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Friendly Atheist Podcast

Ep. 61 - Matt Dillahunty, Master Debater and Co-Host of The Atheist Experience

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Matt Dillahunty is a former fundamentalist Christian who now debates religious apologists. He was the President of the Atheist Community of Austin for several years and co-hosts The Atheist Experience call-in show. He recently began a video series teaching viewers how to respond to frequently-used apologist arguments. Jessica spoke with Matt about his religious upbringing, why he loves debates, and what he sees as the future of faith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0

I'm Hemmant Meta and I'm Jessica Blumpty and you're listening to the podcast for

0:35.0

Friendly atheist.com. You can now listen to all of our episodes and see show notes

0:40.4

at friendly atheist podcast.com.

0:46.0

I am here at the American Atheist Convention in Memphis, Tennessee,

0:50.0

and I'm joined now by Matt Delahuntie.

0:52.0

Thank you for coming in.

0:53.5

Yay, thanks.

0:54.5

So I actually am really excited interview.

0:57.2

I've been stalking you and your wife all weekend

0:58.8

trying to get you in the boardroom

1:01.0

because actually I, not to start this interview off by talking about me which you know here we go I became I was an atheist in college but after starting to read the friendly atheist blog in 2011 that kind of led me to

1:16.0

the non-profits podcast and the Godless Bitches podcast and that was sort of when I took the plunge into like

1:22.2

being obsessed with atheism and reading all about it.

1:25.2

So it's, I don't know, like that podcast really just hit home because it was my first experience

1:30.8

that like I didn't grow up in a place where I saw the

1:33.6

dangerous of religion necessarily and it was the first time like hearing these

1:37.4

stories of like how dangerous religion actually is so thank you because thank you

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