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.

When you're preparing material to do in front of a live audience, you always think, well, I kind of know how this should play, but how is it going to really play?

In other words, you anticipate a good response, but will people take the ride? So I was putting this particular speech together, and I had those thoughts.

You know, the audience is going to totally take the journey, and I'm going to resonate with them,

and we're going to all be on the same page, and it's going to be amazing, or they're going to circle the building with torches

and which is it going to be? Well, fortunately, I gave this speech in Nashville, Tennessee. I gave it in

Sarnia, Ontario, several cities in Texas. Now I am playing the audio of it for you here and the response was overwhelmingly good.

People, I don't know know they seemed to need what was

being said like it spoke to them in this cultural moment which is what i had always desired for this

thing i really wanted it to serve a purpose and i don't know, I'll just stop qualifying it.

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