Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Jim Barrows is joined Student Doctor Ben at the Freethought Library! Kevin from GA disputes the reliability and double standards of social constructs. From a social perspective, the caller asks why it isn’t acceptable to kick down someone’s door to steal food from others if we are hungry? If humans are animals and other animals will take drastic action in the name of self-preservation, why is this any less acceptable? Jon fr...
Dec 19, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 26Ep. 51
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, JMike is joined by Dave Warnock! Davis from CO is calling to ask about what God or what kind of God atheists are rejecting. The caller states that they do not have enough faith to ascribe to “the atheist worldview” whatever that is. Julian from FL has a question about Job 38:16 and how it predicted the recently discovered geysers in the sea. How did we get to that out of this vague verse? Bear from WA claims that God’s glory...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 26Ep. 50
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Forrest Valkai is joined by JMike! Muhammad from CA wants to discuss their views that naturalism takes away the characteristics that make humans unique. But a lack of uniqueness and predetermined purpose doesn’t necessarily correlate with value or worthiness? Sheep of God, because why not, from TX is calling to defend the claim that secularism is a form of faith. The more atheist shows SoG watched, the more they learned abou...
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Season 26Ep. 49
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Student Doctor Ben is joined Adam Elmasri! Jon from Canada is calling to ask what is one’s purpose in life if the person doesn’t believe in God or if there isn’t a god? And also education about trans people is apparently the equivalent of genocide, and no they won’t defend that. Jaime from TX wants to know how to criticize Islam without coming off as Islamophobic especially with the history of that in the U.K. Make it genera...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 26Ep. 48
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Forrest Valkai is joined by Christy Powell! First up is Damien from WA who wants advice on how to explain to their family that they don’t enjoy the religious inquiries and love, and that their non-belief is not an attack on them. Jay from IA asks why Atheists feel the need to talk about their non-belief and tell others God doesn’t exist all the time. The answer varies from atheist to atheist based on their own experiences. B...
Nov 21, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 26Ep. 47
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Forrest Valkai is joined by Dave Barrows! First up is Victoria from Chile is wondering if religion or religious practices, given their predominance across modern cultures, may have first formed prior to the emergence of homo sapiens. Next is King from AK is calling to present evidence, that at least to their friend, that Atheists converting to Christianity such as C.S. Lewis and Anthony Flew is evidence for god. The evidence...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 55 min•Season 26Ep. 46
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Kenneth is joined by the one and only Dave Warnock! Michael from CA is calling to claim the prophecies in the Bible are in fact accurate because the Euphrates River is drying up, waters in China are turning blood red (not actually turning to human blood.) and that there are wars and rumors of wars. Jay from NY presents the double slit experiment and the observer effect in order to demonstrate that conscious observation activ...
Nov 07, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 26Ep. 45
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Jim Barrows is joined by Johnny P. Angel! First up is Kevin from Canada who claims that there are other dimensions, among many other claims. So. Many. Claims. Next up is Sarah from Belgium who is beginning to question their faith, and asks out hosts if there is any truth to Judaism. Historically speaking regarding the Israelites, definitely. With regards to the religious beliefs and stories, likely less so. Connor, TX from t...
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Season 26Ep. 44
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, JMike is joined by Jim Barrows! First up is Kevin from GA, a theist who disagrees with slavery in the Bible, especially the constant Christian defense. The issue is, the caller also admits that God’s commands are perfectly justified and should be followed, therefore contradicting their own moral judgments. Aman from TX doesn’t find owning another human being as property to be moral but also doesn’t find their god who support...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 26Ep. 43
In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Shannon Q is joined by Kenneth! First up is Mark from CA who wants to write a letter to their young relatives who have been raised in a fundamentalist environment and would like advice from our hosts on what to open the letter with. Next is Troy from WA who doesn’t necessarily believe in a God, but is convinced that there is a high probability of other life in the universe and that one of these other intelligent organisms created us in their image. B...
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 26Ep. 42
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 Catholicism. 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...
Oct 10, 2022•1 hr 22 min
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Matt Dillahunty is joined by Jim Barrows! Mr. Warlights from AK starts off the show by accusing Matt of secretly believing in spirits because Matt is just a normal human like the rest of us, and regular humans all believe in spirits. You know, as opposed to all of the not regular humans who don’t? Next is Isaiah from Korea who is calling to talk about the parental reaction to deconversion, or not sharing the religion of thei...
Oct 02, 2022•1 hr 27 min
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Matt Dillahunty is joined by Andrew Seidel! Dustin from TX is calling to ask Matt what his stance is on the claim that they “choose to believe” in a God. How can you choose to be convinced? You either are or you aren't. Next is Jaime from the audience who was called something unfortunate after stating they were an agnostic, and are curious if agnosticism really is just sitting on the fence. Thomas from KY is calling to ask h...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 28 min
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Shannon Q is joined by Dave Warnock! First up is Philip from Canada who is calling to answer this weeks poll question “Is the Holy Spirit something that is experienced outside the brain?” Why did God reveal himself to you and save you from overdose and abandoned others in your same situation. Next is Michael from KY who claims to have evidence for the existence of God which is apparently hidden in the “Book of Eli” with Denz...
Sep 19, 2022•1 hr 31 min
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 38 min
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Matt Dillahunty is joined by Jmike! First up is Tyler from TX who is an Atheist who is calling to explain the better reason for why God condones slavery in the bible. But why tho? Next up is Aaron from IL who believes that Catholicism is absolutely factual and their God is the one true God. The caller is very adamant in telling us what they believe but is incapable of actually explaining why they believe. MacGruber from Cana...
