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TheThinkingAtheist

It's a Brutal Time to Be Even Remotely Intelligent

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The United States is experiencing an epidemic of anti-intellectualism. We discuss that and a whole lot more.

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0:00.0

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

0:04.6

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

0:10.6

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

0:14.0

Rejecting faith. Pursuing knowledge. Challenging the sacred.

0:18.6

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

0:22.4

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

0:25.7

And working together for a more rational world.

0:29.0

Take the risk of thinking for yourself.

0:31.0

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

0:35.6

Assume nothing.

0:37.3

Question everything. And start nothing. Question everything.

0:39.4

And start thinking.

0:42.2

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

0:57.5

I just ran up here. I've been down making lunch.

0:59.5

Natalie got this meal kit service.

1:02.3

And almost every recipe wants virgin olive oil.

1:07.1

I should do a general knowledge show again because I don't know what virgin, virgin, extra virgin, olive oil.

1:13.9

I don't get it. I don't understand what's the difference and I'm too lazy to look it up.

1:18.5

I have been, I can't believe I'm telling you this, I've been medicating my head.

1:25.9

Oh, that's been a real joy. So this is the kind of shit that happens when you get older. It's like watching the fly, David Kronenberg's The Fly. Remember, he goes into the teleporter, and he gets gene spliced with the fly, and all of a sudden, things start growing on his body. He's like, what's that? I don't know.

1:45.9

I don't know what this is. I don't know what this does. So I was, all of a sudden, I was out there and I was

1:50.4

scratching my head and I felt something. What's that? Natalie said, you should get it checked out.

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