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How to Make Someone Believe in God (According to Science)
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The United States had a religious affiliation rate of about 17% in 1776, according to The Churching of America 1776-2005 by Roger Finke and Rodney Stark.
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00:00 Intro
00:54 How religious was America? 17%*
2:52 How slavery affects these statistics
6:16 Why so low? Reason 1
07:19 Why so low? - Reason 2
14:34 Why did America become more religious?
16:37 Why Christian Nationalists are wrong
17:33 Live event announcement
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Atheists and Christian apologists alike get caught up in questions “atheists can’t answer.” Here I discuss questions I think are genuinely hard for atheists to answer, but maybe not for the reasons you think.
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Would you believe in God if evidence wasn’t an issue?
Do you want Christianity to be true?
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Nefarious is a 2023 film adapted from Steve Deace's novel A Nefarious Plot. It's a conservative Christian's dream, and anyone else's nightmare.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:14 Why the God's Not Dead guys made a horror movie
02:54 The movie set was haunted by demons!
3:40 Setting up the "plot"
06:36 Ouija boards make demons attack kids
07:04 Demons HATE atheists! (the film falls apart)
09:13 Demons are more rational than Christians??
10:05 Psychiatrists are useless, apparently
11:05 Demon preaches a Christian sermon (plot destroyed)
14:17 Atheist liberals are dumb. I am very intelligent
16:44 How I would fix this film's plot holes
19:57 Demon shames atheist for having an abortion
22:42 The film stops trying to make sense at all
26:10 The greatest end scene they could manage, I guess
28:54 Why this film came out so badly
31:21 Was the movie attacked by demons?
43:44 The religion of the God's Not Dead creators
48:21 Christians want kids to watch horror movies now?
52:42 Big announcement: Scaring the Hell Into America
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Ex-gay Christians of the past have gotten straight married to prove they’ve turned straight. Christopher Yuan is engaged to a woman. Does this make the same point by implication? How will this affect his message of “Holy Sexuality?” The Holy Sexuality Project is wrapped up in Yuan’s personal story and testimony. Does his relationship prove its points?
My original video on this subject:
I Took A Gay Conversion Class for Christian Teens. It Was Awful.
youtu.be/-QnyYMEy3HA?si=i792ShRNy2yafE9n
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Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist who knows from his training that being LGBTQ is not a pathology or disease, and that conversion therapy doesn’t work. Still, he speaks against Bill C-4 which bans conversion therapy in Canada, claiming it mandates “affirmation therapy.” Just like when he spoke against Bill C-16, Peterson misunderstands the bill he is criticizing.
This time, though, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, the Daily Wire, and The Heritage Foundation likely have something to do with that.
Thanks for Dr. Igi Moon for appearing in this video!
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Nick Fish, President of American Atheists joins me to discuss the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 and how it overlaps with the GOP’s Agenda 47 for a Trump presidency.
Project 2025 full PDF:
static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
Agenda 47:
rncplatform.donaldjtrump.com
American Atheists:
Atheists.org
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Evangelical Christianity, white Christian nationalism, and Qanon are all wrapped up together these days, and The Boys provides hilarious and frightening satire of this mess. Project 2025, Donald Trump, anti-LGBT policies, The Daily Wire, Matt Walsh, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Franklin Graham, President George Bush, and so many more are treated in the show.
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Dr. Christopher Yuan of Moody Bible Institute used to live as a gay man, but now no longer identifies as gay. He does not use the term ex-gay or ex-LGBT, but embraces what he calls Holy Sexuality. His curriculum for parents of LGBT kids explains why. Is this gay conversion therapy? How does gay conversion therapy work? Can you go from gay to straight? Can you stop being gay? Can Christians support LGBT people? Is being transgender anti-science? Here I answer all of those questions.
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Chapters:
0:00 My Fundamentalist background
05:33 The gay conversion curriculum for kids
10:48 Lesson 1: Yuan’s story of “leaving homosexuality”
26:19 Lesson 2: Why identifying as LGBT is like being in a plane crash
32:49 All non-Christian ideas about identity are lies
39:59 Lesson 3: This poem proves you can’t be trans! (or LGBT)
46:06 Christian nationalism makes an appearance
49:38 Being gay is a disorder (of the spirit)
53:00 Lesson 4: Sexual desires are as bad as cheating on your spouse
56:06 Dr. Dan McClellan appearance 1
01:02:03 Gay romance is like incest, apparently
01:04:44 If you can’t change, it’s ALWAYS your fault
01:06:55 The Abuse Cycle of Sexual Sin
01:10:00 Lesson 5: Homosexuality Vs. Holy Sexuality
01:19:17 God can make you straight!
