The Atheist Experience 28.20 with JMike, Jim Barrows and Shelley Segal
The Atheist Experience
The Atheist Community of Austin
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
Nick in WI believes that he has found god in the same way he would find a specific car in a car lot. If you were to search for god, what reason would you have to think god exists before you start searching? Why would we care about the characteristics if this god has not been demonstrated to exist? How do you explain a Christian foundation’s findings that say prayer has no more effects than a placebo? What does “spiritually alive” mean? Considering the history of the Cananites, how did they get from polytheism to theism? Why blame god for something that is part of you and wanting to know as many true things as possible?
Mac in CA has the argument from perennialism to prove god and is described as god has been contacting humans through history. The sound trailed off into underwater territory.
Sura in India says there is a strong force that is driving all religions. All religions attempt to explain things we have no control over is a more reasonable explanation than adding a supernatural god to the equation. Why postulate a god for natural phenomena? How do the percentages of people that believe something have any bearing on the truth?
Oliver in FL wants to know what science or LGBTQ has to do with atheism and atheists use faith for not having evidence for god. By your definition of faith, what am I believing in as an atheist that I can’t substantiate or confirm? What is the entailment for when we continue to ask for evidence? Why would Einstein saying anything get us to believe in this useless god of Spinoza?
Angus in NE, Jesus Mythicist asks what the hosts think of Yahwey or Yesua never saying anything. The same thing can be said of The Hobbit or other stories. What does what someone says prove anything about their existence?
Dave in India asks the hosts if they would consent to the point that there is a hologram in their brains. How would that point to god? Personal experience does nothing to move the needle here. How does your brain making you see stuff get us to god? Under what circumstances should we assume the supernatural is real? Why would you believe our lives as atheists are meaningless?
That was awesome wasn’t it? Thank you for hanging out with us this week! Question of the week is: Why did god really go no contact with people?
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| 0:00.0 | Jamie the blind Laimi here with the atheist community of Austin. |
| 0:04.3 | You know us atheists we get asked questions quite often by theist and religious people. |
| 0:09.8 | Often they ask us why do you care so much about religion? |
| 0:15.0 | Well in response, I have a few questions for them. |
| 0:19.5 | Do you really think you can tell us how to live our lives while never questioning the source from which |
| 0:25.4 | your moral codes derived. You think that suffering is part of some great plan that's been derived. |
| 0:35.0 | I wonder. |
| 0:37.0 | I wonder when we'll be free of your lies. |
| 0:40.0 | Well, thankfully we have someone here who can help us maybe explore some of those questions. |
| 0:47.0 | Performing her iconic single, Saved. |
| 0:50.0 | Here at the atheist community Boston masked in Three Thought Library, |
| 0:52.8 | please welcome Shelly Seagull. |
| 0:55.4 | Thanks, Jamie. |
| 0:58.6 | Say that I need to be safe. |
| 1:08.0 | Say with me the devils got his way. |
| 1:10.0 | I want to know. The devils got his way. |
| 1:13.0 | I want to know how when you are praying, |
| 1:17.0 | when you are doomed stay in, |
| 1:21.0 | how you think you know that someone is listening to what you want to say |
| 1:28.8 | and so you think that you can tell us how to live our lives, never questioning the source from which your moral core derives. |
| 1:44.3 | You think that suffering is part of some great plan |
| 1:49.3 | that's been devised. |
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