Talk Heathen

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Today’s episode of the Talk Heathen is a tag team of Jamies. Jamie Boone and Jamie The Blind Limey team up to … talk about veganism a lot. Tim from MN is disheartened by atheists going dogmatic. Claiming to see similarities of not being able to question something: citing being pro-vaccine even though the Covid-19 vaccine can be harmful. It comes down to risk management. The consensus of medical pr...

In today’s episode of the Talk Heathen, Doctor Ben and Richard Gilliver take calls ranging from values to the resurrection. Josh from NY claims that prayer is “incredibly helpful” and goes on to say prayer isn’t simply a cure all. Prayer is about a coin flip in terms of effectiveness. You shouldn’t accept something like prayer without evidence that it works. Get checked by a medical professional i...

In today’s episode of the Talk Heathen, Christy Powell and Kenneth take on callers with questions of belief and truth. Chloe in PA asks how we should react if religion pushes prosocial behavior. Do you need religious beliefs to do good things? Even if you can get a positive result out of a lie or fiction, it is incredibly dangerous to do so. Why are people just fine believing things they have no e...

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In today’s episode of the Talk Heathen, Richard Gilliver and Doctor Ben sort out patterns that look like creation, free will based determinism, and the reliability of Paul’s writings. Guru in India argues that god must exist because we would not be around if god did not exist. Does the creator need to be a living thing? Why do we need a living being to create us? Instead of using the term, “create...

SHOW NOTES Hello and welcome to Talk Heathen! This week, Doctor Ben and Jimmy Jr. are here to do Satan’s work! Solomon from CA, a former Jehova’s witness, has seen the recent decline of religion by younger generations and wants to know where our hosts see religion going in the future. Felix from GA is calling to argue that Christianity is actually a progressive religion. While it's nice that certa...

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Today’s episode of Talk Heathen is hosted by Forrest Valkai and Sofia Spina! Charles from PA states that they asked God to change their life and claims that he answered! Dre from TX was told by an atheist that God is just a guess and has some confusion on the definition of a theory. Tommy from OR wants to discuss the historical background (in the United States specifically), or biblical infallibil...

In today’s episode of Talk Heathen, Secular Rarity is joined by Tom Benson. You can find more from Tom at https://howeverwegothere.com/ First caller is John in TX and asks why we do this show. Talking to callers like you! We want to engage in conversations to affect change. The call morphs to John claiming god is a philosophical, not scientific, conversation. Well, religion causes actual harm in t...

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Today’s episode of Talk Heathen is hosted by Christy Powell and Student Doctor Ben. Mike from Canada claims there is reason to believe that Nebuchadnezzar’s dream is coming true. Sven from WA asks if all metaphysical beliefs are by their property of not being physically judged, are intellectually dishonest. Xavier from FL asks if the story that God stopped the sun for Israel is a claim that is fal...

Blind Limey makes his live debut in the studio today with Objectively Dan! They appeal to the higher power of AI when dealing with street preachers who tell us the origin of morality while being possessed by relatives. Janet from FL knows we don’t have evidence for Christianity but believes because there has not been something that has convinced her not to. Introspection is hard and the fact that...

SHOW NOTES In today’s episode of the Talk Heathen, Richard Gilliver and Doctor Ben take on callers with a broad spectrum of topics. First caller is Erin in FL who views god pragmatically, does not believe Occam’s Razor is a great argument when uncovering the truth, and believes the idea of an afterlife is good. It is not always a good idea to use Occam’s Razor because we need to be aware of unlike...

Today’s episode of Talk Heathen is hosted by Secular Rarity and Armin Navabi. Jon from FL wants to know how Armin would initiate a conversation between a Muslim and an Atheist. Cindi from PA has a friend who after a frightening period of being left behind in Afghanistan, he has come back with extreme anti-Afghan positions combined with PTSD. The Recovering From Religion Foundation is a great resou...

Today’s episode of Talk Heathen is hosted by Christy Powell and Student Doctor Ben. Carpe Diem from CO asks where someone with a secular moral worldview would draw the line between should-dos versus must-dos. What is moral versus immoral, versus neutral? Richard from the UK wants to discuss with the hosts techniques on how to approach conversations about supernatural claims compassionately. Val fr...

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In today’s episode of the Talk Heathen, Secular Rarity and Christy Powell are live in studio to see if anyone can convince them of the existence of God. Michael from MI is the first caller who asks what can be done to implement the tools gathered from shows like this and if we should be putting up billboards. You can always start little groups in your area or find things that you care about to sup...

In today’s episodeHello of the Talk Heathen, Secular Rarity is joined by Richard Gilliver who will sort through topics of Jesus proof, gravity not existing, giving up god for Lent, theist-atheist relationships and wokeism. First caller is Clark in CA who claims that necessary conditions can’t be accounted for under naturalism because there are conjunctions with two inconsistent propositions. That...

In today’s episode of the Talk Heathen, Richard Gilliver and Nikki (Beat The Cult) wrestle with everything from Volvos containing hell to objective morality. First caller is Anonymous from the USA who proposes that the universe might be god. Nikki asks the caller how god is defined before technical issues ended the call. Branson in NC sees the Western world as interpreting spiritual practices lite...

In today’s episode of the Talk Heathen, ObjectivelyDan and Kara Griffin will wrestle with lots of global floods, humans made from sand, the real Jesus, and aggressive persecution complexes. First caller Kenneth in GA mentions how there has been a great flood in every ancient myth that points to a world event. Notice there are also dragon myths in many cultures, and there are major differences betw...

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In today’s episode of Talk Heathen, please observe how Student Doctor Ben and Blatant Blatheist handle the various calls with ease. First caller is Ethan from TN. He states that a right winged, conservative society consisting of nuclear families would be better than what we have now. In what ways is a nuclear family better than others? Do gender roles determine the betterness of family structure?...