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Infants on Thrones

Ep 520 – Smackdown: A Manual for Creating Atheists, Part 2

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

What is faith?  How is it different from hope?  What is an atheist?  How is that different from an agnostic?  Glenn is joined by Delany Darco and Tom Perry to discuss part 2 of Peter Boghossian’s “A Manual for Creating Atheists.”

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The biggest reason is is I came from a very dogmatic way of thinking in my literal fundamental way of thinking in Mormonism.

0:15.0

And so when I transition out of that, this whole world opens up, right?

0:20.0

You don't know what to believe, you don't know what up is from down and you're pretty much

0:24.2

just grasping it just evidence and facts.

0:27.8

Evidence and facts.

0:31.3

So that's where I start to build you know my scaffolding of where I'm going to position myself from here on out.

0:37.0

But when I get to a place where I'm leaning towards atheism because that's where a lot of the

0:46.3

evidence points I'll acknowledge that but there's still a lot of unknowns

0:51.2

there's still a lot of we're waiting to see how you know if technology and evidence and the scientific method can answer more questions in the future

1:00.0

but I feel like if I were to take that atheism label,

1:05.0

I feel for myself, this is just for myself,

1:08.0

that I would once again be subscribing to that dogmatic view that I would once again be closing

1:16.0

sort of that wide view that I have for myself now where I'm much more open and

1:21.8

that's and that's how I define agnosticism where it's like I want to be I don't want to be

1:26.7

completely closed off to really anything. But it's infuriating too. I mean, why is it that I have to walk down the street?

1:39.0

But it's infuriating too. Like, I mean, why is it that I have to walk down the street and I get an erection for no apparent reason?

1:48.3

This is infants on Thrones.

1:51.1

Philosophy of men mingled with humans.

1:55.0

We are the core.

1:57.0

Welcome back to Infants on Thrones. I'm Glenn Ostland and today I'm joined

2:08.1

once again by Delaney Darko and Tom is that an infant in your pocket or are you just happy to see me

2:14.7

Perry to discuss the definitions of faith, hope, an atheist and agnostic from Peter Bogosians, a manual for creating atheists.

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