Ask an Atheist - Live | Matt Dillahunty

A live version of the TV show which answers the most pressing questions about faith society and many things often considered taboo.

Recorded on August 31st, 2019 at the Skeptics Track at Dragon Con.

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TIMESTAMPS:
Q1: What does Matt think of an Atheist attending church as a guest? (15:28)
Q2: Matt is asked of any book recommendations (19:03)
Q3: How does Matt justify secular morality? (23:03)
Q4: Where does Matt (mostly) get his knowledge from? (28:40)
Q5: When and how was Matt (before being an atheist) most religious and when did he realise it was false? (32:42)
Q6: Which secular organisations (in Austin particularly) are good politically speaking that should be supported? (40:15)
Q7: How can the religiously oppressed combat against their secularism? (46:00)
Q8: How to debate someone who says they are not "religious" but in a personal relationship with Jesus, and so on. (54:00)
Q9: A personal moral dilemma; how to communicate disbelief in God with loved ones, etc. (57:00)

Stay open-minded guys :)

[cbprescott]

Listening to an intelligent person speak is always a pleasure

[junepearl]

Matt looks really good. I'm so glad he takes care of himself. The world needs him. He has helped me so much on my journey. I appreciate his work; no one else can do it like he does.

[happilyeggs]

I love Matt. I just wish his name was Dill Mattahunty.

[caribbeanman]

We all owe Dell a great debt of gratitude for giving us the atheist Matt Dillahunty we know and love.

[jussi-pekkaahonen]

I love Matt. We really need people like him, stepping up for religious nonsense. When will we get Matt to Finland?

[joesoftware]

Great discussion. Thank you all for pulling this together and posting

[fatso]

I see you Matt doing the damn thang... you have opened the eyes of so many. Thanks.

[bizunc]

Hope there's a Dragon Con next year, and Matt is there again. This year was really, really hard to miss out on.

[avedic]

Great talk and Q&A! Always love seeing Matt in front of a crowd. He's a natural at it.
It is always fairly discombobulating whenever he mentions Beth, his (now ex) wife.
I was friends with her back in college, at ETSU. She lead a SSA type group. I even remember a burrito dinner party at her apartment where she casually mentioned how she'd been talking online with this Matt guy from Texas. Crazy to think how long ago that was.... o_o

[YYMe]

@9:25 The guy in the red jacket: "...people who are just solid concrete." What a great metaphor.

[jeffcolorado]

A good intro to science would be "Demon Haunted World".

[windscar]

i was there. i waited 2 hours for this. this ruled!

[seraphinaaizen]

I just realized....with the exception of a couple of speeches where he was standing up from years ago (before his weight loss), I have never seen the lower half of Matt's body before. It's like catching a glimpse of a snow leopard.

[tonygriffin_]

At the very, very least, Matt really deserves that honorary basketweaving degree.

[Kimlur]

Really glad I found this! ty for posting this.

[toddbowers]

Great to finally see as I was off doing other stuff at DragonCon last year! Matt Rules!

[unglaubiger]

19:00 She doesn´t have the science backround to understand everything, but noone has. That may be a bit frustrating for people who became atheists. You can´t understand everything. As a theist you can be sure to have all the answers. God did it, that´s enough. As an atheist, you can learn this or that, but the universe is way too complicated to even have a rudimentary understanding of everything.

[johnsperry]

“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” -- Richard Feynman

[majoroz]

_Connections_ and _The Day The Universe Changed_ are series that I showed my classes in engineering and technology for MANY years from the 70's through the 90's. Even got him to sign my books during his stop at WA state U in '88. He 'splains shit in 10 minutes that took Sagan 10 hours.