01:22:22 Lesson 6: Be single, make converts
01:26:05 Lesson 7: Gay marriage is idol worship! (and so are human rights)
01:35:17 Lesson 8: Why sexual sin is like r*ping god
01:39:02 Yuan’s solution to sexual sin (which leads to abuse)
01:47:42 Lesson 9: The McClellan Strikes Back
02:01:46 Lesson 10: Sex exists, so being trans is nonsense
02:24:52 Conclusion
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Dr. Joseph Laycock joins me to discuss supposedly real cases of possession and exorcism, Self-styled experts like Dr. Richard Gallagher, Catholic exorcists, and deliverance ministers tell fantastic stories of the demonic, but is there more to it than storytelling?
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In Cixin Liu’s Three Body Problem and the rest of the Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy, the aliens called the San-Ti or Trisolarans are hostile to humanity. They pose as gods to subjugate humanity. This plot line has a kind of precedent in the Apocryphon of John, a text formerly called gnostic. They ask the question: What if God was evil or malicious?
If you liked the Three Body Problem Netflix show, The Dark Forest, or Death’s End, or the work of New Testament Dr. James McGrath, you might appreciate this perspective.
How Dune Gets the Cognitive Science of Religion Exactly Right:
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The author of Ephesians has done a lot of damage. Here I explain why.
Dr. Joseph P. Laycock, scholar of new religious movements and specialist on satanism and satanic panic, joins me to discuss the dangerous idea of supreme evil in Christian tradition, pop culture, and politics. From Putin, to Rainbow Revival, to Isaiah Saldivar’s ministry, many use the idea of supernatural evil, demons, and devils, to achieve their individual goals. This can result in the spread of witch trials, religious wars, religious prejudice, or just plain old ignorance.
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If Christianity is man made, why does everything about it go against man’s desires? Does Christianity go against man’s desires? If so, is that evidence for Christianity? I answer this question, discussing the history of Christianity, the cognitive science of religion, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, and more.
The whole “atheists can’t answer this question” and “atheists can’t explain this” thing is really getting old.
Study cited:
Richard Sosis study on communes and costly signaling
http://cognitionandculture.net/wp-content/uploads/Sosis_2003_CommuneLongevity.pdf
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00:00 Intro
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Religion and religious identity is more than just belief in supernatural agents. It also has to do with social belonging, personal identity, ritual behavior, and belief in or acceptance of various theological ideas. I discuss all of these dimensions of faith in order to answer the question, “What would make you go from atheist to Christianity?”
Videos I mention here:
Why I Love Jesus but WON’T Follow Him
youtu.be/gx5LFm68LQ8?si=1AebE1V7r7TIuawc
Can You Be Religious AND a Skeptic? (Live with Dr. Justin Sledge)
youtube.com/live/ZBZBnUkQ5Jc?si=xh30LuMohE-G1GeP
How Dune Gets Religious Psychology Exactly Right
youtu.be/jhRHQDm2dBs?si=Ajil4jgZY1SrIW3u
Church Services Are Designed to Influence You. Here’s How
youtu.be/7btz0ocXDeg?si=sQ6UjZE2PA5CvGQG
How to Make Someone Believe in God (According to Science)
youtu.be/YV53lOptdoc?si=55C9eLHes0uwzD5-
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:51 4 Dimensions of Christian Identity
02:02 Belonging
05:29 Behavior
10:06 Faith
13:27 Belief in Christian Metaphysics
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Religion as depicted in Dune lines up with actual scientific theories of religious psychology in specific ways: Fremen religion contains costly signaling, those living in hardship are more religious, religious ritual helps the Fremen survive, fundamentalists support military intervention, and Paul uses Credibility Enhancing Displays to encourage belief in the prophecy and his place in it.
