This atrocity that I'm about to read comes from Genesis chapter sixteen, verses one
through four. Let us open our bibles. Sarai, Abraham's wife, and
had an Egyptian slave girl. And Sarai said to Abraham, you see that
the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go into my slave girl.
It may be that I shall obtain children by her. And Abrahm listened to
the voice of Sarai. So Sarai took her slave girl and gave her to
her husband as a wife. He went into her and she conceived. Here's
proof that Yahweh, the very insignificant Mesopotamian storm God turned Hebrew creator God,
has no issue with slavery, rape, or kidnapping, since part of his
plan obviously was for Abraham to rape his slave and give her child to his
own wife. It's no wonder that the founders of this very country not only
use the Bible to justify slavery, but also rape their slaves and sold off
their children. If you're a Christian Hebrew American and you are outraged by anything
that I just said, then you don't really know much about the history of
your country or your religion. In fact, you're ignigrant to quite a bit,
and I think you should call the show and talk to us about it,
because it's starting now. Hello, Hello, everybody, Welcome to another
episode of Talk Heathen. I am your host today objectively Dan. Today is
Sunday, October first, twenty twenty three, and joining me today is Jimmy
Junior, other host of Talk Heathen. First time US of US hosting Talk
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Before we get to calls, though, we do have our question of the
week. It's the question that we're asking you guys every single week and we're
reading your responses too. And the last week's question we asked was what is
inappropriate to say at a religious funeral? This was a hot question to ask.
Was a little nervous about some of the responses, but we have our
top three responses for you here. It's number three comes from our ur al
Turner, who says, sorry, that's our turner. My contexts are not
in right again, and I gotta work with that. But anyway, it
says inappropriate thing to say at a religious funeral. I'm sure he's down below
screaming up at us. Which is which is really? I know that's an
old George Carlin reference. Is it George Carlin? That sounds like George Carlin
thing? Okay, all right, I'm knocking off points for stealing from George
Carlin. But you know what, maybe George Carlin is screaming up at us,
telling us we're stealing as jokes, so regardless of that. Number two
comes from Kirk and Kirk and MP, who says, inappropriate thing to say
to Christian funeral. We are gathered here today on this joyous occasion to celebrate
the passing of the deceased. Maybe all join him soon, which is a
very funny. I don't know. I like that one. Number one comes
from Veranda Rendsburger, who also had the number three and number one comment on
truth Wanted the other day. By the way, it said inappropriate thing to
say at a religious funeral. Let's give it three days and see if it
takes. Which is awesome, well, very good. These are great answers.
These are better than I was very afraid of the answer to the question
last week, but we ended up getting some really good ones. So this
week is gonna be a little bit different. We actually have a caption context.
So audio listeners, I'm sorry because you're not gonna be able to participate
as much. But let's be real, you probably weren't commenting on YouTube anyway
because you're listening somewhere else. So this week is the caption this image,
it's me and Sophia from last week's talking. Then what are we saying in
this Uh, you know we want to know, So give us your best
caption below. And Jimmy, you had a really good caption for this.
What was your caption for this? This image? On screen? Here?
This this image reeks of eighteen seventies wild West misogyny. It looks like Dan
is optioning off Sophia and he's saying, you two folks, you too,
you can win a date with this young lady. She's cooked clean, she's
cautioning her off for a date. It's so funny you can read and write.
It's so right though. I laughed so hard when you type that.
I thought that was so funny. But yeah, that's a good one,
so you can't steal that. You guys have to think of a better one
than that. But good luck, because I think that one's pretty good.
Yeah, I want to see what you guys right, So give us a
shout out in the comment below saying caption contest and giving your your caption and
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are absolutely welcome. We are happy to be here. Jimmy, you're ready
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this all week. Let's jump in. Let's do it. Let's do it.
We have our first call from Charles calling from Pennsylvania. Charles, you
are live on talkie. Then, what's going on? Are you? Thanks?
Yeah. They talked about evolution and stuff like that. And I talked
to Richard Gilliver a couple of weeks ago. He said, you had an
evolution specialist on there. Wanted me to call in, but I couldn't wait
too long. There was other people ahead of me. And see, anyway,
I'm glad I got in here today. But maybe you could answer during
the beginning, whenever humans were just evolving in this world is pretty primitive,
there were wild predators evolving too, and mostly wild animals are a lot faster
than humans. They have claws and sharp, big teeth, and they could
smell a mile away. And so if a human was evolving and he had
a woman with him and a baby crying in the woods at night, and
so the wild predators would hear that and they were very hungry, so they
would come after and find those humans and eat them. Basically, humans only
have one baby at the time normally, and like say, wild predators,
they have a litter, they have a bunch of you know, offspring.
So it seems to me that you'd have a lot of wild predators searching for
something to eat, and that little baby wouldn't shut up crying and here comes
and how would man protect against that? And you can't tell me. Sticks
and rocks and they had fire, and they didn't have fire in the beginning,
but I wouldn't imagine, but God protected man in the early beginnings from
wild predators. It's it's my thought. Okay, just real quick and your
point of view. How long ago are we talking here? Thank yeah?
And whenever man begins to evolve, I'm not sure. I don't know,
but I'm not sure anybody really knows that far back. My take on this
first, and then let Jimmy give his take on this. But you have
to keep in mind a couple of things here, because when we're talking about
the origin of humans, that can be a little bit tricky. But we
need a modern like Homo sapiens. Right. One thing to consider with this
is Remember we're not the only primates on Earth. Right. There are also
guerrillas and chimpanzees that also give about one you know, one baby at a
time, right, that are very similar to us, and I would argue
have less defenses than we do in some circumstances, right, I mean,
certainly, I don't think you think a chimpanzee is as smart or a gorilla
is as smart as a human being, right, as the ability to manipulate
tools and things like that. But even beyond that, right, there are
animals that have different reproduction strategies. Deer, for example, right, dear,
don't have any defenses. Whatsoever they run is their defense. But we
still have deer around. Why do we do that because fray animals have typically
larger offsprings, right, So there's kind of an offset there. So while
you may think of us as defenseless, early primates are actually predators in many
sense. One of the ways we know this is that most predators on Earth
tend to have frontwood facing eyes as opposed to eyes on the sides of their
head like deer do. Another what we consider prey animals. So there's a
lot of speculation that early humans could be just as savage and just as predatory
as any other kind of predator. Do we have weaknesses? Are there other
animals that could prey on us? Sure? But if you think of the
average ape size as well, I mean, that's typically larger than what you
see in most ecosystems, we're very large organisms. That size in itself is
very helpful. But the earliest of humans are speculated to have two different kinds
of you know, mechanisms, one being the fact that we're bipedal means that
there's speculation that we were able to run first, right, which other apes
aren't able to do. So we're kind of running on the savannah. We're
able to actually track down animals using ambulatory predation, right. We're actually able
to outlast a lot of animals in terms of our exhaustion and our ability to
maintain stamina. We can do marathons. Other animals can't really do that,
right. Animals like lions and stuff will do these sprints, but they can't
really keep it up for that long. Cheetahs they're known for going really fast,
for example, but that's not something they can keep up for a long
time. Humans can actually stay for a long periods of time, which is
interesting, so you know, and on top of that, of course we
have our tool making abilities and stuff too, right, so just point out
there we have a lot of actually ways we can support ourselves and also be
predators, not just pray that even other apes on Earth who don't have those
kinds of tools don't have and yet still exist. To have this idea that,
oh, we must have been protected by God. I would wonder if
you'd say the same about bnobos or chimpanzees or gorillas who are just as defensive,
if not more so, but yet still survive on Earth and I don't
know, still do wealth for themselves although their biggest honestly a lot of those
animals biggest harm as humans at this point. But that's for another day to
talk about. Jimmy, what do you think of my answer? What do
you what do you have to contribute? Because I know you have some thoughts
too. I do, I do, and I thought your answer was very
good. I like the idea about tools, but I want to kind of
reflect on some of the things that excuse me. What was what's our Charles
Charles from Pennsylvania, Yeah, yeah, yeah, some of the things that
Charles said, so, first of all, people still get killed by predators
today. Okay, so uh going through history and we're not you're not really
giving us a kind of a time period. But not everybody was protected.
I mean some people were still eating, some people were still killed. Uh,
And so that's important to figure out did God protect those people? Why
did some people make it and some people didn't? And then why are we
still being killed today? That happens a lot all the time. Hippopotamus kills
more people every year than than any animal on earth. So just some food
for thought there. But you know, as humans were evolving, so were
the predators and as and so were our defense mechanisms against them, our methods.
And you say, well, don't tell me we had fire and sticks.
