Talk Heathen 05.43 10-24-2021 with Katy Montgomerie and MD Aware

Talk Heathen

Atheist Community of Austin

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🗓️ 24 October 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Greetings heathens! Time to get down with our host Katy Montgomerie and special guest MD Aware.

First up is Logical Apostate in MO that wants to understand how trans rights are impacted by religion. People tend to react to trans people the same way they would react to gay people because they look to the closest language to trans mentioned in their scriptures that would be considered an abomination. They use that as justification for their bias. The actual law of the religion is often not the driving force of prejudices.

Ameet in NY is next and is asking about how the alkaline diet is purported to kill cancer cells. The pH of the body is extremely controlled. If the pH drops below 7 or rises up to 8, it is a sign of demise. Pushing these limits can be fatal. Whenever someone says “blank” kills cancer cells, remember that bullets do the same thing. Any normal alkaline diet can not significantly alter the body’s pH, and if it did, it would probably kill the person as well.

Mike from WA belligerently tries to argue with a real scientist that information contained in DNA must have come from somewhere and that there was no natural selection. Mike, ad hominem attacks do not change the fact that DNA are chemicals and are naturally selected according to physical and chemical laws. This is a physical process and is not the same as information nor is it a recipe. DNA is a chemical that self replicates under the correct conditions.

Ron in Canada believes the Bible is entirely true and contains an ancient wisdom that has revolutionized Western Civilization. When asked what makes the Bible true, his answer is the same that Muslims give about the Quran. And that is that he believes the Bible is so great that it could not have been written by man. This is a false dichotomy because there is no evidence that a supernatural entity exists to have written the Bible as opposed to human writings. The claims in the Bible can’t be used to prove itself; we need evidence. We are not convinced that what the people wrote in the Bible were inspired by a god.

Finally we have Allison in CA who grew up in a cult and now considers herself an atheist but wants to understand why we need to use the atheist label because it feels limiting. The label is there and roughly describes what is believed. An atheist just means we are not convinced of any god claims. Descriptions are interesting to humans and communicate topics. More importantly, we need to address the struggle against atheist rights, and using the label assists with this.

That is all for today folks! Thank you for tuning in to the show and we will see you soon!

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0:40.3	Oh Hey,
0:57.0	Hi everyone.
1:00.0	Welcome to Talk Heven, the show where we want to know what you believe and why.
1:05.0	Please call in. It's a calling show and we'd love to talk to you. We still have open lines.
1:10.0	So the number is just below and yeah, get calling. We'd love to chat to you like about any of your beliefs, anything if you believe in a God, maybe you believe in spirits, maybe you believe in astrology. Maybe you're one of these people I've been arguing with all week who believes that being trans is a religion and you can tell me why that's the case. We'd love to hear from you.
1:28.1	So my name is Katie Montgomery and I'm your host this week and I'm joined by the amazing
1:33.6	MD Aware. Hi. Hello. Thanks for having me. How are you doing? No problem. So yeah, thanks for
1:39.3	coming on Talk Heathen. Just so everyone knows, Talk Heathen is a product of the atheist community of Austin, and it is a 501 C3 organization dedicated to the promotion of positive atheist culture, which is great. Everyone loves atheist culture. It's loads of it. And the separation of religion and government, which is a very important cause. And the ACA is like a great organisation and, you know, they need your support. So if you would like to support the show and the ACA, then there's also different ways you can do it, which we'll mention throughout the show. One great way is just below the video, there is a button you can click join and you can become a member on YouTube, which is great because then you get custom chat icons, you get like all the super stickers and all that kind of stuff. And you'll be immune to the chat frequency limits, which means that you can spam the chat. Don't spam the chat, unless it's just, you know, like celebrating how great I am. You know, you can, you can spam that as much as much, oh, or MD Aware, of course, you know, like, definitely.
2:35.0	Yeah, and you can also support the show on Patreon if you go to tiny.cc forward slash Patreon,
2:41.9	TH. So the link could be just below.
2:45.5	So yeah, welcome to the show, everyone. I think this is exciting.
2:50.2	I don't know if anyone saw
2:51.5	MD aware on truth wanted the other day but this is his like second show so this is
2:57.7	exciting it's very how are you feeling how's your how's your week been it's good it's been good
3:02.5	I've been like trolling through the YouTube comments even though I told myself I wouldn't
3:08.8	because it's usually a recipe for tears but I think the feedback's been mixed to positive
3:14.1	so yeah I mean I think it's disappointing when you read through the comments and you
3:19.5	don't get like some troll negative one telling you you're ugly or stupid or something like
3:23.4	I know I was frankly bracing myself for much worse, but it's been okay.
3:29.4	So either that means that nobody's heard it or no one's had a problem with it.
3:34.1	So what that means is we need the most abusive comments for MD aware today in the chat below.
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