Where's Your Moral Compass Pointing? #407

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 21 September 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Praying (and punching) the gay away in Oklahoma, the price (literally) to avoid hearing 'thoughts and prayers,' feds threaten to defund program at Duke, artists in Arizona, Pakistani officials attempt to veil order, Indonesia outlaws sex outside of marriage, and why do atheists continue to do good in the world.

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0:00.0	The Hey everybody.
0:18.7	Hi guys, Hi guys, well from Blustery, rainy,, Sauggy Salt Lake City.
0:23.6	It's, thank God I'm Atheist.
0:24.8	The podcast.
0:25.8	I'm Frank Feldman.
0:27.2	And I'm Dan Beecher.
0:28.2	And coming up today, Dan, we're going to be talking about some of those decisions that atheists make that are easy for,
0:41.0	that may not seem like the obvious thing and for example why why would it an atheist
0:47.4	without children care about climate change this is kind of you, you know, like, and so like, which is something of, I like it when it's warmer.
0:56.7	I care deeply about this, right?
0:58.7	And so, we're going to be talking through like you had a good analog of what it's similar to yeah I mean it's basically
1:07.2	You know you the Christians are always like whoa if you don't believe in God what's keeping you from committing murder?
1:13.4	Right. Right. But I mean, kind of, I mean, there's legal stuff, but what is keeping us from committing murder?
1:22.0	Like what's keeping us, committing murder like what's keeping us well on the moral
1:25.2	straight and narrow path and so take it down a step why would we make you know
1:31.0	proactive decisions to try to help out with the environment right
1:34.4	so we'll be getting into some of that that's coming up later in the show and in the
1:39.2	meantime we've got some stories we do have some stories. We do have some stories.
1:43.0	Indonesia. I've heard of it. Jakarta. Okay, great.
1:49.0	Largely Muslim country.
1:52.0	Yeah, and that plays a big part surprisingly in this story.
1:57.0	No.
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