{"id":87,"date":"2013-01-09T09:26:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T22:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?p=87"},"modified":"2013-01-09T09:27:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T22:27:16","slug":"new-interview-at-the-angry-atheist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/01\/09\/new-interview-at-the-angry-atheist\/","title":{"rendered":"New interview at The Angry Atheist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently done an interview with Reap Paden of The Angry Atheist. This has now <a href=\"http:\/\/angryatheist.info\/?p=1000\">been posted as a podcast on\u00a0the Angry Atheist site<\/a>. Reap and I talk about a wide range of subjects, including: my move here to the Skeptic Ink Network; why I\u00a0advocate\u00a0civil, charitable discussion, in which you try to find the strengths, rather than sniping at weaknesses, in the arguments of your intellectual opponents; my new book in partnership with Udo Schuklenk, <em>50 Great Myths About Atheism<\/em> (on target for release in September from Wiley-Blackwell); why I, personally, am an atheist (which gets me into talking about the problem of evil, goodness without God, my own religious background, and other topics); the political influence of religion, with particular reference to the US and Australia; the merits of social pluralism; and the historical (and continuing) need for the feminist movement.<\/p>\n<p>Like many people, I tend to squirm when listening to my own voice, so I haven&#8217;t yet braced myself to listen. However,\u00a0it was an enjoyable conversation at the time, and I like to think that the discussion would be of interest to others. As I said in a remark on Twitter, if Reap didn&#8217;t get the best out of me it was entirely my fault, not his. I liked his style of interviewing, which guided the topics that he wanted to raise with me, but gave me plenty of time to say what I wanted about them.<\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re over there on the site, check out some of the other interviews. Over the years, they have collected a large number of interviews with a wide variety of atheists &#8211; most of them prominent in one way or another. From what I&#8217;ve listened to so far, this is a fascinating collection that you could lose yourself in for many hours. I&#8217;m certainly going to find some time to listen to more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently done an interview with Reap Paden of The Angry Atheist. This has now been posted as a podcast on\u00a0the Angry Atheist site. Reap and I talk about a wide range of subjects, including: my move here to the Skeptic Ink Network; why I\u00a0advocate\u00a0civil, charitable discussion, in which you try to find the strengths, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,6,11],"tags":[43,47,44,45,46,48],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-2","category-personal","category-philosophy","tag-atheism","tag-feminism","tag-philosophy-2","tag-problem-of-evil","tag-reap-paden","tag-udo-schuklenk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}