You're listening to, atheistically speaking. I'm going to Hey everyone it's Thomas here and this is going to be a solo week. We're just

running into too many problems with scheduling and you know events that got us behind and it's

just not we're gonna have to see how this is going to play out. But I just absolutely am not going to let the show go anywhere. It's going to stay right here Monday and Thursdays with the exception of something like my entire computer breaking of course that was the one one off week vacation week but

This is a project that's going to continue no matter what. We're just going to have to figure out exactly how it's going to go on with both of us.

So that being said, I have think I believe I have a great topic for today.

I will discuss some comments later in the episode. We have a lot of comments to talk about as well, but I going to hold off on that and do it later.

So look forward to that because you guys have been contributing great things and I hope it continues.

Today I'm going to talk about something that is very near and dear to me.

I had a friend actually, a kind of a, not a really close friend or anything, but somebody I know who

is a very progressive Christian on Facebook, a Facebook friend of mine and we've we've

interacted and usually it's hard to really do so because you know being an

atheist and her being a Christian, she can only give so much in terms of, you know, concessions before, obviously it runs into whatever fundamental belief she has.

But she's a she's someone who's good to talk to and there are arguments like Sam Harris has made that progressives are overall worse because they hide,

they hide fundamentalists and they give them cover. Not hide I guess is the wrong word but they give

give sort of shelter in a manner speaking for fundamentalists because they

sort of defend all of religion or they affect our discourse in this country in a way that gives

shielding to fundamentalists.

And I think there's a lot of truth to that.

There's also, of course, an undeniable way in which being progressive anything is going to be better than being fundamentalist, of course.

I mean, you're progressives are not going to harm anybody and they're not, you know, so.

While logically it's frustrating just to speak in purely, in purely logical terms to me it makes and I'll probably outline this later

it makes less sense to be progressive than to be fundamentalist in pure

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