the atheist experience #648 [part 01 of 09] - interview with aronra

[mikeyanagita1]

Jesus Christ, Dillahunty babbles on for 6+ minutes about nonsense at the beginning of the show.

[1AceKE]

bigfoot and dr. evil. love them both

[IamAWarHeroFromHalo2]

Not to be duch but you need to use less time on telling ppl what you are doing.

But great show :D

[nicochunger]

at 3:55 the date changes... wtf!?

[autopsy87]

i gotta say, if I was religious and ever thought about calling in to the show... i wouldnt do it with Matt and Aronra hosting the show. Thats way to much bad ass and mind raping knowledge.

[chinamanspeakenlis]

creationists ask, nothing can come from nothingness. you need to have a creator well my question is then if things can come from nothingness then who created god????where did god come frm???by the same logic there was a creator of god just like there is painter of a painting. then there should be creator of that creator of god n so on...whr does it end???something started frm nothing right???otherwise whoever came first, who created him/that/them???

[berner]

The one question I have is: What was the motive or hope of whoever wrote the bible, when they wrote it?

[TheSurrealityTest]

@berner For the lulz?

[TheUnsentGuardian]

Internet Explorer fails at 7:31.

[Cougar139tweak]

Texas atheists get lots of practice debating faith, Just think of these guys as the swords and the Texas faith community as the sharpening stone.

[fragglet]

3:09 the date changes from 3/14 to 2/28?

[mauriciohavok]

I'd like to be a member of the ACA but I don't even live in the USA :'(

[instereovideos]

The two best hosts. Matt, and "Cannibal Corpse Matt."

[CRISNCHIPS12398]

AronRa is an intellectual beast.

[HybridD91]

@techepix Because they aren't the ones that control and set up the technology. Ever thought of that? Apparently not.

[B00mBoomboy]

I love his explanation of ancients trying to account for women's contribution to civilization without actually giving them credit.

[natmanprime]

what so you call them "pub crawls" in the US too?

I thought they'd be "bar crawls"...hm

also eden ws a real place, Sun god Yahweh scorched the earth, also women were sinful because they worshipped the moon, Sin = moon worship, Diana the moon goddess.

Fell into agriculture, solar cult, bull worship, 10,000 yrs ago, Egypt, judaism, babylon, christianity, persia, aryans, teutons, romans, catholicism, goths, islam, normans, protestantism, the west, industrial revolution, fascism all the way.

[Jonstern1983]

If the pub-crawl happened in NYC no one would notice.

[koulac]

lol, I love seeing AronRa's face looking over his shoulder.. I always think it looks like he is saying: "Son, I am disappoint"

[tovadaq]

Funny how the date changes 1/3th through the video... ;-)

[Sacr0sanctity]

What was that initial song?

[lhvinny]

@Sacr0sanctity Look at 0:36 for the song credits :)

[Redbeardian]

I was kicked out of Sunday School for asking questions as a child!!!!! I was told my questions were disruptive. I didn't realize it was a common occurence..

[Redbeardian]

@Redbeardian I remember being very interested in the eternally burning bush and excitedly asking questions like "Is the bush still burning now!?!" "Can we go see it?!" What was it made of if it could burn forever!?!" "Does God have a special magic fire!?!" ..... Of course they couldn't answer any of those ... then afterwards I was taken aside and asked to not come back :( .... Nothing like good ol' xian tribal rejection as a child.

[richwfd2002]

@Redbeardian Sounds like Ellie Arroway in the movie, Contact.........

[opensourcethong]

that constant coughing in the background is really fucking annoying

[DeflocculatedDentist]

The snake actually represents the Babylonian goddess of creation that they were rejecting

[eulercircles]

@DeflocculatedDentist So Genesis was written during or after Babylonian captivity (c. 600 B.C.) rather than by the hand of Moses (supposedly) some 1800 years earlier? I've heard other theories about that time frame for authorship as well, and it's starting to convince me...

[DeflocculatedDentist]

@eulercircles I personally think a lot of genesis was oral history that was eventually written down and adapted in the form we have today. From what I understand, the scholarly opinion is that there were multiple authors or groups of authors at different time periods writing it down. The creation and fall appears to be a story of the conflict of cultures between Mesopotamia and Semitic herding life.

[Adventfred]

@DeflocculatedDentist

hey you have a link to that

[JUANMO94]

@radioflyer96 What the fuck are you talking about? I said I believed you to make you shut up, is it really hard to see?

[JUANMO94]

@radioflyer96 mmmh, thanks, I guess...

[JUANMO94]

@radioflyer96 Okay, okay, I believe you.

