Talk Heathen 06.31 07-31-2022 with ObjectivelyDan and Jim Barrows
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
4.7 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
First up is Elizabeth from the UK who has been blacklisted for finding housing by a fundamentalist social worker for being an out atheist.
Next up is Nate from CA who believes that you cannot be an atheist to a deist god. The Atheist position exists in accordance with the claim that a God exists, the specific characteristics of which are irrelevant.
Next up is Alok from CA is an Atheist who is struggling with the question of what kickstarted the universe. The caller understands that inserting God doesn’t further our understanding of the subject, but wants to know if humans will ever actually find out a definitive answer.
Ryan from Utah recently watched a debate, and was caught off guard by the theist perspective that humans cannot ground logic & reason without the Christian God? What did people do before Judaism or Christianity?
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| 0:00.0 | It's time to get sexy, so watch secular sexuality live Thursdays at 7 p.m. Central. |
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| 0:16.9 | Music sex. Oh, Oh Oh Oh Why, hello there everybody, and welcome to a live, like, really, really live. |
| 1:09.2 | Really live. |
| 1:09.8 | We can touch each other. |
| 1:10.7 | We're here. We are back in the studio, baby. Now, this is not just a one-off. We plan to do at least one live show in the studio at the end. The last Sunday of every single month, it may be with two hosts in. It may be one host here, one remoteing. We're going to figure that out. |
| 1:27.7 | But for now, this is our first live in person episode in like two years. Two years, two years. Two years. So it's the last sat in these chairs. Since the pandemic. And of course, since that time, we have gained a lot of new crew that's been helping us out, a lot of new hosts that don't live in the Austin area. So we're still going to be having shows that are done remotely to accommodate those folks. |
| 1:27.1 | But again, once a month, we're going to at least try to do it here in the studio. So I am super excited to be back, Jim. Yeah, I have been excited for this ever since I told us we were doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been awesome. And as you can see, folks, at the beginning of the show, you saw that is not a pre-tape footage. |
| 1:44.4 | That is a live audience that is right here sitting in front of us, staring at us. Just like the old times, Jim. It's really great. Yeah, except that before we didn't have a camera to pan across. That's right. And we didn't have a way for members of the audience to actually ask questions while they were here. That's right. |
| 2:17.8 | Live on air. They can always ask questions because we're here before. That's true. And after the show, and if you just want to have, you know, chat about anything, then you can do that because the show's got a focus. That's right. That's right. So as Jim is talking about here, we are doing something also new today. Usually we just take calls. We're going to be taking some calls today. |
| 2:14.8 | So please keep calling us if you want to talk to us. |
| 2:17.1 | But we are also something also new today. Usually we just take calls and we're going to be taking some calls today. So please keep calling us if you want to talk to us. But we are also going to be taking audience questions from the audience here in the studio as well. So we're going to try to go back and forth with that. We'll see how it works. But hey, everybody, welcome to talk, Ethan. If this is your first time watching, this is a show that is hosted by the atheist |
| 2:51.5 | community of Austin, which is a 501c-3 nonprofit. Jim, I'm used to doing this in my apartment |
| 2:58.8 | now. There's like people watching me and stuff. It's different, man. Anyway, this is an organization |
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| 3:25.9 | So, man, I'm just super excited I know this is really good incredibly awesome real quick I just want to point out if you want |
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