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Interview: Keagan, an Agnostic Atheist (part 2)

For The King — Rocky Ramsey

Interview: Keagan, an Agnostic Atheist (part 2)

June 30, 2021
For The King
For The KingRocky Ramsey

Today, on the For The King podcast, I am joined with one of my good friends. Keagan and I met at college during our undergraduate careers and we soon became good friends doing lots of random things together. Today Keagan and I continue on our discussion of our worldviews. This episode is more of a debate/dialogue than the first part of this interview. Tune in and hear Keagan espouse his beliefs and I mine. We both take time to defend our views and press each other on some of the points that we disagree with the other. Thank you for listening! Please check out Keagan's podcast!

Keagan's podcast : https://anchor.fm/keagan-bouwers

Resources: 

* https://www.ligonier.org/learn/conferences/tough-questions-christians-face-2010-national/what-is-evil-where-did-it-come-from/

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw83wkfHjW4 -> Good analysis of evil

* https://www.britannica.com/topic/atheism -> Generally atheism is a denial of God or of the gods, and if religion is defined in terms of belief in spiritual beings, then atheism is the rejection of all religious belief.

* https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/religion -> To determine if Atheism is a religion we need to define religion. The answer is based upon how you define religion. I would say that humans always worship something and always have a set of metaphysical values they adhere to. Of this list I would say religion is best defined the 4th way. 

* https://www.thebanner.org/columns/2019/01/is-atheism-a-religion

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