The Non-prophets

Jeff's absence (and his pet peeve about misheard lyrics); Tracie Harris to speak at Manitoba Reason Fest; Satanists muddying the water; Email from Austin (of all places!); 2015 Bat Cruise coming up; Email: Games, games, games; 14 year-old freshman arrested for making clock that looked suspiciously like a bomb (TX. Suprised?); Denis: "I Have a Question!" Faith vs. Knowledge; SIAS: Kim Davis defender; Emails from Sweden; More emails: 'Hide-the-Bible'; Jeb Bush's mystical (Republican) warrior buddyCopyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

Denis' Plain White intro; Sitting in for Jeff, the Incomparable and Ever Beloved Tracie Harris!!!; Upcoming Appearances; Austin Pride Festival; Kentucky Clerk Standoff; Email: "Consecrated Virgin" teacher; Pope "shakes up the Catholic World" by saying something that turns out to be nothing new; There's more but we quit taking notes because our internet kept crashing. Copyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

Denis' "Save the Atheist Hosts for Pennies a Day" intro; Jeff's "Hide the Bible" game; Mailbag: Debating Theists, playing "devil's advocate"; Russell discusses tweets from some loony named Justin; Judge orders man to marry girlfriend and write bible verse 25 times/day. Mailbag: "If we don't have souls how can someone be transgender?"; Mailbag: Corrections on our use of gender terminology; Forth Worth, "Consecrated Virgin."; KY - Chaplain in juvenile detention removed for LGBT bashing; Malbag: Letter to the Mormon Woman; More from J. Looney - The Duggar's future plans; RPGs and Religion; SIAS: Demons cause obesity (and they're weilding cleavers); Special Appearances by Pat Robertson and Ken Ham; John Oliver on televangelists.Copyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

Denis' Presidential Debate Intro; Studio Changes & what we've all been up to; Russell finally watches 'God's Not Dead'; More email from Jonas on consetual sex with cows; 7yo boy made to sit alone for saying he didn't believe in god; Mailbag: Religion tax in European states; Church of Satan and their valuable work; Mailbag: "What made us 'fittest' is cooperation." "Prophet" dies after ordering followers to bury him alive in "healing" ritual; Atheists and drinking; Joseph Smith's magic rock found; Mailbag: 'Dogs in the Vinyard' RPG and just exactly what sorts of gamers we are; SIAS: "God Hates Kilts!"; Mailbag: Back to Canadian Mounties and turbans; Copyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

Denis' Snape Intro; Week 3 of marriage equality, no sign of societal collapse; Texas (Did you have to ask?) Judge will perform same-sex marriage IF they acknowledge his oblection; Mailbag: Informed consent and the "Argument from Ickyness"; Mike Huckabee: America is "now worse than Sodom and Gomorrah"; Judge orders Dinesh D'Souza to undergo psychological counseling; Mailbag: Listener calls us out on giving the names of mass murderers; Russell reads a story for which we have a hard time finding an actual religious angle; Mailbag: Rebecca gives a recommens a Terry Pratchett book; Disney agrees to accomodate Sikh mail carrier's wearing of turban; Mailbag: "What about hermaphrodites?"; SIAS: Matt. 25:40 "...whatsoever you do to the least of these..." refers not to the poor and destitute, but to the poor, persecuted Christians; Mailbag: Neil on Dawkins' tweet about American slavery; Denis' Segment: "I Have a Question! Omnipresence: What does it mean for Christians?"; A few points from Jeff; Russell will be in St

Denis' rejection letter intro; Celebrating Marriage Equality; Mail: Nitpicking Noah's Ark (he only had two nits); Charleston. SC Church shooting; Revisiting the Chronicles of Narnia (and somehow ending up discussing Batman); Battle over Confederate flag; Mail: Now that Marriage Equality has won, we should watch our backs; Antonin Scalia loses his shit over same-sex marriage; Mail: Batman/Xanatos Gambit; Brian Fischer loses his shit over same-sex marriage; I Have a Question... How do I figure out who is a "real Christian"?; Mike Huckabee loses his shit over same-sex marriage; Mail: "Apatheists"; Blogger Matt Walsh loses his shit over same-sex marriage; Texas Attorney General vows to protect officials who refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples (and then loses his shit over it); Copyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

