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Let's talk about who got canceled this year and whatever comes to mind in a no notes kind of episode with just me.    New York Post canceled article: https://nypost.com/article/who-got-canceled-and-why-in-2021/ Live Read Don't Lets Start TMBG podcast  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dont-lets-start-a-podcast-about-they-might-be-giants/id1445969090

A few weeks ago we all saw the Holy Kool Aid video with Bart Erhman. It was the longest video I've seen in which he discusses Jesus mythicism. How were those arguments? The author of Nailed and Jesus: Mything in Action has thoughts.   Links   http://davidfitzgerald.org/   Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DavidFitzgerald   The Myth of Jesus series episode one (hosted by planksip) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2nc...   Holy Kool Aid’s interview with Bart Ehrman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OAQa...   David’s Time Shards trilogy https://www.amazon.com/Time-Shards-Da...   David’s amazon author page   https://www.amazon.com/David-Fitzgera...   Recovering from religion talk on the evolution of world religions   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcceQ...   Raphael Lataster’s criticism of Bart Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist book (PDF to download)   https://openjournals.library.sydney.e...   Live read: TruAnon’s coverage of Ghislaine Maxwell https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod Me:  zachrilege.cast@gmail.com twitter.com/zachrilegecast

I haven’t been to an atheist conference for years although there is the upcoming American Atheist conference in Atlanta next April. Funnily enough if that’s a word, I have a holiday for Good Friday and I can think of nothing better than using that time off to hang out with fellow heathens. Reggie Beloved raised money to help people in Haiti so when he told me he was going to the Faithless Forum I had to listen. Links:   https://www.gofundme.com/f/haitian-free-thinkers-helping-haiti?member=13350951&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-58284713   https://www.ftsociety.org/menu/freethinkers-of-haiti/ http://haitianfreethinkers.com/   haitianfreethinkers@gmail.com   Essence of Thought discusses the problems with Rationality Rules’ video on trans women athletes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOViqbD1k3A   From Essence of thought as well, death of the atheist community of austin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0-yDOBDyuc

Chris and I talked about beer mostly, and what’s pissing us off this week. Honestly the beer talk was the best part.   Dragon’s Milk (New Holland) https://dragonsmilk.com/ Morning Wood (barrel aged maple/bacon/coffee stout)/Funky Buddha https://funkybuddhabrewery.com/beer/morning-wood/ Imperial stout x -- tart cherry boulevard (stopped in 2015)/Boulevard https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/423/170367/ Day of the departed/Three Taverns https://www.threetavernsbrewery.com/day-of-the-departed, kind of a mexican cake type stout with peppers and  BA Neapolitan milk stout (Saugatuck) https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/11814/225831/   Chris links Follow him on Facebook, the motherfucker just won’t shut up Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetriplepo Postmodern Polymath: https://thepostmodernpolymaths.com/

I checked out the GCRR conference on Jesus historicity and reached out to the founder. Dr. Darren Slade was a believer, a minister, and a police officer before becoming an atheist. He’s the President and CEO of the Global Center for Religious Research. This group does conferences (virtual even before Covid), publishes papers and books. He’s the founding editor of the socio-historical examination of religion and ministry (SHERM). He’s the research director for The FaithX Project which consults for churches and tries to help foster community. And of course he is an adjunct professor of humanities at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. So we talked about all that, coming out, not getting rich in a prosperity gospel church and how to talk churches into shutting down. This is a very 101 interview as this guy has so much going on that we barely scratched the surface.    Links   Religious Trauma Study: https://www.gcrr.org/religioustrauma   Religious Trauma GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/1f55fcf9   https://www.gcrr.org/ https://www.shermjournal.org/ https://twitter.com/CriticalRation1 https://faithx.net/   Where Eiynah teases with part of a new Woking Up episode:    https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/woking-up-7-preview-guilt-by-association  

After another long absence, Kory returns to the show. We talk about our ReasonCon meet cute, the ups and downs of the atheist community and her relationship with Chris Mailey. Then we talk about Florida, covid, coming to a new place and finding new love/community. I absolutely butcher some Star Trek references. Of course we talk a bit about 9/11.  Live Read Hasan Piker talks about 9/11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrdD8IcQ11w

