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Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking.

This is episode 240 and I am your host

Thomas Smith well anything going on with you guys nothing here all right that has

been my show no just kidding just kidding. It is time, I think, to try to take on the

elephant in the podcast, which is commentary on these last very, very action-packed three episodes. So let me play that music real quick. Well, how in the world to begin the monumental task of commenting on a four-hour debate

over possibly the most contentious issues in the atheism movement.

How do I do that?

How do I do that and not miss anything or not, you know?

I don't intend to adjudicate every single point that would be

pretty ridiculous given that it takes longer to do that than it does to make the points and

we already had four hours making the point so I don't need a 16 hour, you know,

inception level commentary on this. So if I leave anything out, which I will, 100% will,

please don't assume my leaving something out means I forgot, you know, didn't think it important

or making a statement by leaving something out.

None of that is true.

I've been going through some serious mental labor for the better part of a week now trying to you know

think about all the different issues what I want to talk about the points I want to make and

balancing that with the fact that this will be now the fourth episode of a long, long three

on the same topic or series of topics and I'm sensitive to the fact that people might not, you know, be that interested in social justice.

But from the looks of the download numbers and the comments I'm getting, I do think this is actually

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