Talk Heathen 07.28 with Christy Powell and Kenneth
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
4.7 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Chloe in PA asks how we should react if religion pushes prosocial behavior. Do you need religious beliefs to do good things? Even if you can get a positive result out of a lie or fiction, it is incredibly dangerous to do so. Why are people just fine believing things they have no evidence for? If you choose to block out evidence and science, you will be using the same broken epistemological tool that anti vaxxers use.
Kaden in FL has evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. Empty tombs, martyrdom, and changed minds can not possibly be used to demonstrate the resurrection happened as the supernatural claim. Even if we combine all the claims and grant them as true, we still have little data points that need a narrative constructed and that narrative is not the most simple explanation. Natural explanations for the claims are more likely than the resurrection. Even if Jesus were to be demonstrated to exist, how is the empty tomb evidence that he rose? Why are the claims of Jesus resurrecting different from the claims in the Quran such as Soloman talking to birds?
James in Canada has some claims about Jesus, the tomb, his true teachings. Can you see the distinction between a claim and the evidence for a claim?
Ryan in KY believes that something does not have to be a scientific fact for it to be a fact and that the Bible is perfect with no things that are untrue. If it is all about interpretation, does it matter if it is accurate? What does it mean to know something? What makes something worthy of belief? Why should we believe anything in the Bible and that god created the universe? Why are faith claims not discussed in simple language? We are encouraging you to be more critical in the way you think about these things.
Otari, in the Nation of Georgia, interprets the Bible literally. How do you resolve some of the obvious contradictions in the Bible? If you don’t read the Bible, how is it that you interpret it at all? How can the Catholic church have teachings aboutmorality that are infallible, while spending billions of dollars settling sexual abuse cases and enabling the behavior for this abuse to continue?
Billy in LA describes legislation that requires all schools K-12, and universities to have the words, “In God We Trust” in every classroom. How is this separation of church and state? The people who write this legislation do not care if there are people who believe in a different god or if there are atheists in the class. These are indoctrination attempts and propaganda. There are some groups that are doing things to push back such as using Arabic to write the required words.
Thank you for tuning in to your community! The question of the week is: What is a great slogan for Satan!
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/talk-heathen--3195702/support.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | And now a reading from His Word, Mark 4, 11, and 12, he told them, |
| 0:05.0 | the secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you and to those on the outside. |
| 0:10.0 | Everything is said in parables so that they may be ever seen but never perceiving, |
| 0:15.0 | and ever hearing, but never understanding. |
| 0:18.0 | Otherwise, they might turn and be forgiven. So, like, does Jesus not want |
| 0:24.5 | everyone to be saved? Why would he purposely speak in a way that not everyone would be able to |
| 0:29.7 | understand? I thought God sent Jesus to save everyone, not just those who understand parables. |
| 0:35.5 | If you can make sense of this passage, then please give us a call because the show is coming |
| 0:40.9 | right now. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome to Talk Heathen. |
| 0:49.5 | Today is Sunday, July 16th, 2003. |
| 0:52.7 | I am your host, Christy Powell. And joining me today is the |
| 0:56.3 | off-discussed rarely seen, Kenneth. Who's discussing? Oh, my God. Hey, good to be here. |
| 1:02.7 | I mean, there's, it's fun remembrances, little anecdotes, you know, just wondering how it's |
| 1:08.5 | going, where you've been? I mean, how you've been doing, buddy? |
| 1:12.1 | I've been doing really well. |
| 1:29.5 | I've been, I've been parenting a lot on weekends, which frankly beats, you know, hosting shows. Fair. Yeah, all right. But yeah, I've been doing the, I've been doing the dad thing on weekends. It's been great. Yeah, well, okay, since we were able to steal you away for just a moment, are you, are you feeling rusty? Are you feeling ready pent up at all? Are there any topics that you're like really excited to tear into? |
| 1:33.6 | Well, I love where you took it with that reading from Mark. I pay a lot of attention to the ACA TikTok. |
| 1:41.6 | And there's a clip that is on there that went fairly viral where Matt is talking |
| 1:45.5 | about questions of predestination from an old clip of the atheist experience. And we've had like |
| 1:50.9 | 7,000 or so people commenting on it, talking about questions of free will, who does God want to |
| 1:56.6 | and not want to save? What's the deal with salvation? How many light coats are there? Yeah. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Atheist Community of Austin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Atheist Community of Austin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.