AS33: Why I'm Not An Atheist, with Thomas Wells
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Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 19 May 2014
⏱️ 49 minutes
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In this episode, I have Thomas Wells on to talk about his article Why I'm Not An Atheist. Wells has some concerns about the New Atheism movement. Are they too much like the religious? Are there better ways they should be going about getting their message out? Find out what this well-reasoned and well-spoken philosopher … Continue reading AS33: Why I'm Not An Atheist, with Thomas Wells
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hey everyone. Welcome to episode 33 of atheistically speaking. I'm your host |
| 0:35.2 | Thomas Smith. Okay so this week we have Thomas Wells who I posted the article that he wrote. |
| 0:44.0 | The piece he wrote is very interesting. |
| 0:47.0 | I posted on the Facebook a few days ago to sort of get people ready for it. |
| 0:52.0 | And to my surprise, well, okay it and to my surprise well okay not to my surprise but I'm a |
| 0:56.2 | little worried because the comments were so negative and the reason I had them on was because I did find it a little troubling what he was saying |
| 1:07.1 | But in talking to him I mean it was I found it to be a great conversation and I didn't I'm a little nervous now that hopefully you |
| 1:17.0 | guys aren't going to think that I was too soft on him or anything I think I challenged |
| 1:21.2 | him on a lot of stuff but yeah so that'll be |
| 1:24.1 | interesting and incidentally of course if you're not on the Facebook you need to |
| 1:27.4 | get on there so that you can see these things ahead of time and so we'll see how |
| 1:31.8 | this goes and I think I'm going to want to hear a lot of your opinions on this after the fact and see what you think and I think also I'll read some of the comments afterward and sort of go through it. I'll go through the comments |
| 1:45.2 | that you guys left in light of the interview and stuff like that. So as far as announcements go, |
| 1:52.2 | I put out my second YouTube video on YouTube. |
| 1:55.8 | On YouTube.com slash channel atheism should get you there also just search |
| 2:01.4 | atheistly speaking. So that's going well trying to put out some |
| 2:05.0 | entertaining stuff get more people to notice the show all that kind of thing so |
| 2:09.2 | go ahead and subscribe to that channel and you'll get them right away. |
| 2:13.9 | As usual, I don't think there's anything more to plug on Patreon besides the fact that I'm |
| 2:19.1 | doing bonus episodes every week as usual, but you know, I know you're tired of hearing about it but hopefully |
| 2:26.4 | everyone all of you who are hesitant about it maybe I'll win you over someday |
| 2:30.3 | but for now I'll leave that alone. Anything else? Oh yeah, next week I have Maximo |
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