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David G. McAfee joins us to cover an important topic and a key element of his new book, “Hi, I'm an Atheist! What That Means and How to Talk About it with Others”: interacting with the general public as an atheist. Being open about atheism is different for every single one of us. Some of us might have grown up as believers, and then had issues with our family when we left religion. Others might have grown up non-believers, with a family that respected that, and are now wondering what to do when facing angry opposition within the general public. Either way, there's a right – and wrong – way to do it. David G. McAfee is a journalist, religious studies scholar, and author of Disproving Christianity and other Secular Writings, as well as a contributor to American Atheist magazine. McAfee attended University of California, Santa Barbara, and graduated with a dual-degree in English and Religious Studies with an emphasis on Christianity and Mediterranean religions. He lives in California. For RfRx comments, inquiries & topical questions, email us at RfRx@recoveringfromreligion.org. Any time you are struggling with religious doubts or fears you can connect with a trained RfR Helpline agent 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To chat online go to http://www.recoveringfromreligion.org. To talk over the phone, dial: (844) 368-2848 in the US & Canada If you are in need of professional help, we can offer the Secular Therapy Project to provide options to connect with a professional therapist. All therapists have been thoroughly vetted by our organization and offer only evidence-based and non-religious treatment. Connect with them at http://www.seculartherapy.org. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok. Volunteer: http://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/volunteer Donate: https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/donate --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/recovering-from-religion/message

Author and journalist David G. McAfee talks about his new book, which is helping guide atheists through their "coming out" to family, friends, and associates.BOOK LINK: https://www.amazon.com/Hi-Im-Atheist-Means-Others/dp/1250782082

On today's episode we introduce the show's new guest host, Julia Sweeney and her interview with author David G. McAfee on his new book, Hi, I'm an Atheist!: What That Means and How to Talk About It with Others. McAfee and Sweeney speak about the new book, how it helped Sweeney get back in touch with her atheism roots, his journey being raised in a religious household and becoming a non-believer, his challenges as an atheist in a Religious Studies program, what he sees in the bible from a literary perspective rather than from the perspective of a devout christian, and the role religion has in society. David G. McAfee is a journalist, religious studies scholar, and author of Disproving Christianity and other Secular Writings, as well as a contributor to American Atheist magazine. McAfee attended University of California, Santa Barbara, and graduated with a dual-degree in English and Religious Studies with an emphasis on Christianity and Mediterranean religions. He lives in California. Julia Sweeney is known for her work on Saturday Night Live and as a pioneer for atheism. Her inspiring one-person stage show, Letting Go of God, chronicles her personal journey from Catholicism to atheism. In addition to being an actress Sweeney is a new addition to the Center for Inquiry board.

I interview David G. McAfee about his new book Hi, I'm an Atheist!: What That Means and How to Talk About It with Others. Buy a copy of Hi, I'm an Atheist! for yourself. For more about David, follow him on Facebook. Theme music courtesy of Body Found. Follow American Freethought on the intertubes: Website: AmericanFreethought.com  Twitter: @AMERFREETHOUGHT Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/21523473365/ Libsyn Classic Feed: https://americanfreethought.libsyn.com/rss Contact: john@americanfreethought.com Support the Podcast: PayPal funds to sniderishere@gmail.com

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What are your views on the best ways to teach kids about religion? Is it indoctrination to tell them there is no God? What would you tell your kids? We talk to David G. McAfee and Chuck Harrison to discuss raising children in an atheist family and their book The Book of Religions: https://amzn.to/2QVMbFg  Please consider supporting us on: http://www.atheistrepublic.com/   In order for us to be able to continue the Atheist Republic, we need your help. We think if we reach 100 patrons we'll finally be able to afford all our costs. Help us get there: https://www.patreon.com/atheistrepublic   Subscribe to the Atheist Republic newsletter to make sure you don't miss any of these episodes and other news and updates from us: http://www.atheistrepublic.com/newsletter   Add: Watch the video version of this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/9LsNBVkcNms 

Cass Midgley and Matthew O'Neil converse. Cass and Bob had Matthew on the show back in March of 2017, episode 142. Matthew is a prolific writer, activist, theologian, and teacher. He has an MA in Theology from Saint Michael's College and is a certified Humanist chaplain and celebrant. He is the author of several books including his latest, “Attrition” (through David G. McAfee’s publishing company Hypatia Press). It’s a fiction book that sheds light on the awful nature of the God character in the Bible as well as playing with the ideas of free will and determinism. We interview people you don’t know, about a subject no one wants to talk about. We hope to encourage people in the process of deconstructing their faith and help curb the loneliness that accompanies it. We think the world is a better place when more people live by sight, not by faith. Please subscribe to our podcast, and leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. Also, we offer these podcasts freely. And your support truly makes a difference. You can support us monetarily in two easy ways: you can pledge a monthly donation through Patreon. that’s www.patreon.com/eapodcast,  or leave a lump-sum donation through PayPal at our website, www.everyonesagnostic.com. We taped this conversation on Oct 17th, 2018.The intro music is by Dave Weckl called "Just Groove Me" The segue music on this episode is "Handyman" by AWOLNATIONThanks for listening and Be a Yes-Sayer to what is. Matthew O'Neil's books:    "What the Bible Really Does (and Doesn't) Say About Sex: The How, When, Why, and With Whom of Scriptural Prohibitions and Permissions." "After Life: Solving Science and Religion's Great Disagreement" "Adam and Eve: Questioning the Historicity of Biblical Human Origins" "You Say That I Am: Jesus and the Messianic Problem." "Judas" “Attrition”  You can also find Matthew on Twitter. If someone were to ask me what the most central and solid truth is I would say "life is hard." Everything we do is in some way a form of coping with its hardness. 24 hours a day. Even sleeping. But awake, working to give ourselves meaning but even more important, money. Laughing to stay sane, learning to add tools to our belt, skills to propel us forward and above the pack. Drugs, alcohol, religion, porn to make us forget how hard life is. Constantly hurling through  space. Ever since the Big Bang when our slumber was interrupted. When our unity, connectedness, oneness and belonging was blasted into a billion pieces hurling into space at the speed of light. Are we expanding or contracting? Every atom always moving, gyrating, bouncing, bounding. The nucleus full of positively charged particles, and negative charges surrounded it, just like our lives. Electrons move in large empty space of an atom in set orbits. sleep, wake, eat, shit, work, play, fuck, read, watch TV, sleep, wake, etc. They say even the atoms of a wooden table are always moving. But never touching. We never touch anything. Particles are, by their very nature, attracted to particles with an opposite charge, and they repel other similarly charged particles. This prevents electrons from ever coming in direct contact, in an atomic sense and literal sense. Their wave packets, on the other hand, can overlap, but never touch. Nothing ever touches anything. We try, we press, we make love, we wrestle, we hug, we dance, always moving, never touching. We attract and repel. We have a love/hate relationship with everything. We delightfully bask in the warmth of the sun as it burns our skin and creates cancer. When we're tired of being alone we crave being with loved ones only to soon crave being alone for the fatigue of being together. We hate humans smells and love them. We love onions and hate arm pit odor. We're repelled by skunk smell but love the smell of coffee, we hate the smell of farts but eat hard boiled eggs, (and we rarely pinch our nose at our own farts), we eat cheese that smells like smegma, and what's our relationship to fish? Why does our blood taste like iron? Our we the elements of the universe? Dirt and rocks and metals and fungus? Are we shattered stardust that misses its mommy? the pre-big bang warmth of our womb? to nurse at the teat of the cosmos? separation anxiety? abandonment issues? Why do we try to get inside each other? with our tongues and fingers and dicks and dildos? why are comforted by large bodies of water? by the ebb and flow of the tide? by going under water? the amniotic fluid of the silent cosmos? the muffled beating of our mother's hearts?  What do we need from each other? Why are we always lacking something? Something is always missing? We're always missing something? what's that snack I'm craving, what's that emotion I miss, what need was temporarily met by that person, that song, that career--all fleeting and unpredictable like the wind. The wind that makes trees hiss and also rips them out of the ground? we're afraid of the dark and drawn to the light, chilled by the cold, warmed by the fire, DOES NOTHING EVER STOP? IS IT ALWAYS PUSH AND PULL? IN AND OUT? HIGH AND LOW? No wonder all animals have to sleep every night! it's exhausting being alive! like clothes tossed about in the dryer, the tumbling 24 hour cycle of our rotating earth, and her annual trips around the sun, the gyroscope motion of the planets and the atoms inside a pin-head, always moving never stopping, even our sleep our minds are creating stories, fantasies, horrors, and sex scenes, where the push/pull of intercourse is desperate to get deeper inside another, in a primal dance between power and vulnerability, tenderness and violence, pleasure and pain, and out of these frictions of rubbing two sticks together or flint rock on steel, a star is born, a seed finds its egg and it all starts over again in a climax of fireworks and big bangs and booms in the unending, unpredictable thrashing of wind and rain, fire and ice, time and space, work and play, laughter and tears, grief and elation, life and death, generation after generation, now worm food in the earth in a compost make rich by the carbon salad of every plant, animal, insect, human and bird who ever fell in that spot and rotted, making space for new life that will crave to be together with those we love and at war with those we fear, but the show must go on, I go to work tomorrow, I make small talk tomorrow, I eat, shit and sleep tomorrow just like today until my consciousness stops in a long awaited rest that I will not experience. And my skin, this skin, that I can smell on my forearm, and feel the little hairs on my nose and the muscle and bone underneath will contribute to the cycle until the next big bang. Yeah, life is hard. But its all there is. I'm literally nothing without it. And so here we find ourselves. Big picture perspectives like this make me love you. Help me forgive you. Provoke me to laugh at you and all of us and everything. Maybe the best advice from a silly source that was entirely lost on me: "row row row your boat gently down the stream, merrily merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream." Is it any wonder that we sing that in the round?

