The Atheist Experience 30.26 with The Cross Examiner and Godless Engineer
The Atheist Experience
The Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 29 June 2026
⏱️ 168 minutes
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Summary
Tom in MI uses dreams and feelings of love as proof of a higher power. Godless Engineer defines love as a chemical process, while hosts critique why stories fail as data. Can we trust internal experiences when our biology is fallible?
Gannon in CA claims Noah’s Ark proves the Bible. The hosts challenge his fixation on labels while debunking fraudulent archaeological claims about rock formations. If your evidence is a misidentified rock, what remains of your belief?
Muhammad in India argues for Divine Command Theory, claiming child rape is "good" if God commands it. The hosts are stunned by this rejection of decency for religious consistency. How can a moral system be respected if it allows atrocities?
Joel in CA believes in God because he "sees" the devil with his eyes closed. The hosts dismantle the design argument using stellar evolution and planetary formation. Can internal visions serve as a reliable yardstick for external reality?
Will in Canada defends biblical slavery by calling God a "political gradualist." Hosts point out God made absolute laws for diet and sex but not for owning humans. Why would a perfect deity require centuries to condemn human ownership?
Aeve Morningstar in Canada applies a feminist lens to theology, questioning if Mary's impregnation was sexual assault. Hosts debate legal definitions of battery and the harm of divine voyeurism. Is the biblical relationship with God inherently coercive?
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| 0:00.0 | In the early 2000s, as conservative groups in the United States began losing legal battles over LGBTQ rights and secularism, |
| 0:09.3 | they shifted their focus and money to Uganda, a country they identified as ideal ground for a religious takeover. |
| 0:17.6 | Over 20 major American evangelical groups poured over $50 million into Africa, |
| 0:23.3 | with Uganda receiving the massive amount of share. |
| 0:27.5 | United States Christians were successful beyond their wildest dreams. Fundamentalist evangelical |
| 0:33.2 | and Pentecostal movements successfully embedded themselves within the highest echelons of |
| 0:38.3 | Ugandan governance to the point where parliamentarians now openly base legislative goals |
| 0:43.8 | on biblical mandates rather than constitutional law or science. As in the United States, |
| 0:51.1 | Ugandan lawmakers framed this effort as defending, quote, traditional Christian |
| 0:55.7 | family values. The result, Uganda has seen a major surge in state-sanctioned arbitrary arrests, |
| 1:02.0 | police torture, extortion, correctional rapes, the forced evictions by local councils. The anti-science |
| 1:09.9 | religious climate has gotten so dangerous |
| 1:11.9 | that vital HIV health care providers and human rights organizations |
| 1:15.9 | had to shut down out of fear for their safety. |
| 1:18.8 | Oh, and homosexuality is now punishable by death. |
| 1:22.4 | This is not unique to Uganda. |
| 1:24.4 | Russia recently developed a deep transactional symbiosis between Putin's authoritarian |
| 1:29.3 | state and the Russian Orthodox Church. As in Uganda, homosexuality has been criminalized. |
| 1:35.3 | Unapproved versions of Christianity like Jehovah's Witnesses were banned, their property seized, |
| 1:41.3 | and hundreds of their members subjected to torture and long-term sentences |
| 1:46.1 | to Siberian penal colonies. Other evangelical and Protestant groups in Russia face tight restrictions, |
| 1:52.3 | fines, and bans on worship outside of state-approved buildings. Now let's compare these early days |
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