You know what, that's actually pretty important. You know for a group
of weaker, weaker, a weaker species to surround a more you know,
stronger and dangerous species, all holding sticks, all holding something to where they
the animal realizes that it would have to take on the entire group. And
then we're holding these things that make us look bigger than we are. Is
certainly a defense mechanism that would be effective. In fact, that's why we
started doing it. Look at the cobra, for example. The cobra has
maybe a one on one and a half inch flap of skin on each side
of its head that it expands when it's around the predator. Can it really
defeat a predator with a flap of skin. No, But they have to
look at that snake and say, this thing's bigger than and I thought,
and maybe they'll turn away and that snake gets to survive. The puffer fish
is another example. No tools of its own right, but it's able to
expand its body so that it looks like more of a threat than it is,
and maybe a would be predator decides to change its mind. And so
those are kind of the things that just come to mind. You know,
there isn't a formula that works for one set or one ancestor of the human
species that is consistent throughout time. It had to change as the predators changed,
and we all kind of evolved together, and we are still evolving and
we're still being killed by predators. Finally, that brings me to my last
point. How do we know that God protected anybody? I mean that that
is the key, the key question I have after your analysis or your synopsis.
You don't know how some people survived. Therefore God is your answer,
and that is insufficient for me. So I would ask you to kind of
respond, uh, you know, please respond to what Dan and I had
to say, but also tell me how do you know that God was protecting
anyone? Okay? Yeah, I like say, I don't know evolution,
and what I said was maybe something that somebody could study and kind of pinpoint
on that. But the reason I know that God is real I call it
in before about this. I've randomly found a photograph of my grandfather on hold
on, hold on, Charles. I'm sorry, Charles, can I can
I just step in here for a second. I'm sorry. So, so
you said you don't know anything about evolution and that's something that somebody would need
to study, and you you moved on, and basically what I what I
really want you to do is kind of try and harken back for the original
intent of your call and answer. You know, how do you know that
God protected people? You called with and you posited the claim that humans human
beings survived and an out lived some predator species because God was protecting us.
And now you're transitioning to a picture of your grandfather, and I can't.
We can't kind of move on just yet. All right. I want to
know what you have to say about Dan and I, the responses that Dan
and I gave you, and how you can attribute mankind's success to God.
Well, you know, God can if he wants to say he was the
creator. He can intervene in any way he chooses. That's like people talk
about the flood. I heard somebody say one time that there's not back then,
there wasn't enough water to cover the earth. And so I thought about
that, you know, and if Jesus, assuming Israel moll applied loaves of
bread, then God could actually mall apply how much water was on here and
get rid of it. Again. I mean, he can do things whin
there's no witnesses. Why would God want to evade detection? If he's got
a story that he called the planet, why cover up? He wants people
to come through him, to him through faith. He doesn't want you know
and that he's real, because it'd be kind of like having a camera watching
you every day, every move you made. You'd say, God's real.
He's watching me. I better behave and he wants you to kind of have
that gray area. Maybe we're Okay, I'm gonna do what I wanted.
There's no proof I'm gonna live my life and do what I want. So
you're more natural as far as being being watched, you know, like,
and he doesn't want you to know he's real. Like, I guess he
never gave proof to most people. Wait, wasn't Jesus doing miracles for people?
Wasn't that proof that he was God? Oh? Absolutely, but a
lot of people don't believe in Yeah, he gave roof and there's a lot
of people that doubt it and say all of that didn't happen or whatever.
So it's not like proof that you see each and every day and you lose
things for people. Right, there's apparently there is a select group of people
in history that did actually get to see God and know that he was doing
stuff. Right. Oh yeah, yeah, definitely. I mean it was
recorded if you know different apostle, I guess what it isn't many different places,
and you know it says in the Bible where about God says he warned
not to change his word, don't have to do it or take away from
it. And he said that because the people would and apparently I think it
happened. You know, it doesn't. That doesn't that kind of contradict your
idea here that God wants to remain anonymous and have plausible deniability if he's like
directly intervening in the lives of human beings and apparently still continues to today.
Well, yeah, when the Bible and all that was wrote in ancient times,
you know, and it lasted up until today, it's a big thing.
But in modern times you don't see any of that no more. Like
in the Hebrews One, it says God created the universe was his son Jesus.
There's no more profits after that. At that point, you know where
he got did away with the prophets that tell people convey for God. He
only used Jesus after that in Hebrews one and only. I don't want to
I don't want to turn this into turn this into a sermon, right,
I kind of want to get back to this idea that God specifically protects human
beings and therefore we owe our success to God. But God was not protecting
human beings when he flooded the planet right and killed everybody. Theoretically, God
was not protecting the three hundred and thirty thousand children that were molested in French
cathedrals between nineteen fifty and twenty twenty three. He's not protecting. He didn't
protect the people who were murdered in the Holocaust. I mean, do I
have to really go down this road where I start throwing out every single atrocity
that God chose not to intervene in and point out that this idea that God
specifically protects people is really not founded on anything that we can point to.
You know, your analysis that God protected people, therefore we survive today beyond
predators and the fact that a woman was killed by a black bear three months
ago in upstate New York. I read the article. I mean, that
doesn't fit. So neither does the Holocaust. Neither does the pandemic of child
molestation that happens behind closed doors in cathedrals worldwide. I just don't see how
you make the connection that God is a protector in any way, shape or
form. And I'd really like you to show us some proof or give me
something that's going to agree with you. Well, he protected early man,
that was a period of time and now things. He gave everybody free will
to do bad things, good things, you know, like that I would
like to get back to. And now listen. I randomly found the photograph
of nineteen thirty four of my grandfather. He passed away when I was a
four month old baby in nineteen fifty eight, and I've pray about him,
I've visited his grave, and I think about him a good bit. I'm
sixty five years old, and seven years ago I was on eBay looking at
old cars past the time. I hit the seller's other item list on one
of them, and he had a listing had said four old police pictures for
ten dollars, and because my grandpap was a police in Pennsylvania, can front
of I clicked it on, and oh, Charles, did we lose you?
Are there? Charles? I just lost you there? Okay, well
that is unfortunate. Again, I'm hearing Charles making a specific claim God protected
early man, and I'm hearing no support for this whatsoever other than well,
it would be weird if he didn't, because humans are, you know,
protected. It's it's just this kind of question begging scenario, right, It's
it's it's kind of circular. It's like, look, we're seeing this other
stuff that the fossil record and other kinds of evidence have shown that there are
such a thing as early human beings, right, and so well, how
can that be? How can we be around? Oh, it must be
God. Right, It's just it's just God filling in the gaps, right,
God of the gaps of whatever scenario you want to pose it. And
and yeah, I think that's inconsistent with other ways in which God has failed
to protect us. And I also don't know why God is like, Okay,
well, we have to keep the human species alive enough for them to
evolve enough to have free will so that they can go against us, and
then I don't have to protect them anymore. Like it just seems a little
convoluted. I don't really understand. Yeah, And you know, this is
the first time that I've ever heard that God doesn't want people to know that
he's real. Uh, that is an extraordinary claim, considering God gave us
the Bible, gave us his son, you know, uh, go on,
so on, so on and so forth. So I just you know,
that's that was a that was a shock to me. I think I
think we actually have Charles back of the line. Charles, can you hear
us. Oh yeah, sure, Okay, there we go, Charles.
Let's uh. I'll be honest, I wasn't quite sure you were going with
the story with your grandfather. But like, I think we still want to
know about this question. Right, you're making a very specific claim. You're
saying that God help protect early humanity, and I'm wondering, do you have
anything backing up this claim? Do you have any evidence that we should look
at or any anything that we can reason to make that claim true, because
that's not something jimior I believe. Okay, well, my claim is just
basically a thought because based on the amount of wild animals are out there,
like a chimpanzee or monkey. You know, they say, did you ever
see a monkey kill something? They're very vicious and they can grab their little
baby and run up a tree and hide. I'd like to see a man
run with his baby and his wife from like a lion or something, or
have a stick or a stone or even things in hunt and packs, you
know, like wolves and stuff like ancient wolves, even fish if they went
into the water or there's so many things back periods. Charles, like,
I don't live in your lions, so like that's not a don't have to
worry about that, Like a lot of humans just didn't live near lions I
don't know, or wolves like that wasn't always an issue even when it was
an issue, right, Like, there are ways with dealing with that.
And the fact is humans did die from predators like a lot. It still
happened, but there was enough of us to still survive. Evolution doesn't say,
oh, well, if one species is superior to the other, then
the other one gets completely wiped out. It just means that we are open
to predation. Deer get predator, get predated by predators all the time.
It happens every day. Same thing with rabbits. Rabbits are constantly dying to
birds and other things, but they're still around because there are other strategies which
keep them alive. In the case of rabbits and deer, right, they're
able to repopulate in large numbers. But for human beings, I mean,
there are other defensive mechanisms by which we can survive and obviously still do otherwise,
Again, how do benobos still live if they could be eaten by lions
or gorillas or chimp and zis right, like, they're these are not small
monkeys. These are large primates that that don't have the same kind of defensive
powers that a monkey does. You know, Yeah, I really can't answer,
Like I said, I'm a I'm a I guess a theist, But
yeah, I can't answer for why things how they played out and how they
happen. It was just my thought that God would have protected man and all
the animals. He probably done a lot of things that maybe we couldn't understand
too. He can't protect all the animals, right, Charles, because other
animals have to kill other animals to survive, right, So some of them
do get on the chopping block, right, you know, like say,
yeah, he can do things that we couldn't imagine, you know a little
when people die at certain aids or babies, you know, or how old
should be somebody be before they can die. Anyway, He takes people for
different reasons that we can never understand, I imagine. But the main thing
is that that's where faith comes in. Where if you have a firm faith
and something bad happens to you and you pray about it, and one day
you'll you'll you'll meet him and he'll be pleased with you, Rather than if
you would cuss him and swear at him and you're not real and you know,
I hate you or whatever. But yeah, that's my thought. Yeah,
yeah, go ahead, Jimmy. If he can't if he can do
things that we can't imagine. And that's where faith comes in. Don't you
see that not knowing answers to things is what causes some people to come up
with this idea of God, Like you don't know how things happen and you
can't obtain an explanation, so therefore there must be this all powerful thing that's
happening that people call God. Doesn't that make sense to you? How?
