Talk Heathen 04.33 2020-08-16 with Eric Murphy & Trae Crowder

Talk Heathen

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🗓️ 16 August 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Greetings, Heathens! Hope your week is off to a grand start. We have a very special guest in the co-host seat today, comedian and activist, Trae Crowder! Welcome to the show Trae, we are glad you are here! Here’s his Youtube channel, check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA

Let’s get to calls! Returning caller Phil in North Carolina has issues with our choice of thumbnails and the term “cafeteria Christians”. He continues to talk about the problems with ad populum and “people want their God.” Eric moves on to ask, is it true and pragmatic, though?
Next up, Chuck in Michigan calls in to talk about speciation, evolution, and how Aristotle’s unmoved mover fits into it all. He also starts to set up his argument by basically giving us the history of life on Earth and how the Cambrian explosion of life happened too quickly (it didn’t, it took MILLIONS of years) and doesn’t fall in line with Darwinian evolution. “I don’t know, therefore God,” doesn’t work in this example (or any example). Will Chuck get to the explanation of the Aristotle’s unmoved mover argument without help from Eric? (Nope.)

PJ in North Carolina is wondering about the cherry picking that Christians use to justify their behavior, and how to basically accept their beliefs after a childhood of religious trauma and abuse. Eric speaks from experience about this specific issue and how to better approach this problem. Eric then asks: “Why is your recovery (from religious trauma) requiring other people?” PJ, perhaps contacting Recovering from Religion may be helpful to you: https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org or the Secular Therapy Project: https://www.seculartherapy.org/

Ivi in Florida is next, she recently deconverted from a Pentacostal church where they “spoke in tongues” and still has a fear of Hell. The call drops, but Trae and Eric talk a bit about this fear of hell and how many new atheists handle it.
Next in the queue is Kathy in Pennsylvania is calling about moral relativism, she starts out talking about being worried about going to Hell and moves onto the topic of moral relativism. She finally gets to the question: Do we believe there is an absolute morality or can morals be relative?

Dak in California said he was cursed on July 27th! He was supposed to be afflicted with illness and it hasn’t happened! Wow, and Eric’s curse is going on 5 months and nothing has happened. At the end of the day, this call is about someone’s random internet fight...and maybe not that useful.

Thanks for joining us today, Trae! Thanks to you viewers, mods, and crew as well, this was a fantastic show. Please continue to be safe out there, this world is only better with you in it! See you next week!

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to Talk Heathen.
0:40.3	Today is August 16th, 2020. It is season four, episode 33. I'm Eric Murphy and with me today is Trey Crowder. Trey, how's it going, man?
0:50.3	Hey, Eric, I'm doing pretty good. Good to be here.
0:53.3	Dude, I'm glad that you're here. So for people who don't know who you are, Trey, who are you?
0:58.5	I'm a comedian and a writer originally from rural Tennessee, very, very rural Tennessee, a place called Salina.
1:07.4	And don't worry if you haven't heard of it, people who spent their entire lives 50 miles from Salina, I have never heard of Salina.
1:13.6	But it's no traffic lights, no Walmarts, middle of nowhere.
1:18.0	That's where I grew up.
1:20.1	Then I ended up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where I started doing stand-up comedy in 2010.
1:26.2	In 2016, I started making these comedic videos for the
1:29.9	internet called the liberal redneck series, which is where I do like political rants.
1:36.9	And, you know, I really don't have the, it's pretty self-explanatory, liberal redneck,
1:41.0	you get it. I grew up in a very redneck situation in background
1:44.2	but I'm a very progressive person politically and always have been so it's it's real
1:50.2	but obviously I crank it up a little bit for the videos and for the character the second
1:55.3	one of those videos I ever made the first one was actually about the Bible shitting on the
1:59.8	Bible and it did okay.
2:01.9	At that time, my homestead, Tennessee was looking at making the Holy Bible,
2:06.5	the official state book of Tennessee.
2:10.1	I think I remember that.
2:12.0	Thankfully, it ended up failing, but it was an ongoing thing at the time.
2:17.2	And the very first Lubbore redneck video was actually about that and all sort of
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