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 thinking.

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

Christy Burke hosts the website and the YouTube channel Jezebel vibes. I would describe her as a perpetrator of good trouble.

You know, she's a disruptor, but in the most positive sense of the word, she's part of

the resistance. Christy joins me today. Would you call yourself a perpetrator of good trouble?

Because I get those vibes off of you. Hey, that's a compliment. I think you are one of many people to call me a disruptor recently, and that is not

something I ever considered myself to be before, probably this past year, but I wear it with a badge

of honor. I think when we talk about resistance, I'm reminded of all these hands-off 2025 protests, and I participated in one, and I'm going to be doing so again, this idea of an expression of freedom, of liberation.

I mean, you ended up resisting years ago when you were challenging your former faith, which, as I understand it,

was Southern Baptist religion, Southern Baptist Christianity? Is that correct? Yes. Yes, I was

deep in the Southern Baptist religion. I came from a church that I was kind of all over the place,

but I think that we most identified with Southern Baptist.

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