Okay, here we got a standby.

Three, two, one.

The Thinking Atheist, it's not a person.

It's a symbol.

An idea.

The population of atheists in this country is going through the room.

Rejecting faith, pursuing knowledge, challenging the sacred.

If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth, not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish.

And working together for a more rational world.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself.

Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

Assume nothing. Question everything and start thinking. This is the Thinking Atheist podcast hosted by Seth Andrews. I'm going to beg for a little bit of Grace on this show Grace in this show Grace in favor if I was to speak in the language of my former faith.

Most of what you're going to hear today is not new.

I released it years ago, updated it a few years after that.

As I was writing and speaking about how I had been exploring the Bible,

which was supposed to be the good book, and then I realized that all of these offenses

against humanity, against decency, had been right in front of my face the whole time why hadn't I seen it and then I went through a bullet

point list just boom boom boom boom some of the greatest slash worst hits of the Christian Bible.

The Bible that people continued to insist was the good book.

I have two main reasons for re-releasing this material. The first is here in the month of December

I am really wanting to take a little bit of time away from all the prep and the editing and the

admitting to spend some time with my family just a few days and so being able to do

...