Talk Heathen 05.46 11-14-2021 with Kenneth Leonard and Lloyd Evans
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
4.7 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Let’s get to calls! Ofir from Israel is a nihilist and would like to talk to us about it. Lloyd asks a couple questions about life having meaning. But if there is any personal meaning to life, then nihilism is a moot point. (There are different “flavors” of Nihilism, but most subscribe to the idea that life has no meaning.)
Aaron in Australia is up next, he is wondering what causes someone to convert to Atheism. He knows it’s a process and there is usually not one argument to make this happen, but is there something at the end that really pushes folks to deconvert. Lloyd puts a pin in it and explains it further.
Returning caller Setuf in Spain wants to talk about abortion and bodily autonomy. Sigh. Again. This has been the 3rd week of them talking about this topic. They keep turning it into a moral issue. Kenneth explains in a good and general way what bodily autonomy is and how it’s applied and he tries his best to further explain the situations that a person would look into terminating a pregnancy. Setuf just doesn’t want to listen because it doesn’t adhere nor fit their narrative. OH! They are a presup! They continue to talk past Lloyd and pretty much ignore everything said! Listen to Lloyd Setuf, he is fantastic.
Rick in Arizona’s family is voicing concern about his soul after coming out as an Atheist. Kenneth dives in and talks about how it opens the door for further conversation depending upon how questions are asked.
LeChef in Canada is wondering what our objection is to Christianity. They also changed their topic from the objection of Christianity to the 7 day cycle and lied to the call screener. Don’t do that. But anyway, he goes into his spiel and Lloyd gets to hear it for the first time. He devolves the conversation into condescension and his reliance on the claim that the 7 day cycle is exclusive to the Bible is laughable. “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” -Stephen Hawking.
That’s our show for this week, please continue to be safe in your area, wear your mask, and please please PLEASE get vaccinated if you can. The world is better with you in it. See you next week!
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/talk-heathen--3195702/support.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | It's time to get sexy, so watch Secular Sexuality Live Thursdays at 7 p.m. Central. |
| 0:06.1 | Visit tiny.cc slash YTSS and call into the show at 512991-9242 or connect to the show online at tiny. |
| 0:16.6 | At tiny.cc slash call s eX x Oh yeah Oh |
| 0:40.3 | Oh yeah Oh, yeah. |
| 0:59.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.4 | Hey, welcome to another episode of Talk Heathen, everybody. |
| 1:04.7 | My name's Kenneth. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm going to be hosting for you today. |
| 1:06.7 | And with me is a man for whom I've run out of adjectives. |
| 1:10.1 | There's just good ones. Good adjectives, Lloyd. Thank you. Lloyd Evans. How the heck are you? Wow, what a generous introduction. I'm not used to that sort of thing. Usually it's, and here's Lloyd, you know. Oh, no. Sorry, we couldn't find anyone else. It was all very last minute, you know, so. I was over here, I was, you know, during the intro, I'm sort of racking my brain going, you know, the, you know, the brilliant Lloyd Evans, the sexy Lloyd Evans. I mean, it all, it all applies. I just didn't want to narrow it down to one or two specific. If you're looking for me to co-host again, you don't need to keep trying. I'm you know've succeeded. Well, Lloyd, what do you say? |
| 1:45.6 | We just dive into Accol here. |
| 1:48.0 | Let's plummet into a call. |
| 1:50.6 | It shows all about. |
| 1:51.6 | So here we go. |
| 1:52.7 | We've got Ophir. |
| 1:54.5 | I hope I'm pronouncing your name correctly in Israel, saying that you are a nihilist and you want to talk about that. |
| 2:02.7 | Ophir, what can we do for you? |
| 2:04.0 | Hello. |
| 2:04.9 | How's it going? |
| 2:06.1 | Good. |
| 2:06.6 | How are you? |
| 2:07.7 | Good. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Atheist Community of Austin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Atheist Community of Austin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.