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The Atheist Experience

The Atheist Community of Austinwww.axp.show
The Atheist Experience is a weekly show in Austin, Texas geared at a non-atheist and atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin.

The Atheist Community of Austin is organized as a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals.

We define atheism as the lack of belief in gods. This definition also encompasses what most people call agnosticism.

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Episodes

The Atheist Experience 29.16 with The Cross Examiner and Godless Engineer

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, The Cross Examiner and Godless Engineer work through questions from theists and those who are questioning their beliefs. Vickie in NC feels that what the hosts on the show are saying make sense and she is starting to question her beliefs. You are not alone and are correct in not accepting a claim until you are convinced with the proper amount of evidence. If you want to hold on to the idea of god having a good nature, how do you rationalize the Old T...

Apr 21, 20252 hr 19 minSeason 29Ep. 16

The Atheist Experience 29.15 with Forrest Valkai, Justin and Jimmy Jr

00:00 Intro5:26 Lily - (UK) | Hinduism Vs. Christianity 22:33 Caleb - OH | Morality Of The God Of The Bible 29:27 John - CA | The Meaning Of The Lord’s Prayer 42:30 Mike - SC | Intelligent Design 1:24:15 Nick - NC | Religion And Science Can Go Together 1:49:31 John - OH | Evidence For God’s Nonexistence? SHOW NOTES Thanks for joining us for The Atheist Experience! Today, Forrest Valkai and Justin discuss Hinduism, the morality of God, and alien intervention. Lily from the UK asks the hosts if th...

Apr 14, 20252 hr 2 minSeason 29Ep. 14

The Atheist Experience 29.14 with Justin and Jim Barrows 2025-04-06

Believe in God? 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.p...

Apr 07, 20251 hr 45 minSeason 29Ep. 14

The Atheist Experience 29.13 with Justin and Jmike 2025-03-30

00:00 Intro 03:14 Steve-NE | Mosaic Law Protects Women 36:29 Art-PA | Representing Spinoza's God 1:02:30 Tim-NY | Human Simulation Is Evidence Of A Creator 1:42:30 David-CA | God Formed The Planets, Not Gravity 1:52:24 Noah-TX | Why Do People Still Believe? 1:59:05 Zak-MD | How Do We Detach From Religion? SHOW NOTESIn today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Justin and JMike, shift through the laws of Moses to find how cruel ancient men were before discussing god in a cape that is really just ...

Mar 31, 20252 hr 8 minSeason 29Ep. 13

The Atheist Experience 29.12 with Secular Rarity and Holy Koolaid

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Secular Rarity and Holy Koolaid, untangle the entangled particles to see that abiogenesis may not have an AI cause. Bill in MI has a theory that the purpose of life is to entangle every other particle in the universe in order to resolve uncertainty. We as humans are good at seeing patterns. What patterns are you seeing in the entanglement? Why do you think it was you that discovered this? What are the reasons for gatekeeping with high level academia?...

Mar 24, 20251 hr 52 minSeason 29Ep. 12

The Atheist Experience 29.11 with Justin and The Cross Examiner

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Justin and The Cross Examiner, work with the Legendary Jesus who uses preferred pronouns in the simulation created by Bible bashing atheists that question the answers given by the argument from motion.JIm in MO compares Jesus to King Arthur because he could be a legendary character where everything is written down after the fact. Justin explains how he learned in Seminary that it was a given that Jesus was a real person. What are your experiences lik...

Mar 17, 20251 hr 58 minSeason 29Ep. 11

The Atheist Experience 29.10 with Godless Engineer and Armin Navabi

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, The Godless Engineer and Armin Navabi, work with callers who think that not only their god is loving, but slavery is not a bad thing. Larry in Canada, thinks that the Bible has a different meaning for the word, “slave” than what “slave” means in the original Hebrew. The caller asserts “servant” as a definition for slave and believes this nullifies the atrocity of slavery. He then struggles to understand the basics of dialogue that usually involves mo...

Mar 10, 20252 hrSeason 29Ep. 10

The Atheist Experience 29.07 with Secular Rarity and The Cross Examiner

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Secular Rarity and The Cross Examiner, sort through some wild thoughts from callers. Ulrich in Mexico, believes the expanding universe proves The Bible. If everything points to there being a singularity, why do you think it was not always expanding and did not come from a singular point? There are ways of predicting what happened in the past and god moving the goalposts in the past is not a good argument. Why do you not believe the Bible can be wrong...

