The Infidel Guy Show - The God Virus with Dr. Darrel Ray

Dr. Darrel Ray will be our guest to discuss memes and how religion is analogous to a virus. Dr. Ray is the author of the book The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture. Check out his Web site at http://www.thegodvirus.net. Don't forget to visit The Infidel Guy website @ http://www.infidelguy.com

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[slarne]

Good show, but you really need a better encoder or highter bitrate, the sound is harsh and a pain to listen to.

[infidelguy]

@slarne, I could but I don't want to have a host of 100MB files on my computer or on my server.

[slarne]

That's to bad, you put alot of effort into the show, guests attending and so forth. And it's not woth 100MB per show to archive it in a resonable bitrate?

1h audio should easily be squeezed down alot more than 100MB and still sound crisp. Around 100kbit vbr and no one would notice anything, this must be closer to 32 than 64kbit.

If you need to squeeze it even more, have you tried downsampling to 1 channel, that should reduce wasted bits.

Take it the right way, im just trying to help!

[infidelguy]

@slarne, this show was recorded at 64kbps. youtube compresses it further. The file I uploaded was 84MB. Remember, these are hour long shows. Not 10 minute clips.

[Faergen]

Love the intro! LoL

[Ruxias]

Val's voice needs to be louder, she is rather quiet compared to Reggie.

[Kraized]

I love stargate!!!

[Kraized]

What was the name of that new species of dinosaur?

[smoothrasin]

I'm still unclear as to what chat room he talks about? i still can't find it

[benaberry]

Religious free world!

[ipwnorcs]

woman in the picture is hot!

[Wildcard120]

@hjeter1217 A good word! Keep watching!

[besidemymind]

@Gods0n1- In a perfect, Christian, world... yeah. In the real world, you're an idiot.

[besidemymind]

@hjeter1217- God drowns every living thing on earth, except Noah and family and 2 of each animal, because the world was wicked. So all of those souls are in hell just to have a wicked world again. God would soon kill everyone than to send Jesus to save them? Yes, it's what He did. What's the 'why'?

Also, how am I supposed to take 2 Kings 2: 23-24? I could never get a solid answer on this one since I was a kid. It's actually the seed that started my disbelief. I'm atheist because of the Bible.

[besidemymind]

@hjeter1217 It's funny you say that because I was a Christian until I was about 24. I was raised in church living in NC and went a very fundamentalist Christian school. I had Bible classes through college and have read the entire Bible a few times over.

Here's the issue with your statement: Do I take the Bible completely literal as I was taught since being a child? Or do I pick what was actual vs. what was principle? Not even every Christian even agrees with the Bible, thus dozens of sects.

[hjeter1217]

@besidemymind instead of listening and making opinions of what you may have heard or skimmed through in the Bible why don't you read it from cover to cover. Read it several times and then maybe you partially get the jest of it. sometimes "what happens" is not always as important as "why" something happened. Lack of knowlege on the Bible itself is one reason why people don't understand it. You can't just read or hear one part.