Ryan Bell: A Year Without God

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🗓️ 21 January 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Ryan Bell, a former Seventh-day Adventist pastor, lived as an atheist for the entire year of 2014, chronicling the journey on his blog, http://www.patheos.com/blogs/yearwithoutgod.

In December of 2014, Bell announced in an NPR interview that he no longer believes in God. Both Christians and atheists have rallied around this declaration, for good and for ill.

In this very special broadcast, we speak personally with Ryan Bell about his faith, his year without God, and about the circumstances which led to his desire to take such an unusual (and drastic) step.

Charisma News article featuring Ryan: http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/watchman-on-the-wall/46618-why-are-so-many-christians-turning-into-atheists

Seth's response video to "10 Women Christian Men Shouldn't Marry: http://youtu.be/m1ugVyuRUv0

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0:00.0	Here we go, the step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.2	Brash ball-faced blasphemy.
0:10.4	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.
0:24.8	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.8	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
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