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Infants on Thrones

Ep 528 – A Manual for Creating Atheists, Part 5 – Mormon Missionaries

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 156 minutes

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Summary

What happens when a Street Epistemologist sits down to atheist-convert two Mormon Missionaries who have sat down to Mormon-convert him?  It’s a wild wacky panel discussion full of laughs and groans and cognitive distortions of all shapes and sizes.  Enjoy.

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Hey, can you hear me?

0:01.0

Yeah, hang it, Tom.

0:03.0

I'm good, you?

0:04.0

Pretty good.

0:05.0

I don't suppose you had a chance to listen to what was released today yet.

0:09.0

No.

0:11.0

You're featured quite prominently in the intro

0:16.8

Okay, that's good at or bad

0:27.4

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

0:33.4

And so when I transitioned out of that,

0:37.3

this whole world opens up, right?

0:38.9

You don't know what to believe, you don't know what up is from down,

0:42.2

and you're pretty much just grasping it

0:44.2

just evidence and facts. But it's infuriating too. Like I mean why is it that I

0:52.2

have to walk down the street and I get an erection for no apparent reason?

0:56.0

This is infants on Thrones.

1:00.0

The philosophies of men beingled with humans. We are the core. After your faith has let you down

1:14.0

Welcome back to Infants on Thrones.

1:16.4

I'm Glenn Osland and this is part five of our investigation

1:20.8

into street epistemology as promoted by Peter Bogosian in his book a manual for creating atheists

1:28.0

Now today I sit down with Tom and Delaney and Brady and Brad to review and discuss a YouTube video of a street

1:37.2

epistemologist conducting a faith intervention with two Mormon

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