Godless Business

1.6 – Mr Deity

 

Since all good Christians spend their Sundays in a big cold old church trying to communicate with their deity, Andrew, Oliver and Nigel actually managed to do it from the comfort of Nigel’s kitchen table thanks to the wonders of Skype. You could say it was the easy way out, but of course the Skype Gods tried to smite our efforts. We prevailed however, and have audio evidence to prove it!

Join us for a chat with Mr Deity himself, as well as a quick debrief on the Rise of Atheism Global Atheist Convention.

In other news, this is our first podcast recorded with our new podcast production software Ubercaster, which is very very good. It has a few quirks which we are still working around but the end result will be a far better podcast with a more streamlined production process which means we can release the show sooner.

It also means we are now producing an Enhanced AAC version of the podcast for all the iTunes, iPod and iPhone listeners out there. With this, we can include pictures and links to what we are discussing, as well as handy chapter markings a bit like a DVD has, which will make it much easier to find different topics within the podcast. You can grab the AAC version from this post, and we are setting up an iTunes feed for this version if you want to subscribe to that instead of the mp3 version. It is worth it. So subscribe to it and make the extra effort I put into it worthwhile.

Hope you enjoy the podcast.

References

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  • Tim H.

    Mr. Deity is far too intelligent a show for Hollywood. Good discussion.

  • http://intensedebate.com/profiles/dreadpiratemick dreadpiratemick

    It's a funny show, that I've followed for ages now, but until now I had very little idea of what a fascinating person the man behind it is.

  • BluePrint

    A person can be a Jewish atheist because Judaism is an "old style" religion which is more of a tribal affiliation, and actually doesn't hinge on believing anything supernatural, but mostly on knowing and acting according to the rules of the sociaty.
    Being Jewish is very much like belonging to a tribe, be it native American, Austrailan aborigine, or Na'vi: If you adopt the tribe's way of life, the tribe will adopt you as one of their own, and if you're born in the trible… it's like Nikola Tesla is an Austrian born American or Richard Dawkins is a Kenyan born Brit, only Judaism is not geographical or ethnical. (despite what some Jews and other racists think)

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BBC News – Row over Indonesia atheist Facebook post Priority is to protect marriage | Herald Sun No Fetus Can Feed Us | Unreasonable Faith Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0 | Video on TED.com

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Further Reading

Dog Heads

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Matt’s Human Morality

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Aunt Matilda’s Cake

In the book “God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?” by John Lennox he puts forward the example of Aunt Matilda’s cake to illustrate the limited nature of science. The scenario has Aunt Matilda baking a cake and number of scientists are asked to describe it. A nutritionists might tell us about the carbohydrates, fats, sugars,…
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The perfect God

I want a god whose ultimate goals which do not necessitate the creation of mysterious suffering and death. I want a god who doesn’t violate causation by causing things to begin to exist from nothing in the absence of time. I want a god who does not give us “free will” then punishes us for…
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Atheism 2.0

“Atheism 2.0” is a 20 minute TED presentation by Alain de Botton in which he proposes a new approach to evangelising atheism. Alain suggests (apparently without evidence) that we have “secularised badly” and we should sift through the rituals, traditions, and behaviours of religion to identify and adopt their efficient mechanisms. “I have come here…
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The Bizarre Bible

Atheists are often told by believers to read the Bible and it will all become clear.  Trouble is, many of us have tried that and it doesn’t seem to have helped.  Take these verses for example: This does not sound like a great night out to me. “But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master…
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