Atheist Experience 23.51 2019-12-08 with Matt Dillahunty & Jenna Belk
The Atheist Experience
The Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
00:14:33 Ray - MI - Struggling with family, longing for acceptance for her son
00:29:19 Charlotte - CA - Questioning their faith, is wondering if it’s difficult to not believe.
00:55:49 Danny - London, UK - Mocked for beliefs? Is persecution justified?
01:15:40 Joseph - NY - It’s story time!: Turning to God after traumatic encounter at the gym.
SHOW NOTES
Hi everyone! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, we have the dynamic duo as host and co-host today, Matt Dillahunty and Jenna Belk. Before we get to calls, Jenna has a couple things she’d like to talk about from previous calls in previous episodes.
Let’s get to calls. The first caller is Rae from Michigan. She is struggling with family and longs for acceptance for her son. Her son is also living with Asperger’s and she is trying her best to shield him from fundamental ideologies.
Next up, Charlotte from California would like to know if it is difficult to not believe. She is also slightly fearful of accepting the ‘Atheist’ label and the consequences of doing so. Listen in to hear Jenna and Matt help her out.
The following returning caller named Danny from London, UK is concerned about being mocked and persecuted for their beliefs. Some discussion about a variety of topics occurred, including prophecies and proof of God. Sorry Danny, your word salad isn’t very palpable and is quite bitter. We’re moving on.
It’s story time! Our last caller of the live show is Joseph from New York. He has a story! He begins to tell a convoluted tale about going to the gym with his brother at the age of 22, a strange character who may have assaulted him, and then going swimming… Jenna and Matt get to the lesson/morale of this story and recommend a few resources.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So you think that you tell us how to live our lives |
| 0:07.0 | Never questioning the thoughts from which your mind will pour |
| 0:13.0 | Your eyes, your thoughts that's suffering in part |
| 0:17.0 | It's only planets that's been devised |
| 0:20.0 | I wonder, I wonder, I wonder, I wonder |
| 0:26.0 | Why do we really take for you to start opening your eyes? |
| 0:33.0 | I wonder, oh! |
| 0:37.0 | Hey, how are you? |
| 0:40.0 | Good, how are you? |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to the Atheist Experience where our life today is December 8th, 2019. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Matt Donney, joining me this week, Jennerbulk. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello. |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, you got something you want to talk about. |
| 0:51.0 | I want to make sure I knock out any announcements at a time |
| 0:53.0 | and I was told right before we went live that I don't actually have any announcements. |
| 0:57.0 | That's annoying. |
| 0:59.0 | But we, just as a reminder, we had a great friend's giving recently. |
| 1:03.0 | I was out sick last week and so you filled in into the show with Don, so thank you very much. |
| 1:07.0 | No problem. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, I had issues sleeping and then I got a lot of people out and I was just like, |
| 1:13.0 | I'm not going to come on and do the show on one hour's sleep in the last 48 hours. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, you got to bring your A game. |
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