Episode 47: The Atheist Experience
Cognitive Dissonance
Tom Curry
4.8 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2012
⏱️ 88 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do you want to get cognitive dissonance streamed to your iPhone or Blackberry? |
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| 0:08.3 | I made a list of things that I might consider sins if the concept of sin were valid. |
| 0:13.5 | Number one, credulity, gullibility. |
| 0:16.9 | I'd say that's a sin. |
| 0:18.8 | Voluntary willful ignorance. |
| 0:20.8 | I'd say that's a sin. |
| 0:22.7 | Letting fear prevent you from understanding reality. |
| 0:26.8 | I'd call that a sin. |
| 0:28.6 | Wasting the rights and freedoms of others in order to make them abide by your standards, |
| 0:33.5 | that's a sin. |
| 0:34.8 | Sacrificing the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of a child in deference to your religion, |
| 0:41.4 | that's a sin. |
| 0:42.4 | Wasting the one and only life that you know you're going to have, worrying about and working |
| 0:48.2 | for, and after life that somebody told you might be there, that's a sin. |
| 0:53.0 | And it's a shame that so many people are so sucked into this religious thing that |
| 0:58.6 | even when you leave them down the past, step by step, as soon as they get to the point |
| 1:04.1 | where they'd have to admit that yes, when I think about it, that isn't a moral thing. |
| 1:09.0 | They instead have to add 20 qualifiers and butts and maybe's to their answer just like |
| 1:13.8 | you did. |
| 1:15.5 | Your God isn't real, he's not moral, the Bible isn't moral, Islam isn't moral, none of |
| 1:22.7 | these religious systems, anything that deteriorates the value of human beings, anything that |
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