The Atheist Experience 28.22 with Kelley Laughlin and The Cross-Examiner

In today’s episode of the Atheist Experience, The Cross Examiner and Kelley Laughlin unravel the meaning to life, count marbles that can’t be seen, ask who gave us all these instructions and discuss mangos with a caller led by god.

Moses in FL feels like god has led him to send the message of how god is trying to manifest himself in our lives and is hidden in our hearts. If he wants us to know him, why has he hidden himself? How do you decide who hears the message? What is the mechanism of being “led”? Would it be cool if I asked you for $10K to invest in a bank account that will grow to $10M if you just believe it, yet you will never see it? How do we tell the difference between magical, invisible things when they all offer the same promises? If the Christian God reaches people through different religions, why is there a need for different messages? What happens to logic when you believe conflicting things within a religion at the same time? We need measurable evidence, not reasons or stories, that supports your belief in god.

Landy in FL says that Genesis 1:29 are instructions that prove vegetarian diets are part of the answer to increased mutations and can be medically beneficial. What makes you think there are tests in Egypt that predate the Summerian texts in Cuneiform? Why can’t you tell us who gave the instructions contained in the Bible? Why do you want to rush through points rather than have a genuine conversation? What do we infer or conclude from god instructing us to have a vegan diet that is medically beneficial? What if it were shown this is actually bad for you and how do you feel about all the bad medical advice in the Bible?

Andrew in India does not believe that people can be both atheist and agnostic. Atheism is simply not being convinced there is a god where being agnostic is not truly knowing if there is a god. What is the point about these terms knowing that language can evolve? Belief and knowledge are just points on a scale and don’t necessarily support one another. Can we be wrong about our beliefs? Agnostic is not the same as anti-gnostic and the two are commonly conflated.

Gene in TX uses a jar full of yellow marbles with one red marble that we can’t see to describe the possibility of god. Possibilities need to be demonstrated before we can accept them.

Mike in SC just went to a funeral that caused the question of why atheists don’t find meaning in life if atheism is true. Why would we look for meaning if we already found it? Where would you be in a life that lacks a belief in god? Are you looking for a meaning in life or are you looking for meaning in an afterlife? What does the meaning of life mean and how do you obtain this? What happens if the relationships that give you meaning to life end? We might find more similarities in how we see meaning to life than it seems.

Thank you for joining us this week! Question of the week is: (Wrong answers only) What was god’s motivation to flood the earth?

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