The Atheist Experience 27.50 with Armin Navabi and Christy Powell

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🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Christy Powell and Armin Navabi, meet god in a dream that tells them which gender is god’s gift before finally being told that god is in fact everything which is really nothing.

Trees in KS had an experience where they met infinite blackness in a dream and felt immense love being surrounded by faceless Grim Reapers. How do you explain what happened to you in this dream? How do you know it was some kind of god and not something generated from your brain? Calling an experience you had god does not make you a theist. How do you know the difference between an experience in your mind and actually meeting a deity? You can have the feeling of meeting god as an atheist just like you can feel like you are flying when dreaming, but those feelings do not make either of these things true.

Jon in Canada describes women as god’s gift to men. Are men god’s gift to women? How can you rectify the problematic ideas about men and women in the Bible? Are you able to provide reasoning to this 1950’s way of thinking? Do you have any data to suggest your suggestion is better than other households? If two parents are better than one, wouldn't it be true then that three parents or even four would be better than two? There is no reason to believe that the nuclear family is superior. What about two toxic parents that are fighting with each other?

Jared in KY rushes through a proposition that agnosticism’s claim is a contradiction to itself. What claim are you talking about? We are getting bored of people who think they are intelligent that put words together and then think they are winning. Watch out for theists purposely speaking in philosophical language just to be not understood.

Erasmus in CA believes that god talks to people through dreams and visions. Why is it that Muslims have Islam related dreams, Christians have Jesus related dreams, and so forth? What metric do you use to know that dreams are not from your mind? Why is it not possible for dreams to be both clear and unclear? What is your evidence that clear dreams are more than a product of the brain? Having a scientific understanding of dreams will help dispel some of these theories you have. Dreams might just be weird thought noise.

Rick, in Canada believes that atheists dodge evidence for god and that energy is god. We are not following your notion of evidence, but do see the word salad you put together. Deep emotional experiences are insufficient evidence for a supernatural claim. Where is the evidence that energy is conscious? If everything is god, then the word god means nothing and loses all utility. Is there anything that is not god? How does matter and energy being everything prove there is a god? How is any of this relevant to the existence of god?

TJ in TX asked god for less pain in a prayer and got beaten up in school the very next day. You can hate a character in a book that does not exist. Emotions do not have to be rational or true because it makes no difference to your nervous system. Don’t try to define yourself by how people see you. We are not seeking the approval of theists.

Thank you for tuning in this week! Question of the week is: What is a minorly inconvenient way that god punishes people?

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0:00.0	T'was the night before Christmas when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mugs.
0:06.1	The quiet at home was blissful and calm. The quiet in Gaza was a deathly alarm.
0:12.0	It followed a bang in a home race to the ground. Through the
0:15.3	rubble he dug until she was found. For hours she fought. She tried to be brave, but
0:21.2	without the right care, she couldn't be saved. She takes her last
0:24.8	breath, her mom by her side. Her dad holds her hand as they bid her goodbye.
0:29.9	For children in Gaza every minute is a battle of survival.
0:34.6	Please visit unicef.i to donate today and help save a child's life.
0:39.6	Thank you.
0:40.6	Let me read to you Sahih Muslim, which is part of Islamic scripture about adult breastfeeding.
0:47.2	This might seem confusing at first, but I'll explain it after.
0:50.4	So here's the Hadis.
0:51.8	Aisha, Allah be pleased with her, reported that Sahla bint sohail came to Prophet Muhammad, peace
0:59.4	be upon him, and said, messenger of Allah, I see on the face of Abu-Hdaifa signs of disgust on
1:06.7	entering of Salim who is an ally into our house where upon Prophet Muhammad said suckle him she said how can I
1:16.0	suckle him as he is a grown-up man prophet Muhammad said smiled and said I already
1:22.2	know he is a young man.
1:24.8	What I just read is one of many Islamic hadis
1:28.2	dedicated to the topic of breastfeeding and adult. The Hadiz describes how by a suckling an adult male can become a female's
1:38.8	mahram and thus be allowed to accompany her in private. In Islam, adult men and women can look
1:47.3	can't look at each other or be with each other in private unless they are each other's mahram. So as a grown-up man you can
1:55.8	drink a woman's milk to establish a legal mother-son relationship with her. Here's the issue though. How can a grown-up man suck on a woman's
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