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TheThinkingAtheist

Christian Privilege: A License to Discriminate (with Alison Gill)

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Alison Gill is an attorney and Legal and Policy Director at American Atheists, and she's on the front lines in the fight against violations of church/state separation and Christian privilege. She speaks with Seth Andrews about some important legal battles of the day, and how we can help promote Constitutional equality for all.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, here we go, standby.

0:02.0

Three, two, one.

0:05.0

The thinking atheist, it's not a person.

0:08.0

It's a symbol, an idea.

0:10.0

The population of atheists in this country is going through the roof.

0:14.0

Rejecting faith, pursuing knowledge,

0:17.0

challenging the sacred.

0:19.0

If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth.

0:22.0

Not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish

0:25.0

and working together.

0:27.0

For a more rational world.

0:29.0

Take the risk of thinking, feel so.

0:31.0

Much more happiness, true fusion wisdom will come to you that way.

0:35.0

Assume nothing.

0:37.0

Question everything.

0:39.0

And start thinking.

0:42.0

This is the thinking atheist podcast hosted by Seth Anders.

0:52.0

So I'm getting into a lecture series at the Great Courses Plus.

0:55.0

It's called Our Quantum World.

0:58.0

It's taught by Dr. Erica Carlson over at Purdue.

1:02.0

Quantum mechanics just fries my brain.

1:05.0

And a particle is also a wave and it can exist in more than one place at a time.

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