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 thinking.

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

Before I go to the phones, I mentioned this on a previous broadcast on the line.

I was asked at the last second to fill in as co-host with Forrest Valci.

And after what was like a 40-minute series of rants between him and me, we started taking calls.

And the calls almost broke me.

You know what I'm saying?

Apologies calling in to speak about the most bizarre, disjointed, disconnected stuff.

Most of them having a hard time even starting the point.

Like, I need the series of vowels and consonants to come together,

to take me to the end of a sentence. You wouldn't think it would be that difficult, and yet

apparently it is. At the end of that three and a half hours, I almost went out and threw myself

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