Ep 1143 | Wikipedia Co-Founder: Studying Hollywood Cults & Epstein Island Led Me to Christianity | Guest: Larry Sanger

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News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In today's episode, we sit down with Wikipedia co-founder, philosopher, and writer Larry Sanger to discuss his journey and testimony as he went from being an atheist to believing in God through reading the Bible. He tells us about his upbringing in the Lutheran Church and how his philosophical questioning led him to become an atheist. Larry also discusses how his own philosophical writings later in life led him to start questioning his beliefs and how he watched atheism become almost dogmatic in nature. We talk about how he read the Bible for the first time and how that led him to understand God and salvation through Jesus Christ. Larry's testimony shows us how even the hardest philosophical questions can lead someone to Christ. Buy Allie's new book, "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion": https://a.co/d/4COtBxy --- Timecodes: (00:53) Larry Sanger introduction and background (17:26) Watching the atheistic movement change (22:35) Philosophical writings (28:15) Moral questions about atheism (39:39) Reading the Bible for the first time (48:14) Understanding salvation through Jesus (53:06) Skepticism and Christianity --- Today's Sponsors: Seven Weeks - Experience the best coffee while supporting the pro-life movement with Seven Weeks Coffee; use code ALLIE at https://www.sevenweekscoffee.com to save up to 25% and help save lives. Good Ranchers — Go to GoodRanchers.com and use code ALLIE at checkout to claim $25 off, free express shipping, and your choice of FREE ground beef, chicken, or salmon in every order for an entire year. A’del — Try A'del's hand-crafted, artisan, small-batch cosmetics and use promo code ALLIE 25% off your first time purchase at AdelNaturalCosmetics.com Range Leather — highest quality leather, age-old techniques and all backed up with a “forever guarantee." Go to rangeleather.com and use coupon code "ALLIE" to receive 15% off your first order. --- Related Episodes: Ep 901 | Does the Age of the Earth Matter? | Guest: Dr. Sean McDowell (Part Two) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-901-does-the-age-of-the-earth-matter-guest/id1359249098?i=1000633508243 Ep 979 | Atheist Richard Dawkins Begs Christianity to Come Back https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-979-atheist-richard-dawkins-begs-christianity-to/id1359249098?i=1000651348581 Ep 679 | Busting Atheism’s Biggest Myths | Guest: Dr. Neil Shenvi https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-679-busting-atheisms-biggest-myths-guest-dr-neil-shenvi/id1359249098?i=1000579610722 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Larry Sanger is the co-founder of Wikipedia. He is also a philosopher, a lifelong skeptic, and a
0:08.3	long-time agnostic. Recently, he announced that he has converted to Christianity. I wanted to
0:15.0	his testimony. What led to him finally accepting that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. He has a really,
0:23.0	really interesting story and it's amazing to look at how God used so many moments throughout
0:30.0	his life to lead him to the cross. You're going to be really encouraged by this conversation.
0:36.0	It's brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.
0:38.5	Go to Good Ranchers.com. Use Code Alley at checkout. That's good ranchers.com. Code Alley. Larry, thanks so much for taking the time to join me.
0:56.2	If you could tell everyone who you are and what you do.
1:00.3	Well, right now I am president to the Knowledge Standards Foundation,
1:05.2	and we collect all of the free world,
1:09.0	all free encyclopedias in the world.
1:12.5	We do a number of other things.
1:15.1	My claim to fame is I was co-founder of Wikipedia.
1:20.2	Now I'm ex-founder.
1:21.4	I like to call myself because, you know, how it is.
1:24.9	And this is another thing that the Knowledge Standards Foundation is doing.
1:28.7	This is 70,000 books on a 128 gigabyte hard drive.
1:34.0	Basically, the classics of Western civilization backed up in the palm of your hand.
1:40.0	Wow.
1:40.5	And that's just something that I've been trying to get out there.
1:45.5	There needs to be many, many, many copies of all the public domain books, not just one or two on archive.org.
1:53.7	This is one of my hobby horses.
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