You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hey everyone. Welcome to our podcast. My name is Thomas and I'm David and

this being our first episode I thought we should do brief personal introduction.

So why don't we start with you, David?

Sure. I was born in Texas, raising California. I grew up vaguely religious, not really sure what that meant most of the time.

I didn't really know that there were options other than being some form of religion or another.

I went to college, started studying physics and philosophy. A lot of people felt that that was a

strange combination. I thought they were very similar. Both fields are about trying to explain

our world using evidence, sound arguments. so it was in this academic environment

that I discovered that I was in fact an atheist. It didn't take me very long to

fully think through what I did not believe so I very quickly started trying to find something else to think

about and talk about I discovered humanism also while in college and this was where I

was able to find a framework to put my beliefs to.

It became more than just about being an atheist, and so I started working to develop my

local humanist community, and so now I consider myself an atheist as well as a humanist.

Cool.

I'm coming to the atheism, maybe if people have listened to my other podcast,

they know that I come at atheism from more of a humorous angle and I thought that would be a

perfect combination to have the two of us going at for this new podcast but in

terms of my upbringing I was actually raised religious.

It sounds like a little more so than you, David.

I'm not sure if that's true, but it kind of sounds like that.

I was made to go to church and my mom was pretty actively into it.

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