Instead of investigating and looking for answers to some of the more trivial questions that
are are hard to really explain, that people kind of just settle on this
thing that sounds good. I mean, that's what religion sounds like to me.
That's what that's what that reflects. It reflects an inability for human kind
to answer some of Lifetop's questions. And instead of trying to go get those
answers and say, hey, we don't know, we have to instead say,
well, you know, there's a plan higher than us that we can't
possibly understand. I just don't know how if there is a God that created
us, and he wants us to do good and he wants to protect us,
why doesn't he also want us to know that he's real and that there
are reasons for some of the actions he takes. Because if if his goal
is worship, well, then wouldn't that convince somebody that why worshiping this God
would be a good idea? Because for me, I don't see any good
ideas. Yeah, I'm not sure he wants you to worse at him.
He will. Have you ever read the Bible? Have you ever read the
Bible? Charles? Charles? Have you ever read the Bible? But yeah,
and a good bit of it? This is this is your holy book.
I mean, this is what you live your life on. And you've
read a good bit of it. And I have to challenge on that.
I bet you, I bet you a good bit of it to you?
Is actually you just listening to somebody else read it to you, or maybe
you picked it up a couple of times and started reading it and then put
it back down. Because that is what Christians do. I mean, that
is what religious people do. They don't even know what it is they believe.
I thought I was a Christian for twenty seven years of my life,
and then I read the Bible front to back, and I said, what
the hell have I been being taught my entire life? You know, you
really got to look inside that book. If you think that God doesn't want
you to worship him, it's obvious to me that you don't know the first
thing about your own religion. And that is a scary thing because you're dedicating
your life to it. And I'm not trying to be rude to you,
you know, I really appreciate that you called it. I just get I
just get very worked up, you know, because I don't like to see
people dedicating their lives, their lives to a lie and not even investigating.
Yeah, I'm more of a I think at Calvinist, he I'd know absolutely
God's real. I've had so many miracles happen in my life. People say,
that's like scary in itself. And I never read the Bible. When
I come to believe in God. I never went to charts. But the
day when I found that randomly, I said, I pray about my grandfather.
He died when I was four. Myth whole baby and I found a
photo in Kentucky, just that quick, randomly of him in my heart where
it was at about my grandfather. I was stifty two years old when I
started thinking about him, and all of a sudden, I said, this
is weird. I keep thinking about him constantly. And the reason I knew
that, I asked my older brother, he was ten years older, and
he about a year later, he found that same photo with the Historical Society,
and he said, you don't do that guy was on that motorcycle?
Was my grandfather on a Harley for the newspaper where they bought that brand new
in a small town. Okay, no, I don't know, he said
her grandfather. I said, man about fell up or well, Charles,
let me ask you this, do you believe that to be a miracle?
Oh? Absolutely absolutely? Idle to ask you why you consider that a miracle?
I was drawn in. I was a sinner. I mean I was
not a really good person at all, and all of a sudden, but
three years ago I took that picture to Staples and the manager said, she
went to visit her sister in Ohio last Christmas. Her sister's boyfriend. You
know, we have we have time limit for these calls, right, and
I want to make sure that we're on track for this, and we're kind
of running out of time, so I want to make sure we kind of
get on point with this. Right. Well, let's start with this.
Maybe, what in your own words, what do you think a miracle is?
Like, what's a good definition of a miracle? I don't even know,
really, you know, what's statistically impossible? In my case, excuse
me in my case to be statistically impossible, improbable? I'm sorry, events
happening, Like, what's the chances that you ever have something like that happened?
It's statistically improbable that could ever happen, but it happened to me several
times. A lot of things that are just and I know this is I
think that's a good place to start. So there's different people that have different
ideas what a miracle is. Right, Some say statistically impossible, and you
correct yourself. You said statistically improbable. And I think that's great because improbable
isn't the same as impossible, right, Improbable means it's unlikely, but it
still could happen. Right, So to summarize what you're talking about here,
you're saying you found a photograph and correct me if I'm wrong, because again
I'm just summarizing here. But you found a photograph that your brother also found
from a historical society that was a picture of your grandfather. Is that right,
am? I fairly summarizing that somewhere close to where Grandpap was at in
a small town historical society. Now, the guy on eBay was in Kentucky.
He was in Green Up, Kentucky. I called him up and asked
him how he got that. He said, he's a retired police officer down
there, and my Grandpap was in his uniform on the harley. But he
said he bought that on eBay about ten years ago. His name is Steve,
and he's just selling some things and he had two coffees. He says,
since that's your grandfather, I'll let you have both of them. So
your grandfather was from this small town, Your grandfather was won the small town,
and there is pictures from this small town historical society that had pictures of
your grandfather. Right, yeah, OK, explain to me why that's improbable.
That seems actually very likely. Right, If your grandfather is from a
small town and they have pictures from a historical society of that town. I
would expect your grandfather, there's a good chance he would show up at it,
right, I'd be weird. Or if he wasn't from that town and
he happened to show up in it, right, I'd actually think that'd be
more weird. But it's actually more it's more reasonable that he would show up
in it because he's from that town. So, like, can you explain
to me where where's the improbable part coming in? Maybe I misunderstanding. My
grandfather was a Pennsylvania's small town patrolman. He really wasn't nothing. And the
guy in Kentucky had it. And then the girl at Staples, she said
to visit her sister, I don't Ohio last Christmas, and her sister's boyfriend
had that same picture hanging on the wall in her bathroom. When I told
the picture to having blow it up and have a couple of competa. So
somebody else had that same picture that was unrelated and that's where the improbability comes
in, is that right? Yeah? You know, like say, I
was surprised when he told me that. I said, Wow, it's I
don't know how you know, And I'm okay, So yeah, Okay,
they're in a different state and they have this picture. Okay, now I'm
understanding. I had to. I had to kind of put that together a
little bit on my end. So that so that makes sense. That is
that is improbable. You're kind of you're in another state and you're seeing this
picture that you happen to to see, but they happen to buy a picture
from a small town historical society. So again, that's that is that is
a bizarre coincidence. But I am having trouble seeing how that could be a
miracle in some ways, because again, something could just be improbable. Right
when you think about like the lottery for example, Uh, there's the chances
are more than a million to one, right, I mean very very improbable
that you win, But yet somebody wins the lottery, right, somebody does
end up getting it, So I mean it does happen, right, So
what if this is just an event that has nothing to do with God whatsoever?
Like, how would we know the difference between God being involved or God
not being involved? Hey, let me give you another example. Or my
sister passed away about certain No, no, no, I want to know
what this example? Right, how do we know the difference between God being
involved and God not being involved. You just know it. I mean,
I was fifty two years old, I never thought anything about my grandfather.
My mother was the only child. She never spoke of him. I never
thought about him. But that's not true, child, because you said you
started thinking about him when you were two years old, and you thought about
him a lot throughout your life. So I mean, what do you mean
you didn't talk about him? What do you mean you didn't thin about him
to fifty two when you said that, you you've been thinking about him you
whole life. Look, I'm gonna posit one last thing because we are kind
of we are, we are kind of moved going on, and before I
kick it back over to Dan, I just want to say, you know,
you're talking about a small town in Kentucky and a small town in western
Pennsylvania and small town in Ohio. And you know, back in the nineteen
thirties, small towns in the Midwest were actually kind of popular and they shared
similar cultures. So for your grandfather to be part of a historical society,
that would have been kind of a segue in from town to town, you
know, where they shared different practices different different cultural aspects. There's societies operated
the same way, and so they might share maybe some similar artwork, photography,
things like that. While it might be improbable, it's certainly not impossible.
And I think it's probably all the more likely if we consider, uh,
you know, we consider the timeframe that you're talking about in the way
that this small town America was set up, especially in that area where there's
really not even a whole lot of development now. So that's that's what I
want to posit. I want to thank you for taking the time to talk
to us. And man, I've heard you say that you were like a
bad person most of your life. I just I hate hearing that. You
know, you're you're a human being. You know, we make mistakes.
