Okay, here we got. Stand by. Three, two, one.

The thinking atheist. It's not a person. It's a symbol. An idea.

The population of atheists in this country is going through the room.

Rejecting faith. Pursuing knowledge. Challenging the sacred.

If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth.

Not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish.

And working together for a more rational world.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself.

Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

Assume nothing.

Question everything. And start nothing. Question everything.

And start thinking.

This is the Thinking Atheist podcast, hosted by Seth Andrews.

It was back in, I think, 2007, when Richard Dawkins, the God Delusion released.

I was watching a video of one of his speeches.

He was reading excerpts from the book, and he read this. The God of the Old Testament is arguably

the most unpleasant character in all fiction. Jealous and proud of it, a petty, unjust, unforgiving,

control freak, a vindictive, bloodthirsty, ethnic cleanser, a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infantic,

genocidal, philicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacical, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent

bully.

The god delusion was seismic.

For me, it was just a watershed book book and it hit me at the right time

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