Talk Heathen 04.07 2020-02-16 with Vi La Bianca & Jen Aldrich
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
4.7 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2020
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
00:04:26 Ronique - TN - Recently deconverted, is in a weird spot with spiritual/new age folks
00:21:14 Hayden - DE - Would like to talk about their beliefs
00:33:43 Jeron - TX - Is a believer, and is challenged with understanding the concept of God.
00:45:40 Mika - Sweden - What is the definition of God from an atheist’s perspective.
01:10:12 Sebastian - Chile - How prayer can help everyone, even non-believers.
01:18:58 Erin - Eastern US - Their partner is getting into woo. Uh oh.
SHOW NOTES
In today’s episode of Talk Heathen, Vi La Bianca is joined by fellow Godless Bitches 3.0 host Jen Aldrich. Welcome back Jen.
Let’s get to calls. The first caller is Ronique from Tennessee. She is struggling and is challenged by the “new age” folks in her life. Listen in to hear Jen and Vi talk about how to create boundaries and also how to navigate this within her community.
Next up, Hayden from Delaware would like to talk about theistic belief and how it relates to atheism. Would like to also talk about how atheists tend to be condescending towards theists. Vi talks about understanding the process of deconverting and that the angry atheist can be part of that process. Like within any group, there’s almost always some bad apples.
The following caller named Jeron from Texas claims to be a believer, but doesn’t think God exists. Is he a theist? Is he a Mormon? Does he truly believe in a deity? Tune in to hear Vi try to walk and talk through this.
The next caller in the queue is Mika from Sweden wanting to discuss the definition of God from an atheist’s perspective. He provides a ton of fallacies and gish gallops a ton. Listen to all of it. It’s fascinating! The goalpost looks good here, oh wait I need to move them over there...
Next up, Sebastian in Chile claims that prayer can help everyone, even non-believers. After a long story about traveling to Peru, and taking DMT in the Amazon jungle, he continues to claim how prayer helped remove “dark energy and heaviness.” Hmmmm.
Our last caller of the day, Erin in the Eastern US would like to discuss how their partner is getting into woo and is concerned about them turning away from looking at the world skeptically and rationally. Vi and Jen help them looking at this and figuring out a way that strengthens their relationship.
And that’s the end of the show! See you all next week for continued Adventures with Heathens…
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello and welcome to talk to talk heaving. Hello. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello. |
| 0:41.6 | And welcome to Talk Haven. |
| 0:46.1 | Today is February 16th, 2020, season 4, episode 7. |
| 0:51.5 | And with us today is Jen Aldrich from the old new ACA show. |
| 0:52.1 | The old new. |
| 0:53.0 | I like that. |
| 1:12.4 | Yes, old new. I like that. Yeah. How are you doing today? Exhausted. How are you today? Same. Yes. This is going to be a great episode. Yeah. We're, we're running on absolutely nothing today. You flew in yesterday. I flew in at 1055 yesterday. Change. By 12 o'clock, you were here. I was here to GB3, hung out, got back to where I was staying, get a phone call. |
| 1:14.0 | Hey, do you want to do the nonprofits tonight? |
| 1:09.6 | So then I had to come back across town and come and film nonprofits last night, go to bed and then come back here. And you guys were up to like 1130. Yeah, we were here to like 1130 last night. Yeah, so she basically hasn't left the studio. I might as well just move in at this point. |
| 1:10.7 | Awesome. |
| 1:30.8 | Okay, so we have got a couple lines open. We are taking theist callers first, so if you're a theist and you want to talk to us, |
| 1:36.0 | don't be scared. We're not going to bite. We're too tired to yell. Too hard. But yeah, |
| 1:42.1 | call in. That number is 512-686-0279. |
| 1:46.7 | And just a couple of announcements before we get started today. |
| 1:50.0 | We are a 501C3 nonprofit, which means that we rely on donations to keep the shows running. |
| 1:56.1 | Not just this one, but every other show that you know and love out of the ACA. |
| 1:59.8 | So if you like what you see, |
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| 2:18.3 | And we will be banking the top five patrons about two-thirds of the way through the show. |
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