I want you to forgive your younger self, you know, and kind of
just move on and I enjoy, enjoy what time we have left, you
know. Cool. Well, I'm okay, I'm gonna say good boy to
you and pass it on back over to Den. Okay, yeah, real
quick, Charles again, just so we can like, let's end it on
this because we do have to move on to some other callers. But well,
how do we know that this is an event that God influenced versus random
chance. Can we tell the difference? Even I can, Like I say,
you don't have time to hear all the things that's happened in my life
after I prayed about them. Randomly met a girl that my sister saved her
life forty years ago, and I prayed about her one night, and my
buddy says, I woke up this morning, I thought about your little sister,
Tracy, he says. She's saying the girl's life at the state park
up in the mountains from drown And I said, wow, I prayed about
last night. And like a month later, I met the girl randomly.
She said that was forty years I was telling her about this story. She
saw my God, She sa, I think that was me. I said,
really, she said, yeah, that was forty years ago. Then
you go, you know, it sounds like other events in your life have
also. It sounds like a culmination of events. It sounds like it's not
just this one event. It sounds like, in the context with other events
is what qualifies this event as a miracle? Right? Yeah? You know,
like saying so many you don't have time. But if we don't have
time, unfortunately. But but I want to leave you with this. Okay,
if you didn't have the context of those other events, right, if
you just had this event to look at, and you're not able to draw
upon previous events, you're just looking at this one, would it be reasonable
for you to conclude that God was involved? That's all I want to leave
you with. And because that's that's really all the time I have for you
today, Charles. But I am gonna let you go. I'm gonna you
know, we got all the people I talked to. Thank you again sincerely
for calling into the show, and you know, we just we just enjoy
the conversation, So thanks again for that. Any other thoughts on that calling
Jimmy, No, you know, it seems like he really wants to believe
Edie spam. He's pulling from, pulling from everywhere that he can, but
it's just not lining up. So you know, that's basically my take.
I think Jimmy, sorry not Jimmy. I think charles Christianity was kind of
similar to my Christianity, which is just you do have a sincere desire to
believe, you have a sincere desire to be a good person, and the
paradigm you have for that is Christianity, right, and it's hard to imagine
life outside of that paradigm. I think that was what it was for me
and for Jimmy. It's it's hard for us to kind of be like,
well, okay, what about the possibility of this other thing? It seems,
I keep saying Jimmy. For Charles, it's it's like, how do
we you know, how can we evaluate different points of view? How can
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I think because I think we should move on with another call. What
do you think, Jamie? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Okay,
let's talk to some more folks about man. Do you want to pick the
next one here? Because we got a couple of different ones. I do
you know we had somebody respond to the chat pole Jack. Jack does not
believe that circumcision is genital mutilation. Okay, Yeah, let's talk about that.
Yeah, we have a champol For those of you who are listening in
the audio version of the show. During the live show, we have a
champ pole and sometimes we have collegers respond to that chap hol. Today's was
is circumcision general mutilation? Jack does not think so. Jack, You're live
on talk even Hi, guys, thanks for having me. Yeah, I
saw the poll, and I don't believe that it should be considered to be
genital mutilation. Okay, let's let's hear your case. What why do you
not think so? I think when we compare male circumcision with with female general
mutilation, and in cases with female general mutilation, it's typically like the removal
of the entire citerus, it's more akin to like being a unich is,
if that makes sense, whereas circumcision is more like topical. As far as
like it, I'm certain sized myself, so like I I don't know,
I like my penis, you know what I mean? Like, I feel
like it's aesthetically pleasing and also yeah, you know, I want to I
want to posit something. If if I have all five fingers on my left
hand, Okay, if I accidentally chopped off the tip of my index finger,
I would still like the remaining three quarters of the finger. I wouldn't
want to get rid of it, you know. So, I think even
though you still have what's left of your genitalia doesn't mean that it was okay
for somebody to make a decision to remove part of it before you had the
opportunity to kind of make that decision for yourself to be okay with it.
Let's say you weren't okay with it, Yeah, and what right you don't
really have an option to put it back on, right, Okay? So
if okay circumstance and also has some other benefits like reduce risk of getting HIV
or acquire pencal herbies. Okay, Well, even if that was true,
I have one partner that I'm with right now that I hope I can stay
with with my life, So I'm not really worried about HIV in that aspect
of it. But let's let's let's I mean, there are other non benefits
to it, right, Like you mentioned, it's a topical procedure, but
it also reduces sensation. Right, you don't have the same sensitivity there that
the people do. And the fact is, I mean, the biggest problem
with it I have personally, uh that I haven't heard address is the choice
that's involved. Right, I don't get a choice in having a circumcision procedure
done on me. Neither does someone who has female genital mutilation that occurs,
right, you mentioned yes, it is, and I agree with you.
I don't think it's quite the same. I do think it's it's it's more
severe in most cases. Right, But that doesn't mean that circumcision is okay
just because one is more severe than the other. Right. No, But
what you mentioned that because you have the ability to consent to be done to
you, that it's wrong. Well, like vaccines, we give children vaccines.
They can't consent to that. I guess parents make choose what's bets for
them on medicine. Right, Yes, we can argue that circumcision is not
medicine is general mutilation. I don't. I don't see it that way.
Yes, Why what benefits do I have by not taking the vaccine versus taking
the vaccine? What is being taken away from me? What? What's being
taken away? I mean? I agree? Right, you know there is
there is some other considerations you can make. You can make it. You
can make a consideration with a vaccine. If I don't take the vaccine,
I'm open to risks, right, I'm open to risk of infection. And
if I do take the vaccine, there is a very miniscule chance of vaccine
harm or I get the but I'm almost always take the benefit of getting the
vaccine when I do get the vaccine if I don't receive any harms that come
from vaccine injury, which again is typically extremely rare, if at all ever
happens. It depends on the vaccine. Am I actually losing anything, right?
I would argue that you really aren't, whereas you're losing something every single
time with circumcision. So I feel like it's hard to make that analogy,
right, I don't. I don't think you lose something in the same I
don't see it that way. I don't feel like I'm disfigured or or I'm
mutilated because I was circumcised as an instant. But you did lose something,
right, Like, objectively, you did lose something, right, I mean
not really like it's it's a tiny bit of skin, but you did lose
something. Is I'm not asking whether it's importance is high, just that you
did lose something, which is a tiny bit of skin, and that tiny
bit of skin can be the difference between how you experience sexual pleasure for the
rest of your life. You know, I would I would argue that has
large consequences. I've had sex and it's been fine, Like I had great
times, right and I and I'm happy for you with that, And I
wouldn't want to take that away from you, right And I think that's the
difference. If if you have a desire later on in life to get circumcised
for your own benefits, wouldn't you rather have that choice than have somebody else
make that choice when you couldn't If there's more medical compocations when you have circumcision
later in life, sure, if there is a time, is there not
medical complications in circumcision earlier in life? Can you not botch a circumcision?
I mean there's there's there's gonna be complications either way. Can you not get
a vaccine and and and get the wrong kind of vaccine? And again,
vaccine injury does occur. I fully admit to that. I have a relative.
I have a relative in the fifties was given the polio vaccine and it
was like the wrong kind of polio vaccine. Now like the rest like,
well, she's really old now, but she has like really skinny arms and
like you know, muscular problems because of it. You know what I mean,
so that happens too, I'm not I don't know. I'm I can't
evaluate whether vaccine injuries. Again, vaccine injury can reported, but it doesn't
necessarily mean that's the causal link. Right, So when we have vaccine injury
reports that are reported to the local bodies and stuff, anybody can write that
in. There's no you don't have to have medical evidence supporting that you even
got a vaccine in the first place. You can register vaccine complaints. So
it's hard to evaluate vaccine injury, and there's a reason why we don't have
a lot of information as to its reliability. There are some people, and
I don't think this is you, Jack, but just for information's sake for
those listening, there's some people that do think we have a higher than average
risk for vaccine injury because of the reports that come in. But there's no
qualifications that you need to report for injury for most states, right, you
could just kind of say one. So I can't evaluate case by case what
happens with a vaccine. But what I can say is if you are making
this point that look, we vaccinate people and there's harms, that should make
you on my side that should make you on my side by saying, yeah,
maybe we shouldn't circumcise people. Then, right, if we're going that
route of well, every single bodies should have the right to make decisions for
their own body, period, then circumcision as a child would violate that.
And I want to add something too, because because while while we're talking about
vaccines and circumcision as a means of bodily autonomy, right, uh, I
want to get back to the example of mutilation, like it's you're cutting up
and disfiguring the body purposely, right, And I can relate that to our
conversation on vaccines too. So essentially, the reason why religious people circumcise their
their male children is to have some kind of covenant agreement respect to God.
Right, But what are we really gaining from that? I mean, is
that actually happening versus the vaccine polio small parks excuse me, small pox in
large part almost one hundred percent wiped out by vaccines, And so I don't
think that there's a fair comparison When I want to consider what's better off from
my son, Right, should I give him the smallpox and polio vaccines or
should I cut off the tip of his penis or the flap of skin around
his penis. Are those equal? Absolutely not, They're not equal. I
am saving my son's life potentially in one aspect, and in the other,
I am taking a choice away from him that he can later make if he
grows up later and decides. Look, I'm a believer and I want to
have this covenant with God in the way that the Hebrews said that we should.
Then that is by definition or or by his right the way that he
should do it. But I should not cut up his body and disfigure it
without his permission. And people want to claim, you know, special pleading.
