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TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 6 November 2015

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Steve Hill, Maryellen Hooper and Keith Lowell Jensen are professional comedians. They are also atheists.

In this roundtable discussion, Seth Andrews asks them about life on the road (and the stage), how their non-belief in the supernatural influences their material, facing the hecklers, and their desires to make people laugh while, perhaps, also making them think.

Steve Hill: http://www.stevehillcomic.com
Maryellen Hooper: http://www.maryellenhooper.com
Keith Lowell Jensen: http://www.rockass.net

Video link to "Evolution: What the Fossils Say" from Seth's monologue: https://youtu.be/DjFgcOId-ZY

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	Rash 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.
0:32.6	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:44.1	So I just saw on the internet this trailer for a film called
0:48.8	The Genesis Movie or Genesis Movie at Features
0:52.4	it may even be produced by Ken Ham.
0:55.2	The trailer also features rate comfort, that kind of thing.
0:58.8	And it uses lush visuals and a soaring cinematic soundtrack
1:04.1	to sell the idea that we are all created by God.
1:07.9	And I would assume if Ken Ham is involved,
1:10.4	it's a young earth creationist angle, okay?
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