Episode 97: Peter Boghossian and the Reasonableness of "Faith"

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Phil Vischer

Skyejethani, Society & Culture, Philvischer, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, 226012, Christiantaylor, Atheism, Veggietales

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2014

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

A few months ago Phil reviewed the new book "A Manuel for Creating Atheists" by Dr. Peter Boghossian, and took issue with Bogghossian's definition of "faith." Numerous supporters of the book engaged the issue, and a lively debate continued online for more than a month. Several defenders challenged Phil to have the author on the podcast to explain his position, so this week Phil is joined by Dr. Peter Bogghossian himself for a lengthy but fascinating conversation about faith, knowledge, and the "reasonableness" (or lack thereof) of Christian belief. Can a creator of Christian vegetables and an atheist evangelist get along for an entire hour?? Tune in to find out!

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's me Phil. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with Skyjatani.
0:12.8	No. In Christian Taylor. No. Nobody's here. Nobody but me. That's crazy. Why would that be?
0:23.8	Did they not come back from spring break? What happened? I'm doing a solo podcast today
0:29.1	for a very special reason. We have a very special guest. And I'm interviewing Dr. Peter
0:34.6	Bagotian, the author of the book, a manual for creating atheists. The one that I reviewed
0:40.3	a few months ago and that set off a firestorm of blogging and counter blogging and counter
0:44.8	counter blogging. And he agreed to come on the show in today's the day. So I'm giving him
0:48.8	the whole time, the whole hour. I don't know however long an hour or five hours, however
0:52.9	long it goes. And so I'm going to sing the theme song all by myself because there's nobody
0:58.0	here. And I thought I would sing the theme song today as pot grape. I'm not sure why.
1:28.2	All right. There was some crazy news today that I wanted to talk about with Sky. But he's
1:37.8	not here. No, we can't. But Stephen Colbert is the new host of the David Letterman
1:44.4	slot. That is nuts. The whole world has shifted. Ever you wake up in the morning and everything
1:51.9	is different than it was the day before. I don't even know what to say. That is so huge.
1:56.7	So we'll talk about that next week. Stephen Colbert, Hollywood's most prominent
2:01.8	theist taking over one of the two biggest late night slots. Wow. Freaky. Okay. We won't waste
2:10.2	any more time and we will get into our interview with Dr. Peter Begotian. Okay. I'm here with Peter
2:16.8	Begotian from your Portland State University. Correct. You're in Portland right now. Yep. As we
2:23.0	speak. And the weather is astonishingly it's sunny. No way. You're lying. Seriously? Yeah,
2:31.4	it rains about 300 days a year here and it's actually sunny today. This is one of the other ones.
2:35.6	And I'm making you be inside. No, I have guilt. No, I can no, no, no, I can see through my window.
2:41.0	I am here not only of my own choice, but I'd like to thank you and just tell your listeners
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