Talk Heathen 04.48 11-29-2020 with Eric Murphy and Seth Andrews
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
4.7 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2020
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Let’s get to calls! Gerard from Connecticut would like to talk about to what degree can we reasonably believe and justify metaphysical claims. Unfortunately, we aren’t able to reasonably test these claims to prove them true without evidence. Using mathematics to prove this isn’t helpful, math is a language used to describe symbols, is also a scientific process, and isn’t a way to prove metaphysics.
ALERT! We interrupt this episode for a prophecy about how God exists! Just kidding, we wanted to show a clip from an episode from August about how the UN will be taking over the US in November and Trump is nowhere to be found… except this prophecy hasn’t happened. NEXT!
Sophie in Texas is up next, after experiencing a lot of loss over the years, they are seeing their mom succumbing to scams by “mediums” and isn’t sure what to do to help. Please don’t feel this is only your burden, it is not your mantle to carry, please reach out to our discord if you need any additional help working through this.
Kathy in Pennsylvania is wondering about folks calling themselves Christian and acting contrary to that. She starts talking towards the ‘No True Scotsman’ territory but stops herself. She knows all the lingo! Seth summarizes her thoughts in the amazing storyteller way that he does.
Jonathan in London is asking about how to support his theist believing wife when she says she is being punished for some spiritual infraction. He is seeking advice on how to best help her through this. Seth is able to hop in and provides some great advice.
Kevin in New York is calling back, says he doesn’t want to go down any rabbit holes. Sure you don’t… I’m a teeny bit skeptical about that. This time he would like to focus on the topic of skepticism and spiritual testimonies that people claim. Oh boy.
Tim in the Czech Republic deconverted and left his cult and is nervous about talking about how he is shunned by his family to his friends around the holiday season. Seth is able to really provide some great steps in creating your family made of friends. Family isn’t always a blood relation, the family you choose is sometimes the best.
That’s our show for this week, please continue to be safe in your area, wear your mask. The world is better with you in it. See you next week!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Seth, how's it going? |
| 0:16.0 | Do you remember the before times back when we could go outside? |
| 0:21.6 | Yeah. Do you remember the before times back when we could go outside? Hello and welcome to talk even. Hello and welcome to Talk Heath. |
| 0:41.5 | Today's November 29th, 2020. |
| 0:43.8 | It is Season 4, Episode 48. |
| 0:47.0 | And with me today is Seth Andrew. |
| 0:49.0 | Seth, how's it going? |
| 0:50.1 | Hey, it's good to be here. |
| 0:51.0 | Thank you for the invite. |
| 0:52.5 | Absolutely. |
| 0:53.3 | I cannot believe that we've gone four seasons, and this is your first time on talk either. I'm really happy to have you here, man. I'm a big fan of, you know, the ACA. I know I've been to Austin several times, and so it's nice to be here. And I appreciate the opportunity, man. Yeah, absolutely. So before we really dive into anything, for people who don't know |
| 1:12.2 | who you are, who the hell are you? In a nutshell, I'm a former evangelical Christian, raised in a |
| 1:18.7 | fundy home, Christian school, student leader, all that stuff. I got into Christian radio back in 1990 |
| 1:25.9 | and sort of rode the wave of the popularity. |
| 1:29.7 | You know, it really went from a bargain basement shoestring kind of operation back in the 70s, |
| 1:35.6 | 80s and early 90s. |
| 1:37.0 | And then it became this big industry. |
| 1:38.8 | Christian music became this big industry. |
| 1:40.5 | And I was kind of there when lightning struck. |
| 1:43.2 | And so I was part of a very successful |
| 1:45.6 | morning show for KXOJ 100.9 FM. And then I was over at another station with Clear Channel, |
| 1:52.9 | Kiss FM, did some pop radio, segued into video production, did the mostly church work. I did a lot of |
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