Atheist Experience 24.14 2020-04-05 with Matt Dillahunty & Dragnauct
The Atheist Experience
The Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Dragnauct picks an interesting topic from Gavin, who says he wants to check in on his own rationale. Gavin says he believes in a soul, or at least something like it, based on some experiences he’s had in life, but he’s pretty sure something about that rationale is faulty. Is he right?
Brian in Washington, DC calls in to convert Matt by asking, “What’s wrong with being a saint?” and using a version of Pascal’s Wager. When Matt and Dragnauct bring up the fact of Catholic cover-ups of child molestation, Brian starts to get a little squirrely.
We have a few frequent callers, and one is coming back: Kamal in Alabama was brought into a Facebook intervention by his family, who tried to bring him back to Jesus. We’ve all had this experience, unfortunately, and it’s nice to relate to each other sometimes. We love you, Kamal.
Carlos is another newly frequent caller, and his argument today is...well, it’s a little confusing. He says that God as described in the Bible gives life so he can determine how long it is for you. Then there’s an analogy from Batman. Essentially, Carlos thinks we shouldn’t see God’s action as distasteful if we read the Bible as fiction, because you’re not allowed to think fictional characters are bad guys, I guess?
Can somebody say Clergy Project? https://clergyproject.org/ Well, not quite, but our caller is in that sort of predicament. Cade went to a Christian high school where he lost his faith, but he’s stuck in the church. No one knows about his non-belief, and he’s not sure what to do. Matt ends up turning this caller into a co-host for a moment!
Laura in Michigan has personal access to God, and Matt attempts to use this access to have Laura ask God what she should say to convert Matt. Turns out, you just have to study the Bible and be open to love! We should have known.
Our last call is an important one. Justin has a wife, and the two are currently awaiting a child’s birth. His wife has started to express concern about her child “being told there is no God,” or something along those lines. Dragnauct takes over most of this call, as his wife is also a believer, so he has some experience here. The key: communication between spouses, education for the child!
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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 moral core derives |
| 0:13.0 | You think that suffering is part of some great plan |
| 0:19.0 | It's been devised I wonder, I wonder, I wonder, I wonder |
| 0:26.0 | What will it take for you to start opening your eyes |
| 0:33.0 | I wonder, I wonder, I wonder |
| 0:38.0 | All right, welcome to Face Palm Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday |
| 0:44.0 | I'm Matt Donnie, joining me this week for this live episode of the Atheist Experience |
| 0:49.0 | My friend Alfred Dragnotz, so buzz, boo! |
| 0:52.0 | It's going on, I decided to wear my sciences guard today just to be extra pretentious |
| 0:59.0 | It's going to be great. Any time anybody calls in with science, all you got to do is just like type in the code a little bit and they're done |
| 1:05.0 | Have your A game ready |
| 1:08.0 | So I went through the normal hypey stuff as if we were in the building and there were people on the other side of the wall |
| 1:14.0 | We are not in the building and we will not be for the foreseeable future at least until the stay-at-home order is lifted |
| 1:21.0 | However, our crew is the best crew on the whole fucking planet and so we're able to do this show with nobody sitting there |
| 1:31.0 | That's how good we are. They're exactly as many people in that room as there are confirmed gods that are about to be called in and advocated for |
| 1:38.0 | It's amazing isn't it? It's exactly right |
| 1:41.0 | Yeah, so I'm doing this from my house and Dragnotz at his house. Oh, it's a Dragnotz. I did it like Gary Dragnotz |
| 1:48.0 | You can look here to the soundboard too much. I know that's what happens |
| 1:51.0 | And you know our producer and our call screeners and our sound engineer the Lord of levels himself |
| 1:58.0 | They are all at their respective homes and this is going to be awesome |
| 2:01.0 | However, a couple things I need to warn people about and that is that we are not using our standard call-in system during this |
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