Okay, here we got to stand by.

Three, two, one.

The thinking atheist, it's not a person.

It's a symbol.

An idea.

The population of atheists in this country is going through the room.

Rejecting faith.

Pursuing knowledge, challenging the sacred.

If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth,

not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish.

And working together for a more Russian world.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself.

Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

Assume nothing. Question everything and start thinking.

This is the Thinking Atheist podcast hosted by Seth Andrews. This is the audio of a short 12 minute video that I just released to YouTube if you would like to watch the video that that link is in the description box of this podcast.

Jim Palmer is a chaplain for the American Humanist Association.

He's also founder of the Center for Non Religious Spirituality

and before you blink away his use of the word spiritual.

I understand his context here, or at least I think I do.

Spiritual is a word that can invoke actual spirits, but we also live in a world where language sometimes has limits,

and so spiritual can mean a moment or an experience that is transcendence.

It transcends the ordinary to be something remarkable.

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