Talk Heathen 06.40 10-02-2022 with Katy Montgomerie and Secular Rarity
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
4.7 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2022
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
First caller is D in DC who is wondering about the distinction between religion, deism, and theism when it comes to ecological circumstances. There could be a cultural practice linked with religion such as vegetarianism that can help. Having a ritualistic set of practices can have its benefits, but what happens if people decide to stop doing these things? Will ecologically beneficial religious practices be harmful in 1,000 years? Employ critical thinking to help guide that process.
Next is Thomas in Canada who states that not having a belief in Jesus leads to murder. Do Christians murder and if so, were they just not real Christians? If we start throwing rules down on what makes an actual Christian, how many Christians will we have left? How does not knowing if you are going to heaven or hell have anything to do with your current state of belief? If someone isn’t a Christian if they sin, and everyone sins, does that mean that no one is a Christian? This is a textbook No True Scotsman fallacy.
Patrick in FL is curious about what Dawkins means by Pantheism being sexed-up atheism. When someone describes god as literally everything, it can be agreed that everything exists but to call it god is just a word game. With this definition, at the end of the day, god is indistinguishable from reality. How have you demonstrated to yourself that the universe is conscious? Even if you have, we would just have one new fact.
Jasmine in Canada has some thoughts about atheists perceiving other atheists negatively. Some atheists will carry their arrogance to other domains just because they might be right about some things. Atheists can appear to be the only one that has a problem with something when in the minority, and there are also atheists that are just dickheads. Just being an atheist can put you in a position where you can’t really live, while not affecting Christians. It does not matter what the label is and there is no sense in being worried where you land. It is okay to be apathetic and not care about what you call yourself.
Tom in MI says that as a critical thinker, he uses Greek history as proof of the existence of gods. What is your definition of existing? Where does your god sit on this definition? What is the correspondence of ancient beliefs and the world we live in now? If people in the past thought something was real, does that make it real? We remain unconvinced of Zeus and Poseidon.
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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.c. 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, Hello, Hello, everyone, |
| 0:40.3 | Hello everyone, Welcome to Talk Heathen. Today is October the 2nd, |
| 1:02.0 | 2022 in the Common Era, in case you're watching in the future. My name is Katie Montgomery and I'm your host today. |
| 1:08.0 | And I'm excited because today is the first time I get to do a show with secular rarity. |
| 1:13.6 | I was just making him cry before the show, but how are you doing now? |
| 1:17.6 | You had time to recover? |
| 1:19.6 | Well, yes, a lot of tissues, a lot of hugging of teddy bears and, you know, rethinking my actions in life to bring me here. |
| 1:29.2 | But no, other than, yeah, no, it's great. I have just, honestly, I'm super, super thrilled. |
| 1:34.0 | You, you always have, we, we spent the whole pre-show just, just with random facts and |
| 1:40.3 | stuff, just all kinds of awesome, awesome stuff. Again, I have no idea when it'll be helpful for me in life, but I now feel better about it. So I know a lot more about- A much more informed about Likens. That's very true, and that is good. I feel like that's something I was lacking. So I'm glad. Yeah, so if you want to, you know, call in about Likensans or maybe about the main show theme, which would be |
| 2:01.4 | about beliefs and religion. |
| 2:02.6 | You know, we would love to hear a call from you. |
| 2:05.6 | Or maybe you just want to call in and just make a point that you at home have a bulbosaur and |
| 2:11.6 | and I have a bulbosaur shelf and, you know, some people on the show don't even own a single |
| 2:16.6 | bulbosaur. If you want to call in about one of those three topics, then you can call people on the show don't even own a single bulbousal. |
| 2:38.3 | If you want to call in about one of those three topics, then you can call in on 512-991-9242, or you can call in free from your computer at tiny.cc forward slash call-t, h. So it's just below here. And we'd love to hear from you. We have some space in the lines. We've got some callers coming in already, but call in soon and we can probably fit you in. |
| 2:45.1 | But yeah, if you've not seen this show before, then Talk Heathen is a product of the atheist community of Austin, which is ACA. |
| 2:52.7 | And it's a 501C3 organization. And we are dedicated to the promotion of atheism, critical thinking, secular humanism, and the separation of religion and government, which are all important things. And I'm enjoying |
| 2:58.8 | that, like, we've sort of re-chiseled this mission statement to include critical thinking, |
| 3:03.5 | because I kind of feel that's the most important part of everything here that all the shows |
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