Talk Heathen 04.02 2020-01-12 with Vi La Bianca & Thomas Westbrook
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
4.7 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2020
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
00:03:26 Brian - OR - How to discover answers to the ultimate question(s) using hypnosis.
00:18:22 Moldred - NY - There are differences between religion and spirituality
00:37:37 Owen - OR - Is questioning faith, sees the Catholic church as very convincing.
00:59:26 Ameet - NY - Would like to discuss a personal event that occurred during the holidays
01:16:01 Josh - TX - Is there a theist whose views you came to respect?
01:25:40 Brandon - AZ - Has a justification for Hell
01:34:19 Patricia - NY - Needs advice about indoctrination of young children
01:43:14 Nick - Wi - Thinks it’s wrong to not bow your head during prayer over dinner.
SHOW NOTES
In today’s episode of Talk Heathen, Vi La Bianca is joined by Thomas Westbrook (aka Holy Koolaid.) Welcome back to the show Thomas, did you bring tacos?!
Let’s get to calls.
The first caller is Brian from Oregon. The answer is 42. Just kidding, Brian brings up a couple scenarios of how to use hypnosis when talking with believers and experiences. Listen in to hear Thomas and Vi talk through this call.
Next up, Moldred from New York would like to talk about how there are differences between religion (which is a top down hierarchy) and spirituality (which is a bottom up). Listen in to hear Vi and Thomas break this down.
The following caller named Owen from Oregon is concerned about how there is a lot of biased evidence provided by the Catholic church and is making him wondering what is true. Vi and Thomas have a great conversation about this.
The next caller in the queue is Ameet from New York wanting to discuss an event that occurred during the holidays with his parents. His parents are concerned with his marriage prospects due to his atheism. Is it wrong to be loud about one’s atheism? NO it’s not wrong! Ameet, it does get better, keep staying true to yourself.
Next up is a returning caller, Josh in Texas would like to know if there were theists whose views we came to respect. Absolutely, as long as there is honesty going both ways, there can be common ground reached.
Afterwards we have Brandon from Arizona. He has justification for Hell. Claims every single sin is punishable by eternal torture and torment in Hell and Jesus died for our sins to save us from Hell. But why though? Yeah, let’s eternally punish people for finite crimes, that sounds fair. /s
We finally are able to talk to Patricia from New York, she is concerned about her brother raising children within a religious faith and is wondering how she can help lessen the chance of indoctrination. Vi provides the best answer and a quote: “The best way to bridge this gap is to have them learn about all the religions.” — Darrel Ray.
Our last caller of the day is Nick in Wisconsin. Discussing how he disagrees with Vi not bowing their head during holiday dinner prayers. He says he would have handled it differently, and sees it as being slightly disrespectful to their family. It truly comes down to a point of respect (like in a place of worship) but in a family home, it’s different and you should be allowed to be yourself.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Hello and welcome to talk heathen. |
| 0:23.6 | Hello and welcome to Talk Heven. |
| 0:40.9 | Hi, Thomas. |
| 0:41.9 | Hey, V. How are you doing? |
| 0:43.2 | Doing good. |
| 0:44.4 | So you may be wondering, why no Eric? |
| 0:46.8 | Well, after the moon debacle, we had to let him go. |
| 0:51.6 | No, he's doing a part-time job training right now. Trying to make that money so he can continue doing his YouTube channel, which you should check out. And it's not self-promotion because I'm promoting it. How are you doing, Thomas? I'm doing fantastic. It's good to be back on. Yeah, thank you so much for joining us. Any interesting new stuff happening? Well, we've got the Faithless Forum conference coming up pretty soon. That's right. |
| 1:14.4 | I cannot give the exact date because we're still locking in the venue, but this year we're |
| 1:18.9 | looking at bringing it back to Austin, Texas. And for people not familiar, the Faithless Forum is the |
| 1:23.0 | first conference ever organized entirely by atheist YouTubers. We bring in guests from all over the world, |
| 1:29.3 | and it's where you can meet your favorite YouTubers. That's amazing. People who appear on these |
| 1:33.8 | shows here at the ACA. I remember last year I was so bummed that I couldn't go, and this year I'm, |
| 1:39.2 | you know, I'm definitely going to be there in some capacity. It's a lot of fun. Just a fan girl over |
| 1:43.3 | the other atheist YouTubers that show up. Okay, so we're going to get to calls in a minute, but we do |
| 1:48.5 | have a couple announcements. First, call us. We've got some lines open. The number is 512-68-0279. If you |
| 1:57.5 | have a story about your deconversion process or a question about God or the universe or anything like that, we are definitely qualified to answer those objectively. |
| 2:08.2 | Also, we are a 501C3 nonprofit, and it's donations that keep the lights on, keep these shows going. |
| 2:15.3 | So if you like what you see here, feel free to hop over to patea.com slash talk heathen to me and leave a donation. We'll be thanking our top five patrons, about two-thirds of the way through the show. So if you'd like your name, read on air, we refresh it right before we read it out. So you've still got time to do that. After the show, Atheist Vanguard will be airing at 3, so be sure to check |
| 2:36.9 | that out. And we're going to be hopping on Discord after this for a brief conversation in Q&A |
| 2:42.3 | with me and Thomas. So feel free to jump in there, and that link should be in the lower third as well. |
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