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Talk Heathen 07.43 with Christy Powell and Johnny P Angel

Talk Heathen

Atheist Community of Austin

Society & Culture

4.7611 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Will from Mississippi gives us a call to work through the issues one deals with letting go of God and finding meaning without belief. Deconstruction is a tough process and Will speaks about his own experience and Johnny proposes the question: why believing in a God is a virtue? Those who are letting go of religion, this should give a believer some pause. Also, kindness is something we can all do, without the promise of a reward when we die and how the Bible’s only concern is if you are worshiping God correctly. We do good works because they are good works.

Let’s say “Hi!” To Dylan from South Carolina who calls to discuss what evidence, if any, there is of God. Christy and Johnny point out there are many things in the world that we have evidence for and can be studied, except God. Those extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and God seems to be an extraordinary claim.

Cooper in New York calls to have a chat with our hosts on evolution and how we are all related to all living things as we go into understanding DNA and how life came to be. It’s the circle of life, and it moves us all!

An oldie but goodie on the plate! John in Illinois gives intelligent design a spin to prove God. But, instead of “look at the trees” it’s “look at the eyeball”. As someone who is vision impaired, I call shenanigans on this argument.

Let’s move onto Doug in South Carolina who wants to discuss the Shroud of Turin. Johnny does a Google search and how researchers discovered that the Shroud is a hoax. The discussion moves into how there’s all this evidence of the hoax and Doug keeps grasping at straws to explain how it could possibly be real though being an honest interlocutor, he needs to do more study.

Last call of the show! With a refreshing change of pace, Dan calls about cryptids and also how he hopes a God exists. The idea of a higher being who loves and cares for us is appealing, but we can agree, it’s a fool’s hope especially when so much harm due to circumstances beyond our control happens all the time.

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0:00.0

Well, in celebration of my first month as a married man, I'd like to share a reading from 1. Peter 3.7.

0:07.0

Husbands, in the same way, be considerate as you live with your wives and treat them with respect as the weaker partner.

0:15.9

And as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life so that nothing may hinder your prayers.

0:22.6

Well, honey, my prayers be damned because if you consider your spouse to be the weaker partner,

0:27.6

you do not in fact respect them. If you want your partner to show you respect,

0:32.6

the respect that you deserve, maybe try thinking of them as a person first, you know, as an equal.

0:39.7

Don't expect anyone to submit to you. Expect compassion, compromise. And if you're half as lucky as me,

0:48.2

captivating conversation. And before you run to the comments to tell me that I've taken this verse out of context,

0:55.9

I assure you the preceding verses do not make this any better.

1:01.0

So Jesus Christ, if you can tell me or explain on any level,

1:06.8

help me understand how this book can help with your marriage,

1:10.7

with your relationships, with your relationships,

1:12.0

with your family dynamic. Please give us a call because the show is coming right now.

1:21.5

All right. Well, welcome to Talk Heathen. Today is Sunday, October 29, 2003. I'm your host,

1:30.6

Christy P. Powell, and joining me today is Johnny P. Angel. Hey, it's great to be back. It's been,

1:35.1

it's been some time since we've done a show together. Yeah, it's been a while since I've been on

1:39.9

air. I'm feeling a little bit rusty, but I've got that kind of exciting Halloween energy.

1:44.8

I mean, this is when us evil atheists are at our greatest power.

1:49.6

That's right.

1:50.2

The moon and the stars are aligned in such a way that our unholy energy is it flows naturally through us,

1:57.2

as though we are reverse lightning rods for evil.

1:59.9

Reverse light.

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