Welcome. I'm Connor Beaton, and this is the Man Talk Show.

This podcast brings together some of the best thought leaders, teachers, and

extraordinary individuals to help teach and mentor you on how to be a top

performer in life, love, and business. Joining me today is Mr. Scott Shea. Scott Shea is a leading

businessman, thought leader, and author of two widely read books. He is also the co-founder of

Signature Bank, which he co-founded in 2001.

And the bank has become one of the best banks in New York for private business owners.

Scott's second book, In Good Faith, Questioning Religion and Atheism, which we talk about today on the show, has been recognized as one of the best books of 2018 by Mosaic authors and earned a finalist

award from the National Jewish Books Association. He gives talks around the country and is interviewed

on TV, radio, and podcast many times throughout the year. He's done some incredible work, and I

really like this topic because Scott kind of dives into this this duality between atheism and

religion and so we take a bit of a deep dive Scott talks mostly about the Jewish faith but we

do talk a little bit about Christianity and a few of the other religions and this comparative

analysis between what it means to be an atheist in modern culture along with questioning

some of the religious rules and the religious dogma that is presented.

Scott has a very unique approach.

It's very educated, very well read.

And so we dive a little bit into what it means to have faith, what it means to be in a

religion and how some religions are struggling in these days with low attendance rates,

but also why so many people are drawn to atheism.

So this is more of a discourse and a conversation about the impact of religion, about the

impact of atheism, and the comparison between the two.

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