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Sources:
Richard Sosis study on communes
http://cognitionandculture.net/wp-content/uploads/Sosis_2003_CommuneLongevity.pdf
Sibley and Bulbulia study on religion and Christchurch earthquake
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3515557
Henrich et al. study on war and religiosity
https://henrich.fas.harvard.edu/files/henrich/files/henrich_et_al-2019-nature_human_behaviour.pdf
Sosis and Handwerker on psalms recitation and anxiety
https://anthropology.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/944/2018/06/2011-Sosis-Psalms-and-Coping-with-Uncertainty.pdf
Rothschild et al. on fundamentalism
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103109001280
Joseph Henrich and Andrew Henry interview on CREDs and feedback loops
youtu.be/s_M2odFfxno?si=nrzxAAK_Xo8CWLKI
Henrich et al. study on CREDs
pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/17250565/LanmanBuhrmesterCREDsFinal.pdf
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
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Full video on myths about LGBT psychology and healthcare: youtu.be/22W7I3yV-NY?si=UenmSnzQN7XvE-Qy
Sources:
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TikTok prophet and charismatic Christian preacher Gabriel Storm makes some distressing content about LGBT issues, mental health, and demons. Here I engage in spiritual warfare to attack the kingdom of god!!!
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Claims I debunk:
Abuse and trauma cause non-heterosexuality and gender non-conformity, not affirming queer people is the best way to help them, being gender nonconforming is a social media contagion, rapid onset gender dysphoria is real, gender dysphoria can and should only be treated with therapy or prayer, gender dysphoria is similar to and should be treated in the same way as anorexia, 80% of gender dysphoric youths grow out of it by age 18, medical intervention for gender dysphoria does not help mental health outcomes, and trans s rates skyrocket 10 years after transition.
Sources cited:
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Here, we look at the Desistance Myth using an informed understanding of Gender Dysphoria and its diagnostic criteria in the DSM 5, the defunct diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder from the DSM 4, and recent research from reputable medical institutions. And yes, we analyze the famous Thomas Steensma study (2013) and detransition rates overall.
Sources cited:
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:50 About the list
02:38 The Four Horsemen
06:40 Educators
07:58 Comedians
09:54 Magicians
11:07 Freedom From Religion Foundation
11:32 American Atheists
11:59 Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
12:36 Antitheism
12:58 Agnostic Atheism Quadrant Theory
14:09 The Dawkins Scale
15:26 Coming out stories
16:07 Deconversion stories
16:55 Debates
18:07 The Atheist “A”
18:39 The Atom
19:02 The Flying Spaghetti Monster
20:15 The Darwin Fish
20:39 Satan
21:36 Atheist YouTube
22:17 r/Atheism
22:41 Screen names
23:47 Atheist Conferences
24:31 Local groups with meetups
26:29 Progressivism
27:45 Separation of church and state
28:17 Science education advocacy
28:50 I just go one god further
29:20 Skydaddy
29:52 We’re all born atheists until someone lies to us
30:32 Russel’s Teapot
32:02 Life of Brian
32:42 The Pale Blue Dot
34:17 Douglas Adam’s Puddle Analogy
35:13 Angry atheist
36:27 Fedora tippers
37:32 New Atheism
38:45 Why atheists deny their culture exists
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newportacademy.com/resources/mental-health/lgbt-suicide-rates
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Discernment
04:54 Putting others before yourself
08:31 Be in the world, not of it
12:28 Why is the generation who raised us morally inconsistent?
14:28 Outro/Health update
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Our original collab:
youtu.be/SzQHT26FXJI?si=ri4hd16D2ib0Ys7w
GMS video on the science of why people believe in god:
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Chapters:
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00:48 How we met / Why collab with an atheist?
10:43 TierZoo gets hate for working with me
14:40 How Drew and Patch have changed their view of religion/atheism
22:52 Can animals commune with the Devs?
24:37 Would aliens have Christianity/religion?
29:03 Why did Patch like my video about trauma motivating religious belief?
