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The Thinking Atheist

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🗓️ 11 November 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Religious parents and institutions know the importance of a child's developmental years, and how difficult it is to tell/sell supernatural claims once the child reaches his or her teen years.

In this podcast, Seth Andrews explores the "programming" of young minds, and explores the difference between education and indoctrination. Capping the show is the personal story of a young woman named Kaitlyn, whose apostasy prompted her devout Mormon parents to kick her out of her home.

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Transcript

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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.
0:44.1	I'm going to end the broadcast today with a conversation
0:47.3	with a young lady who was programmed by a Mormon family,
0:53.1	a Mormon mother and father attending a Mormon church.
0:56.2	The LDS church was essentially her entire life,
0:59.6	her lifestyle until she began to have doubts.
1:04.2	She began to go against her programming
1:06.7	and then she paid a pretty significant price for it.
1:11.2	Her story was brought to my attention several weeks ago
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