David Silverman: Fighting God

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🗓️ 18 December 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

David Silverman is a self-proclaimed "atheist billboard" and "firebrand atheist." As President of American Atheists, he has been at the point position on many controversial issues (and the occasional lawsuit), and he has just released a new book called, "Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World."

David spoke with Seth Andrews about the book, the lightning rod of David's particular brand of activism, and the rise of non-belief in America.

This conversation can also be seen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9aSyjQjC2yo

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go. The step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.3	Branch ball face blasphemy.
0:10.5	Question. Everything.
0:12.3	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.0	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.4	or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on 100 fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:44.3	Yeah, yeah, I know I said I wasn't going to do a radio show
0:46.8	until after Christmas. I know what I said.
0:50.0	But I had the chance to talk for about 40 minutes
0:52.8	with David Silverman, the president of American Atheist.
0:56.2	He's released this new book called Fighting God.
0:59.4	I picked up a copy on Kindle and I read the book,
1:02.3	loved a lot of it.
1:04.4	Some of it I kind of took issue with.
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