
The episode discusses the nature of atheism and critiques the belief system as a form of faith without empirical evidence.
Atheists will tell you that there is 100% definitely no God and that to think otherwise is insane. This is a religious leap of faith, as they have no evidence for their claim; no atheist has died and witnessed (somehow) the lack of any survival of a soul or existence of an afterlife, and so they simply lack the scinetific empirical evidence required to be able to back up their claim that we can be certain there is no God. Actually, it is just their feeling, their intuition as to what makes sense. And that's okay, they can have their assumptions/instincts, but they should know the difference between this and evidence or logical proof. Ironically, not only do atheists do what all religions do and make a leap of faith, assuming a belief without empirical evidence, but in fact they embody the greatest blind faith in that they do not even realise that they are dealing in faith, such is their absorption in their worldview and its assumptions. To make matters worse, they are not even rewarded for such religious faith with grandiose pleasant illusions and in many if not most cases it seems atheism engenders nihilism and an abyss within the heart where one ceases to believe in meaning…
Host: Jamie McGlue
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