Conference On Religious Trauma
Seth Andrews is a former evangelical and Christian broadcaster who now hosts The Thinking Atheist…one of the most popular online atheist communities in the world. The Thinking Atheist is not a person. It is an icon encouraging all to reject faith and pursue reason and evidence. Since its launch in 2010, The Thinking Atheist podcast has been downloaded over 50 million times.
Seth has authored five books, including his latest offering, “Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot.”
With a mix of humor and heart, Seth Andrews has spoken for audiences large and small in the U.S, Canada, Europe, and Australia about his former faith, the promotion of science and skepticism, the importance of Humanism in this often crazy world, and why we should all pursue a personal relationship with reality.
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Favorite! Thank you for this discussion. So many great things to ponder, but also, both of you have such a calming and soothing voice, it was relaxing. Some discussions out there are just a lot of yelling and talking over one another. Thank you 🙂
Seth is a huge guest for you to land for your inaugural episode. Congrats! Love the 2 episodes so far. Keep it up. From Victoria BC.
I hope to hear much more from you Janice, you couldn't have started with a better guest! Welcome to the community!💙💙
New sub great interview. Can’t wait to binge watch the rest
I listened to an interesting conversation on another atheistic podcast today. The young, teenaged children of the caller to the show had encouraged the call. The caller insisted that he continued to believe in a deity, despite all lack of evidence for that deity. The reason I'm commenting here is because the teenaged children were apparently atheists or on their way to becoming atheists, and were encouraging their father to "come to the light", as it were. A different dynamic than that which so many people think of.
Seth is a powerhouse…glad to see him on your channel. Thankfully I was raised by Catholic atheists so I never had to contend with freeing myself from religion. That said, my family hasn't escaped entirely unscathed on account of Jehovah Witnesses-ism infecting a large part of my family. Growing up around this family schism has always made me acutely aware of the very real harm fundamental religion can pose to people themselves as well as those they care about. Good luck with the channel.
Shout out to Seth, Christopher Hitchens and Lloyd Evans.
I don't find those hopeful secular fairytales, as expressed at the end of this piece, to offer much hope. Take a long view of humankind. Our struggles will continue, in much the same way. Sadly, we humans have been dealt an unplayable hand.
Endeavor to define and practice decency. That's often the best one can do.
You all made me realize that my journey matches up with all that you all report…and the hardest part was being with the anxiety and the uncomfortable relating until i felt grounded in my true nature…a non-believer!
Okay, now chase up Aron Ra, Dan Barker, Andrew Seidel for future videos.
I like to listen to your speak. I was in the religion for many years. But I was never comfortable with it! Sometimes it was fun. My economy was good. But then I got tired? It's a abuse! And I read 1000 Cristian books! I was in. But I had always some bad feeling! I got so tired! And I was evangelist for 30 years!? I'm to tired to explain to people? I don't care anymore. I'm better off now without religion!?
Seth is so cool. I come from a similar background.
@32:00 "when I busted out of that religious corset"… excellent analogy. Also "fundamentalism would have us starve to death at a buffet table." The god believer is afraid us atheists will approach the buffet table and eat until we are sick, leaving nothing for others. They fear that without god we will live completely unrestrained. Some fear themselves – how they think they would behave without a god belief. But atheists follow secular laws just like theists. And secular humanists are generally self restrained because it is the right thing to do.
Does he really mean discovering Humanism rather that his humanity? If so that's a different discussion with different frameworks. Humanism as a sub group within atheism while discovering your humanity being a connection with others on a personal level (rather than in philosophically terms). You can connect with people without embracing atheism and Humanism. I realize some people may not get there's a difference.
freeing your self from the biblical nightmare can be like escaping a nazi concentration camp or a death suicidal cult. alas, brainwashing from a young age leaves indelible marks to the psyche!
Beautiful discussion. Lots of great insights. Very refreshing. One of the best videos i listened on religious deconversion. Fully resonate. Keep on doing what you do. Thank you very much.
More like this please
An atheist said "Something cannot come from nothing, the proof is that i said so". Atheists have already made their minds that God doesn't exist and nothing would change their belief that everything was created from nothing. A contradiction is an impossibility and a miracle is an impossibility that God makes possible, an act of God. Ask your innocent children if everything can be created and they would get confused because eternity is impossible to understand. Not everything can be created therefore an eternal entity must exist. To understand only to want to understand is required. I am not asking for you to agree with me, only to justly have a chance to prove God's existence, fulfilling atheists' life dream, ending religion to bring peace. I claim I am God, the eternal entity that the kalam cosmological argument talks about, the argument that has never been debunked simply because atheists reject logic as all kind of fallacies if the conclusion, that eliminates all alternatives except the truth, is that God exists and the horrible personal religious god doesn’t. I am censored for obvious reasons and the injustice should earthquake humanity's unchangeable minds. The truth and lie have no master, God has no master and is free, and everyone can be right or wrong, which doesn't mean I can not be right and all humanity past and present can not be wrong. I offer one thousand dollars to whoever helps me overcome the most severe and devastating censorship in history in a social media era for many years. I claim I have discovered the nature of God, that coincides with our psychology, for psychology, philosophy, theology, history of human thought, God's Life, and it is infinitely important even if I am wrong. Would you be able to reply intelligently addressing my points?
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If one really thinks about it and is truthful, Christianity is a blood cult and performs a ritual of cannibalism – the Communion. At the Communion, they say before drinking the grape juice and eating the cracker: "Take, EAT, this is my BODY and take, DRINK, this is my BLOOD."
Wow. Seth has a great channel and I can personally relate to what he deals with in his family.
Good work, Joyce, but too much mhmm… mmhm… umnhn. Just quit the subvocalizations until you actually have something to say. It was the same with Matt. There is an expectation that women need to always be supportive to every word. Umhum said between every word the other person is saying is just distracting.
Seth is my all-time favourite Athiest. His speech titled " The God of Cancer " did it for me.
I'm from the middle-American Boston area with very religious but not evangelical parents, I became an atheist at age 11, and I've met many dozens of atheists in the fifty years since. What I haven't encountered is this "losing my religion" trauma that is common on Youtube, Fortunately, my parents are still alive and my atheism has never caused any trouble within the family, but it isn't just me, I have never known an atheist to suffer this "big emotional trauma". Have I been oblivious to the obvious?
Seth Andrews- what a radio voice!
I enjoyed all of Seth's books and I love his podcast. I've actually managed to get on three episodes as a caller, most recently the show about purity culture. I was thankfully raised without religion, a conscious decision by my Catholic-raised folks, but my very first girlfriend, already sheltered because of having a visual impairment (we met at a school for the blind), was definitely also indoctrinated into purity culture. She was and is a devout Christian, already a bone of contention in our relationship, and the fact that my parents were more easygoing than hers in the matter of their children's dating lives also caused some problems for us. So when Seth did the purity culture episode a few months back I called in to share a story that pertained to it.