Well, this isn't disfiguring. This is God. You know what.
God has never shown up and done anything good for me right let alone.
I mean, if God wants to have a covenant with me, he should
give me my skin back that he took from me in the first place.
I respect you guys a lot. I'm also an atheist. I don't believe
that people should get circumcised for religious reasons. I'm saying that if the studies
are correct, and it does reduce risk of getting HIV, and it does
reduce the risk of getting HPV, and it does reduce the risk of getting
herpies, and it does help with cleaniness, and it can prevent somemosis.
And if it's aesthetically pleasing or whatever, I don't I don't necessarily see a
problem with it. And yes, you're right, somebody can get circumcised later
on when they're eighteen plus. Sure, I mean, but there are more
complications the older you are. If there is a good time to get circumcised,
it is the younger you are. And I really don't want to go
down the rabbit hole of vaccines because it seems ikey to me. I don't
want to be like labeled the vaccine weirdo or something. But well, you
mentioned it, you mentioned it. We just want to blige that's all,
you know. I totally understand that. Jet. Yeah, but like,
if the studies are accurate, right that, Let's say that you're right there
are health benefits to circumcision risk. You you're less likely for HIV, you're
less likely for herpes, you're less likely for these things. There are some
objections to that, but for the sake of argument, let's say that this
is true. There are also other methods by which you can prevent those things,
namely condoms, right, namely you know, other types of antibiotics and
medication that you can take. I mean, there are alternatives besides making a
life quite frankly, life altering choice. Right, And while it may be
esthetically pleasing to some, it's not going to that's that's that's an American sentiment.
I think for the most part, there are other countries that do not
have practices of circumcision that do think the way that a lot of Americans look
are weird, right that I think that's a cultural thing. At the end
of the day, I'm going to want to lean on the side of people
being able to make their own choices with themselves, as opposed to having that
done for them and then having to wonder later in life, well, what
if things were different? Uh? And why why couldn't I done? You
know, I have had things differently if I was born somewhere else. Because
for the vast majority of people that are not circumcised, they're not getting kirpies
and they're not getting HIV, and they're not experiencing all these potential ailments.
They are living you know, presumably normal sex lines. I don't know,
but uh, yeah, I don't know. That's that's my take on it.
Jack. I'm not sure if I could elaborate more than that. What
do you think, Jimmy, Yeah, I think I agree with you there,
and I really appreciate Jack's call. And you know, Jack, I
appreciate you saying that you respect us A lot that goes without saying. You
know, there's no ill will here, so we might get a little passionate
as something, especially me, but you know, I'm not not disparaging you
in any way. So I really appreciate the contribution and the call, and
you know, keep following us, keep keep watching, and keep calling in.
Yeah, we do have to let you do because we got to talk
to some other folks. But it was a good spirited debate and hopefully we've
made our points. Clare, I think I think Jack is. I think
Jack is making the most reasonable case you can personally for circumcision. I do.
I just don't think it's good The case is good enough. And that's
nothing on Jack. That's just I just don't think the cases is demonstrable,
and that is it complicated? Is it little? It's sticky? It is.
I think it's stickier than most people give it credit for it, but
I still air on the side of, Look, this is something that by
and large is going to be something that you're not going to regret. I
don't think I think the regret for getting circumcised is more so than the regret
of not getting circumcised. I'm not sure if I have ever heard of the
case of anybody saying, man, I got I was at risk to this
thing, and if only I was circumcised, that could have prevented it.
I just don't think people think that way. I think it's more of a
case of, man, I had this procedure done with me without my consent,
and now I'm never going to know what it is like having it.
I think that's the more common response, right, what do you think?
Yeah? And you know what, it sets a dangerous precedent because we really
need to redefine bodily autonomy in general. You know. So if we have,
if we have this precedent taking place that parents are allowed to remove parts
of their children's bodies or alter them in any way. Uh, you know
that, where do we draw the line? You know what? At what
point do we start giving people the right to make decisions for their own bodies?
And yeah, I think circumcision is a very worthwhile conversation to have amid
the the other, uh, you know, swath of conversations we're having about
bodily autonomy. Yeah, and and and that's and that's like talking about vaccines,
right. That is like anti vactors will make this point very clearly,
which they say, well, like you are violating the bodily autonomy of children,
right, And it's like, okay, well it gets very messy there,
right, because you aren't making children sometimes without their consent. Sometimes they
have us and sometimes they're okay with it, but that it's not the same
thing as consent. Right. There's different language that's been developed around that.
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Alex and Alex from Sweden. Let's go to Alex from Sweden. Alex,
you are live on talk even. What's up up guys? Thank you for
taking me on. Yeah, it's going good. I just I was thinking
last week of calling in. I just had a question. I'm a I'm
atheist. I try to truth, but my thing is I want to find
the truth of things, and I tried to I thought for the most most
I don't want to go into politics. But most of the time I find
myself agreeing to a lot of things on what we would call sterotypically sterotypically the
right side. But that then they start talking in religion and I'm like,
well that's where you loose me and I to go on to the left.
So I'm all over the place. But my question really retains too well when
I talk to people, and I tried to if I were to, what
is it called, like strong man my opponents, I would say that if
there's no claim for reason to be used used as to justify God, like
I have some I have some Christian friends of me and they they never said
that, Okay, Or you could say one of my friends he says,
it's it's not that, it's not that reason isn't good and you can't use
reason to get somewhere. It's that you have to forego reason and just trust
blindly. Kind of I don't know if you're familiar with Churkey Guard, but
it kind of reminds me a way of what he believes in that you have
to take the leap of faith. And what I'm I know that because what
you could say to that response is that you could say, well, we
know that reason has brought us so much more. And I wouldn't deny that.
As I said, I'm an atheist. But yeah, what I'm what
I'm kind of getting is that there's not really anything. It's everything is really
just bush right. It's like, yeah, reason and reason is really good,
but as a mean of as a mean of faith, if all I
had to do was believe and believe beyond the reasonable, I could I could
see that kind of be an argument that okay, reason I where somebody says
to me, well, I foregoing reason, I believe just to believe.
And yeah, if you have some words, I'm kind of rambling right here.
I know it's it's it's an important point. So so why are you
asking, maybe why is faith such a virtue? Is that kind of your
question? Why do people value faith so much? I actually think it's why
why do you well? And also why if you're coming from the Christian perspective,
what is what is reason such a bookshe I kind of explained in the
sense, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a historical reason for this.
And so when we talk about the history of philosophy, particular Western philosophy,
we have this thing called the Enlightenment, right, and the Enlightenment is in
part this rediscovery of old texts, particularly Greek texts, right where there's they're
kind of looking at this Greek thought and there is this sort of rebranding of
Christianity within Greek thought, particularly with Socrates and Aristotle. Right, So like
there's this kind of like respect towards these Greek thinkers and through their contributions,
but they want to look at it through the Christian lens. And so a
lot of Christian theology is and this is also partially pre what we consider enlignment,
but particularly post Enlightenment. There's a lot of this happening, right,
and so you kind of do run into these sticky problems. This is what
saw on Kirkgard, as you mentioned, was talking about. And Kirkgard is
coming late into this conversation. He's like, well, we're having this sort
of rationalist sort of uprising here. But in response, there's this period of
romanticism, right, And Kirkgard is in the thicket of this, and he
says, well, you have to have this leap of faith because that's all
you can do, really, And one I think this is this is a
very like, very very very truncated version of what Kirkgard is saying. But
Kirkgard is like talking about really his Christian values, in his Christian sense of
morality, but he's also talking about his sense of like life purpose and meaning
because he finds it very difficult to have a sense of life, purpose and
meaning outside of outside of belief in God. And so now that we live
in the twenty first century and we look back at that, that may seem
strange, but you know, like it's more of the world was Christian,
right at least more of the general surroundings. So it's like, how do
we even operate and live and understand a world without Christianity being like backing in
all of this? And now we realize we can do that. One we
have the eighthiest community aust that kind of demonstrates that every time a host is
on board. But it's like, okay, we have to figure out and
develop life principles that that can can operate in a secular way. And that's
why a lot of twentieth century philosophy is looking at ethics in a secular world,
right, like how do you even develop that? How do you live
that? And what life meaning and purpose is? Like Kirkgard was kind of
saying, well, I think the leap of faith is the best way to
do it because it's honest, and yeah, it's honest, but like it
can lead you to unreliable conclusions. Kirkgard saying that because he's a Christian.
He's not saying that because he's a scientologist, you know, or a Muslim.
Right, we would say, well, that's silly. Why would you
have a leap of faith to be, you know, a scientologist. We
would say, oh, that's harmful, right, that's obviously unjust. But
we look at that and see, okay, well that can also happen with
Christianity. And wait, now I'm the one that's rambling here, Alex,
go ahead, Yeah, so I kind of I understand what you say,
but yeah, I don't know. I'm my friends always say you're thinking that,
you're thinking so much. You're like, you're going so much into it.