38:10 Drew is not a gamer
39:42 Patch’s science background
48:10 Why grad school didn’t work for Patch and Drew
58:00 Patch has questions for atheists
01:12:42 A sneak peak of what’s coming up on TierZoo
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Clip from my video: Surprising Statistics About Gen Z's Religious Views
Articles featured:
https://religioninpublic.blog/2023/04/03/gen-z-and-religion-in-2022/
ipsos.com/en-us/two-global-religious-divides-geographic-and-generational
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Ayaan’s original article: unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian
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Chapters:
00:00 Ayaan: The 5th Horseman of Atheism
01:37 Her article
03:20 Atheist responses to Ayaan’s conversion
04:47 Evangelical Christian responses
05:17 Why her conversion isn’t a big change
05:55 The ACTUAL interesting part of her conversion
07:11 Why I don’t care if Ayaan is religious
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“Do atheists exist?” This Christian’s insulting answer
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The Female Apostle that Christianity (Purposely) Forgot | Acts of Paul and Thecla
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Chapters:
Intro 00:00
Attribution bias in Romans 01:25
Outgroup bias in the Gospel of John 05:12
How scribes corrupted scripture 08:48
Confirmation bias in determining which books are real scripture 12:36
Confirmation bias in interpretation 18:12
A verse AGAINST bias in the Bible 21:58
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Was Adam androgynous? What did the apostle Paul say about sex? What does Christianity say about gender roles? Was sex allowed in early Christianity? Here I discuss all of these issues, citing the writings of Paul, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, Polemon the Stoic, Acts of Thecla, and more.
Thank you to Dr. Bart Ehrman, Dr. Jennifer Knust, and Dr. Jeffrey Siker for speaking with me on this.
Videos referenced:
What the Bible Really Says About Sex and Gender (According to Scholars)
youtu.be/-SWBxq7joWY?si=mGxAu4XirGyEdcqF
The Wild World of Ancient Christian Propaganda
youtu.be/_TN7cQaf2vk?si=BS_zVfgU5tDt9AxP
The Female Apostle that Christianity (Purposely) Forgot | Acts of Paul and Thecla
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The Celibate Priest/Intro 00:00
Women are less perfect than men 02:26
Christians should never have sex 09:14
Androgyny: original and ideal state of humankind 13:19
A radical way to keep chaste 19:07
Bad theology leads to orgies 22:46
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Videos referenced:
Al Jazeera Did A Story About Me (Ex-Muslim and I Respond)
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“Do atheists exist?” This Christian’s insulting answer
youtu.be/JuMsC7dlBgs?si=BcLosi7mlxFmUtGX
Creationist Kent Hovind Challenges Me, I Respond
youtu.be/GdyjN_zCO_M?si=GPcd95FaAICQQoXb
Why Christian Responses to Deconstruction Are So Predictable
youtu.be/Wa4UaieAWZA?si=09VSLiHLUar89vEV
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Discovering that religions evolve through a darwinian process made me question my faith. Religions are memeplexes shaped over long periods of time, and my Christianity was no different. Here’s a story from my deconstruction story which I haven’t discussed before. Regardless of whether you’re ex-Christian, atheist, or otherwise, understanding memetics is hugely valuable.
I recommend Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene and Susan Blackmore’s The Meme Machine to learn more about memes.
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An additional part of the story of atheist activism is the work of ex-Muslim content creators like Apostate Aladdin. Here he and I respond to the story from AJ.
Apostate Aladdin’s channel
youtube.com/@ApostateAladdin?si=xMDcKYcyCJva3OMZ
AlJazeera’s video:
God and Atheism on YouTube | The Listening Post
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Americans are becoming less religious, and reliable sources like Pew Research predict that Christianity will be a minority in America by 2070. But is Christianity dying? Will Christianity disappear? Here I engage in some speculative futurism and describe 3 ways Christianity could end in the USA: Secularism overtakes Christianity, Other religions (primarily Islam and Hinduism) overtake Christianity, and Christianity transforms into a different religion.
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SOURCES:
Graphs of Christianity’s decline in America (and why it WON’T stop)
youtu.be/bDf2U6iloW0?si=3drvLPbOktyhCRgp
Pew Research: Modeling the Future of Religion in America
pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/modeling-the-future-of-religion-in-america
Is Religion Dying? Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society (Book review)
youtu.be/RF2_FyCuBks?si=3bEwdOjnClITIBQz
Mr Beat’s Great Replacement video
youtube.com/watch?v=pyUQP-R48yg
Philip Gorski “Civil religion”
youtu.be/j6DO9AHYg28?si=nCkqZMRpl7lQs1Rq
Philip Gorski “What’s replacing traditional religion?”
youtu.be/rW89mJ8shMI?si=NlFr0nFPfNfJiXuC
Religion for Breakfast’s American Civil Religion series
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHsXddZFR9ANJNOtufGyy2skH18ngAKze&si=OG4cp43xylwgHwkB
Human Development Index Report 2021-22
hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/global-report-document/hdr2021-22pdf_1.pdf
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Dr. Bart Ehrman, Jeffery Siker, Dan McClellan, and Jennifer Wright Knust come together to answer the question: What does the Bible say about sex and gender? We also discuss what scripture says about marriage, family, divorce, homosexuality, desire, and more. From Leviticus to Romans to Genesis to 1 Timothy, the Bible has a lot to say about these topics. Here, experts take on the challenge of unpacking it all.
