Atheist Roundtable

This is part 2 of my most awesome interview with Callie Wright.  In this episode, we dicuss everything from atheism to Star Trek and back.  Callie shows why she is an amazing person, and the kind of leader the atheist and LGBT community love.

Then she closes my show with her show stopping style!

If you don't know Callie, you don't know awesome sauce.

At ReasonCon, I was teamed up with an incredibly awesome partner for Skep-ardy.  Callie Wright is an amazing, wonderful, awesome leader of the LGBT rights movement AND the atheist movement.  To know Callie is to love Callie.  She is just so awesome.

This is Part One of my interview with Callie.  She was kind enough to talk about being trans with me in the honest, frank, and kind manner for which she is so revered.  You cannot miss this!!

I won't take calls, but this show will not spare the awesomeness.

The Thanksgiving holiday is over.  The things for which I am grateful are plentiful.  I'll talk about those things.

Sometimes, people ask how the athest finds meaning or purpose in life.  I think this is backward.  It was when I lost religion that I found the meaning in life, and allthe things for which I am thankful today.

Plus, your calls.

I'm thankful for the awesome sauce!!

When I say I'm "anti-theism", I mean I think theism is bad.  I think any good it does is outweighed by the bad.  But that doesn't mean I'm "anti-theist".  Theists are lovely people.  They just hold bad ideas.

Now I realize it's hard to separate the people from the ideas.  But I think we are more effective when we do.  I think that by contrasting the amazing person with the vile beliefs, this helps people realize they are better than their religion.

Plus, your calls.

Let the awesomesause flow once again!!

TW:  rape.  This show will discuss rape culture and other sensitive topics.

This past week, I posted a video I found from a friend of the show's wall.  The video is of a couple of toddlers.  One acts inappropriately, but the tag from the original post and the music editied into the clip suggest the people who originally posted it thought it was cute and adorable.  I did not.

The comment section was incredible. Most agreed that the child behaved badly, and wondered why there was no parental interaction.  But there were a few that thought my post and comments were over the top and outrageous.

I'm going to talk about the video, the reactions it got, the comments on the post and why this is important.

Did you see the post?  You can call and give me your impression.

All the awesomeness will be here.

This is part 2 of my interview with Dave Foda. This is the part you wanted to hear.  We dive straight into strong atheism, why Dave says there is no god, the evidence he has to back that up and so much more awesomeness.

After pondering over Dave's argument against an intercessory god, I've concluded it is a stronger argument than my own.  I must define a very specific god:  the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good, perfect, creator of the universe, with a message for humanity.  Not every chrisitan believes in this god.  But every believer believes whatever god there is, it interferes with the physical universe.  Dave needs no further definition of god other than "supernatural medler" to disprove it.

This is the awesomenes you've been waithing for!!

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It was over a year ago when I first heard Dave Foda asserting strong atheism, that is the stance that god does not exist.  Dave finds the idea that he simply lacks a belief in a god does not accurately describe his atheism.  This is Part 1 of about an hour I spent with Dave exploring how he defends his position.

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The last religious thing I ever did was I got my son circumcised.  It was weird then,  I wasn't an atheist yet, but I wasn't religious, either.  Still, my wife and I made the choice to have this done.  Was it wrong?

By the time my daughter was born, we were anxious about the possibility of having another boy.  Would we get this one circumcised?  How wierd would it be to have one cut and one un-cut?  I guess lcuk had it that it was a decision we did not have to make.

Since that moment 10 years ago, my views on this practice have evolved.  I'll give my take on how.

Plus your calls.

Awesomeness will be in excess!!

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The first time I tried this show, the audio sucked.  The second time I couldn't login.  I'm doing this show again, damnit!!

If this sounds crazy, why do believers reverse it on atheists?  Why do so mant think that it took some tragedy to make us atheists?  It seems so strange to say this way, why would it ever work in reverse?

I think it is far more likely to work in reverse, actually.  I think this arguement is one more example of believers projecting their insecurities onto atheists.

Plus your calls.

Let's get this awesomeness on!

We've all heard the claim that atheists aren't believers because we've been hurt by a believer.  And we all know how crazy that accusation is. But could it work the other way?

Have you ever heard of a believer encountering trauma and becoming "renewed" in the faith?  Are funerals places where evangelizing is rampant?  Could a person turn to faith in a crisis when they think they have nowhere else to turn?

I'll give my take,  Plus your calls.

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