[JUANMO94]

@radioflyer96 Why would he give over 32000 dollars to republican candidates, or appear in pro prayer campaigns? If he does it for money, he is a false person. I think that you are lying about being his friend. Cause as far as I know, he is a devout christian.

[JUANMO94]

@radioflyer96 If he really lives near you, ask him. He has written books about christianity and donated big amounts of money to republican candidates, and the rule number 9 of his code of honor is "I will always remain loyal to my God, my country, family and my friends." By the way, I am atheist, I am not defending christianity.

[JUANMO94]

@radioflyer96 He seriously is, I saw him in an ad from a campaign about bringing back prayer to school. And when someone told him about the "facts" of Chuck Norris, he said that he was not able to do those things, that only god can. He seriously is a christian. I don't trust that guy either, I just know for a fact that he is, look in google.

[JUANMO94]

@radioflyer96 Chuck Norris is fundamentalist christian.

[kevrs2]

is this a 10 minute disclaimer?

[onemanjazzfuneral]

um...chuck norris is NOT atheist lol.......

[toxickatie]

AronRa is the Chuck Norris of Atheist's :P

[NorseWiz]

I love this show, but man - it's time to change the intro-song.. Sick of it.

[Korkzor]

Those two might be the most fearsome team any theist could possibly meet.

[akelppsh41]

where can i get that song

[stamboni316]

Matt seemed really excited to have AronRa on the show. He kept blowing his intro script =D!

[ainefairygoddess]

amazing that in that black hole of fundamentalism known as Texas, there are two of the greatest online secular thinkers

[bobtheantman1]

@ainefairygoddess Nowhere near as astounding as the fact that people like Galileo, Darwin, Spinoza, Voltaire, Socrates (or the person who developed the Socratic method) or Ayaan Hirsi Ali arose in the face of an overwhelming religious and cultural bias, often with explicitly fatal consequences for the dissenter.

[brpowerful]

@ainefairygoddess The stupidity of Texas is a steryotype that has lived up to it's reputation, I just moved to Texas....it's ridiculous. However, the atheist I know seem to be sharper down here in the south because they have to put with more bullshit everyday...so it's no surprise to me that aronra and matt came from hillbilly heavan.

[hoboboxerjoe]

@brpowerful, that's actually a really good line of reasoning. Makes sense.

[Adventfred]

@ainefairygoddess

not only that there is also alot of interracial couples

texas has com a long way

[natmanprime]

@ainefairygoddess YinYang, they are defined by the greatness of the opposition that surrounds them...

There would be not as much reason for them to be, in a less religious country/state

[bfgray]

@ainefairygoddess Maybe not coincodence? Still I agree.

[111sUpErBaD111]

Aronra kinda looks like dillahunty with hair

[armarjaleo]

Aron is the man. so far no one can contest him.

[Rahab111222]

I wanna see AronRa argue with a dumb caller

[fc007]

Whenever I think of Thor, I think of Aronra

[grendelee]

@fc007 they are related, apparently

[fc007]

@grendelee ;)

[mmmodafoca]

ha! that should be place on a black t-shirt. :)

[fc007]

@mmmodafoca haha!

[coolman9999uk]

@fc007 How often do you think of Thor?

[fc007]

@coolman9999uk What kind of a question is that? Whenever I pray to him of course.

[mornmeril]

@fc007 I think of Odin. Thor was said to have red hair, I think.

[Thulgore]

@fc007 Odin would be a better fit.

[Lordiogo]

loved the intro music! anyone know the name of it?

[Xenophile665]

@Lordiogo, Check the video at about 36 seconds: Bryan Steeksma's "Listen to Reason?"

( You're welcome! :-)

[x1tekja]

@Xenophile665

ツ

[RaLLenheimer]

thx for uploading !

[queenastilon]

Now that's very interesting. I'd come to a similar conclusion at one point, as a child, as in Eve being the one to bring wisdom to Adam.

I couldn't understand why this god person was so angry about it, though.

Mind you, this was before I'd grasped the idea that I was being asked to believe this was all actually true.

[FadeLLW]

Me neither, although when I first heard about the story, I was around 7-8 years old so I guess I'm a little too developed for childhood indoctrination so it did not effect me as much.

[queenastilon]

@FadeLLW, I was around 7, too, when I realised the teacher expected us to believe it; I laughed! Got hit on the fingernails for that. Before that I'd just enjoyed the adapted-for-children stories: - the hero's good magic wins against the baddies' bad magic. I also hadn't connected "scripture" lessons to the compulsory daily mini church services; they were just something we had to endure every morning, like the Headmistress shouting a lot & picking out seemingly random little kids to hit