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AS26: CJ Werleman and Noah Lugeons, Part 2

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

CJ, Noah and Thomas continue the discussion of CJ's contentious article about atheists and Islamic terrorism.  Then, Thomas talks about a segment which was meant to debut in this episode but didn't. Because of that, he then introduces a replacement segment called "WTF Salon.com" or something like that. Article discussed: http://www.salon.com/2014/04/19/science_doesnt_disprove_god_where_richard_dawkins_and_new_atheists_go_wrong/ Also, for an exclusive, … Continue reading AS26: CJ Werleman and Noah Lugeons, Part 2

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0:00.0

You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hey, welcome to Atheistically Speaking, episode 26.

0:35.0

I'm Thomas Smith as per usual.

0:38.0

All right, well, as advertised, I want to get to part two of the discussion with C.J. Wurleman and No Allusions.

0:46.6

I think we did a good job of challenging as I alluded to on the Facebook, this was a tough article to read.

0:55.0

I'm not going to pretend like I agreed with more than like half of it.

1:00.5

But you know, I did agree with half of it and I think we emphasize the parts we agreed with but there are parts that we definitely disagree with and well I won't speak for no. I mean he actually agreed with different parts and the point of Noah being here wasn't to gang up on CJ,

1:16.5

although maybe it turned out that way a little bit, but let's just get to it because I know especially the patrons who are getting this ahead of time

1:28.1

They are probably getting it because they want to hear part two of that interview. So here we go.

1:36.8

But I mean, I don't, you know, I'm trying not to let you off the hook for the fact that you say

1:42.2

Harrison Dawkins, you know, where is it?

1:45.4

They're just as bad as the thugs of the likehood party or whatever.

1:51.1

You know, I mean, I don't know. I think you went a little further than you're sticking to here. I mean.

1:57.4

Oh, no, I don't, their rhetoric is as foggish as that, you know, when it comes that.

2:03.3

I don't, you know, and when if I read that piece again from Sam Harris on Israel,

2:09.2

that that is, you know, a British argument which is a British point made which would be not

2:15.2

dissimilar to anything that Netanyahu would a liquid party would make.

2:19.6

Well okay I think when you when you bring up specifically Israel, Palestine, sure, but I just want to say that the danger is that you

2:27.6

Possibly people might get the impression from your article that you can discount all of these other objections to Islam that they have.

2:35.3

And because there are other objections that you can have to terrorism.

2:41.2

There is Islam on Islam, you know, Muslim on

2:44.1

Muslim terrorism that's not, doesn't have anything to do with us. And it's, I don't

2:49.7

know, that rhetoric, I think, I see what you mean and when you spell it out I get it I just that wasn't the

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