Seth Andrews Turns 50: from the 2018 American Atheists National Convention

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🗓️ 10 April 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Seth Andrews joins a live audience to celebrate his (approaching) 50th birthday at the 2018 American Atheists National Convention.

Video of this speech is here: https://youtu.be/zkOq4WiDA1U

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go, the standby.
0:01.6	Three, two, one.
0:03.8	Action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.2	Branch ball face blast for me.
0:10.5	Question.
0:11.5	Everything.
0:12.3	Find it extremely hard to imagine.
0:14.1	Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite alright 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 100 fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:46.7	You think the rejection of religious claims
0:49.6	means that we're all immune to bias or bad ideas
0:53.3	or logical fallacies or irrationality?
0:56.8	Oh, if that were true, right?
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