Welcome back to the Let's Be Friends podcast. This is your host, Kara, and I'm here with

returning guest, Buck Johnson. Buck is the host of the

popular podcast, Counterflow with Buck Johnson. He is also a musician, a firefighter, and an Orthodox Christian.

This episode, we are going to hear Buck's testimony of how he went from an atheist to an

Orthodox Christian.

I'm so excited to have you on here to hear your story, Buck.

Thank you for coming on.

Welcome to the show.

Thanks, Kara.

Thanks for having me.

I hope my story is somewhat interesting or not too dry for people.

Oh, it's going to be super interesting honestly

i don't i don't really know anything about atheism or atheists and stuff like what i kind of want

to just start right there just dive right into i want you to can you just tell me what an atheist

believes like what so it's funny i can tell you what i thought i believed I can, well, I'll start with how I now see atheism as a Christian, as an Orthodox Christian specifically. I don't think there's any such thing as an atheist. We have a, you know, a God-shaped hole in our hearts.

You're going to worship something.

And people like, no, I don't.

It doesn't mean like you're going to do prostrations in front of something or pray to something or bow to something or light a candle in front of something.

But worship just means where you put your focus. Your focus will be on

something more than other things. I was an atheist. I was a libertarian politically. And so I would say

I put a lot of focus on myself. I was selfish. Even when I was married, my wife and I both said,

we don't want to have kids. We're selfish. We like to party. We like to travel. We like to do this.

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