Talk Heathen 07.15 04-16-2023 with Secular Rarity and Armin Navabi
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 16 April 2023
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Jon from FL wants to know how Armin would initiate a conversation between a Muslim and an Atheist.
Cindi from PA has a friend who after a frightening period of being left behind in Afghanistan, he has come back with extreme anti-Afghan positions combined with PTSD. The Recovering From Religion Foundation is a great resource to consult about this subject.
Erin from FL asks why falsifiability matters when assessing subjects that will likely never be answered.
Ibn from the (UK) is calling to push back against Armin’s claim and the study that concluded that Islam is an Islamic minority country.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Talk Heathen. |
| 0:01.7 | Every week we hang out, we pray, we hold our crystals, we light our candles, we desperately would love some proof for any God whatsoever. |
| 0:12.8 | Who knows? |
| 0:13.5 | Maybe we'll get some today because the show is starting right now. |
| 0:23.6 | Woo! Hey! right now. Today. |
| 0:24.6 | Today is Sunday, April 16th, 2023, and I'm your host, Secular Rarity. |
| 0:30.7 | And joining me today is a good friend of mine, Armin Novabi. |
| 0:34.5 | What's up, man? |
| 0:35.7 | Hey, that was a very, that was a very fun opening. |
| 0:39.2 | I was laughing out loud behind the scenes. |
| 0:41.9 | That's good. |
| 0:43.6 | We always want to start off on a good, positive note because, you know, I don't know about |
| 0:49.1 | you, Armin, but I'm, I mean, I'm, I'm nervous. |
| 0:51.6 | I'm shaking. |
| 0:52.4 | I'm scared. |
| 0:53.3 | I know there are so many good arguments out |
| 0:55.9 | there to believe in Allah and, you know, Yahweh and Shiva and I don't know. I'm nervous, you know. |
| 1:03.5 | And so hopefully we don't have any really good calls that have good evidence because, you know, |
| 1:08.7 | I don't know if I could handle it. So what about you? What do you think? Have you ever heard any good reason to become a Muslim? No, no. No. What about? But I'm hoping. You're hoping? Yeah, I'm hoping. I'm hoping. I always like it when I go through a crisis and I change all my opinions. I went through that like once in my life and it was just so much. the roller coaster was just so much fun. I just hope that happens again one time. It was just like it's just a once it was just a once in a lifetime experience. So yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it. You're just nostalgic for those those beautiful days is what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, mental crisis and everything about Everything I've been told was a lie. And then I |
| 1:45.2 | realized that, you know, so yeah, just hopefully that happens again. Well, the good news is, folks, |
| 1:50.5 | as you all know, Talk Heathen is a product of the atheist community of Austin, a 501 C3 |
| 1:55.4 | nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of atheism, critical thinking, secular humanism, and the separation of |
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