Denis' crackly microphone intro; Louisiana schools are teaching (Surprise!) Creationism; Mailbag: Moderate Believers; Australian couple threatens that if Same Sex Marriage becomes law they will make themselves look like total asses; Mailbag: Atheist married to a believer; Pat Robertson to grieving mother: "Thank God for killing your child";Mailbag: suggested show segment "I've got a question!";SIAS: Ken Ham inadvertently encourages a lot of people to Google for nude pics of Miley Cyrus;Mailbag: "It's 'Dah lek', not 'Day lek!'";Mailbag: Role of the Church of England in the UK;Exhaustive research conducted by the Non Prophets' chat room "cannot confirm that Miley Cyrus is or is not an atheist";Film Review: "Tomorrowland"; Copyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

Sitting in for Jeff Dee, the incomparable and ever popular Tracie Harris!Denis' double-negative intro; Russell and Tracie's upcoming speaking engagements; Pew Research reports interfaith marriage becoming more common in US;Mailbag: "Church of England is not funded by taxpayers"; Stanford Hill sect (Hasidic Judaism) bans women drivers; Mailbag: Words for "snow" - The Finns have a bunch; Mailbag: Feedback on "Hell: Threat or Warning" - North Korea; Vatican Exorcist warns against silly kid's game "Charlie, Charlie."; Mailbag: Lucky Charms - The Meaning in the Marshmallows; SIAS: They're emailing us directly now. (and using LOTS OF CAPS!); Mailbag: Appointment of a Muslim judge in CA; Mailbag: Which books are Canonical? [Near as we can tell, none.]; Copyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day; Christianity on the decline in US; Mailbag: Why Christians might not like atheists; Telephone Survey; Mailbag: death and atheism; Third Bangladesh blogger hacked to death, female blogger escapes; Sex News! (Texans are morons) Abstinence-only sex ed has given TX all time high rates of chlamydia among schoolchildren; Mailbag: Christian threats of Hell? Or are they warnings? SIAS: Feminists Hail Satanist in Fight for Abortion; Mailbag: Eskimos do NOT have hundreds of words for snow; 60% of Americans now support same-sex marriage; Oregon bans "gay conversion therapy"; Another homophobic pastor busted cruising for dudes; Copyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

Short show, minus Russell, as well as any sort of preparation.Copyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

Russell's trip to Memphis; TN attempts to declare Bible official state book; Mailbag: Bible translations; Campaign 2016; Mailbag: Australian listener doesn't get it; Pew Research Center makes predictions of the future of religion; Mailbag: "I do not find church attendance acceptable!"; SIAS: Wikihow article - How to Convert an Atheist; Copyright 2015, Athist Community of Austin

Madison, WI passes law to ban discrimination against atheists; CNN Special - "Inside the World of Non-Believers"; Mailbag: Ultrasound Alzheimer's Treatment; Islamophobes making us look bad; Second atheist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh; Hating fictional characters (like God); Survey: Most Americans believe "the church" is dying; Mailbag: Rational thought in Northern Ireland; SIAS: Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act will protect believers from "Judicial Slavery"; Copyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

Denis' Lovecraftian intro; What we've been up to; Camp Quest 2015; Assorted science news bits; Mailbag: ASMR; NASA plays God with biochemistry; Mailbag: "We CAN hate fictional characters"; We test Google's new fact-checking system which will rank by accuracy instead of popularity (It appears to need some tweaking still); Mailbag: "What is THEIR purpose?"; More Americans leaving religion; Mailbag: "Public events can't be faked."; State Rep. Justin Harris (R-AK) performs exorcisms at his state-funded preschool; Mailbag: "Can Catholicism be defeated?"; SIAS: Theist mops the floor with flagrant straw man; Mailbag: the "Straw Vulcan"; Patton Oswalt compares Dawkins and Maher to WBC; Mailbag: Cherry Picking; Copyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

Happy Game Masters Day! Texas Secular Convention; American Atheists Convention in Memphis; Remembering Leonard Nimoy; WBC Attempts to picket Nimoy funeral (they couldn't find it); "Lucy"; Mailbag: Fighting Religion Based TV Shows (Do we do that?); More Mailbag: Tracie's comment on Country Radio; American atheist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh; Mailbag: Verbal Ticks and "Um"s; Evangelists plan to convert atheist computers; Mailbag: "Islam isn't special" - Islam and violence; Upcoming guests on The Atheist Experience: Ryan Bell ("A Year Without God"), Sadaf Ali; Mailbag: Atheist with ASMR (Google it); The "What-Color-Is-This-Dress?" meme; SIAS: Astroforensics, parapsychology, astrogeology, and (get this!) psychotherapy; Mailbag: Chapel Hill Shootings; Mailbag: More on the "Brick Bible"; Copyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

