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The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The show title is (obviously) somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but the struggle is real. How do we engage, defeat bad ideas, and promote good ideas online without losing our humanity in the angry noise? Seth Andrews shares his own experience as a communicator in the age of the Rage Tweet.

This is a presentation given before a live audience June 2nd at the annual fundraiser for the Northeast Ohio Freethought Society. There is no video version, but the slides shown to the live audience are described in the audio.

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0:00.0	The search is heating up for the people who make football better. People like Sally Butler.
0:05.0	It's really us about putting mums on the pitch where they belong.
0:09.0	Jimmy the Moa. It might only be a council feel next to the tip.
0:12.0	But around here it's Wembley.
0:14.0	Rachel O'Sullivan and Sophie Downing.
0:16.0	Bringing women's football to a wider audience.
0:19.0	Entries are rolling in. Who's your real football number one?
0:22.0	Nominate them today and they could win a money car buy experience with Skybet prize drop.
0:27.0	Skybet for UK's number one betting app.
0:30.0	Here we go. The step by three two one action.
0:35.0	Assume nothing.
0:38.0	Brash ball face blast for me.
0:40.0	Question everything.
0:42.0	I find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:46.0	It is quite alright to be an atheist.
0:48.0	The fastest growing group of people in the country has been measured as being those who have no belief or who are atheists.
0:55.0	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:57.0	Challenge the opposition.
0:59.0	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
1:02.0	And start thinking.
1:04.0	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
1:14.0	This show is the audio of a presentation.
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