My guest today is Andrew Knight. Andrew is the host of the Still Unbelievable podcast and co-host of the Ask an Atheist Anything podcast. He is a contributing author to the book Still Unbelievable. Andrew has been a Recovering From Religion peer support agent helping others through their questioning. He promotes the message:
Let’s talk about human problems from a human perspective. Human problems have human solutions.
Andrew states flatly the faith tradition he was raised in, Church of Christ, is a cult. After attending bible college and working for an apologetics publishing company he began to be disillusioned with apologetics. He came to recognize the foundational claims of Christianity were not true. Andrew takes it a step further, even if the miracles of the bible were true this would not be proof of the core claims of Christianity: an infinite, all knowing, all powerful god.
My conversation with Andrew is wide ranging as we cover his deconversion story and the work he now does. He talks about his disfellowship from the Church of Christ. He describes the difficulty in telling a friend who turned out to be going through the same deconversion process. We talk about deconverts being the most dangerous counter-apologetic of all.
Truth is a process of successive approximations
Andrew’s friend Sean
Changing the notion of truth to something that can be investigated and that we can get better at.
Note: Both the Still Unbelievable book and podcast are responses to Justin Brierley’s Unbelievable podcast and book. Justin’s podcast brings atheists and theists together for debate. Justin is considered an honest moderator. His book’s subtitle is Why After Ten Years of Talking with Atheists, I’m Still a Christian. Matthew’s and his colleagues’ responses take aim at those reasons.
Links
Reason Press:
https://reasonpress.net/
“Still Unbelievalbe” the book:
https://reasonpress.net/SU1E
Recovering From Religion
https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/
Podcasts
Still Unbelievable
https://anchor.fm/still-unbelievable
Ask An Atheist Anything
https://anchor.fm/reasonpress
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Attribution
“Waves” track written and produced by Makaih Beats
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