The Atheist Experience 26.41 with Forrest Valkai and Dave Warnock

SHOW TIME-STAMPS 00:00 Intro 02:12 Charles-TX | Revelation 17:5 Is Reason For Evil Catholocism 08:34 David-(AU) | Crisis Of Deconversion 23:03 Luke-CA | Five "Possible" Premises To Manifest God In Our World 42:59 BIG-WA | Are Atheists Real? 1:01:35 Diana-KS | Atheists Cannot Judge Good & Bad (This One Is...Wow!) 1:15:29 Ruben-TX | Atheists Weilding The Old-Testament Is Unfair 1:21:43 Kyle-OH | The World Is A Puzzle 1:29:05 Final Thoughts 1:30:47 Outro SHOW NOTES Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Forrest Valkai is joined by Dave Warnock! Charles from TX is calling to claim that Revelations 17:5 is the reason for all of the evil done in the name of Catholocism. Next is David from Australia who after decades of indoctrination is hit head on with the prospect of the religion not be true, or worse manipulative. The caller is struggling with pushing past their fear of hell from their lifetime of it being used as a tool to keep them in line. Luke from CA has a five premise argument to make God exist in our world. You could use this argument to make any literally any fantasy character exist in our world...doesn’t mean they do. Believer in God (BIG) from WA isn’t convinced that Atheists are actually real and those who claim to be Atheist are actually pretending Theists. They believe this because polygraphs. Diana from KS doesn’t believe that Atheists cannot judge morality because they lack an objective moral standard. Appealing to an authoritarian moral framework can be nice because its easy to judge right from wrong, but it doesn’t necessarily align with what might actually be right and what might be wrong in specific situtations, especially if no justification is given or justification in the form of faith based threats of punishment. Ruben from TX doesn’t think it is okay for Atheists to use the Old Testament, specifically verses regarding slavery to argue against modern Christians because apparently slavery was okay back then. Finally, Kyle from OH views the world as a complex puzzle, and if the pieces weren’t placed in the perfect order and location, then life wouldn’t exist. Therefore there must have been a creator because there needs to be an intelligence capable of solving said puzzle, but only here, not Venus. WHAT IS THE ATHEIST EXPERIENCE? The Atheist Experience is a weekly call-in internet show in Austin, Texas geared at a non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin. Call the show on Sundays 4:30pm-6:00pm CT: 1-512-991-9242 or use your computer 💻 http://tiny.cc/callaxp and tell us what you believe and why! We request pronouns as part of the call screening process on our shows, and we display the pronouns our callers provide. If you see a caller with no pronouns indicated, this is because they chose not to provide us with any, and we respect that decision. ► Don't like commercials? Become a patron for ad-free content & more: https://www.patreon.com/theatheistexperience ► Podcast versions of the show may be found at: https://www.spreaker.com/show/theatheistexperience ► Atheist Experience merch can be found at: http://bit.ly/aenmerch ► Become a YouTube member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCprs0DXUS-refN1i8FkQkdg/join ► Join the ACA Fan Discord: https://tiny.cc/acadiscord VISIT THE ACA'S OFFICIAL WEB SITE http://www.atheist-community.org (The Atheist Community of Austin) TheAtheistExperience is the official channel of The Atheist Experience. "The Atheist Experience" is a trademark of the ACA. The views and opinions expressed by hosts, guests, or callers are their own and not necessarily representative of the Atheist Community of Austin. Opening Theme: Shelley Segal "Saved" http://www.shelleysegal.com/ Limited use license by Shelley Segal Copyright © 2011 Shelley Segal Copyright © 1997-2022 Atheist Community of Austin. All rights reserved.