We mainly discussed the post apocalyptic and damn enjoyable trilogy of the Time Shards series. Note that there are some series spoilers starting in the 30 minute or so range of our talk.    David https://www.amazon.com/Time-Shards-Dana-Fredsti-ebook/dp/B07142G1LM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=david+fitzgerald+time+shards&qid=1630957933&sr=8-1   https://www.amazon.com/David-Fitzgerald/e/B004ASD9M4/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_2   Recovering from religion talk on the evolution of world religions   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcceQyGIUkk&list=PLvixpJ8E9Oxlj_s2Mo0G3_sqa5bl3dZZ6&index=3&fbclid=IwAR1wIKD_Dwgx5OjLNRcV42fsIREXabAoTN5Ro0ERvJAIT6rfeHc2FGyxDmE   I Don’t Speak German episode 92 https://soundcloud.com/user-841528318-482060319/idsg-ep92-the-better-skeptics-project-with-jeff-eaton-and-kristin-rawls

It’s another reunion as Reggie and I talk about Haiti, Afghanistan, being an essential worker during covid and Dolphins football. We wanted to highlight Reggie’s fundraiser to help Haiti after the recent earthquake. Links: https://www.gofundme.com/f/haitian-free-thinkers-helping-haiti?member=13350951&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-58284713   https://www.ftsociety.org/menu/freethinkers-of-haiti/ http://haitianfreethinkers.com/ haitianfreethinkers@gmail.com   Live Read Fear and Maulding https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fear-malding/id1564531019    

It's me and Chris just shooting the shit for 45ish minutes. You know the drill.

Note that this is the audio from episode 136 of the Postmodern Polymath podcast. Candace Gorham is a licensed medical health counselor and the author of The Ebony Exodus Project and On Death, Dying, and Disbelief. We talked about her own grief leading to writing the book and how nonbelievers can deal with grieving.    Postmodern Polymath on youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAGP9y9qvA7peJCvILn0J8w   Candace’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Candace-R-M-Gorham/e/B00E8VC9F6?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1629327744&sr=8-2   All Hasan Piker, all the time https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fear-malding/id1564531019 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAGP9y9qvA7peJCvILn0J8w

I don’t have a ton to add here. I’m just rambling for 45 minutes this week. Here are some of my favorite shows at the moment:   Hasan Piker: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtoaZpBnrd0lhycxYJ4MNOQ   RM Brown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCntrDMFntic0pULIhVFZ8qw   Worst Year(s) ever talk about Tucker Carlson: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-worst-year-ever-49377032/   Look at me, new co-host of the Postmodern Polymaths podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAGP9y9qvA7peJCvILn0J8w

Brent’s back! We talked about debating, the recent death of his dad and dealing with religious family members, his tripling up on podcasts, and of course Steven Crowder.    Original show:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg0tuVkeYMs   Links:   Unapolgetix   https://soundcloud.com/user-567863919   Twitter   https://twitter.com/brentleeallan1   Left at the Valley 2.0    https://www.audible.com/pd/Left-at-the-Valley-20-Podcast/B08K58PVPP   Unapologetix Panel Stream   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4PGNNZJB3RspzYDeHwUBxw Live read links   Triangle Shirtwaist fire = Behind the Bastards   https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/the-triangle-shirtwaist-fire-83187144/ Some More News = Britney and Steven “cold feet” Crowder   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/even-more-news/id1364825229

Robert Stanley comes back! We talked about his thoughts behind starting a podcast and how he’s still motivated to do it. We discussed some of his episodes like the debate on systemic racism, a debate on evolution, the problem of evil, and the atheist who turned Muslim. We also had a short “spirited” debate on left versus right wing violence due to protests. I still don’t know if I could do a debate, and whether I’d get anything out of it. There’s a little bit on platforming and forgive me for the odd during the day recording and the no beer.   Robert links:   https://www.therighttoreason.com/podcasts-1 https://twitter.com/righttoreason1   25 dead people due to “BLM” protests   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-killed-protests-political-unrest-acled   Just in case you forgot about David Silverman:  https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/david-silverman-atheist-fired-sexual-misconduct   I’ll admit that I haven’t watched this debate, just nibbled at the corners like a major league pitcher. I struggle with debates. I find that people are trying to win instead of actually having good points and trying to discuss the diverging sides. So yeah, CRT debate and it involved my buddy Aaron Rabinowitz so check it out if you dare   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBumyFsVfP4

