The Atheist Experience 28.08 with Secular Rarity and Jmike

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🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Secular Rarity and JMike float above their bodies as they look at the chat in order to prove they exist as an all knowing god does illogical things with free will.

Jeff, with no location disclosed, believes in Jesus because he experienced floating above his body right before someone took him to church. Why does this give you creedence to believe? How do we justify this content in your head? What does “demonstrated by love” mean? Asking questions does not mean we are disrespecting you, it just means we want to understand the methodology used to arrive at your beliefs.

George in TX asks the hosts if they can see the chat. And then he just left with a classic troll mic drop of running away.

Ali in VA asks the hosts if they can prove that they themselves exist. Available views can be compared to demonstrate how we exist and views that have less explanatory power lose out on justification abilities. Of the two following questions, which will have more justifications in the answers? “Why am I seeing a tree rather than anything else?” Or “Why am I seeing a tree rather than not a tree?” If you received words from Allah directly, would you accept that is Allah speaking?

Abe in NJ asks the hosts about god being all knowing and having free will at the same time. It feels like these ideas clash with each other hard. An open theist might say that knowing the future is not a propositional attitude. This contradiction can reveal some theological and scriptural concerns.

Thank you for tuning in today everyone! Question of the day is: Name a time that god had not chills. Put your answer in the comment section.

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0:00.0	When I started deconstructing my faith in Christianity a few years ago, I looked to a lot of different philosophers of the past to help me navigate the world around me.
0:10.0	I found that a lot of them really had stuff that resonated with me and I found myself
0:17.5	enjoying going down these different nuanced paths that would take like 14 pages of explanation to define a single sentence.
0:26.3	It really helped me see things differently about Christianity and it helped me recognize
0:31.3	some of the problems with religion as a whole.
0:34.1	Now, I never got a PhD in philosophy, but Dr. Alex Malpass did.
0:41.2	And he has this really cool argument against Christianity and I like it a lot
0:45.4	premise one goes if Christianity is true then a perfect being exists premise two if a perfect being exists.
0:52.5	Premise 2, if a perfect being exists,
0:56.0	then Christianity is false.
0:58.2	Therefore, Christianity is false.
1:01.2	I really think this argument is super solid, but if you think I've missed a glaring error
1:05.7	call us because the show is starting right now. Welcome, welcome everybody. Today is February 25, 2024 and I am your host
1:21.0	seculararity and joining me today is our sentient lump of hair J Mike what's up brother you forgot
1:27.2	my my there is well there's anosaurus I think it's not you know AI and stuff we have to take what we get but you forgot a real
1:34.0	dinosaur is a real dinosaur of me traveling along with my team dinosaur but yeah no
1:40.9	We were gonna introduce a third guest so I know know we break our no like guest rules or whatever we have a guest
1:45.4	We needed honestly we needed it we had been that you know the number one criticism we have received and about 27 years is that we don't have enough dinosaurs on the
1:55.1	show. So for all of you out there that have been writing to us and and calling
2:00.5	us out we have now fixed that problem and you are you are welcome. No other
2:05.9	problems though actually we've never gotten criticism on anything else.
2:08.7	But before we go much further what do you think about that Jay Mike you know we we you and I love the philosophy stuff we love to play in this playground
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