AS79: The Portable Atheist, Part 3
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Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 27 October 2014
⏱️ 53 minutes
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We're back to our Portable Atheists studies! I love these! This time, we're reading Of Religion by Thomas Hobbes, from his book called Leviathan. It's very fascinating, and brilliant of course. Tune in and hear my summary and analysis! Also, I discuss a couple comments about the pro-life debate. Since I asked specifically for comments regarding … Continue reading AS79: The Portable Atheist, Part 3
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Welcome to atheististically speaking. This is episode number 79 with your host Thomas Smith. |
| 0:39.0 | All right this week or today rather we're going to be doing some book learning I'm |
| 0:46.8 | going to continue my little series on the portable atheist because it's been well |
| 0:52.2 | received and I'm liking it. It's a little |
| 0:55.0 | intimidating though. I was just thinking as I spent hours studying this reading |
| 1:00.3 | today's reading is of religion by Thomas Hobbs. It's actually from Leviathan. |
| 1:07.0 | It's just a one small part of that. |
| 1:10.2 | And it's tough. it's tough read. It was not easy to follow along with. |
| 1:17.0 | And I spent quite a few hours studying it and putting it together for you guys so I could sort of go through the logic of it and stuff and make it kind of enjoyable. |
| 1:29.0 | And I was realizing like, oh man, that was, you know, a ton of work I was like oh |
| 1:33.2 | wiping my brow after after all the work and then I realized this is just |
| 1:38.6 | chapter three of this book like after after we're done we're on page let's see 20 out of |
| 1:47.0 | let's go to the end here |
| 1:50.0 | 480 so job 480. So job security as they say. |
| 1:58.0 | I have, yeah, I don't know. |
| 2:00.0 | I think other readings might be easier to digest than this one. I don't know if it's interesting. I mean, what do you guys think about this? This is of course the tangent which so many of you like and so many of you dislike but |
| 2:14.4 | I'm gonna go on a small tangent but it can't really be a tangent because I haven't |
| 2:17.8 | started yet I haven't even gotten into it yet. It's interesting I don't know what the right balance of difficult to understand is versus easy to understand. Like there's, there are some people who think that the harder something to understand is the better it is. |
| 2:36.5 | Like that means it's more, you know, it's like more brilliant, you know, if it's hard to follow. |
| 2:41.3 | And then there are some people who think that you ought to be able to explain, |
| 2:46.0 | if you're a good thinker, if you're a good writer, you ought to be able to explain your ideas in a way that anyone can follow along. |
| 2:54.3 | And it's interesting. |
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