Atheist Alliance International Podcast

By Jason SylvesterReligion & Spirituality

Atheist Alliance International Podcast episodes

August 04, 2021 AAI Podcast - Canadian affiliate member, Atheist Freethinkers, with David Rand
Welcome to the Atheist Alliance International Podcast with Jason Sylvester A.K.A. Diogenes of Mayberry. This week we are joined by David Rand, president of AAI Canadian affiliate, Atheist Freethinkers.
David will be discussing the controversial Quebec Bill 21 which prohibits civil servants in positions of authority (judges, police officers, teachers, etc) from displaying religious symbols while on the job.
For more information on Atheist Freethinkers, please visit their website at https://www.atheology.ca/
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30 min
July 12, 2021 AAI Podcast - Israeli Journalist Resigns Over Abuse - Asaf Ronel
Israeli Journalist Reveals Abuse - Former Haaretz Reporter, Asaf Ronel, describes the systemic abuse of Palestinians he witnessed last May during weeks of violence.

For decades, Israeli politicians have systematically violated the human rights of the Palestinians with virtually no repercussions. When confronted about these violations by the community of nations, Israel plays the holocaust card to try and shame its critics into silence; and it often works. Former Israeli minister, Shulamit Aloni, admitted this tactic in a 2002 interview for Democracy Now.

Given the scale of Israel's recent assault on Gaza, including the bombing of a residential building that also held the offices of Al-Jazeera and the Associated Press, that hand may finally have been over-played.

Twenty-five years ago, Noam Chomsky wrote that Israel acts with impunity given the unwavering support provided by the US government. Eleven years ago, Hitch pondered why American politicians 'acquiesce so wretchedly . . . at the hands of a virtual client state. It seems things have finally gone too far for some Americans. Recently the New York Times writes that many American Democratic senators are wary of continuing to give Israel a pass for its heavy-handed claims of self-defence.

The article quotes the president of an Israeli lobby group, J Street, stating that Americans turning a blind eye 'essentially amounts to international immunity to Israel.' What is baffling, to this writer anyway, is that after many centuries of anti-Semitism and maltreatment of Jews in various lands, Israeli politicians currently in charge apparently learned absolutely nothing. Indeed, the Twitter feeds of two Jewish Washington Post correspondents are constantly updated with the latest Israeli abuses and the disgust of these reporters at what is being done to the Palestinians.
READ MORE: The article is Secular World (Calling Israel to Account for it s Human Rights Abuses) can be found at https://www.atheistalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Secular-World-June-2021.pdf

1 hr 13 min
June 04, 2021 AAI Podcast - Is God A Construct Of The Human Mind? - Jesse Bering
Welcome to the Atheist Alliance International Podcast with Andy Phillips and Jason Sylvester A.K.A. Diogenes of Mayberry.
This week we are joined by Jesse Bering, an American psychologist, writer, and academic. He is Associate Professor in Science Communication at the University of Otago, where he serves as Director of the Centre for Science Communication, as well as a frequent contributor to Scientific American, Slate, and Das Magazin We look at the concepts of belief and whether consciousness survival, belief in god and the afterlife is a construct of the human mind.
Book By Jesse Bering The God Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny and the Meaning of Life https://amzn.to/3ce5naD
Jesse Bering Website: http://www.jessebering.com/

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1 hr 7 min
June 04, 2021 AAI Podcast - From Priest to Atheist - Professor Greg Dawes
Atheist Alliance International Podcast with Andy Phillips and Jason Sylvester
We recently interviewed Professor Greg Dawes, who teaches courses on religion and philosophy at Otago University in Auckland about his book Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science. We discovered he had been a Catholic priest and was now a non-believer, and this is his story.
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49 min
April 20, 2021 AAI Podcast - Freethought Lebanon - Sami Abdallah
Interview with Sami Abdallah, President of Freethought Lebanon. Sami discusses a new report coming out which highlights the plight of Atheists in Lebanon.
You can get more information on this from https://www.freethoughtlebanon.net/atheists-in-lebanon/
25 min
March 01, 2021 AAI Podcast - Recovering From Religion - Dr Darrel Ray
Hi and welcome to the Atheist Alliance International podcast with me Andy Phillips and today I’m joined by Dr Darrel Ray who is a psychologist and author of The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture and also SEX & GOD: How Religion Distorts Sexuality. He’s also a founder of the non-profit organization Recovering from Religion as well as the Secular Therapy Project. Today we look at secular sexuality, and the treatment of religion-induced trauma.
The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture https://amzn.to/3dWJbnd
Sex and God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality https://amzn.to/3q15vyu
Recovering From Religion: https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/
Secular Therapy Project: https://www.seculartherapy.org/

1 hr 9 min
February 21, 2021 AAI Podcast - Our Work On Blasphemy Law - Bill Flavell And Kola Alapinni
Atheist Alliance international Podcast- In this podcast we’re looking at blasphemy, and specifically some of the blasphemy cases that are going on in Nigeria right now where Atheist Alliance international have been working with legal teams on specific cases which we want to provide some context for and also some updates.
With me today I have Bill Flavell the vice president of Atheist Alliance International who been working alongside my other guest today who’s part of the legal team on the ground and that’s Kola Alapinni
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32 min
January 22, 2021 AAI Podcast - Galileo (The Conflict Between Religion And Science) - Greg Dawes
Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science with Gregory W. Dawes.
Hi and welcome to the Atheist Alliance International podcast with me Andy Phillips and today I’m joined by our resident historian, writer and blogger Jason Sylvester and today we are talking to Professor Greg Dawes who teaches courses on religion and philosophy at Otago University in Auckland, NZ, and is the author of Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science.
He joins us today to discuss the theological and contextual background of the showdown between the Catholic Church and Galileo in the 1600s, and how the religious mentality, then and now, claims special knowledge via divine revelation which in the eyes of the church trumps science.
BOOK: Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science by Gregory W. Dawes https://amzn.to/3aaK9cf
1 hr 2 min
December 17, 2020 AAI Podcast - An Atheist Minister & Flawed Biblical History - Andy Pakula And Jason Sylvester
Atheist Alliance International podcast with Andy Phillips. This is the podcast that brings you interviews and news from the secular world… In this podcast I speak to Andy Pakula, an atheist minister in a non theistic church in London https://www.new-unity.org/ and Historian, Author and Blogger Jason Sylvester as we delve in the truth behind the myths portrayed in the Bible. You can donate and become a member at our website https://www.atheistalliance.org/
BOOK: The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts : https://amzn.to/34lxwbQ
Diogenes of Mayberry (Jason Sylvester) Website : https://diogenesofmayberry.com/
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1 hr 8 min
November 17, 2020 AAI Podcast - Atheists for Liberty - Thomas Sheedy
Atheist Alliance International podcast with Andy Phillips. This is the podcast that brings you interviews and news from the secular world… In this podcast I speak with Thomas Sheedy, Thomas Sheedy is President and founder of Atheists for Liberty, and I spoke to him about his organization and his views on the state of Atheism and the atheist community in a very divided and divisive world. https://www.atheistalliance.org/
45 min