Okay, here we got. Stand by. 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 nothing. Question everything.

And start thinking.

This is the Thinking Atheist podcast, hosted by Seth Andrews.

The late astronomer and cosmologist and science communicator, Carl Sagan, wrote this

in the demon-haunted world in 1995.

He said, science is more than a body of knowledge.

It is a way of thinking.

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time

when the United States is a service and information economy.

When nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries,

when awesome technological powers are in the

hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues. When the

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