Talk Heathen 07.08 2-26-2023 with ObjectivelyDan and Kara Griffin
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 93 minutes
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First caller Kenneth in GA mentions how there has been a great flood in every ancient myth that points to a world event. Notice there are also dragon myths in many cultures, and there are major differences between all these myths. A flood is a big deal to many agricultural societies. Why do we privilege the Christian story of the flood? How did the ancient people know if the floods were global? Why do you think the majority of scientists dismiss the claim of a global flood? Outside of the stories, there is no evidence of a global flood.
Darick in Canada asks the hosts what part of evolution made humans advanced. He then talks about how we are made up from sand like it says in Genesis and there must be a creative force. The larger cranial capacity is what some will say caused advancement, others will attribute it to agricultural developments, and even our relationship with dogs. Just because we are made from natural materials does not mean we are made of literal sand. How and why does creativity of humans lead to a god or higher creative force?
Rick in Canada also thinks the global flood is real and the supporting evidence is a boat structure in Turkey. We need to see evidence more than a video or documentary that are not scholarly sources. How does something that looks like a boat on a mountain lead to a global flood? Mt. Ararat could be a million different mountains. We are struggling to see how this structure is convincing. The existence of this structure is not remarkable because this is common and is even refuted by Answers In Genesis (AIG). The image shown on the screen of the ark was a lump of earth.
Jesus in Germany wants to prove the Bible is a hoax and 2,000 years ago he was gay. If he time travels with the powers he has now, there will be god attributes. We try to stick to the topic and this is in another dimension. Thank you Jesus for talking to us.
Nate in Ohio is upset about what is happening with the aggressive religious right having this persecution complex. There is value in having conversations rather than just yelling back and forth. Sometimes you have to let it happen naturally and it can be a hard relationship to balance.
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello Oh |
| 0:21.6 | Yeah Hello and welcome to Talk Heathen. Today is Sunday, February 26th, 2023. I am your host today, objectively Dan, and joining me live in the studio is Kara Griffin. Kara Griffin, hello. Hello. How are you? I am doing well. I am so glad to be here. Yes, your first time in the studio. It is. I can't believe it. And you've been a host for like, what, a little bit now? It's a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, you finally made the pilgrimage to the studio, and we're going to be hosting together today. |
| 1:12.8 | So very excited about that. |
| 1:14.0 | Welcome, and of course, thank you to everybody who is joining us here in the audience. Live Talk, Heathen, is a live call-in show, and we do have open lines. So get your calls in now. you can do that at 512991.9242 or you can call from your computer at tiny dot cc slash call |
| 1:32.0 | t h now before we get into our comments i just want to give a special thank you to everybody |
| 1:38.2 | who came yesterday as you guys know we've been running the ads for our auditions and we had a |
| 1:43.6 | fantastic turnout we had a bunch |
| 1:46.1 | of people come in so look forward to seeing some new faces coming into the ACA pretty soon and also |
| 1:51.3 | some new crew folks will be helping out but in case you're wondering you can always volunteer |
| 1:55.9 | for other kinds of positions there's always kinds of stuff to do so if you're ever interested |
| 2:00.5 | in saying hey how can I help out just go go to our website. It's atheist-commitity.org. And you can find some of our contact info on there and see what we got, you know, because you never know. There's always more stuff that can be done. But Carol, we have a segment that we've been doing here, and it's called Talk Heathen to Me. You familiar with this? |
| 2:18.6 | Yes, I am. So each week we're going to be asking you, the audience, a question that you can respond to through the |
| 2:25.9 | comment section of the video, not through the live chat. Go ahead and comment in the comments section. |
| 2:30.1 | And next week, we will pick our favorite three responses and show them at the beginning of that episode and then give you a new question for the next week. |
| 2:37.8 | So last week's question was, what weird ritual would you use if you invented your own religion? |
| 2:46.0 | Now, before we get into this, Carol, what would you say it be your ritual? |
| 2:49.4 | Oh, man. |
| 2:50.1 | Does it have to be a brand new ritual that |
| 2:52.3 | no one has done before i don't think so i well i mean i mean if you invented your own religion you |
| 2:57.1 | got to pick you know you can do like your favorite one i guess like whatever you want you know i |
| 3:01.4 | feel like you know my favorite part when i did religious rituals it was communion because I like snacks. Yeah. Snack time. Ritual snack time. Yes. I'm down for this. This is a good one. That's better than my answer. I was thinking like one day a week you have to wear all of your clothes backwards. And just to like change things up, you know what I mean? Just to like look at the world differently. That's i was thinking oh a perspective changing exercise yeah yeah i kind of like that yeah that's what i was |
| 3:29.0 | thinking i don't know that's just a silly thing i came up with but we're gonna read some of the |
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