AS41: Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta!
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 16 June 2014
⏱️ 67 minutes
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We're joined by Hemant Mehta! We talk about a range of topics, first focusing on what it means to be friendly as an atheist and how that plays out for Hemant. Then, we talk about the recent Ken Ham related incident where Hemant's book, The Young Atheist's Survival Guide, was involved in a bit of controversy. … Continue reading AS41: Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. I'm going to All right with us today is Hemant Meta. How are you doing? I'm doing good. Thank you for having me |
| 0:39.5 | Thank you for coming. I'm really thrilled to talk to you. Welcome to |
| 0:43.6 | Atheistically speaking. |
| 0:44.8 | Excellent. You know, just curious, what's the temperature where you are? |
| 0:48.8 | The temperature is, the temperature is rainy. |
| 0:51.9 | It's not that outside. You can walk outside these days, no jacket needed. |
| 0:56.0 | Is it rainy Celsius or rainy Fahrenheit? I'm not sure what the unit. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, it's just, it's annoying to go outside, but at least it's not freezing and we had a lot of that in Chicago so it's nice to be done. |
| 1:07.6 | I'm just asking because they actually just declared existence as futile in California. It's actually not possible to live right now |
| 1:14.7 | got it a hundred and five when I got home and I just my whole so if if you start seeing |
| 1:20.9 | on the Skype it's just if Skype just starts going on fire, like the whole interface just starts burning, it's probably because of me. |
| 1:28.0 | Got it. If the internet starts burning, I'll know who to blame. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.0 | So, yeah, great to talk to you. |
| 1:35.0 | Would you mind, I'm just curious since, you know, this is your first time on the show, our first time |
| 1:40.9 | having you. |
| 1:41.9 | I'm curious about a little bit of your |
| 1:43.9 | back story. Is that okay as regards religion? Yeah. So what were you raised in |
| 1:49.3 | religion and how did you discover you were an atheist? Yeah, I was raised with religion. |
| 1:54.0 | I was raised in a religion called Jainism, |
| 1:56.5 | which is a relatively unknown Indian religion. |
| 2:01.3 | But the gist of it is that there is heaven, there is hell, but there's no deity, there's no God in the religion. |
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