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TheThinkingAtheist

What the Hell is Wrong with Texas?

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Three Texas atheists join us to talk about the evangelical attack on our secular democracy in the second-largest state of the "union." It's a conversation with Aron Ra, Wil Jeudy, and Michelle Palmer.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, here we go, standby.

0:02.0

Three, two, one.

0:04.0

The thinking atheist, it's not a person.

0:08.0

It's a symbol, an idea.

0:10.0

The population of atheists in this country is going through the roof.

0:14.0

Rejecting faith, pursuing knowledge,

0:17.0

challenging the sacred.

0:19.0

If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth.

0:22.0

Not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish

0:25.0

and working together.

0:27.0

For a more rational world.

0:29.0

Take the risk of thinking, feel self.

0:31.0

Much more happiness, true fusion wisdom will come to you that way.

0:35.0

Assume nothing.

0:37.0

Question everything.

0:39.0

And start thinking.

0:42.0

This is the thinking atheist podcast hosted by South Anders.

0:48.0

A lot of my fellow atheists get so irritated at me when I say that I don't think we can effectively change minds

1:04.0

without involving emotion.

1:07.0

And they're like, no, no, this is about logic.

1:10.0

It's facts, it's data.

1:12.0

They hear emotion and they think manipulation.

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