Talk Heathen 06.38 09-18-2022 with Secular Rarity and Student Doctor Ben
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 18 September 2022
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Charles in FL is our first caller who believes that the Bible is infallible and has never been proven wrong. Tell the police officer behind you to be cool because you are on a live call in a show. Is the mustard seed the smallest seed in the world? Is what is true in biology going to be true years from now? Did gravity not exist before we knew about it? Did your omnipotent god know about the things that we did not know about at the time the Bible was written? Incorrect information is still false regardless of what we know about it at the time something was written.
Heath in Canada has prophetic dreams and wants to know about the brain squirting chemicals at the right time. Brains are highly susceptible to patterns and our brain tends to jump on to these things. Information can bypass your short term memory and go to your long term memory without your awareness. We make brain shortcuts based on our experience, and this is sometimes referred to as intuition.
Deirdre in NJ was an atheist but then heard a piece of music that awoke something in her that led her back to a faith that god is real. If there is no other reason than a claim, is that when we should accept the claim? When something is true, it is not a subjective thing. If it is true to SR, that a carrot fueled flying Ferrari with a talking dog exists, does that make it true? Is it possible to have a false belief that impacts you in a positive way? How can you possibly believe in something that has no attributes and is not defined?
Rick in Canada would like to talk about the third eye on the prefrontal cortex that all religions mention, and this is what separates us from animals. Can we believe everything we see on YouTube and is this a good source of information? How would we determine what is more or less valuable information? Is there any value in peer reviewed academic studies? Sources are usually listed in the description of the video so a citation can be verified.
Patrick in FL wants to know if atheism is more comfortable than theism. It doesn’t really matter because it may be more comforting to believe in a lot of things that are not true. Does comfort matter as much as truth? Can comfort be found in true knowledge?
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| 0:00.0 | It's time to get sexy, so watch secular sexuality live Thursdays at 7 p.m. Central. |
| 0:05.6 | Visit tiny.cc. slash YTSS and call into the show at 512-991-9242, or connect to the show online at tiny.cc slash call sex. |
| 0:16.8 | Music X. Oh, Woo! Woo! |
| 0:39.3 | Yes, yes, yes, that's right. |
| 0:59.2 | Be excited. |
| 1:00.0 | That music always pumps me up. |
| 1:01.7 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Talk Heathen. |
| 1:05.9 | Today is Sunday, September 18th, 2022. |
| 1:09.5 | And I'm your host, Secular Rarity, and I am joined by one of my absolute best friends out there. It's student Dr. Ben. What's up, brother? Hey, it's good to see you. It's been a hot minute since you and I have both been on together. But as always, I'm very excited to be sharing this space with you to take some calls today. We've got a lot of blasphemy. We've got to say today. It's just, |
| 1:29.1 | it's just kind of our ritual, I guess, if you will. But that's what we do here. And so if you guys |
| 1:35.2 | are out there and you have stuff to say, you want to give us some evidence for God, maybe talk |
| 1:40.3 | about faith or the Bible. Talk even is a live call-in show, and we do have open lines. |
| 1:46.0 | So definitely get your calls in, 512991-9142, or you can just call us from your computer at tiny. |
| 1:53.1 | dot c-c slash call T-H. And we do have a couple of calls we're going to get to in just a second. |
| 1:59.8 | But before we do that, folks, as always, we got to let you know that Talk Heathen is a product of calls we're going to get to in just a second. But before we do that, |
| 2:01.2 | folks, as always, we got to let you know that Talk Heathen is a product of the atheist community |
| 2:05.6 | of Austin, a 501C3 organization dedicated to the promotion of positive atheist culture and the |
| 2:11.6 | separation of religion and government. And there are a lot of different ways that you can actually |
| 2:16.1 | support us here at Talk Heathen and the ACA. Most of them are pretty super duper easy. In fact, you can just go on Patreon, |
| 2:22.7 | tiny.cc slash Patreon, TH, and we actually read out top five patrons names at some point in the show. |
| 2:30.2 | So if you go there and you click all the buttons and you do the things, you can get shouted out. |
| 2:34.8 | But there are even easier ways like just below this video here, below my beautiful face and Ben's beautiful face. |
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