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Excerpt taken from my video: How Much Do Americans Dislike Atheists? (feat. Ryan Burge)
youtu.be/xy4TJKMyreE
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Dr. Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast (episode #2008). He advocated for intelligent design and the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus, and in the process, made dubious claims about evolutionary biology and religious psychology. Jon Perry of Stated Clearly joins me to respond to Meyer’s claims.
Listen to my conversation with Jon about this JRE episode: youtu.be/y39fTTh4zrI
Jon Perry’s YouTube Channels:
Stated Clearly: youtube.com/@StatedClearly
Stated Casually: youtube.com/@statedcasually
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Stated Clearly animations about Genetic Information
Part 1: youtu.be/DlhpvcgK_28
Part 2: youtu.be/G4VINRUe_o4
Talk by Gerd Müller downloads.royalsociety.org//events/2016/11/evolutionary-biology/muller.mp3
2016 Meeting Website (with links to all talks) royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2016/11/evolutionary-biology
Study on deconversion from Christianity https://dspace2.creighton.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10504/64291/2011-21.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
“Non-believers just want to sin” deconstructed:
youtu.be/JuMsC7dlBgs
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus on memory
youtu.be/4Ey7MBiDVH8
Why Christian martyrs were executed by Rome youtu.be/sIjpx1ymRQ4
My video on the psychology of god belief
youtu.be/YV53lOptdoc
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American Medical Association says conversion therapy doesn't work: ama-assn.org/system/files/conversion-therapy-issue-brief.pdf
Founders of Exodus International apologize, disavow conversion therapy
youtu.be/aDiYeJ_bsQo
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Dr. Ryan Burge’s article:
graphsaboutreligion.com/p/just-how-much-do-americans-dislike
More information on atheophobia in the US:
youtu.be/EuFtS1Mxumc
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#shorts
Terms discussed:
Non-supernaturalist religion
Religious pluralism
Therapeutic blasphemy
Counter myth
Culture jamming
Appropriating the discourse of evil
Dr. Laycock’s work:
sites.google.com/site/joelaycock
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An Oxford Bible scholar named John Mill found over 30,000 variants in the extant Biblical manuscripts in 1707. His published work on this started a controversy that has lasted to this day. Christian apologists and non-sectarian scholars alike can thank Mill for the energy that his work added to their fields. Here New Testament scholar Dr. Bart Ehrman joins me to discuss this incredible story.
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Dr. Joseph Laycock explains why he thinks exorcism of LGBTQ people is becoming more popular than it was even in the Satanic Panic of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.
Dr. Joseph Laycock explains how the anti-LGBTQ "groomer" panic is "Projected Inversion." Full video here: youtu.be/SOgjikDdW90
Check out Dr. Laycock’s work here: sites.google.com/site/joelaycock
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ACLU is tracking 491 bills they’ve identified as anti-LGBTQ. Bills restrict healthcare, IDs, access to bathrooms, participation in sports, discussing gender in grade school, college classes discussing gender and intersectionality
aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights?impact=
Gender Identity Disparities in Criminal Victimization: National Crime Victimization Survey, 2017–2018” appears in the American Journal of Public Health
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-trans-press-release/
This video contains 100% therapeutic grade skepticism.*
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“Other Virgin Births”:
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“The Unknown Gospels”
ehrman.thrivecart.com/unknown-gospels/?affiliate=gmskeptic
“Did the Resurrection of Jesus Really Happen?”
bartehrman.com/did-the-resurrection-of-jesus-really-happen-bart-ehrman-mike-licona-debate/?affiliate=gmskeptic
“Did the Christmas Story Really Happen?”
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Source on trans minors:
reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data
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*This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA