The Atheist Experience 799 with Matt Dillahunty and Tracie Harris

The Atheist Experience 799 for February 3, 2013, with Matt Dillahunty and Tracie Harris.
Tracie describes the difference between socialization and indoctrination.
SHOW TIME-STAMPS
01:03- Intro & Announcements - Matt Dillahunty
02:25- Tracie Harris on socialization and indoctrination
15:49- George (possible prank caller pretending to be a theist from episode 790) evidence for the existence of God, the Miracle of the Sun
32:39- Robert: asks about prominent atheist personalities on the Internet
37:15- Naim (atheist): asks if the hosts consider Islam a threat to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, asks which religions the hosts consider the stupidest
44:24- David: a brief comment on Richard Dawkins and 'Elevatorgate'
45:12- Kenny (Kenny (theist from episode 721, 777 and 797): radioactive decay is evidence for a young Earth, the Canaanites were evil and deserved destruction, makes excuses for killing children
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[@jerrylong6238]

Gorge doesn't know how to have a conversation, he can't take turns. He just keeps talking while the other person is taking their turn. He must be a preacher, he does all the talking, while everyone else just listens.

[@davemacdougall6039]

Kenny called! This episode is 8 years old and Kenny is still calling in 2021. Still trying to lead the evidence towards his beliefs but at least he's still calling.

[@matszz]

When I hear people like Kenny I always think of that king in LOTR that had wormtung whisper poison in his ears so he got all corrupted. He's arguing that it was morally justified to murder children. Whats the harm? There's the harm.

[@tedgrant2]

George, George, George, listen. Let's suppose the sun really did move all over the place. Let's assume that the earth wasn't affected. We have an unexplained phenomena. That's it.

[@jimmorgan8688]

He picks a different name everytime he phones in.

[@johnd.shultz7423]

Get a mob of devout catholic believers together in one place with the expectation of a "miracle" to occur and Anything can happen,these people will fervently create a mass hallucination that supports their ego/beliefism.

[@RB-zh1eq]

@@johnd.shultz7423 Yeah, but can you prove it didn't happen? Wow, I've listened to theists call in so many times that I could throw on my god bothering hat really easy like.

[@mattb6646]

These were the golden years of axp... I'd rather watch old episodes than the new ones.

[@starlaminde3113]

Same, I do watch the newer ones but I fast forward alot

[@mattb6646]

@@Crashawsome yup I see that... I just don't like the new host as much as I did during this time, but yeah its probably mostly because I had way more familiarity with them. But if the new people had struck me in a good way I would have probably watched them more and enjoyed them too.

[@LPCLASSICAL]

@@mattb6646 the old days attracted better hosts as their prime interest is in countering theist claims. Now we have many who are coming into atheist activism for other reasons.

[@Lambert1386]

George is my kind of nut. Love when he calls. I bet the local police have George stories. He has the mind of a child.

[@diogeneslamp8004]

Great comment.

[@jshaers96]

I love George and I hate him at the same time. He's probably a troll but he is convincingly dense about everything.

[@franktheexpertstrenchclub9025]

I named a favorite goat friend Sredni Vashtar once because I love that story so much.

[@jshaers96]

@@franktheexpertstrenchclub9025 The Unrest Cure and Tobermory are also classics, but he wrote so many good ones that it's best to just dive in and enjoy the ride.

[@franktheexpertstrenchclub9025]

@@jshaers96 100% Speaking of goats, Saki was the GOAT.

[@jshaers96]

@@franktheexpertstrenchclub9025 Yes, there isn't anyone else I can think of that is like him, he's in a class of his own. You can see elements of people like Oscar Wilde, PG Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh etc, but none of them have the same combination of wit and weirdness that Saki did. He comes up with quotable lines all the time. I don't think it's an accident that Noel Coward was a fan.

[@franktheexpertstrenchclub9025]

@@jshaers96 Absolutely! As far as I know, I have yet to read any E. Waugh, but love me some Wilde and Wodehouse, and there's absolutely some shared Saki sensibility and energy there. Oh nice, I didn't know that Noel Coward was a fan, but that makes perfect sense. Have you seen the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode of The Schartz-Metterklume Method? It's pretty fun.

[@jaymorgan8013]

George's calls are always hilarious.

[@jameswest8280]

Imagine the havoc that would be unleashed by the sun moving around in the sky. The Earth would have to move around so violently the everything would be destroyed.

[@diogeneslamp8004]

Well. To be fair, if it’s a miracle, part of the miracle would presumably be preventing life-ending disaster, along with the dancey-sun stuff. Come to think of it, since people around world didn’t see the same phenomenon, the miracle was apparently the planting of visions in the crowd’s suggestible brains. Which is much less impressive.

[@Multi1628]

~ Archived or newer, you would be hard-pressed to find another caller quite as clueless as the one in this video. Thank you, Matt and Tracie, for not giving an inch on stupidity, and the delusions of the "religious." Cheers, DAVEDJ ~

[@secularargument4588]

You know, the “newer” ones are also archived…lol

[@sleeper31204]

First caller, two seconds into his call I was thinking "ok so hes not cathlic..."

[@MarC-te4he]

As far as George's concern with religion being child abuse, it is.

[@ingobordewick6480]

I am from Germany and we don't talk about sharia-laws here at all, except for pointing out, that we are against it.

[@snuffyballparks6501]

"Clouds of ice crystals at high altitude can create “sun dogs” or false suns and bands of rainbow colour, and sun dances may be a more complex variation of such effects. Wirowski's work indicates that if the crystals pick up an electric charge they could oscillate and produce effects such as the miracle of the sun."

[@diogeneslamp8004]

Interested readers should look up “parhelion.”

[@jeff6660]

Kenny's rationalization skills remind me of Hitler's.

[@presidentobummer447]

Bummer, "Miracle of the sun" sounded interesting for a moment.

[@diogeneslamp8004]

Sounds like the title of a prog-rock album from the Seventies.

[@nandorsantho7115]

If there was an earth quake,that would have caused the illusion🤔

[@The.Intruder]

45:12 The voice, the boring tone, the slurred speech, working with "Nucular" waste...I got it!! That's Homer Simpson....😴

[@vizzini2510]

@The Intruder But I don't even believe in jeebus!

[@The.Intruder]

@@vizzini2510 Aaah. There lies your problem. I think they were talking about someone called Jesus not Jeebus. Glad I could help....🥸

[@justexactlyperfectbrothersband]

'you're too stupid to talk to' - marvellous!

[@PaddySnuffles]

I read the topic description for Kenny as "the Canadians were evil and deserved to die" instead of the Caananites and instead of my brain backtracking I immediately found myself thinking "Harsh! Wtf did we DO?!"

[@TheFirstAtom]

Elk Grove!!

[@trist5612]

Tracie looks like she just smoked some OG 😂

[@LubaFan]

Hotness personified...the both of you. 😉💗

[@jamiegallier2106]

❤

[@drezdogge]

Matt says when the miracle of the sun happens in New York we will have more information... in 2019 it did happen in New York, and it was high altitude charged with electricity. Matt made a prediction and it came true ITS A MIRACLE

[@m9frank]

Uh-oh! Kenny angered the fat infant and derailed the conversation.

[@diogeneslamp8004]

In Matt’s defense, Kenny is a fscking moron.

[@religionsisaboutmagic5835]

If you research the internet/youtube on the scientology where Ron Hubbard (the founder of scientology) on a yacht saying "if one invented a religion, one could make millions".