Talk Heathen 04.33 2020-08-16 with Eric Murphy & Trae Crowder

Greetings, Heathens! Hope your week is off to a grand start. We have a very special guest in the co-host seat today, comedian and activist, Trae Crowder! Welcome to the show Trae, we are glad you are here! Here’s his Youtube channel, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yALet’s get to calls! Returning caller Phil in North Carolina has issues with our choice of thumbnails and the term “cafeteria Christians”. He continues to talk about the problems with ad populum and “people want their God.” Eric moves on to ask, is it true and pragmatic, though?Next up, Chuck in Michigan calls in to talk about speciation, evolution, and how Aristotle’s unmoved mover fits into it all. He also starts to set up his argument by basically giving us the history of life on Earth and how the Cambrian explosion of life happened too quickly (it didn’t, it took MILLIONS of years) and doesn’t fall in line with Darwinian evolution. “I don’t know, therefore God,” doesn’t work in this example (or any example). Will Chuck get to the explanation of the Aristotle’s unmoved mover argument without help from Eric? (Nope.)PJ in North Carolina is wondering about the cherry picking that Christians use to justify their behavior, and how to basically accept their beliefs after a childhood of religious trauma and abuse. Eric speaks from experience about this specific issue and how to better approach this problem. Eric then asks: “Why is your recovery (from religious trauma) requiring other people?” PJ, perhaps contacting Recovering from Religion may be helpful to you: https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org or the Secular Therapy Project: https://www.seculartherapy.org/ Ivi in Florida is next, she recently deconverted from a Pentacostal church where they “spoke in tongues” and still has a fear of Hell. The call drops, but Trae and Eric talk a bit about this fear of hell and how many new atheists handle it. Next in the queue is Kathy in Pennsylvania is calling about moral relativism, she starts out talking about being worried about going to Hell and moves onto the topic of moral relativism. She finally gets to the question: Do we believe there is an absolute morality or can morals be relative? Dak in California said he was cursed on July 27th! He was supposed to be afflicted with illness and it hasn’t happened! Wow, and Eric’s curse is going on 5 months and nothing has happened. At the end of the day, this call is about someone’s random internet fight...and maybe not that useful.Thanks for joining us today, Trae! Thanks to you viewers, mods, and crew as well, this was a fantastic show. Please continue to be safe out there, this world is only better with you in it! See you next week!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/talk-heathen--3195702/support.