opportunity
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