The Atheist Experience 27.38 09-24-2023 with ObjectivelyDan and Jamie the Blind Limey
The Atheist Experience
The Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Josh in FL asks about the Bible being taken literally. Do Christians literally heal people by laying on of hands? People make incredibly important decisions about their life, health and family by this flawed way of thinking. What positivity comes with prayer? How do you explain replacing people’s medical care with prayer? It is the secular values that have corrected Christianity, not the other way around. The atheists in this country did not fight to take away rights from people; can you guess what group has?
Somber in WA postulates that god is not real if the universe can be reduced to a non-dimensional point because there is no outside space and time for god to exist. A physical universe requires physical things to happen.
Sir Le Chef in Quebec believes the Bible is 100% true because there is nothing we can disprove that is in the Bible. How do you know this? Of course, he knows this because of the seven day week! You don’t get to just call into the show and say this without proving it; that is not how logic works. The seven day week existed before Jesus so we do not accept your premise. Is the creation narrative the word of god or not?
Rick in Canada says the Bible is 100% accurate because Jesus says that only the sick need a physician. How do you explain people who have cancer with no symptoms? If the disciples had magical powers, is every other Christian who claims to have these powers a liar because only the elite can do it? So the people who prayed for Jamie’s eyes(not faith) were not part of the special 144,000? There are people who pray to get better daily and we have never seen evidence that it works. Isn’t it interesting that cancer can go into remission, but blindness can’t? Can prayer regrow a hand that has been cut off? Can you find someone who can heal Jamie’s retinas through prayer?
Jose in TX says that god created a “snowglobe with a dome”, not the universe, and that theists try to make the myth work. Many cultures explained the world without knowing what was happening. The problems with Genesis are a mile high!
Andrew in FL says the Bible is a progressive document and just because it is not scientifically accurate that doesn’t mean god doesn't exist. We hope the god that inspired that book is not real because he is obviously not a nice person. Do you believe that god changes himself to suit the times? Does the Bible have literal falsehoods? Why do we even look at the Old Testament in the first place if it is so bad? Why should we care about Christianity any more than Islam or another religion? If cancer does not have intentions, why do you think it is evil? If you believe that god made us, why were we made with the capability of having cancer?
Thank you for joining us with these fun callers! The question of the week is: The hardest part about being an atheist is what?
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| 0:15.1 | Hey everyone, here's Objectively Dan here and I have another untrue passage from the Bible for you. |
| 0:20.6 | It comes from John 14 versus 13 through 14. It says, |
| 0:24.5 | and I will do whatever you ask in my name so that the father may be glorified in the |
| 0:28.7 | sun. You may ask me for anything in my name and I will do it. How do I know it's not true? |
| 0:33.1 | Well, because people have asked for all kinds of stuff in Jesus' name. We could end hunger, |
| 0:37.6 | we could end poverty, we could end violence, and end disease, and discrimination, and |
| 0:41.9 | victims have asked to be saved, and sadly we're not. So parents who are so badly want to have a baby, |
| 0:46.9 | we're unable to have, they're able to conceive. So if you think you can validate this, |
| 0:50.9 | if you think that there's some sort of thing we're not getting here, you should call into the show |
| 0:54.8 | because it's starting right now. |
| 1:01.6 | Hello, hello everybody. Whoa, you're not gonna be thankful. |
| 1:04.8 | Holy, whoa. That was powerful. |
| 1:08.4 | Hmm, I didn't expect that. That was a shock to the system. |
| 1:11.5 | I'm Objectively Dan, I am hosting Atheist Experience today with my good buddy Jamie The Blind |
| 1:16.8 | Limey. Jamie, what's up? I am feeding fantastic. Fantastic. |
| 1:20.2 | Fantastic. We got you at the set up now. We got the, we got the monitor in front of your |
| 1:24.7 | face here so you can see a little better. So that is awesome. What is Atheist Experience? Well, |
| 1:29.6 | it's a show produced by the Atheist community of Austin, a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated |
| 1:36.1 | to the promotion of Atheism, critical thinking, secular humanism, and the separation of religion |
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