You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Welcome to episode 57 of atheistically speaking. I'm your host Thomas Smith.

This week we've got a bit of a change of pace. I have a number of things I want to talk about in this first episode.

And then on Thursday, I'm going to be introducing sort of a new segment.

I think you're really going to like it.

So I'm not going to give it away but look out for that Thursday or of

course if you're on patreon.com slash atheist you'll have that sometime Monday or

Tuesday so that'll be that week, quick announcement to my patrons,

I wasn't able to do a bonus content last week.

I had several that I was trying to work out,

but schedules just didn't, couldn't mesh mesh together so I'll make sure to do

extra you know an extra long one this week so sorry about that I had a couple things

lined up and and and both of them didn't pan out so just a weird scheduling thing but anyway

onward um so as this episode is pretty much going to be a very extended commentary I should probably play my little intro.

So I wanted to talk Richard Dawkins Twitter dump dump

This is a I guess it's a week or two old but I I debated talking about it and some people may wonder like why do I even bother but I was thinking about it and there's a couple possibilities

Without giving any opinion on what's going on.

I mean, either, you know, Dawkins is a great injustice is being done to him because a lot of people are trashing on him or or Dawkins is

belittling rape victims and sort of playing into the notion that date rape is

not actual rape that sort of thing those are the some of the allegations among many. So I mean

either one of those possibilities just not even diving into it but just looking at

it from a surface level. Either one of those is a pretty dire situation, you know, it's something that I think is worthy of attention.

So I wanted to kind of dig into it, but I also, in reading through this, I mean, there are a ton of themes here there's a lot that

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