The 'Impossible Conversation' Continues: How Can We Save the West? with Dr. Peter Boghossian
I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST
Dr. Frank Turek
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Buckle up friends, because it's going to be a wild and crazy ride! Frank and Peter Boghossian pick up right where they left off from the previous episode, exploring the destructive ideology that currently dominates our culture, academia, and local schools. We've watched freedoms in the UK and Western Europe slowly fade away. Are we doomed to the same fate here in the U.S.? Tune in for the answer along with other questions like:
- How did Peter use his creative writing skills to point out the ideological insanity of academia?
- What makes the oppressed/oppressor lens so destructive?
- What was Peter's last conversation with Charlie Kirk?
- Why does Peter think revamping teacher certification programs is the key to saving Western civilization?
- How do universities operate as indoctrination factories?
- Why does Peter think Europe is beyond hope?
- Is "Islamophobia" a nonsensical term?
- How can societies defend themselves from cultural and ideological collapse?
- How does Peter define atheism and is he open to Christianity?
- Is it possible to achieve meaning and purpose without the existence of God?
- How does Peter ground objective morality as an atheist?
- What is Peter's advice to Christians and other listeners of Frank's podcast?
WARNING: While there is certainly a lot to learn from the discussion, this episode explores sensitive topics and is not suited for young children. Please keep Peter in your prayers as he travels to France, and stay tuned to his YouTube channel and Substack for updates during the trip!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, how do you have conversations with people with whom you don't agree? |
| 0:08.4 | And how do you do it in a way that is calm and why do it, especially in our social media age, |
| 0:16.5 | where the algorithm that you have is just going to keep feeding you things that affirm what you |
| 0:21.6 | already believe, which might be one big reason our country and even the world is so polarized. |
| 0:27.9 | Well, my friend, Dr. Peter Bogosian, who originally was a member or a faculty member at |
| 0:34.6 | Portland State University's philosophy department, |
| 0:38.4 | until they went so far illiberal that he could no longer tolerate it, |
| 0:43.1 | is my guest today. |
| 0:44.4 | He was the guest on the previous podcast. |
| 0:46.6 | We met at UC Berserklee when we were out there. |
| 0:49.6 | Peter's an atheist. |
| 0:50.6 | I'm a Christian. |
| 0:51.6 | But we have a lot in common, and we're having a discussion about how can |
| 0:56.7 | we save Western civilization? What can we do to save the freedoms that allow us to have freedom |
| 1:01.5 | of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of press, freedom of |
| 1:04.6 | assembly? Because they are going away unless the direction of Europe and the United States changes. |
| 1:12.8 | And Peter now, since he's no longer at Portland State, is on the road 24-7, 365, |
| 1:18.9 | trying to get people to think more clearly about the freedoms that we have and how to defend them. |
| 1:23.8 | So for that, he gets another great round of applause, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 1:29.6 | I have to carry that around with me. Every time I'm down about Western Sim, I'll just press |
| 1:36.3 | the button to go. That's right. Hey, by the way, Peter, now, I need to warn you that if you do say |
| 1:40.8 | something that really is clearly not factual, you're going to hear this. |
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