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Happy New Year from The Atheist Community of Austin! This year we began a new segment called “Talk Heathen to Me” or as we generically referred to as “question of the week.” This segment is only as good as the comments we get to respond to, and you, the viewers, really rose to the challenge! Here is a compilation of our ten favorite questions and answers.

Dive into this year's best, most viewed calls of Talk Heathen with 'Talk Heathen's Top 5 Calls of 2023.' Discover thought-provoking conversations that challenge beliefs and promote critical thinking, and in rare cases, change minds. We're giving our valued hosts, guests and crew this holiday season off, but we still want to be able to bring you some of the moments that have made Season 7 one of the best ones so far! So from all of us at Talk Heathen and The Atheist Community of Austin, we...

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Welcome to Talk Heathen! In today’s episode of the show our host Jimmy Jr. is joined by returning guest host Tom Henson. Our first caller Phil in the Lone Star State to discuss the Plastic Reindeer Rule, a Supreme Court Case which ruled, yes you can have a nativity scene on public property, but must display other decor of the holiday season. So elves, reindeers, Santa, and extend it also to other religious symbiology associated with their holiday traditions as well. This led into further...

Welcome to Talk Heathen! This week, we have Christy Powell and Jimmy Jr. dismantle this idea that men and women parent differently so the only option is a nuclear family. Ya know, because reasons and God. Mr. Warlight from Alaska says that Islam has been overall beneficial to mankind. We don’t appreciate the tacky jokes denigrating actual tragedies. There is an important conversation to be had about the bad things that come from religions but poking fun of a religion detracts from that...

Welcome to Talk Heathen our wonderful watchers!!! Your hosts for the day, Jimmy Jr. & Dr. Ben! Both veterans of the U.S. Military so please leave a comment, thank them for their service. Jonathan from the Sunshine State is first to give our veteran hosts a call to talk about different experiences he had as a Naval officer. Speaking from first hand knowledge of their lives, both the hosts and Jonathan exchange their perspectives of being members of the armed forces. Also, Jon and our...

Will from Mississippi gives us a call to work through the issues one deals with letting go of God and finding meaning without belief. Deconstruction is a tough process and Will speaks about his own experience and Johnny proposes the question: why believing in a God is a virtue? Those who are letting go of religion, this should give a believer some pause. Also, kindness is something we can all do, without the promise of a reward when we die and how the Bible’s only concern is if you are...

Welcome to this week’s episode of Talk Heathen! Today Doctor Ben joins Jimmy Jr. to heathen-up your Youtube feed. Krazy Jerry in MI has been getting into the science of religion and wonders how they knew water came out of Jesus’ chest once stabbed after death. People have been stabbing other people long before Jesus, they could have known by past experience. This shouldn’t change your beliefs, pointing to something true in the bible doesn’t prove all of it is true. Throughout history,...

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Welcome to Talk Heathen! Today we have Richard Gilliver and Secular Rarity taking your calls about all things heathen. First up, VonZoom in OH doesn’t have an answer for the fine tuning argument. It’s almost always argued as fine tuning for life. The earth is nowhere near fine tuned for humans, let alone the entire universe. These are usually just hand wave arguments, they don’t give examples. When you dig into the sciences, fine tuning falls apart. Repeat caller, Otari from the country...

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Welcome to Talk Heathen! One of our new hosts, Sofia Spina, joins ObjectivelyDan live in the studio! Felix in FL is first up! He claims secularism is destroying the purity of sex and that devalues monogamous marriage. Purity culture does not lead to longer lasting marriages and can lead to marrying just to have sex. You need to be skeptical of your sources of information, especially if they’re part of the manosphere. Those values can lead to dehumanizing people. Gary in NY claims...

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Welcome to Talk Heathen! Today we have the newest member of the TH hosting team, Jimmy Jr, and Richard Gilliver fielding your queries about abortion and spiritual beliefs. Michael in FL asks advice on dealing with the fear of hell. Oddly, he grew up believing in Annihilationism and is now feeling depression-like effects after a dream of going to hell. It’s just programming from religion so you don’t question your beliefs. It takes time to unlearn that. Look into Recovering from Religion and...

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On today’s special episode of the Talk Heathen we have three hosts! The amazing trio of Forrest Valkai, Jmike, and Jamie the Blind Limey make this an amazing episode. Kevin in OR is deconstructing his mennonite faith and is unable to shake the fear of going to hell. Religious trauma can be hard to get over, this even happens to people that haven’t believed in decades. It fades over time, you’ll realize you’re thinking about it less and less. It may help to look into the origins of the hell...

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Today’s episode of the Talk Heathen ObjectivelyDan joins Richard Gilliver to answer your (hopefully) wonderful questions. Muji in Europe asks what issues atheists have with god wanting people to do good deeds, like love one another and give to charities? It’s not all good… Non-believers don’t believe gods exist and can do all those same good deeds, sans holy book. The quran supports the owning of human beings and child marriage! That’s straight up immoral and we reject that “holy”...

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Today’s episode of the Talk Heathen is a tag team of Jamies. Jamie Boone and Jamie The Blind Limey team up to … talk about veganism a lot. Tim from MN is disheartened by atheists going dogmatic. Claiming to see similarities of not being able to question something: citing being pro-vaccine even though the Covid-19 vaccine can be harmful. It comes down to risk management. The consensus of medical professionals says it’s best to get vaccinated. Nick from OH claims veganism is inline with...

In today’s episode of the Talk Heathen, Doctor Ben and Richard Gilliver take calls ranging from values to the resurrection. Josh from NY claims that prayer is “incredibly helpful” and goes on to say prayer isn’t simply a cure all. Prayer is about a coin flip in terms of effectiveness. You shouldn’t accept something like prayer without evidence that it works. Get checked by a medical professional if you have any illnesses. Prayer doesn’t help, at all. Amanuel from TX asks how atheists come...