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TheThinkingAtheist

Steve Shives: Activism, Apologists, and the F-Word

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This is a 30-minute conversation between Seth Andrews and YouTube activist Steve Shives, recorded recently at the Pennsylvania Atheist/Humanist Conference in Harrisburg, PA.

Video of this conversation can be seen here: https://youtu.be/2Q4Yv3rgv-0

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 100 fronts losing the argument.

0:32.8

And start thinking.

0:37.8

This is the thinking atheist worldwide.

0:43.8

Well, I wasn't going to do a podcast this week.

0:46.4

I was releasing some other stuff.

0:48.4

I was kind of taking a break during this rather loose December

0:52.3

month, you know, the holiday month with so much else going on.

0:55.6

But I'm releasing today a video to YouTube,

0:58.6

which is a conversation I'd had with a YouTube activist

1:01.1

named Steve Shives.

1:02.2

Steve's been on the radio with me before.

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