The Trouble with God (with Chris Matheson)

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🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Author and screenwriter Chris Matheson is one of the people behind the "Bill & Ted" films, and authored the 2015 humor book, "The Story of God: a Biblical Comedy about Love and Hate."

He's back (and so is God) for a follow-up. He joins Seth Andrews for a discussion about "The Trouble with God: a Divine Comedy about Judgment (and Misjudgemnt)."

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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 100 fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:45.9	Coming up here in the month of June, I think probably the third week.
0:51.2	I'm going to have a conversation with a soap opera star.
0:56.7	Oh yeah.
0:58.2	Daytime television fans are going to love this one.
1:01.9	Actually, his name is Scott Clifton.
1:03.4	You may know him better on YouTube as an atheist activist.
1:08.6	Under the moniker of theoretical bullshit,
1:11.4	Scott Clifton is an actor he's been on, like,
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