You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking.

This is episode 281 and I'm your host Thomas Smith.

All right, got a cool interview for you today.

There was an article in the Atlantic called Women Atheists are genuinely considered monsters.

Now I was kind of a click-bady title.

Really the substance of it is a book by someone named Lee Schmidt who's my

guest for today.

It's called Village Atheists and it's about kind of the history of

atheism and secularism in America, one aspect of which of course is female atheists, but also there's a lot more to it than that. Lee has a

PhD in religion from Princeton and is coming at this from kind of an

outsider's sort of a scholarly view studying atheists in a way and I thought it'd be really interesting to see what an

outsider would make of us and you know our movement and another component that's really interesting.

I never think about

atheists historically really. I don't think about the movement through

you know the 1800s in the early 1900s and that kind of thing. I've never

I just haven't put much thought into it. So it was really cool to hear about kind of the

some of the history from a neutral perspective, someone just studying different religions.

Again, atheism isn't a religion, but you go. someone just

studying different people of different religious views.

So without giving too much more away,

I give you my interview with Lee Schmidt.

Joining me right now is Lee Schmidt. How you doing? Good, happy you have a chance to talk with you.

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