Talk Heathen 09.16 with Christy Powell and Jamie the Blind Limey

Talk Heathen

Atheist Community of Austin

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4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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0:00.0	Like a lot of folks I work with, I fell in love with Jesus at a young age.
0:05.0	The Bible told me so, and I believed it.
0:08.0	As a religious trauma therapist, I spend my week sitting with people who are processing the stories they were given, the promises, the fears, the rituals.
0:17.0	And when I ask them what first drew them to religion, the answers tend to follow patterns evidenced in research.
0:23.4	They join because their families believed, because their community expected it, because the music was moving, or the scripture poetic, because they were hurting, because they were afraid.
0:35.5	And what they found often was comfort, reassurance, a sense of order, maybe even love.
0:43.9	What I haven't heard not once from this admittedly non-representative sample is someone saying they believed because of something that sounded like this.
0:55.8	Every contingent thing has an explanation of its existence. If the universe has an explanation of its existence,
1:02.3	that explanation is a transcendent personal being. The universe is a contingent thing. Therefore,
1:10.2	the universe has an explanation of its existence. Therefore, the universe is a contingent thing. Therefore, the universe has an explanation of its existence. Therefore,
1:14.5	the explanation of the universe is a transcendent personal being. Now, whether William Lane
1:22.2	Craig's cosmological argument holds up philosophically or not is a conversation I usually reserve for fast-paced
1:29.7	and overly smug calls. But the question I want to ask is, are these philosophical arguments for
1:36.6	God compelling? Because they speak to us on some deeper intellectual level? Or are they just backfill? You know, post hoc rationalizations
1:46.8	and intellectual scaffolding for beliefs that were born out of emotion, community, or fear,
1:54.5	then used to prop up a belief that most of us were handed long before we could even spell
2:00.3	contingent.
2:01.9	We're going to get into it today on Talk Heathen, and I'd love to hear your thoughts.
2:05.4	So give us a call because the show is coming right now.
2:16.3	All right.
2:17.1	Well, welcome everyone. Today is April 20th, 420, 2025. In what is becoming my favorite
2:24.9	Easter tradition, I am your host, licensed professional counselor, Christy Powell. And joining me today
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