Sep 05, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Matt Dillahunty is joined by Jim Barrows! First up is James from Canada who supposedly has scientific evidence that supports Jonah’s ability to survive in a whale’s mouth. Except it wasn’t a whale's mouth, but the stomach of a fish. Our first audience question of the show asks what the host’s opinion what the weirdest Christian denomination is. Next is Sean from UT who criticizes referencing the harm caused by Christianity t...
Aug 28, 2022•1 hr 29 min
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, JMike is joined by Forrest Valkai! First up is Charles from Canada who is calling to present a bible quote that supposedly supports the truth of evolution. What about all of the other verses that do not? Next is Luc from Canada who disagrees that Atheists can have an objective moral system without belief in a God. There are objective facts about our reality that we can form a morality around. Chopping off someone’s head obje...
Aug 21, 2022•1 hr 29 min
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Shannon Q is joined by Secular Rarity! Our first caller today is Charles from Canada who claims that the big bang model is consistent within the story of Genesis. Next is Kevin from NV who is very persuasive in converting people to their beliefs, but is concerned about bigoted acts being committed by these people after deconverting. Bob from VA is convinced that “all” Atheists are just making arguments from personal incredul...
Aug 14, 2022•1 hr 31 min
Welcome back to the show! In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Matt Dillahunty is joined by Kenneth! Our first caller today is Michael from MI who believes that mathematical imaginary numbers can prove the existence of well– their definition of God at least. Denver from VA wants advice on how to introduce skepticism to their very unskeptical girlfriend who believes in significant amounts of woo including astrology and alternative “natural” medicine. While the caller doesn’t want to inte...
Aug 07, 2022•1 hr 25 min
Welcome back to the Atheist Experience everyone! Today, here to kick off our first episode back in the studio are your hosts, Jim Barrows and Christy Powell! Our first audience question is from Aaron from TX who is wondering how our host’s ended up volunteering here at the ACA? Rodney from MI is calling to prove the existence of the Christian God. Their evidence is that they believe in Jesus and his life story, and the likeness of the near-death experience accounts. Next is Gohan from TX who wan...
Jul 31, 2022•1 hr 23 min
In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Jim Barrows is joined by Kenneth! First up is Kevin from FL who compares our relationship to God, as a child’s to their parents. From this, the caller claims that God’s past actions and “rules” about morality are disagreeable to us because we are incapable of understanding his reasoning in a similar manner to how a child doesn’t understand why playing video games all day can be detrimental. Marcus from KY apparently has a miraculous survival story af...
Jul 24, 2022•1 hr 29 min
In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Dave Warnock is joined by Forrest Valkai! First up is Devon from CA who asks our hosts why tragedies, big or small, influence people’s position on the God belief either one way or the other? Why do bad things happen to good people, and vice versa? Next up is Daniel from NJ who recently had a conversation about evolution with their creationist father, and felt scientifically unequipped to rebut the creationist claims. Creationism itself is a claim tha...
Jul 17, 2022•1 hr 39 min
In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Matt Dillahunty is joined by JMike! First up is John from CA who says that there are multiple pathways to reaching the truth about God’s existence, and that a pathway available to one person might not be accessible to another. Next up is Dean from CA who believes that science doesn’t require methodological naturalism, but does require philosophical naturalism. So scientists get to use unmeasurable supernatural phenomenon to create new theories? Seems...
Jul 10, 2022•1 hr 32 min
In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Matt Dillahunty is joined by Forrest Valkai! First up is Christian from the UK who has a hypothetical argument for the existence of a God or a divine being. Next up is John from India, who has found a connection between Anti-Natalism and Anthropodicy and has concluded that the only justification for having children in this imperfect universe is universal salvation. Next is John from TX claims to have scientific, historical, and testimonial evidence f...
Jul 03, 2022•1 hr 21 min
Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 23 min
In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Secularity Rarity is joined by Apostate Prophet! First up is David from Canada who is calling to argue for a necessary uncaused first cause for the universe, ie a creator god. Next up is Kevin from UT who is calling to ask for advice on how to help comfort religious family members who are grieving the death of a family member. The caller is out as an atheist, so they are unsure of how to approach them without potentially triggering a confrontation. B...
Jun 19, 2022•1 hr 30 min
In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Secular Rarity is joined by Dave Warnock. First up is Sebastian from IL who is calling to voice their disagreement with Matt’s bodily autonomy abortion argument. Next up is George from MD who is looking for advice for talking to their girlfriend who is a Young-Earth Creationist & biblical literalist. The caller wants to know how to go about approaching them about this subject to potentially start them changing their mind. Next is Karol from Europe wh...
Jun 12, 2022•1 hr 21 min
Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of The Atheist Experience. This week, Shannon Q is joined by the one and only Forrest Valkai! First up is Anthony from VA who is calling to argue that the body of God is the universe. The argument is founded on the idea that complex arrangements of atoms can lead to consciousness, and solar systems look similar to atoms and they might be the atoms of God? Next up is Noah from CA, a deist who claims that we are born and are currently living in hell. T...
Jun 05, 2022•1 hr 21 min
In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, Matt Dillahunty is joined by @Paulogia! First up is Issac from Israel who presents an argument for the truth of Judaism and its version of God by using the continued existence of the Jewish people. Next up is Clarence from OH who is confused about the laws of identity, non-contradiction, and excluded middle. Kevin from NY has a claim that will help our hosts find God. What’s the claim? The book of Enoch apparently describes supermassive black holes, ...
May 29, 2022•1 hr 29 min
