Talk Heathen 04.30 2020-07-26 with Eric Murphy & Vi La BIanca
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
4.7 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2020
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
OUr first caller is returning caller Jeff from Pennsylvania. He wants to talk about how we use faith as a figure of speech and that everyone believes in or has faith in something. I for one am working to use confidence or truth instead of using “I have faith...”. Unfortunately, Jeff attempts to only use his definition of faith and force this definition on the hosts. Come on Jeff, don’t be dishonest!
Next up, Daniel in Tennessee wants to prove that since objective moral values exist hence a God exists. He’s a Theist On the EDGE!
Dawit in Washington is up next, asking how science can help transition theists into atheists and how to continue scientific research on your own. Further discussion moves into how this informed research can be political. Make every effort to utilize the scientific method into researching these concepts, look into articles that utilize peer review, and be skeptical of what you do find. That’s a good beginning. Oh and Vi’s “How to Skeptic” project! https://bit.ly/3f97Thm
Link in Washington would like to talk about lingering beliefs, hell, and Pascal’s Wager. He would not like to burn eternally for no reason. Eric asks, “How many different hells are you afraid of?” All this fear is due to religious trauma and we’re sold faulty information through religion. Link gives us some gold: “If God created Hell, then the only person/one who deserves to go to Hell is him because that’s the only infinite crime.” MIC DROP!
Next up, Kendall in Washington wonders if Christianity is proven true, would we repent?
Ulf from Norway was raised religious (fundamentalist Baptist) and realized he suffered from PTSD due to it. Nothing in religion made sense to him and he was ostracized because of it as a child. We are happy you are with us Ulf! Keep on working through this, it gets better!
Robert in Canada wants everyone to know that everything in your head doesn’t necessarily match reality all the time. Nice!
That’s our episode for today! Please note, 2020 is a gap year from life, it doesn’t count! Please continue to be safe and healthy out there!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Hello and welcome to Talk Heathen! |
| 0:39.8 | Today's... |
| 0:40.6 | Ooh, yeah, see, I kind of like the canned applause. |
| 0:44.9 | Well, actually, so the applause is taken from Talk Heathen shows. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.2 | Vern mixed it all together from our actual audience before COVID. |
| 0:52.4 | So that was very nice. |
| 0:54.2 | All right. |
| 0:54.5 | So today is July 26, 2020. |
| 0:56.7 | It is season for episode 30. |
| 1:01.2 | There we go. |
| 1:01.8 | My goodness. |
| 1:02.8 | I'm Eric Murphy. |
| 1:03.6 | I'm Vla Bianca. |
| 1:05.1 | Hey, Vee. |
| 1:05.8 | Hi. |
| 1:06.5 | How's it going? |
| 1:07.6 | Good. |
| 1:08.4 | I have had lots of coffee and no food. So I'm, I'm ready. My, my fuse is short. |
| 1:16.2 | Ooh, it's going to be one of those days. Nice. Okay, okay. I can dig it. Well, so before we dive into calls, there are a couple of announcements. There are regular ones like the fact that Talk Heathen is a product of |
| 1:29.5 | the atheist community of Austin. It's a 501c3 nonprofit. And if you'd like to support us, you can go |
| 1:34.1 | to patreon.com slash Talkheathen to me. That's patreon.com slash talk heathen to me, two-thirds of the way |
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