But I feel like, I what I really want the answer to which
I don't think you can give me either. But it's like, so picture
is, we're we're sitting in in nothingness if and I know this show or
not even not this show, but the API experience is saying, like,
what even is nothingness? But so if we're sitting in an alchemists and you
introduce something, you introduce reason, Uh, you can use reason a lot,
but the same to you, you can say that you can use faith
a lot, at least for the people that believe in faith. And my
problem with it that when when people kind of argue that it's that it's wrong
to believe in a god or it's stupid to believe in the goad, I
think it's kind of I should really have thought over this before it cool in
because it's it's like a master I'm I'm trying to figure out. Okay,
let me put it like this. I it's kind let me respond to that.
Let me respond to that, because yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah. So so those are kind of buzzwords that that catch my attention,
so I figured it would be a good time to jump in. But being
wrong being is it wrong or is it stupid to believe in a god?
I would say that that is probably an unfair characterization to people who are actually
religious. Now, I know, Dan, I've heard you say in the
past that you're not really sure about this term of indoctrination, and you know
it could be used either way. Yeah, indoctrination could be used for a
good thing. People who join the military, for example, like myself,
uh, volunteer to kind of be a point that out there. Yeah yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah. But but but I think that a lot
of a lot we can't really put blame on people for believing. Usually I
would say it's because people want they want answers, right, and they want
to believe something good. They want to be a part of something good.
They want to have meaning to their life beyond what they know, right,
Uh, And there's nothing wrong with that. I would I would love to
know that everything we do, these menial things on this little blue dot in
the middle of nothingness, uh, you know, kind of just well not
really nothingness, but you know, on this little blue planet, you know,
everything that we're doing, I'd like to think that there is some kind
of importance to it all. And in fact, I don't really know that
there is, you know it, unless you consider we want to make make
sure that we all have the best experience we can, because otherwise is what
are we even doing? You know? And you know, a lot of
people, a lot of people, I think, genuinely want that, and
they genuinely think that they can get that from religion because while they were taught
that that's how you have to do it. But then again, they were
also you know, very maliciously uh exposed to that as well. And so
throughout, you know, throughout history, we know we know of that being
the case. Go ahead, Alex, I'm sorry. I didn't. I'm
just n necessarily necessarily adding adjectives here didn't mean stupid. I don't think that
you're saying that about I'm saying that that is a popular characterization. No,
no, no, I don't. I yeah, yeah, yeah, so
I'm I just what was gonna say, though, I think maybe it makes
more most sense. It's that when when I was questioning, say in the
sense that I was literally questioning my friends about Christianity. The one thing that
stuck with me was that when I said it's not reasonable to believe in what
you believe, and he's like, and he told me he never claimed reason,
which I thought was interesting it it was kind of the most reasonable thing
he said was that I believe, I believe. I'm with going. I
don't know if that's the right word of like he's he's choosing to toss away,
to toss away. It's kind of in Indiana Jones when he takes this
step, like literally a leap of faith. And there's something I don't know,
there's something intriguing about that, and I'm trying to not not that I'm
I'm talking about Oh, it's it's something I now I believe in God all
of a sudden, but there's something, there's something that kind of draws me
towards that. And I don't know what the end goal is because that kind
of made me see that well, reason for all what it's done, it's
it's a label within its league. And I feel like when he said that,
it kind of it showed me at least that it wouldn't it. Maybe
it's not right to take reason into something that hasn't it isn't meant to have
reason in it, if you get what I mean. Yes, I absolutely
understand what you mean, Alex. And it's very interesting that you bring up
Kirker Guard, because I'm not sure how familiar you are with his work,
But he is exactly positing this. He is saying, what if reason actually
doesn't matter? I'd regularly believes right, what if who cares about reason?
What if? What if this is fulfilling to me in something that is beyond
reason? Which is an interesting idea and an interesting question. And this is
why I sympathize with kirker Gard. In fact, I really enjoyed the label
of I was sort of a Christian mystic for a while, you know,
christ of a Christian existentialists like Kirker guard before it completely deconstructed because I thought,
Oh, this is how I solve my faith. Right, this is
how I figured this out. I can still take solace in the traditions and
the virtues that were taught to me through Christianity while also not having to have
to be answerable to all the unreasonable claims that Christianity makes, which is quite
many. Right, here's the problem that I've found with this and why I
haven't stuck with this label. If I have a faith that still relies and
still draws from institutions that cause objective harm to everyone around me, I am
still complicit in that. Now. I'm not saying individual believers right are out
committing atrocities on a daily basis because they have believes. It's not what I'm
saying. What I'm saying is if I'm thinking that Christian tradition, particularly Christian
institutions, are not only reasonable in some capacity, not even reasonable, but
reliable or even just worth our endeavors or worth our investment, that I am
upholding things that have caused harm to people in the past. Right, I
mean we don't have to go through all the lists of how Christianity has harmed
people, right, not just bigotry, but even in just my capacity for
intellectual curiosity. I don't want to pick on Charles too much, right,
but Charles, our earlier caller, was very much interested in developing and maintaining
his relationship with God. But when it comes to this interesting scientific question of
how did humans actually you know, figure this stuff out for themselves, how
do they defend themselves? He was very comfortable with living it up to God
and not having any sort of scientific inquiry. And I think that is I
think that is something that I like to prevent. I think that's that's sad
in a way. There's so much inquiry we can have by using reason and
by using right. Yeah, and unfortunately our faith denies us of that capacity.
It kind of says this asn't worth investigation, which I think it is.
So anyway, Thoughts Alex, I hid one. Yeah, no completely
what you're saying. It's it's so funny you took up. I'm not read
chacter as much or CHESTI guard as we say as much as I would,
but I would like to. But I've listened to a lot of lectures about
him, and that's kind of the medium I take to take in the most
and it kind of you you hit it on the nailing, And yeah,
it sounds like he was. He was talking about exactly what what I wanted
answer, and so maybe I should read more on that. I had one
last question, do you guys work right at the park? And as I
find myself going between, yeah, tried to be a contrarian. I love
Christopher Hitchens and how he was as a character, how he could he had
so many things like he he was for the invasion of Iraq and it was
like it was on the left side, left side, and he hated the
Yeah, tyrants. It's just so much character there, and it showed that,
hey, you don't have to be this life. Yes, in a
specific zone too, you can have beliefs across lines. But so my question
was none of us are cooking, and that's why I lost a good guys,
go ahead, Alex. Yeah, sorry, my question my question to
you guys, because I looked at you guys, see to me, this
atheists Alex is still there. Oh no, Alex, I think we lost.
Yeah, Unfortunately, we do have to let you go because we don't
really have a whole lot of time left with that call, so I know
you had a final question. Maybe if you want to try to call in
a different day, because we're probably gonna talk to some other folks right now,
but we do appreciate your conversation. I thought it was pretty interesting and
eyes to a lot of particular study of interest of mine, which was Kirker
Guard, one of my favorite philosophers to talk about. So I like nerding
out about that. Jimmy, do you have any final thoughts you wanted to
share on that? Uh No, I don't think so. It was a
good conversation. Happy to sit back and observe. Yeah, yeah, it
was really good. Real quickly, we have to read some super chats.
We have one from Ben nine Lives, who gives four ninety nine and says,
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That is very kind of you. Another one from this is oh God,
I can't read a fan of the Q tube family. Fan of q
tube family. I think it's what that says, gave five dollars instead.
If God created men and he wanted us to cut, why did he give
us a foreskin? In the first place. And there's the reason for that
is because at least the Jewish defense is that it's originally like the circumcision was
just a Jewish thing, right, so it's a mark of your covenant with
God. And also that you're a people separated from God, because let's go
into this idea that God is for the Jewish people like he wasn't for other
nations. God was a very local god in that sense, Yahweh was when
you look at it from that Old Testamay perspective. And this is actually why
you see one of the early controversies in the New Testament between Paul and Peter
and these other early church follows are what to do about the uncircumcised? Do
they do you have to get circumcised as a Christian because it kind of,
you know, it points to this Jewish identity. So it's it's an interesting
thing to see the early history of that. Last week, we got one
more super chats from Van Halen backing Isolated and live tracks. You gave four
sorry nine ninety nine said thanks for a great show. I mean atheists because
of the ACA. Are you familiar with the whole higher power God slash God
concept within Alcoholics Anonymous. What are your general thoughts on it? Thank you.
Yes, We've talked about this on a number of occasions. I've talked
about this a lot on Truth Wanted, and I've talked about it with folks
who have been in Alcoholics Anonymous and also who have a more experts, particularly
Daryl Ray, who has evaluated Alcoholics Anonymous at a level that I can't because
like he has degrees more relevant in that area. So check out that episode
with me and Daryl Ray if you want a more in depth episode on Alcoholics
Anonymous. I don't know, Jimmy, if you've how much you've been able
to talk about it in your syeah. Well, I've heard. I've spoken
with people who have been through there, and they, from what I understand
is they don't try to push the Christian God or any other God on you
per se, but they actually take God and turn it into an acronym for
good, orderly direction. So that is something that I know people personally who
have kind of experienced that in Alcoholics Anonymous and tried to use that as a
way forward and using the higher power concept to get through what they're getting through.
