I came from a community where Atheism is practically unheard of. I mean, you HAD to belong to something! Those times when I had to fill forms asking for personal information, I was always tempted to tick the "others" box and specify "none" when they asked for my religion. I hid my lack of faith from people around me for years, fearing negative repercussions. But you know what? one day I stumbled on this youtube community full of you guys, and I was so relieved! Thank you!

And with that, great podcast by the way, I am done, I have now sat through all of TTA podcast videos! Every single one! Of course I'll still watch the new ones as they come out each week, but having been through them all I must give you a big thanks, Seth! Its amazing that you've kept this up all these years and I hope you keep going for many more! The sound of your voice has become an almost daily thing for me, and it helps me get through the day. Keep thinking rationally!

DarkMatter's final words actually brought tears to my eyes. That was very well said.

I a believer that has watched darkmatter2525 for the past 3 years and i enjoy his perspective. His videos have helped open my mind to question things i never thought of before. I appreciate how you helped reveal some of his story and how much he tried to learn the Christian viewpoint. I think it gives more credibility to his work. Another great video Seth.

I have yet to listen to most of the podcast, but I justhave to say that the intro is great!!! The scope of the progress we've seen just gives you a certain amount hope for humanity.

Best podcast so far. I love these guys. Great job, I enjoyed it.

Excellent. Always thoroughly enjoy your Podcasts. Thanks TTA!

This is pretty great! I love the callers who seem to be somewhat isolated and getting the message through KZread... this is fantastic. Also, some of the commenters already are talking about that. This video just went up today and I bet there will be thousands like me, who will view it over the next few months and comment back as to how they are finding or exploring Atheism through KZread. Thanks to all four of the participants... I follow you all on YT.

I'm a total atheist but to be honest I'm not really smart enough to argue with Christians or Muslims. I just know the conclusion I arrived at based on my own experience. I am so glad people like this are able to illustrate the truth with such conviction!

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E. T. Usually it all comes to this. Ask them how to prove not just that God exists, but that it is their God and no other. Don't let them weasel out of the question, and you'll never be put on the back foot

I love your insightful podcasts. I have been subscribed to your wonderful guests since the begining. I look forward to more.

i had to stop myself from pausing this podcast to check out your guests, thanks for the links and another great podcast, keep up the good work

Thanks to TheThinkingAtheist and this video, I have since gone and watched many videos of BionicDance, DarkMatter2525 and Evid3nc3, and have subbed all three.

Awesome, you got Evidence on the show. Love it. Thanks.

Fantastic podcast as always. @darkmatter2525 @bionicdance and @evid3nc3 were interesting as always. Sorry I couldn't be part of the live show.

Tell Evid3nc3 that not only do I favorite his vids, I set up a (private) playlist on my own channel so I can watch them all in order whenever I want. I truly love his work.

Everything I've seen and heard you do has impressed me. Thank you for mixing kindness with your intelligence.

WOW Fantaaaaaaaastic . Just when I thought it couldn't get any better. Thank you again, Seth.

Excellent description of the 80's! Excellent video!

I love the podcasts, great sound track to have in the background.

Excellent show!

@TheThinkingAtheist and all the guests you had on, I applaud your ability to separate raw emotion from your responses. This is the primary reason I keep out of the KZread arguments myself :-D I enjoy clicking the newly released videos from you and listening/reading the words in your responses just as I wish I was able to. I just get too hot and end up joining in the name calling bunch :-p

@ Evid3nc3 Your Deconversion videos have helped me to assist 3 people so far with their deconversion. Living in Mississippi, I never had caring support when I lost my faith.

Best podcast TTA has ever done! I've been subscribed to all four of you for a very long time. Strongly anticipating the next one. I'll be in the chat under the name "VodkaForBreakfast"

A hugely inspiring podcast TTA, thank you. These 3 play vital roles: Darkmatter2525's humour helps to undermine the authority religion has given itself especially when religion hasn't a shred of evidence to back itself up. Evid3nc3 uses just that to prove that monotheism & religion are man-made inventions based on earlier myths. Devastating for religion. And BionicDance brings us all back down to earth again with her clarity & sound logic. All 3 are a lifeline to many.

Great speech at the end from DarkMatter about" people" , he made it sound so simple.

Seth, please let me know when I can hear your show live. I've listened to every single one of your podcasts, and my opinion, you are the best of the best! But please let me know when and where your show actually broadcasts live. Thank you and keep up the amazing work you do!

two thumbs up from "the atomic atheist". cheers&aloha and keep up the good work!

I laugh SO HARD every time you do the imitations of believers!!! hahaahahahahahhahaha ROLLING ON THE FLOOOR. I love you

My favorite Bionic Dance line: "The Bible is about as consistent as an elderly cheese-eaters bowel-movements"

this was a great podcast...

love the intro! Brought back memories and reminded me of how old I am getting lol

i have watched evid3nc3s story online and it is a masterpiece!

Ya pulling my heart strings with the story of the Dark Ages. I think we learned about that in history class lol.

