Episode 36: Skeptics with a K

Cognitive Dissonance

Tom Curry

Comedy

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2012

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Thanks to our Guest this time, Mike Hall from Skeptics with a K. TWiC #5: Sally Morgan and other frauds Child Drowns In Church Baptismal Pool In Indianapolis Indiana lawmaker urges state Republicans to oppose resolution honoring 'radicalized' Girl Scouts Kids turned away from church Time to bar Saudi Arabia from Olympic competition In Georgia, a School Board President Faces Opposition Simply Because He Won’t Reveal His Religious Preference CNN Contributor Dana Loesch Defends Virginia ‘State-Sponsored Rape’ Bill As No Different Than Consensual Sex Afghan anger over Quran burning an emblem of nation’s culture war Clips: Ricky Gervais, Jesus camp, Bill O'Reilly, Saudi Arabian National Anthem, The Simpsons. Visit our Website at http://dissonancepod.com for all the links.

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0:00.0	You get very intense on Twitter. I mean you get into proper battles with people. Yeah, why don't you take it so?
0:07.6	Home I'm smiling. Oh, I've got what what when someone's arguing with me that the earth is 5,000 years out
0:13.3	Yes, I'm smiling. Yeah, of course I was smiling
0:16.6	You know the the fundamentalist view of the you know the creation of the earth is rather like an episode of the Flintstones
0:23.2	So I have I have to laugh at those sort of how does your atheism which you're passionate about how does that
0:30.0	Play with your American audience given that so many people in America are
0:35.2	God fearing people and probably take exemption to it. Um well, but they shouldn't we told us last time
0:40.9	Why should they take offense that I don't believe in their God or any other God and I'd say to them
0:45.5	You know tell me the reasons why you don't believe in all the other gods and that's the reason I don't believe in yours
0:49.8	And I've got nothing against people believe in God at all, you know
0:54.6	In fact if if it you know did make you a kinder person if you only did good things in his name then great
1:01.6	I know but there's the rub
1:03.7	It's when I see some of these religious fundamentalists saying that they've told their five-year-old children that if they turn out gay
1:12.5	They will burn in hell that to me is child abuse. That's nothing to do with religion or spirituality
1:17.4	That's child abuse even though I don't believe in God and I don't believe
1:22.1	You know and like most religions I treat all religions the same. I think they're all wrong
1:28.4	Not morally wrong, but I don't think there is or could be a God, but if someone said we're banning religion
1:36.0	I'd march to not have it banned because it's your right to believe what you want
1:40.7	And it's your right to be wrong and I'll fight for that right
1:52.1	Be advised that this show is not for children the faint of heart or the easily offended the explicit tag is there for a reason
2:22.2	This is cognitive dissonance every episode we blast anyone who gets in our way
2:27.2	We bring critical thinking skepticism and irreverence to any topic that makes the news makes it big or makes us mad
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