Talk Heathen 05.48 11-28-2021 with JMike and Matt Dillahunty
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 28 November 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Our first caller, Cambo in IA, has an opinion on one party rule being a problem with communism, not atheism as Christians tend to believe. First of all, communism is not morally bad and secondly, atheism does not lead to communism. Outside of regimes where religion is banned and the state is the official religion, communism is more of a boogeyman than anything else.
Next is Kevin in NY who wants to discuss how biblical scholars have omitted information such as the authors borrowing from other sources. For instance, as one reads through Peter II and Jude, some of the verses fit together. That is just your opinion; where is the evidence? Thinking something is not justification for it being true. When you read a text, it can be interpreted a number of different ways. If somebody else uses a different method than you, and comes to a different conclusion, how do we know who is right? We are not interested in a book report but rather knowing if god is real.
Next we have Leon in the UK who is thinking about the definition of agnosticism reflecting high level skepticism resulting in flip flopping on the god belief. Agnostic doesn't mean you waffle and this is not what is meant when academics use the term. Leon also does not want to donate his body after death because that would be the only part of him left and he wonders if on some level, he still believes in the afterlife. If you are dead, you are not going to know what happens to it. Would you donate a kidney to a sibling when you are alive?
Tania in TX would like to know if the hosts or other atheists hold any supernatural beliefs. People come to her with problems because they think she is psychic. Put your foot down with these people and let them know you can’t attribute your ability to help to anything supernatural. We live our lives by inference and induction and that is how “intuition” is trained. ESP, a testable thing, has never been demonstrated to exist. Before we can worry about whether something is natural or not, we need to first learn if there is an effect. Atheists who claim these things have bad standards of evidence. What can be used to prove these things independent of the claims?
Christina in LA was a Pentecostle who is now an atheist and calls herself an angel who has raised the dead and read minds when she would speak in tongues. Matt pulled a card from a deck and asked her what card it was. She guessed a black queen card but it was a nine of spades.
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| 2:05.9 | Mr. Matt Dillahunty. How are you doing today, bud? Evidently, I'm an up-and-comer. I don't know that many people, I have to introduce you to my audience because they might not be aware of who you are. So, yeah, how's it going? What's new with you? Lots of stuff. I've been dealing with health stuff, but I don't have any update other than I'm going to go get an angiogram sometime in the next couple weeks. |
| 2:07.9 | Tomorrow's Arden's birthday. |
| 2:12.0 | We're going to a show tonight, and I'm sitting here ready to take calls. |
| 2:21.2 | I've been doing, you know, atheist experience for 16 plus years, and now, you know, I'll fill in on Talk Heathen, you know, on holiday weekends when you can't find, you know, somebody better because everybody else is busy. |
| 2:23.9 | I'll come in here. |
| 2:24.7 | And then what I would expect is that we would get some theists who would call in to explain |
| 2:30.1 | what they believe in why, you know, how many times are they going to get a chance to just completely run through me like warm butter? Because I'm, I'm out of practice. I'm just sitting around. Clearly, if there is a God and somebody has a good reason to believe in one, today would be the day to do that. Because I'm not in charge of anything. I just sit here and talk. Yeah. And we do need more callers. So 512, 991, 9242, please call in. I notice a lot of people like to spend time in the live chat in places and disagree. And so why not come, come forth and have the actual conversation? It's a way to have a much easier dialogue that actually goes back and forth. |
| 3:09.0 | And, yeah, I'd have to agree. |
| 3:10.6 | We do have one caller on the line. |
| 3:12.9 | Hopefully we can get more throughout the show. |
| 3:17.9 | We're going to go ahead and go to, I believe, hopefully, I get this right, it's Cambo in Iowa, |
| 3:21.2 | who wants to talk how Christians view communism. |
| 3:24.2 | And maybe you could elaborate on that further. |
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