Feb 17, 20252 hr 5 minSeason 29Ep. 7

The Atheist Experience 29.06 with Godless Engineer and Jmike

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, JMike, The Godless Engineer, and Kelley Laughlin take on a variety of challenging and fun calls. Tommi in Portugal wants to talk about the problem of evil and considers it to be the greatest challenge to the Christian faith. Does god desire to have evil in this world? Is it possible for an agent to always make a good choice? Why did god fail in substantiating a world where all the agents always do good? Why is there unnecessary suffering in this worl...

Feb 10, 20251 hr 56 minSeason 29Ep. 6

The Atheist Experience 29.04 with Secular Rarity and Armin Navabi

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Secular Rarity and Armin Navabi, add sprinkles to our Sunday(sundaes), swim through the world of proof that atheism is in fact imaginary and not created by a non-god. Kenneth in VA, wonders if proving god should be done in the mystical sense when the scientific method fails. What is the point of talking about it if you are unable to describe this method? Are you feeling something that is god, or are you describing the feelings themselves? If SR has a...

Jan 27, 20252 hr 9 minSeason 29Ep. 4

The Atheist Experience 29.02 with Jmike and Justin

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, JMike and Justin Deconstruction discover that Jesus is the Devil as they comb through Biblical atrocities with bears and lions mauling presuppositional arguments made by people who believe the L.A. fires are caused by god. Chuck in HA says the hosts on the show sometimes sound like they support Christianity because they say there just is no proof for god. The hosts wasted no time backing the caller into a corner about his beliefs. It turns out the ca...

Jan 13, 20251 hr 34 minSeason 29Ep. 2

The Atheist Experience 28.47 with Armin Navabi and Kelley Laughlin

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Armin Navabi and Kelley Laughlin, face attacks with no gravity and hurl their molecules under a big udder that prevents the sacrifice of finding the truth behind what the U.S. was based on. Chuck in HI says he has scientific evidence for god and this is that the matter in the universe is eternal. He goes on to say there is no such thing as gravity and that god is holding everything together. Where is the evidence for this self aware, thinking agent t...

Nov 25, 20241 hr 35 minSeason 28Ep. 47

The Atheist Experience 28.45 11-10-2024 with Forrest Valkai and The Cross Examiner

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Forrest Valkai and The Cross Examiner, walk Jackie through some thought processes of his own before encountering questions of existence with some New Age sprinkles. Jackie in MS was not able to answer Forrest’s question of whether he has any of his own thoughts. It goes absolutely nowhere when this happens. Jackie agrees not to mention the names of philosophers and to answer the hosts’ questions. He argues that the existence of metaphysical things as...

Nov 11, 20241 hr 49 minSeason 28Ep. 45

The Atheist Experience 28.42 with The Cross Examiner and Ryan Jayne

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, the Cross Examiner and Ryan Jayne talk about the significance of separation of church and state, rising Christian nationalism in the United States, and phenomenology. Keyon in Utah claims that the stories of multiple religions point to there being a creator god. So many traditions have similar stories, so they must be on to something. He says he’s not religious but seems to still believe in the Bible and Christianity to an extent. Why does the simila...

Oct 21, 20241 hr 56 minSeason 28Ep. 42

The Atheist Experience 28.40 with Forrest Valkai and Dr. Ben

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Forrest Valkai and Doctor Ben tackle several fun issues. Jack in Canada asks the hosts about the problem of evil. If god made the rules, why would he choose to cause suffering when he is powerful enough not to? Why did god choose something that causes suffering? If your god is in charge of everything, why does he not fix childhood poverty? You are more moral than your god. Max in Russia wants to help but is unable to donate. Every action helps no mat...

Oct 07, 20242 hr 20 minSeason 28Ep. 40

The Atheist Experience 28.39 With Secular Rarity and Jmike

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Secular Rarity(SR) and JMike sort through a variety of callers before being joined be Scott Dickie to wrap it up. Jackie in MS misgendered Dr. Ben on Talk Heathen and then refused to issue a proper apology so he was dropped! Be a man, Jackie and do the right thing if you want to play with us. Olivia in TX has questions about the Bible being true and how things she was told would come true when she was a kid are true now. How did you independently ver...

Sep 30, 20242 hr 7 minSeason 28Ep. 39
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