Talk Heathen 03.37 2019-09-15 with Eric Murphy & Gayle Jordan

Talk Heathen

Atheist Community of Austin

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4.7 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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On Today's show we have Gayle Jordan from The Recovering From Religion organization. Learn more about RFR here: https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/#rfr-welcome

Callers on today's show:

A- Preston, Florida: Recovered addict, been in 12 step for 8 years, how can I go about setting up a secular recovery group?
T- Len, Arizona: In transition "a terrible catholic"; how are morals part of Darwinian evolution?
A- Gabe, Missouri: Application of Pascal's Wager; is it ever valid or is it completely a fallacy?
T- Michael, UK: How can we discount the existence of a creator?
T- Brian, California: Has a hypothesis as to how God(s) exist, but they don't care about you and why!
T- Kathy, Pennsylvania: Barely a believer. How do you overcome your fear of hellfire and damnation?
A- Louis, North Carolina: Atheism in Hispanic culture; how do I find support when there is so much social pressure towards religion.
A- Sue, Washington: Undecided theist/atheist; How can we have objective morality without a higher power

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0:00.0	Did you ever get to see the graffiti wall before they took it down?
0:09.0	No?
0:12.8	It was available forever.
0:16.4	Atheist license place, provided by Anthony Magnavostovac.
0:20.7	He's stayed with with him last night.
0:25.0	All right.
0:26.4	You ready?
0:26.8	Ready.
0:32.4	Hello, welcome to Talk Heathen.
0:39.1	I'm Eric Murphy.
0:40.1	It is Sunday, September 15th, 2019, season three, episode 37.
0:45.6	And I have Gail Jordan.
0:49.4	Oh, my gosh.
0:50.9	So I had to write down your bona fides because I wanted to make sure that I got it.
0:54.3	So Gail is a former Christian fundamentalist, founder of Murfreesboro Freethinkers, co-founder of
1:02.3	Nanocon, executive director of the recovering from religion foundation, right?
1:10.4	Twice Democratic candidate for Tennessee Senator.
1:15.5	Gail Jordan? Oh my gosh. So I honestly feel, oh, and by the way, most importantly,
1:21.3	the best hugs in the movement. You know what? Of all of those accolades you just gave me,
1:27.0	that's my favorite one. Yeah. Yes. It's great to be here. I'm so glad that you made it. Thank you. So I've got to tell you, I think the very first time we met was at an event that Daryl had put on. Oh, probably. And you were just one of the kindest human beings I'd ever met. I had no who you were. And afterwards, you know, somebody walked up to me and said, do you know that was Gail Jordan? Like, what? So I just, I absolutely adore you. I'm glad you. What a nice thing to say. I'm crazy about you too. What a lovely introduction. I hope I can live up to that.
1:59.2	You absolutely already do.
2:01.3	Thank you.
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