What Even Is Intelligent Design?

Jon and Ron talk about Intelligent Design and how it’s not as intelligent as it seems. But hey, Jon gets to talk about the bacterial flagellum!

Jon and Ron talk to Zaunstar, a YouTuber and skeptic who didn’t go Jordan B. Peterson when it started being cool.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Zaunstar/videos
https://www.facebook.com/Zaunstar/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7443373/
Twitter: @Zaunstar

Gandalf Or God?! Ron has to guess whether four quotes come from The Lord Of The Rings or The Bible. We’re keeping a running total to see if he can keep his score in positive numbers.

What Even Happened? Jon and Ron talk about their week and what they watched, read, or did that made it not so terrible.

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What Even Is Secularism?

https://audioboom.com/posts/6873325-what-even-is-secularism

Jon and Logan talk about secular societies and negative sectarian influences on culture, education, and politics.

Jon talks to Amy & Ami from the Secular Soup Podcast about secularism, parenting, and Ami’s disturbing love of Donald Trump.
http://www.delightfulbitchcraft.com
https://www.facebook.com/secularsoup/
https://www.instagram.com/secularsoup/

Logan talks about Deadpool and Jon interrupts frequently to talk about how much he loves Ryan Reynolds.

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What Even Is Blood Doctrine?

https://audioboom.com/posts/6833095-what-even-is-blood-doctrine

Jon and Logan talk about the Jehovah’s Witness blood doctrine and the controversies surrounding blood transfusions and eating gazelle meat!

Jon talks to Becca about her ex-JW understanding of the blood doctrine and her personal experience with the effects.
http://www.sarahtalk.com
https://www.facebook.com/SarahTalkRadio/
Twitter: @SarahTalkRadio

Logan talks about carbon nanotubes and their flexible applications, while Jon tries to fit a phone up his butt.

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What Even Is Science?

https://audioboom.com/posts/6516129-what-even-is-science

Show Notes

Logan schools Jon on science and how it compares to religion.

Jon and Logan talk to Jeremiah Traeger and Ari Stillman from the SJW Circle Jerk about grinding up babies into chocolate!
spreaker.com/show/the-sjw-circle-jerk
thegaytheistmanifesto.com
spreaker.com/show/the-cis-are-getting-out-of-hand
https://www.facebook.com/aristillman40
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/
https://www.facebook.com/the.JT.Rager
Twitter: @Jerbivore

Jon ponders the absolute stupidity of turkey pardoning.

Jon and Logan break down a verse from the Isa Upanishad and discuss demon orgies.

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What Even Is Indoctrination?

https://audioboom.com/posts/6481122-what-even-is-indoctrination

Show Notes

Jon and Logan talk about indoctrination of children and adults. Also, whether Superman belongs in comic books.

Jon talks to YouTuber Steve Shives about his Atheist Reads series and teaching apologetics to children!
https://www.youtube.com/SteveShives
https://www.facebook.com/stevelikestocurse
Twitter: @steve_shives

Jon goes off on some rant about how gun nuts have created their own religion.

Jon and Logan break down a verse from the Book of Mormon and Schrödinger’s friendship.

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S1E12: What Even Is Apologetics?

https://audioboom.com/posts/6395793-what-even-is-apologetics

Show Notes

Jon and Logan discuss bananas, assertions, and logical fallacies (not phalluses).

Jon and Logan talk to Matt Dillahunty about debates, magic, and stupid arguments.
https://www.mattdillahunty.com
https://www.facebook.com/matt.dillahunty
https://www.patreon.com/AtheistDebates
Twitter: @Matt_Dillahunty

Jon rants about the apologetics used by 2nd Amendment nuts. “Trigger” warning?

Jon and Logan break down a verse from the Qur’an and learn that unbelievers get chained to giant penises.

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Dear Catholic League, Again

Charlotte Catholic High School

I’ve addressed the Catholic League in a prior post, which amounted to a disappointing lack of action from an organization that seems to be content in its role as a repository for outdated views on the world and society.  I really wish they would have contacted me.

In the absence of a good story to tell about Catholic visitors, let’s talk about the religious freedom to discriminate.  Catholic League’s Bill Donohue makes inconsistent and ignorant claims about a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a teacher against a Catholic school.  The teacher is a gay man who got married, was so happy about it he posted about it on Facebook, and promptly got fired.  You know, for being married.

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Congratulations, President Drumpf

President Drumpf

I woke up Wednesday morning to the news that Donald J. Drumpf will be the 45th President of the United States of America.  This news is historic on so many levels. I can’t think of many good things that will come out of this Presidency.  My thoughts follow:

NOTE: I’ve now had a full day to process this information and am still having trouble with the reality of the situation. This post has been written over the course of two days and may not even fully describe the potential threat to America Drumpf’s Presidency poses.

1. Drumpf’s Presidency legitimizes the worst in us

Throughout his campaign, this man has done everything he could to scare the living crap out of the American people, using phrases like “third-world country” and “war zone” to describe our infrastructure and cities.  While this sensationalism is obviously false, and (for example) numerous reportsbased on actual data over the past few decades – show that crime is down nationwide, the anxious, frightened voter base he’s garnered takes it as confirmation that they’re in real danger and cements the wrong-headed idea that our government has failed us.  In short, he has bolstered intellectual laziness over honesty with the words, “Trust me.” And his voter base did. You don’t have to scour social media very thoroughly to find more examples than you want of expressions of these ideas.

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Facebook Affirmations, Vol. V: Pro-Life

In my news feed on Facebook I will be served a daily dose of Christian affirmations from friends.  In this series of posts, which I call “Facebook Affirmations™,” I will post and discuss some of these gems. Here’s the affirmation for today:

Pro-Life Facebook Post
Think of the children!

I don’t often weigh in on abortion because my views on it are complicated and it’s an even more controversial topic than religion.  Since I will never personally know the joy — or terror — of being pregnant I feel that any view I adopt regarding a woman’s reproductive rights ought to be every bit as compassionate as it is logical.  Ultimately I feel it comes down to an individual woman’s right to decide whether or not her body will be used as an incubator for a potential human being.  Let’s discuss the post above.

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