I Used To Believe Weird Things

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 14 August 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

From the Sunlight Diet to flat-earthers to kitchen seasonings that repel demons, we explore some of the more bizarre (and entertaining) things our listeners once held as Truth.

Prepare yourself for some strangely entertaining beliefs submitted by our listeners, and an exploration into why we so often embrace the irrational.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go, the step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.3	Branch ball face blasphemy.
0:10.5	Question. Everything.
0:12.3	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.0	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.4	or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:45.6	I know this shows about weird beliefs.
0:48.0	Some of the strange stuff we used to hold.
0:50.0	As FACTA mentioned, sort of as a primer on social media,
0:53.6	when I was a fundamentalist Christian youth
0:56.8	in the height of the satanic panic,
0:58.6	we were worried about demons in our rock albums.
1:02.4	Backward masking, if you were to play Aussie Osborn's album,
1:06.5	backward, you might open a portal into the spirit world.
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