Chris and I had a bit of a ramble thanks to his pain meds and my beer meds. We talked about the downer content that we regularly consume and have the usual discussion on whatever still remains the atheist community.    Christiosity talks Richard Dawkins vs Humanism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjTZEdQCEWI Right to Reason talks with Justin aka EA former atheist turned Muslim https://therighttoreason.podbean.com/e/atheist-turned-muslim-justin-downing I don’t speak german discussion on new atheism featuring Eiynah https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/88-the-long-shadow-of-new-atheism-with-eiynah-mohammed-smith/id1449848509?i=1000524051280   Chris links https://thepostmodernpolymaths.com/

We met once, episode 140, in a house north of the city and it was my first and only "live" podcast appearance. We are doing it more in the Covid style with four of us in four locations. What the hell is shoe gazing? Are people drinking an IPA on my show? What have we been up to since we last chatted? Where has the atheist community gone? Will there be conferences in the future? So much chat, so much time.  Godless Heathens https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/godless-heathens-podcast/id1291782083 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG9e7qGg_Dw   Live Read https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations

If you want a 101 on how to build community, hit Sarah up. She’s dominating the Secular Week of Action with her Polk County Atheists, crushing it with the Freethought in Florida podcast and occasionally sharing the knowledge with Sarah Talks.   http://www.callmesarah.com/ http://www.sarahtalk.com/ https://weekofaction.org/ https://polkatheists.org/ Fif.show https://twitter.com/SarahTalkRadio https://twitter.com/polkatheists?lang=en   Live Read   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyYtrlXIRiQ

I attempted a new office setup and did 45 minutes of rambling about the morally bankrupt defense of Richard Dawkins by some prominent atheists and thoughts on doing 250 podcasts.     

I didn’t plan to have a somewhat extensive conversation about Richard Dawkins’ poorly thought out tweet about trans people, but you have to report the news. Alison Gill is the Vice President of Legal and Policy at American Atheists. She has managed state-level advocacy on issues such as conversion therapy, bullying prevention, education discrimination, health and wellness, youth homelessness, and data collection. Looking for a Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master? You’ve come to the right place.   Links   The Richard Dawkins tweet fallout https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/04/12/richard-dawkins-is-still-denying-the-basic-humanity-of-trans-people/   https://www.atheists.org/2021/04/american-atheists-richard-dawkins-trans-people/   https://www.atheists.org/about/staff/   Interview with Aron Ra last year (secular survey) https://twitter.com/aron_ra/status/1258107561800237058   https://www.secularsurvey.org/   American Atheists https://www.youtube.com/user/AtheistsDotOrg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9izcD1vkvc https://twitter.com/AmericanAtheist?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.atheists.org/   Live Read   https://rewirenewsgroup.com/multimedia/podcast/texas-is-trying-to-take-trans-kids-from-loving-parents/   Support me on Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/zachrilege Itunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/zachrilege-cast/id996785602?mt=2 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/zachrilege

What’s the 604 all about? Is it the number of hot peppers this guy needs to be satisfied? Neil started as a Christian raised by Jews, took the side road to paganism and ended up in our camp. We talked about his background, meeting his birth family, the conferences that helped him in the community and doing three hour post shows.    Links https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOkKPs3juZb9iwFn7Z29-Lw https://twitter.com/604atheist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5j55DF6mCY   Live Read   Empathetic Atheist joins Thought Adventure to talk about his Muslim “journey”   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9o_fE9QIFc   Support me on Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/zachrilege Itunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/zachrilege-cast/id996785602?mt=2 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/zachrilege

Trevor started as an evangelical and ended up an atheist content creator. On youtube of all places. Youtube! You should see the ads. In any case, he went from a believer to poking holes by doing a podcast and later video essays, and he’s built a nice following. We talked about his transition, deciding to do an expose on the John 3:16 guy, and why tuxedo cats are the best.   Links https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC_w8GsmIp-6dHhdVHqcVgg https://twitter.com/trevorpoelman https://twitter.com/beliefitornot https://beliefitornot.wordpress.com/ https://www.instagram.com/beliefitornotpodcast/?hl=en   Live Read Hasan Piker on unions and infrastructure   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGQ_hSYkdcU&t=1909s   Support me on Patreon:  http://www.patreon.com/zachrilege Itunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/zachrilege-cast/id996785602?mt=2 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/zachrilege