The Atheist Experience 28.18 with Jim Barrows and The Cross-Examiner

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🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Have an Atheist Experience with Jim Barrows and The Cross Examiner and work through the current challenging issues that both theists and atheists continue to sort through.

Chidumeei in PA asks how he is to tell atheists that they are not morally superior. How do you deal with Christians that think they are morally superior? You take it one step at a time like you do everything else. Many people go through the angry atheist stage, and sometimes this is frustration from learning the Bible is wrong and realizing people have been lied to. If you slow the conversation down, ask for definitions, and look for understanding, people will realize the conversation is more important than the finger pointing.

Miguel in CO asks about how society handles transgender people in sports. How does society reconcile the two established facts of transgenderism being real, and the hormonal treatment being good but not perfect? Sports matter more than we think it should, and solutions that we come up with for one sport may not work for another. Maybe early recognition of one being transgender will solve some of the issues. It would be insulting to all genders to just boil it down to not allowing men to compete with women. People do not on a whim just decide to change their gender. Be careful to weed out the lies such as “six year olds getting surgeries”.

Brandon in CA wants to know why we embrace the trans community by using pronouns. What problem do you have with inclusion? How has the use of pronouns just come out of nowhere? We are hoping to build a society where it does not matter where you are dropped in, and the bottom rung of the ladder keeps going up so that everybody is included. What skin do you lose by using pronouns?

Dan in Canada has just been through the loss of a service dog and wants to know if it is okay to be Catholic without proof of god. How do you feel about believing a story without evidence of your dog being in a better place? What is your community around you now like? You may consider calling The Secular Therapy Project for someone to talk with or Recovering from Religion. It is okay to go to a church; there are times when communities offer more benefits than risks. The thing to look forward to when you do not believe in a god, is the exciting prospect that the future is yours to make and do what you want.

Chloe in MI says that the USA is not a Christian nation even though she is a Christian and does not see the attitude of Jesus and putting other people first. How do we define what a true Christian is? What do you think people mean when they say it is a Christian nation? In addition to legal meanings that are wrong on many levels, it could mean that people who are white evangelicals feel like they are losing their power. How do we determine whose interpretation of the Bible is correct? Who has the proper insight to know what the Bible means? We agree the United States is not a Christian nation.

Thank you for tuning in this week! Prompt of the week is: How did god the father get out of paying child support?

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0:00.0	Last summer the mega church preacher Kenneth Copeland said the following about Washington's first inauguration.
0:06.2	One, Washington ended his speech by saying, So Help Me God.
0:10.3	Two, he bowed his knee to the ground in reverence and kissed the Bible.
0:15.0	3. Washington and the congressman there spontaneously dedicated America to God.
0:20.0	4. The first official act of Congress was to enter into a covenant with God.
0:26.0	Copeland wrapped up his sermon by saying, quote, this nation should be completely totally
0:30.1	based on what George Washington said to Jesus. Copeland's audience gave him a boisterous standing
0:36.2	ovation. Here's the thing though. Copeland was lying. We have extensive records of Washington's inauguration and none of what Copeland said is true.
0:46.0	Why did he lie?
0:48.0	To push the false narrative that America is a Christian nation.
0:51.0	If you agree that we are a Christian nation, then you should give us a welcome to the show. Today is May 5th, 2024. I am your host Jim Burrows and joining me today is the cross examiner.
1:15.0	How you doing today?
1:17.0	It's great. I'm really excited to work with you Jim. I've been a big fan.
1:21.0	Well, thank you. I'm looking forward to working with you as well, especially your legal knowledge, which will be hopefully
1:29.2	useful. And of course the legal profession is also a dedication to keeping to the facts.
1:38.0	True, true, that's what my wife says. I hope your legal knowledge is going to be useful at some point.
1:48.0	Well it probably much more useful than my software knowledge will be here in a few years and AI is taking over my job.
1:55.8	Very true.
1:56.8	And mine, very true.
1:57.8	Well, the atheist experience is a product of the Atheist Community of Austin.
2:02.6	We're a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of atheism, critical thinking, secular
2:08.8	humanism, and the separation of religion and government.
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