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AS146: Ex-Mormon, Rondale Part 2

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Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

More discussion with Rondale. In part 2 we talk a bit more about being an atheist in the black community.

The post AS146: Ex-Mormon, Rondale Part 2 appeared first on Atheistically Speaking.

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0:00.0

You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to episode 146 of atheistically speaking with your host

0:36.3

Thomas Smith. Okay well we're just going to continue our discussion with

0:40.8

Rondale and it was very fun and I liked it a lot.

0:44.4

So let's just get right back to it and here you go. Yeah, so what's funny about living here in the South is that, like I've ran into a lot of people more so than living in Connecticut that have like kind of assumed I'm, you know, religious.

1:11.0

Yeah. So like I, so I've had friends who I worked with who have told like you know

1:16.8

woke into a conversation and then be like yeah you know so you're married like what church did you get married

1:21.7

at and like they get married in the church I got married at you know city hall and so you know and that must be pretty odd, huh for people.

1:30.8

Yeah, yeah our people you, assume I go to church,

1:34.0

so they'll act for church I go to, you know, people like all the automatically,

1:40.0

you know, like I remember this past year we just had some friends and family over for New Year's and like they assumed that you know

1:50.5

I prayed and whatnot and so I was kind of forced into prayer because I didn't want to like the social

1:56.9

outcasts around them so I've had things like that but on the flip side of that like I work at the

2:02.3

software developer and work at the software developer.

2:03.7

And so in the software development community,

2:07.2

there's not a lot of religion.

2:09.0

Right, yeah, it's a different community.

2:11.7

Yeah, and so I remember telling one of my coworkers, hey, you know, I don't believe in God, you know, I'm an atheist.

2:19.8

And it was like, oh, cool, well, you'll fit right in.

2:21.9

We're all atheists. a I have so many software slash programmer kind of listeners it's really interesting yeah and so

2:30.4

you know we do have one guy with us that is religious, but he grew up here in Atlanta and whatnot.

2:38.8

But everybody else that I work with, they grew up in like, I know one guy grew up in Wisconsin, another guy grew up in Florida,

2:47.8

and a couple other people grew up in other parts of the country.

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