The Insanity of Humanity

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The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 17 November 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This podcast features the audio from Seth Andrews' presentation at FreeFlo 2015, the Freethought Florida Conference in Orlando. The speech is an often lighthearted (but occasionally alarming) exploration of "sacred" ideas and practices in the 21st century, and it explores the merits of retiring damaging rituals in favor of better ones.

SPEECH VIDEO: https://youtu.be/biBULlkmBFE

VIDEO WITH NATHAN PHELPS "Something Beautiful": https://youtu.be/L6IPFyHEv3o

Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go, the step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.3	Branch ball face blasphemy.
0:10.5	Question. Everything.
0:12.3	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.0	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.4	or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:44.2	Of course, our hearts continue to go out to the people of Paris
0:47.4	in the wake of the ISIS terrorist attack of this past weekend.
0:52.4	It just dominates the headlines, dominates the conversations out there.
0:56.5	In a way, it ties a little bit into the topic for tonight's broadcast.
1:01.9	Tonight's show is actually the audio of a presentation
1:04.8	I've been giving around the country for the past several months
1:07.3	and I recently recorded in Orlando on the 7th of November.
1:11.2	It's called, and I recently retitled it.
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