Yeah. Yeah, so there's there's there's that conception of and there's also
a lot of reasons as to why alcoholics Anonymous has the God thing. But
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Let's see. Gosh, there's a lot of things that we could talk
about. Jimmy, what do you think you want to pick this next caller?
I do. I want to talk to Billy just because he's again in
line with our chat poll and took the time to call in and talk about
what we asked them to call in about. So Billy from Texas he him,
let's see what Let's see what he's got to say. The CDC says
that benefits of circumcisions outweigh the risks. Yeah, let's talk about it.
You, Billy, you're alive on talk Heathan, what's up? Billy?
If you're there, please talk to us. We gotta get him back in
the Q here. We having a little bit of issues today, but we're
working on Billy. I think you should be able to talk to us.
Now, can you hear us? What's going on? Hey? There we
go. Hey, Billy, what's up. Hey? I had my son's
circumcised because for no other reason than I was circumcised. But then I was
having a discussion with somebody online and they called me a monster. They said
that they said that I portraed and portraed my son, and and after that,
I you know that that affected me a lot, and so I did
some research. I talked to doctors. I just I went to the CBC.
Like like you said, the CBC, I went to their website.
The CDC themselves say that the bidding fits out way to risk about the tortra
part. I talked to a doctor and he said that there's peer reviewed scientific
literature that about babies and how they're they're in shock for between four and twenty
four hours after they're born, So that's that's the best. The best time
to do it is is immediately after they're born, because they're in shock,
they don't they don't feel anything. And then the sensitivity thing. I talked
to a doctor and he said, imagine if you're petting a cat and then
you had the tip of your fingers surgically removed, and then a year later,
whenever it's all healed, you pet the same cat is it? Like?
How different is it? Uh? He said, that's the that would
be the that would be you know what what it would be like? Uh,
in terms of like the sensation part and then or is the opetic thing
there are there are studies that that show that up to ninety percent of women
prefer circumcised prenises. So yeah, well, you know what that's that's also
a reflection of the times we live in, right, that's changing, I
think probably, And you know, I don't think that women are going out
and dating men based on whether or not they're circumcised, or or you know,
getting married based on whether or not or choosing choosing sex partners based on
that. I you know that that could all that could flop. I mean,
and who and who are the people answering these questions. I'd like to
do my own poll and see because I've heard I've heard different, but something
that's not as strong as I wanted I wanted to make. But Billy,
what what caught my attention was the very first thing that you said was I
had my son's circumcised for no other reason than because I was circumcised. I
mean, what justification do you have for taking that decision away from your son.
And and why is the benefit What was the benefit of you being circumcised
to the point that you had to pass that down? You know, I
mean, were you really? Was life so great for you because you were
circumcised? And on the on top of that, Yeah, well, you
know what I understand. I'm not I'm not I'm not trying to trying to,
you know, give you a beating here. Uh. You know,
I don't think somebody should have said that you tortured your son. I'm sure
that you uh love your son and anything that you have to do with your
son it's in its best interests. You know, there's no there's no beef
there. But what I'm saying is, well, but you were right,
You're you were right though, But you were right. I did it for
no other reason than than because it was doesn't mean And that's why that's why
it's screwed it right so much, is because did I make the Did I
make the wrong decision? Am I a butcher for doing this to my son?
Well we're all guilty of that in some way. I mean, we
have we have these customs passed down to us, so we think that we're
doing something because we you know, we think it's right. Uh, And
what we really need to do is kind of ask ourselves, well, why
why did people do this before me? And why was it done to me?
And do I need to do it? You know? The spanking children
is another one, Like I I would never spank my kids, but I
was spanked, you know, And I'm not just gonna do it for no
reason without investigating. But you know, the other thing I want to say
is, you know, I you're giving us a lot of piecemeal arguments and
opinions really not even arguments from different people. One doctor said the sensitivity is
not that big a deal. Another one said that there are studies. You
know, he's talking about the CDC. Well, he said the CDC.
He said the CDC, but then gave opinions of people who were not in
the CDC. I didn't hear anything that came from the CDC. And you
know, I don't even know that the CDC would present an argument that would
that would make me say, you know, cutting cutting a child's genitalia is
not mutilation. Well let's not. It's it's on their wi. The the
CDC and the American Association of Pediatrics. Uh, well, the American Association
of Pediatrics that have a task force for circumcision a couple of years ago and
they reported their findings. And the CDC also has information on their website.
Again, their goal is to give people information in regarding to make their own
decision. They're not going to you know, you could. I guess if
the CDC's language specifically says it's it recommends circumcision over not, that's news to
me. That doesn't mean it's not there. I just I haven't heard that
that could be true. But I do know that they have information regarding Sorry,
Bailey, go ahead, I'm sorry. I didn't mean they don't say.
They don't say that, they don't recommend it all. The only thing
they say, uh, and it's a quote, is that the benefits outweigh
the risks. That's the quote from their website. Yeah, and that could.
That could very well mean that the risks aren't all that grave, but
it doesn't necessarily mean that there are all of these benefits associated with it.
You know, I think when people kind of come into this discussion about what,
you know, benefit versus risk, they're they're considering risks to be you
know, something that is kind of monumental, dangerous even Well that might not
be the case, you know. Uh, And so I would just say
that while we are in this position where we have a child that is in
our care and we can either change their body without their consent or not,
I would say that the doing doing so, uh, not only is it
mutilation, but it's just kind of the wrong decision, especially when the roots
of that decision are, Hey, you know God, it's because of God
and everything like that. So that's kind of where we're at. And you
know, Billy, it looks like it's just you and me right now.
So what do you have to say about that? Well, I don't I
didn't take any type of religious I'm not a religious person at all, So
I didn't take religion into account in any way whenever it came to that decision.
So, uh, you know that somebody did, you know what I
mean, like some somebody in your history did. Yeah. But but I'm
just saying your father was probably circumcised in his father right, and it was
probably a result of religion that's just kind of passed down over and over again
and eventually it lands on us and we don't even know why or you know,
if the decision made was the right one. We just know that decision
was made. Yeah, right, and it's a Jewish thing, it's isn't
It's a Jewish thing, right, But but I'm not Jewish, so I
mean it did right, right? Yeah, Well it happened when Christianity adopted
christian Christianity adopted Judaism and adopted their customs, yeah, or dominic culture through
colonialism and you know other means, right, means that also our practices become
standard in other non Western countries, right, including that of circumcision, because
it's part of the Western medical practice. Right. So that's that's how that
happened. But but I'm just kind of wondering how was it. I wonder
how it was influenced by Jewish culture for for it to be because I mean
if if if it wasn't, I mean, if it hadn't been kind of
adopted, then we wouldn't be even having this discussion at all. It might
have sided out the Pruss the procedure might have died out a long time ago.
And I alluded to this before the call here, but yeah, there
is uh, you know, if you look at the new Testament. And
if you look at the letters, and I understand that, you know,
the Bible is not the most interesting book in the world for a lot of
people, but there are very serious discussions that are being made. And this
made after the Bible was finalized in its current form, by the way,
in early church leadership, but like very serious discussions about circumcision. A lot
of you'd be surprised how much the New Testament talks about circumcision, particularly with
Paul and Peter and the other folks, because they identify this as a Jewish
practice and they wonder should we accept those as Christians who aren't circumcised. And
Paul's whole point is like, look, they're not. We are all the
same and saved in Christ, So circumcision doesn't matter, and you can kind
of do this and be okay with it. But it was still kind of
like, well, we might as well get it done for a lot of
people, right, And so like it's it's still adopted to the wider Christian
culture. It's sort of like, well, you know, you can either
do it or not do it, you might as well do it. I
think that's kind of the mindset. So yeah, and it's like and it's
like and it's like, let's check your opinis at the door. Yeah,
well, at the time, for early Christianity, you're getting adult converts.
Right. For rust of us, it just happened when we're kids. But
for them, it's like, Okay, this is where these are adults that
are coming in, So you have to get this done later on in life.
So what do you do with that? Right, it's a little bit
more serious, not more serious, but you know you can't you can fight
back, That's what I'm saying. You can't fight back when you're a baby.
So that's yeah. I'll tell you one thing. If I, well,
I did have the option, if I was never circumcised, and then
today I had the option of being circumcised, I would not do it.
I wouldn't do period. I think that's the conclusion most people would have.
But I that's my speculation. I actually don't know. Maybe there's studies on
that. But there's a study in the Bible called the Genesis where where Abraham
Abraham circumcised like two hundred of his servants as adults. So yeah, there's
that being an adult doesn't always get you out of it. Yeah, that's
also true. It's also true Billy any more thoughts. Yeah, well,
he's young for me to ask now. He's too young for me to ask
now, but like later later in life. I mean, I'll ask him
because I said that I wouldn't get circumcised if if I had the option today
to do it? But am I a monster for doing that to my son?
