Talk Heathen 07.17 with ObjectivelyDan and Blind Limey

Blind Limey makes his live debut in the studio today with Objectively Dan! They appeal to the higher power of AI when dealing with street preachers who tell us the origin of morality while being possessed by relatives.Janet from FL knows we don’t have evidence for Christianity but believes because there has not been something that has convinced her not to. Introspection is hard and the fact that you have engaged in this already is fantastic. What does it mean to have not seen evidence to not believe? Just because we can’t tell you how the universe started doesn't mean that we default to the Christian reason. Lisa in Canada asks why we are tempted to believe there is some sort of special involvement when something unusual happens. Superstitions that point to our need for survival, self preservations, and hierarchies that we have developed cause us to tend to think that we are being helped in some way. Arlindo in the UK asks about Chat GPT. We defer to those with more knowledge than us as one of our arguments. Chat GPT is just a language model that puts together words that we like, and not some form of intelligence with beliefs. Matias in Finland lets us know there are many street preachers that are obviously foreign operating in Finland, and wants to know what to do with them. You may try street epistemology, but you might find they are not worth your time. Sometimes, when these people go to Europe to preach, it can be a step in the right direction if you engage in a conversation with them, eventually leading to deconversion. Chris in PA asks how morality is found by atheists. Morality is something that comes naturally and from our ability to community, thrive, and survive. How do you determine that your god actually is moral? If god were to kill a bunch of people unnecessarily for them not being up to his standards, would that be a bad thing to do? Christianity justifies terrible things because they feel an obligation to a god. If any other authority threatened you with death to get you to obey, would you accept it? If Hitler were your dad, would you still follow Biblical law and “honor” him as your father? Gabriel from the audience asked what the dumbest thing was that someone thought atheists believe. Blind Limey said someone thought he was afraid of the truth.The funniest thing that happened to Dan was that a flat earther thought he was paid by NASA to say the earth is round. Harry in South Africa believes he saw a relative possessed by an ancestor. How can you tell that it was not a delusion or act? Anytime anything like this has been investigated, it has turned out to be a natural explanation or a sham. Thank you for tuning in this week! The question of the week is: What is a little known reason god sends people to hell?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/talk-heathen--3195702/support.