After Halloween, the crew welcomes young prolific author David G McAfee to talk about his latest book "Sacred Cows'. David takes us through the journey of an activist atheist and dables even into politics. You will be impressed with all the work David puts in the atheist movement. We talk about vampire hunters in another brilliant moment... and Kevin Rants about troglodytes attacking the LGBTQ community and a cowardly anonymous letter of homophobic propaganda...

We talked about skeptics and atheists in popular culture LIVE from the Gateway to Reason 2017 conference! Follow David G and check out his new book, 'No Sacred Cows'! http://davidgmcafee.com https://twitter.com/DavidGMcAfee https://www.facebook.com/AuthorDavidGMcAfee Thank you to our incredible patrons for continuing to support our work! We get to do cool stuff like road trip together to St. Louis because of that support. So if you like what we did here today, please consider becoming a patron at patreon.com/tSEpodcast just like Michael, Trevor, Nathan, Alice, Cynthia, Michael, Michael, Magnus, Sav-Hannah, Felix, Kris, James, Sarah, and Josue! Also, follow our podcast page on Facebook, follow me at A Science Enthusiast,follow Natalie at as Skeptical Parenting page or on Twitter as @aSciEnthusiast and Natalie as @ncnewell. Or, you can reach us at podcast@ascienceenthusiast.com. THANK YOU to Thomas and Sarah for making this happen. And we're sorry.  

FFull audio of the recent debate on September 14, 2016 between David G McAfee and Luuk VandeWeghe about whether Atheism or Christianity is more reasonable

FFull audio of the recent debate on September 14, 2016 between David G McAfee and Luuk VandeWeghe about whether Atheism or Christianity is more reasonable

Can atheism ever answer the "why" questions? Can it ground our morality? Does it provide an answer to the fundamental human need for redemption and hope? In spite of the secularization myth and the modernization of culture and society, the 21st century is seeing a surge in religious belief and practice. Christianity in China, for example, has grown from under 1 million adherents in 1950 to around 100 million today. In this 5-minute clip from his debate with David G. McAfee, Luuk van de Weghe argues that this is reflective of the fact that the "why" questions do not provide a logical basis for atheism, which fails to give an answer to the ultimate human quest for value, meaning, and a way to ground what it means to be human.

Can atheism ever answer the "why" questions? Can it ground our morality? Does it provide an answer to the fundamental human need for redemption and hope? In spite of the secularization myth and the modernization of culture and society, the 21st century is seeing a surge in religious belief and practice. Christianity in China, for example, has grown from under 1 million adherents in 1950 to around 100 million today. In this 5-minute clip from his debate with David G. McAfee, Luuk van de Weghe argues that this is reflective of the fact that the "why" questions do not provide a logical basis for atheism, which fails to give an answer to the ultimate human quest for value, meaning, and a way to ground what it means to be human.

SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR.  Your first month free!   http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/sethandrewsIs Buddhism a religion?  A philosophy?  Both?  Something else?  Many Buddhist organizations - physical and online - promote it as a way of "finding peace within oneself.  What about atheists who are Buddhists?  Is this a spiritual journey, or a method for framing a physical one?LINKS:David G. McAfee on Buddhism:  https://davidgmcafee.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/buddhisms-lived-and-portrayed-traditionsStephen Batchelor:  http://www.stephenbatchelor.orgNo Religion Required podcast:   https://noreligionrequired.com

tSE 017 - David G. McAfee - Author, Journalist, Skeptic Episode 017 with hosts Natalie Newell (Skeptical Parenting) and Dan Broadbent (A Science Enthusiast): Login to access this episode's bonus-level content! Sponsor: Alex Jones, America's hero for addressing the gay frog epidemic God of the week:Lono Interview: David G. McAfee! David is an author, journalist, and religious studies graduate. He has written five books, including The Book of Gods and Mom, Dad - I'm An Atheist.We talked to David about his journey into skepticism/atheism as well as about his upcoming book, No Sacred Cows, which will be available in March 2017. You can follow David on Facebook, on Twitter as @DavidGMcAfee, or visit his website, DavidGMcAfee.com. Why we love the internet: Alex Jones' weird rant Quote of the Week:

SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR:  http://www.lootcrate.com/sethandrews (promo code: sethandrews)David G. McAfee is an atheist activist and author.  His first book, "Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings," brought him national attention, and three other books followed.  David has written for American Atheist Magazine, the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, and other sites and publications.Seth Andrews spoke with David about his work (much of it geared towards encouraging critical thinking in children).WEBSITE:  http://www.davidgmcafee.comFACEBOOK:  www.facebook.com/AuthorDavidGMcAfeeTWITTER:  @DavidGMcAfeeVIDEO of this interview:  https://youtu.be/WkD5081JuYE 

Welcome David G. McAfee to the show. McAfee is an outspoken atheist who opposes biblical literalism. He is a columnist for Canadian Freethinker Magazine and a contributor to American Atheist Magazine. His first published book, Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings, is a critique of biblical literalism. McAfee's newest title, Mom, Dad, I'm an Atheist, is a guide to living as an atheist in a society that's largely intolerant of disbelief.Whether you're new to disbelief and looking for the cleanest possible break from your former faith or you're a lifelong atheist who wants to establish a sense of community with like-minded people, this guide provides useful resources including: tips for handling potential conflicts with believers, the author's answers to some of the most frequently asked questions on behalf of believers, and numerous references to support groups, services, and advocacy organizations dedicated to non-theists.To learn more go to: https://www.facebook.com/DavidGMcAfeehttp://davidgmcafee.wordpress.com/Music by Shelley Segal: https://www.facebook.com/shelley.segal  

Welcome David G. McAfee to the show. McAfee is an outspoken atheist who opposes biblical literalism. He is a columnist for Canadian Freethinker Magazine and a contributor to American Atheist Magazine. His first published book, Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings, is a critique of biblical literalism. McAfee's newest title, Mom, Dad, I'm an Atheist, is a guide to living as an atheist in a society that's largely intolerant of disbelief.Whether you're new to disbelief and looking for the cleanest possible break from your former faith or you're a lifelong atheist who wants to establish a sense of community with like-minded people, this guide provides useful resources including: tips for handling potential conflicts with believers, the author's answers to some of the most frequently asked questions on behalf of believers, and numerous references to support groups, services, and advocacy organizations dedicated to non-theists.To learn more go to: https://www.facebook.com/DavidGMcAfeehttp://davidgmcafee.wordpress.com/Music by Shelley Segal: https://www.facebook.com/shelley.segal  

David G. McAfee, author of Mom, Dad, I’m an Atheist, joins us for a lively discussion of coming out. http://DavidGMcafee.wordpress.com/ Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings Excerpt from the book here: Morality vs Worship

George Kane interviews James Zimmerman about the book Disproving Christianity by David G. McAfee.