Talk Heathen 07.44 with Jimmy Jr. and Doctor Ben
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
4.7 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan from the Sunshine State is first to give our veteran hosts a call to talk about different experiences he had as a Naval officer. Speaking from first hand knowledge of their lives, both the hosts and Jonathan exchange their perspectives of being members of the armed forces. Also, Jon and our hosts bring up the issues of being able to relay certain experiences to civilians who (and fairly so) cannot understand. There are atheists in foxholes everyone! Just Kidding!
Ashley from Canada recalls having a near-death experience due to a miscarriage incident where she says she did not see or hear anything that believers do. Also, she talks to Ben about the medical aftermath of this miscarriage along the lines of how believing some woo-woo weird things could have caused her to delay treatment. Beliefs no matter how benign, can lead to poor decision making and possibly lead to greater damage.
Let's say hello to Marcus in Texas who inquires the question; Have our hoists considered changing their religion in extreme circumstances. The hosts recall personal experiences and their perspectives of their own communities, in the military and out.
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| 0:00.0 | In December, 2013, I was on the receiving end of an enemy attack in Afghanistan, fighting |
| 0:05.2 | the same group of religious fanatics that carried out the 9-11 attacks. |
| 0:09.3 | I sustained a traumatic brain injury, helped my teammates patch up wounds on two civilians, and |
| 0:14.2 | saw my friend earn a purple heart. |
| 0:15.8 | At that moment, I said internally, God, if you're real, and this is the end, please make |
| 0:20.5 | it quick or get me the |
| 0:21.4 | hell out of here. And because of that experience, I decided I could never judge anybody for what |
| 0:26.3 | goes on in their mind when they think the end is near and then they're about to die. But I'm still |
| 0:30.5 | not a believer. I wasn't then and I'm not now. I believe there are atheists in foxholes, |
| 0:35.1 | and I don't believe that there is any need for god in the |
| 0:38.1 | military disagree we would love to hear your thoughts give us a call and let us know because the |
| 0:43.2 | the show is coming right now all right all right ladies and gentlemen we are Talk Even. Today is Sunday, November 5th, |
| 0:57.3 | 2023. I am your host, Jimmy Jr. And joining me today is my co-host, the wonderful Dr. Ben. |
| 1:03.6 | Ben, how you doing? Ben, you are muted. Or are you? |
| 1:06.5 | I am. We're good. Okay. Awesome. |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah, it's good to be here on this very special episode of talk he then today with you um i know we've got a lot of veterans in our community and i really |
| 1:20.9 | hope we get a chance to talk to them today because there are some stories like the one you're just |
| 1:25.0 | saying i know other people have stories as well, but I'm very |
| 1:28.2 | excited to be here today. Yeah, awesome. Yeah, so am I. I mean, I love working with you, |
| 1:33.7 | but specifically today, I really am proud that there is another military member on the |
| 1:40.9 | the ACA, part of the ACA crew, you know, with me. And, you know, we can relate to kind of |
| 1:46.4 | our experiences, not only being atheists, but being atheists in the military. I want to shout |
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