Excellent.

Dark matter opened my eyes and helped me become an atheist.

I was in this podcast!!! Jackson from Alabama.

Thanks for the talk, I enjoyed it. As for your experience - I find that "ad hominem" attacks seem to be almost the default position for people I try to argue with (not just about religion). I tend to ignore these people, because you can't argue with someone who has now argument to begin with.

I was born in 1947 and lost my faith (or came to reason) at age 15. At that time there was no internet, there were no atheist on TV or radio (Madalyn Murry O'Hara was about it), there were no books by Richard Dawkins, no Sam Harris, no Christopher Hitchens. it was as if I was the only non-believer in the world. It was tough back then

I was in this podcast!!! I was Jackson from Alabama.

@Authilus I haven't listened to this podcast yet, but is there not an interview with Evid3nc3 in this one? Or did he come on and do something completely different?

The beginning had me grinning alot, the 90's were fun.

I was on this show! I was Jackson from Alabama.

thinking atheist, do you happened to know of any big hispanic atheist community, or channel that i could look for/at?

+BladesOfMunch {Now, perhaps I am looking in the wrong place, or I have missed the information somewhere - but I was wondering, how often do you do podcasts and how often do you upload them?} Tuesdays at 6pm US/Central Time. For a full schedule of upcoming shows: BlogTalkRadio Page.

I was in this podcast! (Jackson from Alabama)

I stumbled upon your channel 4 days ago. When I first watched your videos, I wanted to argue... But I didn't... And as i watched more of your vids, I realized you were making real sense. Sense that religion could not offer me. I've always lived with blind faith but I somewhere in me, i knew, something was off. Now, well I can say "I was a Christian." But now, how the hell am I going to tell my friends and family I'm athiest now?>?

@Phirelord77 Low quality? He's still using the technology he mentioned at the beginning of the show.

When you talk to Darkmatter I picture Christopher Walken talking. I started listening to your podcasts from the beginning and I'm really like your podcast. I'm surprised you don't get any religious people to call in.

when are these usualy brodcast?

In the 80's, I had the Encyclopedia Britannica on a CD-ROM, and ran a BBS with GT Power BSS for DOS. I was special though, because instead of getting into the VHS vs Beta war, I had this new cool digital technology called Laserdisc!

@TheThinkingAtheist Seriously why the quality? I hear you bassy voice vibrating throught my walls and chair.... =DDD. Your stil my hero.

I listened to this live. But it was so early I fell asleep for hald of the rest of the podcast.=.=

how about interviewing Thunderf00t? or has TTA done that already?

I think the best darkmatter video is the called " If atheists acted religious". Especially the parts with glen beck. My favorite line is " brown shirt wearing gestapo Nazi Hitler Nazis" or some thing like that.

TTA you are the best :)

@TheThinkingAtheist You rock dude, keep the good work. Can't believe there is really people crazy enough to think threatening would stop us, when 'allegedly' it didn't stopped them back in the day (Not to compare Trolls with Lions, but you get the point), I'm just sad reading people really that backward in their way of thinking.

I definitely feel less isolated since coming across several skeptic and atheist channels. I'm also more confident in saying I'm an apistevistic atheist....

@amy2x Christianity: In the begginning there was this Magical being, who had the power to create everything from nothing by some sort of magical spell. He then felt bad about his creation, and killed them all. Later he again felt disappointed and sacrificed himself (but undid the sacrifice three days later), which still didn't really help. Now, 2000 years later, the support for him has grown to the lowest level ever, and he wonders what to do next. Makes perfect sense. We all await his next move

@rehetbutler Agree! Evid3nc3 is just... I don't know man. When I started watching his videos, I literally could not stop! Absolutely amazing!

I agree, you should interview TAA.

I actually listened to the glitched start of the show

the one thing i remember most vividly about church is when i thought the wine was purple kool-aid. :)

@SuperJasontheman Congrats!

"We'd work 25 hours a day and have a lump of dry poison for dinner..." Man, I graduated High School in 1983 (toughest 8 years of my life!), and I don't remember the 80s sucking that bad. We thought we were modern and stuff! ;) 3 cheers for our pal Darkmatter!

you have an awesome radio voice, why aren't you on broadcast radio? I would love to hear you doing a daily show - right after Stephanie Miller :).

Psalm 137:9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

@TheThinkingAtheist I respect that.

thank god 4 the internet .. er , i mean man :) !!! its really helped me , i always have bin an atheist , but my mind got poisoned 4 a while, and i dont ever want to be wrong , so ive searched and searched and i now know from watching the atheist experience/aronRA/dawkins/hitchens , makin it more clearer than i already thought !! it really fascinates how faith is so silly, it makes ppl lie about what they actually believe in, im now more sceptical than ever about everything !!

I agree

@ShellySummers I think she's on a tight budget right now. When she did do animated vids, the lip syncing was impeccable. I think she might be a bit of a perfectionist. :)

@Pinkpapi 4 days? Well that sure was deep seeded, haha

@impowow, yes, that supports my position. I would also encourage simply that "blacking out" of "IN GOD WE TRUST", as it is faster and easier than "replacing" text.

