You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking this is episode 148 and I am your host

Thomas Smith.

Okay so the other week I had Elijah Tion, he was a Christian, he had some criticisms of atheist arguments

he had been hearing, and I got, I want to say I got a lot of good feedback but I also got a curious amount of not negative feedback

directed toward me or anything but I guess kind of vitriol toward Elijah and I was very fascinated by this response.

There's quite a bit of it actually and so I invited you'll remember likely I

invited people anyone who wanted to comment to come on and so we have a couple such

commenters today.

So without further ado I'm going to get to the first of my special listener commenters. Joining me to discuss the Elijah episodes is Jesse. How are you doing Jesse? I'm pretty good Thomas.

How are you? I'm good. I'm good. Just got my coffee. It was a little late. I was out of

coffee beans. So there's a bit of a travesty. That's horrible. Yeah, so you know there's a bit of a travesty.

That's horrible.

Yeah, so you know there's a delay and of course I start going into cold sweats and

and yeah I know how that is.

Yeah, but eventually got it.

Eventually got it.

So why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself if you don't mind?

Well, I am a non-believer.

And I... a non-believer and I guess I would cost myself as an atheist although it's not generally

the term I sort of use terminology because it just gets so overloaded and I mean so many different things to different people.

You know, you know how that is. I have a serious interest in in philosophy, especially in epistemology.

And I'm not a professional philosopher by any means, but that's one of the things that I really appreciate about your

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