Okay, here we got. Stand by. Three, two, one.

The thinking atheist, it's not a person. It's a symbol. An idea.

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

Rejecting faith. Pursuing knowledge. Challenging the sacred.

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

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

And working together for a more rational world.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself.

Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

Assume nothing.

Question everything. And start nothing. Question everything.

And start thinking.

This is the Thinking Atheist podcast, hosted by Seth Andrews.

If I can beg at your indulgence, today's show is going to allow me to take a little bit of a holiday vacation and spend some more time with my family.

So rather than go in and prepare all the new material, I have gone back and grabbed some older material. This is actually from my True Stories channel, and I've just hand-selected some fascinating short-form stories.

They run between, I don't know, five and eight minutes long, a lot of history, and very often

a twist ending. So if you've already heard these but

forgotten them, it'll be like a new thing, right? And if you are familiar, you can just skip

forward five, six, seven minutes, and the next one should be fresh for you. And if you

haven't subscribed, it's true stories with Seth Andrews on all major

podcast apps. We've got, I think I'm coming up on 360 shows so far. And I have learned a lot.

You know, there are some celebrity shows and there's some interesting trivia and dumb criminals and that kind of thing.

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