And would I? And I'll ask him whenever he gets older, like
did you? Are you okay with skeep doing this to you? Like,
like, how do you feel about it? Think? And I don't think
a monster, Billy is capable of self reflection. I don't think a monster
is capable of asking the questions that you're asking yourself right now. I'm not
saying what you did was right or wrong. What I'm saying is the fact
that you're able to consider that now means that you've at least probably grown and
try to understand what's best care. The thing is, most people aren't,
Like I don't think most people make good parents. A lot of people just
don't. And like the fact that you're asking what's best interest for your son
is means you're you must be on the right track somewhere. That's that's the
most I can give give you today, at least if that'll help you sleep
at night. But Billy, I don't think you're a monster. If that
helps, it will, that will. Thank you so much, man,
And I appreciate you. I appreciate I appreciate the input. Guy. Thank
you, Yes, thank you, Yeah, yeah, a lot of Listen.
There's a reason why we put the questions in the poll. You know.
I was skeptical at first when we are like, oh, we're gonna
do these poll questions, I was like, yeah, sure. We get
a lot of responses when we do that, and I'm happy for it because
it does keep the discussion going to an issue that, again I think is
more nuanced than most people give it credit for the circumcision thing, although maybe
weird for most people wondering why are we talking about this for so long?
Because because it's a big deal. I don't know it's a thing. But
anyway, we are. We are close to the end of the show.
I don't know if the crew has given us the green light to go over.
If not, that is fine. But while I am okay, so
yeah, we actually do have the green lights, so we're gonna take one
more call. I think, Yeah, that's cool with you. Let's do
it. We go. Yeah, when we're in the queue here, we
got Teddy Driver calling in from California. Teddy, you are live on Talk
Heathen. What's up? Oh, good morning boys, good morning or whatever
afternoon. Excuse me. I wanted to share a different experience of being an
atheist because it started when I was a young child. I didn't grow up
in a religious household, although I was baptized and circumtised, but we never
went to church, didn't pray, none of that. And on top of
that, I spent a lot of time with my three great aunts when my
dad and mom wanted to go somewhere, and one of them was really into
nature, and one of them was really into gardening and just got me to
open my eyes to the natural world. They had a neighbor next door with
a wood shop, and I learned all about woodworking and stuff. And here
I was, you know, like six years old. It wasn't until I
was eleven that my dad decided I needed to go to church. So I
went up the street to the Lutheran Church, and after two Sundays, I
said to myself, these are nothing but sapery tales and I never went back
again, and my parents didn't do anything about That wasn't until I was sixteen
and my dad and mom were fighting every weekend and a Catholic friend of my
dad got in to go to church and see up priests and blah blah blah,
and he came home and announced it and I'll never forget these words.
We're all going to get into this together. And I got sent to Catechism
twice a week with a wet behind the years priest from cont Corn, Ireland,
and we went around and round every single time, and finally it dawned
on me, there's gonna be trouble at home if I don't accept this,
And so I went ahead. I got baptized, confirmed, I took comfort
to communion, blah blah blah. It wasn't until after I was married that
I just walked away from it. And uh, that's interesting. I can't
I'm not able to tell you was your wife? Really? Was your wife?
Was your wife Christian? She was raised in a in a Catholic home?
Not How did that go over when you when you walked away from your
religion? How did that affect your marriage? Oh? I had done that
before I got married. Oh okay, really, I mean and I should
say, no, we got married. Yeah, my first wife was I
get a Christian and but we had to get married in the Catholic Church and
that was over in it. So, Teddy, You're your story sounds a
lot like mine, because like I was about nine years old when I started
realizing, like, man, I don't believe any of this stuff. This
sounds like complete, complete garbage. But it was kind of a process.
I mean, I was nine when I started questioning it and twenty seven when
I made my full uh my my full converse conversion, if you will,
to to being an atheist. And so it was a long time, a
lot of questions, a lot of back and forth, a lot of influence
for my parents. And you know, it's funny because I grew up Lutheran
and we weren't really all that religious either except for that one hour a week,
that one hour a week when I was in Sunday school. And I
want you to know that I went around with the with the teachers too.
I was kicked out a religion class twice. Twice. I was kicked out.
I want you to know that I'm very proud of that number, and
uh, you know, I hope nobody's beaten my record at that school.
But you know, it's funny. Maybe maybe it's because we were you and
I are both Lutheran or former Lutheran, that we had a similar experience.
But you know, I felt like at home I was told I needed to
be Christian, and I was told that we were Christians, but I really
didn't see that playing out in the way that we lived our lives. You
know. I remember this one time in church where our pastor was like berating
the audience, uh for for watching Seinfeld, and I thought that was so
odd because my parents always watch Seinfeld and they still watched it. And I
said, well, then this must not be that important. You know,
pastor doesn't like it, but I'm and Dad are cool with it. So
yeah, maybe what the pastor has to say, uh, you know,
doesn't doesn't really hold any weight. And that's important too, because you know,
our actions are are obvious to kids, you know, kids are watching
us, and so I just thought it was interesting the parallel between between the
lie that you had to live and the lie that I had to and kind
of in the end, we were both able to you know shed those shrouds.
Jimmy, I gotta talk to you about this. Hold one, Wait
a minute, Wait a minute. Yeah, what was it? What was
the problem with Seinfeld? I don't know. I have no idea. I
mean they did a lot of things in there. I mean there was there
was one where Jerry stole the ladies marble rye and ran down the street.
Unlike Christmas side that wasn't talking about masturbation the whole time. I guess it
is a little respect, you know. Yeah, yeah, but like he
just has issues with like Jewish people. Maybe that and that's the that's the
I'm just I'm just speking. Well, I'm sorry to steal. Go ahead,
Teddy. When I when I was very young, when I first started
realizing, I didn't even know the word atheist. It's never been spoken.
You didn't hear it anywhere. And even though I had given up my religion
or given up religion false religion, I just never know knew the word until
maybe ten or twelve years ago I got to hear somebody turned me on to
Christopher Higgins, and that did it. I saw him. I've seen every
single video of him, and I've been watching you guys and Matt on the
line, and I just sit there and nod yes and not know the same
as you guys. But I found it difficult to visualize what it was for
somebody to deconvert absolute they were an adult or something. Seth Andrews, he
was in his thirties, so it's just a different experience. Yeah, well,
I want to put you onto somebody. I want to put you onto
somebody named objectively, Dan who runs runs a great Hey, look, have
you ever seen truth wanted? Great? If you have nothing to do on
a Friday night, or better yet, if you have do have something to
do on a Friday night, you go ahead and cancel those plans. He
tuned in, tune in the truth wanted, the truth wanted, like I've
been doing now. But you know what Teddy now, well, you know,
you know Teddy's right though, because I found the ACA and I it
helped me, you know, kind of through my transition. I knew the
word atheist, but it was a devil worshiper. That was the definition associated
with that. You know. Yeah, I think I think that's the value
I hope that we can provide on shows like these is to like when we
say, promote positive atheist culture. That's not just a buzzwords, like we
really mean that. We wanted to show like, hey, you can live
an ethical life, sometimes a divisive life, right. You may you may
not agree with all of our takes, but like at least you get to
have a take, right, Like Christianity doesn't even let you get that right,
Like it's like, oh, you're this other thing. Well, you
know, you're not even talked about. Like I had the same experience.
I didn't know what an atheist was. I didn't really under fully understand what
that word meant because every time I did hear it, it was always another
Christian telling me what that was. It wasn't an atheist themselves telling me what
they believed or didn't believed and everything else that comes with that. So yeah,
I'm glad that you had the experience that you did, And I imagine
it's not as unique as you might think. I imagine bet there's other people
in the commons section or in the live chat right now who say, yeah,
actually, I kind of had a similar thing where there's kind of a
Christian social socially constructed idea of a Christian Christian identity rather than one that you
may, you know, sincerely believe. I think that's that's that can be
quite common. But yeah, as someone who did, I guess I was
an adults. I was like twenty twenty one. Some people say that's not
an adult. I was an adult legally that happened to me. It was
quite difficult for me to manage that, although a lot younger than like say
thirty with Seth and some other folks. So there's different, different life experiences
to compare there. But yeah, thanks Teddy, thanks for sharing that story
with us. Well, I a few years ago, maybe three years ago,
I actually came to the conclusion that I'm not an atheist, I'm an
anti Seistan. You can be both. There's something saying you can't be both.
Yeah, that's that. There's nothing. There's no rule saying you can't
be both. I don't think those are mutually exclusive identities. Yeah, keep
keep watching our shows, keep watching our shows and call back. Yeah,
thank you, ted of course, thank you. And with that we're gonna
be on the closing end of the show. But listen, Jimmy's gassing me
up here. Sorry, you need to go, say hey, go watch
Jimmy Jimmy, and Jimmy's been been doing some stuff on some of these shows.
Okay, Jimmy, Jimmy is is an up and I want to say
up and comer. That sounds so demeaning. Jimmy. Jimmy, Jimmy's a
full fledged host here at Talkiethan now. So he's he's he's doing his own
stuff. Go watch his episodes. Okay, he's he's making the rounds.
But thank you, thank you very much of course, of course, and
uh, with that, we are getting to the tail end of the show.
Jimmy, thanks so much for joining me today for great hosting with you
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live in New York and we're not actually, but there's only one it's it's
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