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 nothing. Question everything.

And start thinking.

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

When I retire a speech from the road and I post it to YouTube, it sounds kind of pretentious, doesn't it?

Like when I retire a presentation from my touring, you see?

But whenever I'm done doing it on the road, I like to put it out on YouTube, and then I get to release the audio of it on the podcast.

And the beauty of this audio format is that we get to elaborate a little bit more.

The presentation itself runs about a half hour.

And I think it's, I don't know, I just feel like maybe you can relate to the fact that the American flag feels poisonous.

I know I'm already being called a terrorist.

I'm already an insurgent, a dissident, a traitor to my nation.

I'm already being called that by an entire demographic in this

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