No official State Book for MS, but apparently a book for Russell... and apparently he's a Republican; Mailbag: How about some sound effects? (We're on it.); Child in the Vatican; Mailbag: Having "productive" debates on religion; Latest news on Chapel Hill killings-Craig Hicks indictment and atheist wagon-circling; Mailbag: Islam and racism; SIAS: Steven Kim "10 Women Christian Men Shouldn't Marry"; Mailbag: "Do more Terrence & Phillip" (Don't count on it) "Are people who become atheists because they were 'wounded' by religion more likely to revert?"; Mailbag: A Toastmaster defends our non-scripted, freewheeling format. Copyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

ATTENTION: STARTING 2/18 WE WILL BEGIN AT 7:30 PM!; G.O.T. Accomodationist; Happy Birthday Bryan Steeksma!; Catholic Distress; Mailbag: Raising children with a religious partner; TAE: The Lost Episodes; "David Mavis" sentencing in Montreal; Mailbag: Why it takes us so goddamn long to get the show uploaded; ISIS recruits disillusioned; Mailbag: Middle-eastern atheist outreach; Saudi Arabian women's rights conference (all male attendees); Mailbag: Jamaica- national anthem and rampant homophobia; Mailbag: Complaining about SIAS; SIAS: 'Brick Testament' reviews on Amazon; Mailbag: Should punishment be a 'thing'?; Iranian Blogger to be executed for blasphemy; Governor of Delaware recognizes Darwin Day; Copyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

Denis' improvised intro; Boy admits he didn't really go to heaven; Email: Death and grief as a believer and then an atheist; Pope Francis' on the Charlie Hebdo Massacre; Mailbag: Sikh RCMP and what Sikhs are; News Flash! Turns out Pope Francis realy is full of shit; Mailbag: The "TAG" argument (you may want to pour a drink); SIAS: Frank Turek - "The existence of Evil disproves atheism!"; Jeff puts in a good word for Richard Dawkins; Mailbag: The "Tower of Babel" vs. how languages really develop; Churches renting venues in public schools; Mailbag: State funding for childcare to get kids out of homeschooling; Copyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

2015: Where are our flying cars?; Religious extremist assholes murdering cartoonists in Paris; "Exodus" - Exclusive Non Prophets Review; Faith and values in 2014; US Politics; Recent Gallup Poll; Email: Death and the belief in an afterlife; Back to Paris terrorists and "mental illness"; Email: Whiny person nitpicks about "so"s and "Ugh"s; SIAS - Jennifer LeClaire "Why are so many Christians turning into atheists?" LeClaire interviews Ryan Bell after his "year without God" (during which she appears to completely lose her mind); Email: Fans and gaming. Copyright 2015, Atheist Community of Austin

Denis' naughty/nice opening; Russell bitches about how good Naomi was last episode; Russell's speaing engagement in Missouri ("Embrace Your Inner Skeptic"); Coming Soon! Texas Secular Convention and Darwin Day; Christmasy stuff; Kirk Cameron defends the True Meaning of Christmas (BUY STUFF!); Atheists celebrating Christmas; Nativity scene in Texas Capitol; Atheist billboards; Email: Atheist in Germany asks how to give us money; Hostage situation in Sydney - religion, mental illness, or both?; ISIS School shooting - 132 students and 9 staff dead; Update: Sikh attempting to join RCMP; Is nudity "un-Christian?"; Shit Internet Apologists Say! Franklin Graham: "The War on Christmas is a War on Christ!"; Poll from last episode: What sort of silly. totally wrong thing did you once believe? Cory from Illinois answers; Good News from KY: Lost Ark Park will get no tax incentives!; Email: Thoughts on the long-term fate of religion; Copyright 2014 Atheist Community of Austin

This Week: Naomi, sitting in for Russell; Jeff and Denis shamelessly plug their Patroen projects; Florida Satanists; Should people accept science if they can't understand it?; Jeff's Northern British Accent; Satanic Temple using Hobby Lobby ruling to allow women to "opt out" of abortion restrictions; Tulsa police officer sues after being forced to attend Islamic event; Email: Sikhs in the RCMP; Canadian family keeps dead body in attic for six months, praying for resurrection; Naomi reviews a book with a long-ass title; NASA moving ahead with mission to Mars; Email: Book review - "Raising Freethinkers"; Short Film "The Wanderers", narration by Carl Sagan; atheist holiday billboards - "Dear Santa..."; Defending atheism from atheists; Copyright 2014, Atheist Community of Austin