Okay, here we got. Stand by. Three, two, one.

The thinking atheist, it's not a person. It's a symbol. An idea.

The population of atheists in this country is going through the room.

Rejecting faith. Pursuing knowledge. Challenging the sacred.

If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth.

Not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish.

And working together for a more rational world.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself.

Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

Assume nothing.

Question everything. And start nothing. Question everything.

And start thinking.

This is the Thinking Atheist podcast, hosted by Seth Andrews.

I know I had sociologists and secular studies professor Dr. Phil Zuckerman on the show,

I think a couple of months ago, but I wanted to return to this.

I was recently part of the Western Canadian Reason Conference in Calgary.

We Can Reason.com and Phil Zuckerman gave the first

presentation and it was about this common accusation against non-religious people that we are less

moral or not at all moral and Phil brought receipts and he laid it out in such a great way that I was happy that I was

shooting video of the speech. So there is a video link in the description box you can go and watch Phil

in action from the podium in Calgary. But this is the audio from that. The first section, he's going to give kind of a precursor and to set up.

The middle section is all about the statistics,

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