Can I still call in now?

MIcrofiche? What, your library didn't have a card catalog?

BionicDance is using the wrong animation software if it takes that long to lip sync.

@judoyodan I've been doing this casually for the last 2 years. Usually I just use a pen or a sharpie to mark out the word god. Sometimes I scratch out the words in god and just leave We Trust. Occasionally I add my own words and write something like "In Each Other" with We Trust or write "Yourself" after marking out In God We. No matter how you do it, it's worth leaving a message for anyone who even bothers to look at the backside of their dollar bills.

@TheThinkingAtheist A big upside to Interviewing TJ, aka TheAmazingAtheist, would be the possible inclusion of Howard Bloom. For a while he was posting monthly videos that were over an hour each and just he and Howard discussing whatever happened to be on their mind. I think hearing the three of you together would be fascinating, especially with the view call-ins.

@emperorkang My father used to "walk two miles to school in the snow in winter". I was nine years old when it finally hit me: it doesn't snow in Puerto Rico. He laaaaaaaughed.

It would be cool if you have NonStampCollector on the show.

I miss VHS and color bleeding, it made stuff look artsier! ^^

I do not think you need a god to feel or to be thankful for this experience and this life. I do not believe in god, but I am definitely thankful and joyfull to be here. No one can take that feeling, of being a full participant in the experience, away from you, for any reason and certainly not because you do not believe in a god.

@TheThinkingAtheist Well, it's a federal offense (or should be) to mark them with this line in the first place. And how would you ever catch the once doing it. Bills flow very rapidly between hands, so it would be rather hard to track down... I think it's a great protest

@TheCodedAtheist, Look up Sheldon Solomon on youtube talking about Becker!

Thinking Atheist, are you or have you already interviewed the Amazing Atheist?

@unorthodoxJ Fair enough. Maybe you're right and it's time to re-define the various kinds of "cartoon" art.

When someone tries generalizing about"what Atheists believe", I like to say "my friend doesn't like Star Trek: What does he think about abortion?" Obviously non-participation in one thing doesn't mean anything about all or any other things.

Very entertaining listen, BionicDance & Evid3nc3 have 2 of the most distinctive voices on KZread. I liked TheThinkingAtheists opening 5 minute chat about how the internet has revolutionised the ease of obtaining information. Also.. 20 years or so, if you wanted hardcore porn you'd have to know a guy on a street corner who could get you it ... now you have it at the click of a little mouse in your bedroom All hail the internet!!

Internet killed the video star. “...25 or 50 cents...” Those were the days. I prefer not to give a flying firetruck with the “iretr” removed. “I just let my subscribers handle it.” Good approach. “I can’t even spell my own name.” With a username like that, I don’t blame you. “Prove that God doesn’t exist.” He came to me in a dream and told me. So there.

very good podcast!!!! I am confident that there will be a day when the majority of the world will be atheist.

Mental masturbation and flying fornication. Almost ten years after this broadcast, I'm just now hearing this show and these words. I will now be using them

@TheThinkingAtheist, for two reasons, an emphatic NO! First, it is only illegal if you render the currency unfit for circulation as was originally intended. People write on currency all the time. Second, what about the first ten words on the First Amendment? You know, the part the reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." It's about time someone brought this to the attention of the SCOTUS. This is the argument we need.

One of my pet peeves is people thanking god after someone has successfully come through a difficult/complicatec surgery, when they should be thanking the surgeons and nurses who made it possible...

TTA vs TAA I'd watch it.

@d3st88 Yeah, you got me there. In all honesty, my personal life is pretty lonely because I'm surrounded by fundamentalist Christians. I have run-ins with them fairly frequently because I make jewelry out of fossils and when they ask about it, I HAVE to mention millions of years and then I get into a debate I never wanted. My mother went religiously insane when I came out as an atheist. She tried to have me committed to a mental institution for being "demon-possessed." Yes, it sucks here, too.

@jshjamaarify what has he done thats so bad in your eyes? What has he said that warrants such underhanded tactics? Does the truth of his words and the effect he has on his listeners really threaten you that much? He's simply reaching out to other atheists and letting them know they are not alone.

@TheThinkingAtheist Your podcast has nothing to do with this. I know the US ain't perfect, but what pisses me off is how a lot of people there claim the US to be 'OMG THE BEST EV4RRR' and the president to be 'the president of the world'. I love no country, because i have no country. Growing up and moving around never gave me this. I'm sad somehow, but then again i'm glad to have Earth as my country. Btw i'm rather surprised and honored to get a response from you. Keep up the awesome!

@JC593 Agreed.

this is my weekly dose of SANETY

@MrXman49O Maybe you should read the tags again.

@Parapon3ra Maybe because in Europe, religious people don't bash atheists as they do in America. We pretty much leave each others alone in -almost- peace.