The Atheist Experience 28.12 with Secular Rarity and Jmike
The Atheist Experience
The Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 24 March 2024
⏱️ 121 minutes
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James in OH has evidence for the resurrection that has been heard before and is Biblical based. Why would it need to be a supernatural cause if Jesus did in fact resurrect? You must make your case for this with an argument because just stating it doesn't cut it. How can this be done without just adding more miracles? Giving reasons and evidence will move people closer to your position. What is the earliest date of the earliest gospel?
Michael in FL asks why atheists complain that Christians can’t agree on issues when atheists can’t even agree on what atheism is. SR reminds the caller that Christians inherently have the same idea of the deity while atheists do not have any idea of a deity. JMike points out the problem of interpretation agreeing with god’s principle with Christians, and still has yet to complain about it. How do two people have a relationship with an entity and be so wrong on the most basic aspects of it? Does god love the LGBTQ people or does god want them to be murdered in the streets the way the Bible says?
Chloe in MI, one of our more honest and engaged callers, is a theist who responded to the chat poll with atheists should NOT be persecuted for their lack of belief in god. She added some good reasoning behind this; one of which is that god is love. Is love the reason why billions of infants die? How do you reconcile your two concepts of love?
Jon in Canada looks at the sky and wonders how all this came about by accident. Just because something is not intentional, doesn’t make it an accident. Why is it okay to let people believe untrue things that may end up killing them? Would you rather have people who are sad because they learned the truth, or people who believe in an imaginary deity that makes them feel broken? Take the risk of bumming people out by telling them the truth when the alternative is how the Bible considers them worthless.
Leonard in Germany says that atheists have no will or drive. SR explains how he has been involved in starting up several non-profit organizations, and Kelley runs his own business. How is this not a sense of will? There is a common thread of religions being political, where politics is not a part of atheism, however, individual atheists can be politically active. Every group of people will have bad people within the group. Why do we find justification in the core doctrine of religions to do atrocious things? The crusades, inquisition and conquest of the Americas are examples of this. Make friends with an atheist to get an idea of how they live and treat other humans.
Autumn in MD asks how to calm the fear of hell in her partner. Be patient and be a support system. Reach out to Recovering from Religion and the Secular Therapy Project.
Thank you for tuning in this week; question of the week is: Why did god wipe out the dinosaurs?
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| 0:00.0 | Yesterday was International Atheist Day, and I was so thrilled to see all of the people celebrating being an atheist all over the world. |
| 0:08.5 | Some of the most compassionate and brilliant people I know are Atheist, and it's just, it's so great to see them being open and proud. |
| 0:17.0 | Unfortunately though, Atheist Day is also a reminder that there are many people all |
| 0:22.2 | over the world that are not able to be open about being an atheist. |
| 0:26.0 | They would be shunned, jailed, beaten, or murdered. This is not acceptable. No one should be persecuted for their beliefs or non-beliefs, and all of us as humans |
| 0:38.0 | should stand together, whether we are atheists or not, and fight for this basic human right |
| 0:43.0 | until everyone is guaranteed this freedom. |
| 0:46.0 | So for every atheist out there that couldn't celebrate openly this year, |
| 0:50.0 | you are not forgotten and you are not alone. |
| 0:53.0 | You are the truly courageous ones and you are making a difference. |
| 0:56.0 | Stay safe and know people are thinking of you even if we don't know each other personally. |
| 1:01.0 | One day we will all celebrate being |
| 1:04.1 | atheists openly and I cannot wait for that day. If you disagree with anything I just |
| 1:09.2 | said you know what to do because the show is starting right now. Yes, welcome everyone today is March 24th, 2024, and I am your host secularity and joining me is the |
| 1:27.7 | always wonderful Jay Mike, what is up? |
| 1:30.9 | You got me with the, that's one of my favorite cold openings I that's |
| 1:34.4 | I mean the feels because I mean I it was really easy for me when I kind of made that decision |
| 1:38.9 | just be like yeah I think I'm this prior to like kind of going into the weird detour of spiritualism and whatnot. |
| 1:45.4 | And it was really open like my family and my parents were like really cool about it you know way |
| 1:51.7 | more than I think would be expected in many cases and so yeah, I second that notion. I echo best sentiments because I'm pretty far removed from that and I can really only imagine how many of the audience or people |
| 2:05.7 | I don't even watch the show that are just dealing with that can't express who they are. |
| 2:09.8 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's absolutely. It's hugely something that I think about all the time when we do these shows. |
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