This is our second Aron Ra interview. For the first one, click here ukposts.info/have/v-deo/j3eepK-dp4WIzYE.html 🤟Thanks for the support!

I was 7 years old in sunday school i asked one question and all hell broke loose . I remember feeling confused and like i was going to hell right then and there. My grandma comes down and asks me why i would embarrass my family and that i wasnt allowed back. We were learning about the miracles of Jesus and when i heard he walked on water and had food that never ran out, i asked was he a magician? Kids laughed but the pastor didnt he looked at me and said go to my office. I sat there and he came in and said " i dont think u understand that god is angered by ur constant refusal to believe. To question is to deny faith" At that moment at 7yrs old i realized it was all a hoax.

"We know how to fix it, but we won't; because everyone is insane." - Aron Ra. This should go on our collective tombstone.

I subscribed. I've followed AronRa for a decade and he's an incredible human being. Also he makes great videos and is very active in the atheist community.

the simple fact that you need to explain to religious people why they shouldn't attack you for hosting an atheist says a lot about the nature of the debate.

This is a great interview. Letting Aronra talk, and being a cool interviewer. Great job!

Great interview. I can listen to Aron all day!

I'm a big fan of Arons, and this is the first time I have seen this podcast but I like it. Having Aron Ra gets a lot of respect from me. I think i will be checking out Lonestar Plate for now on.

"Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool." *Voltaire*

These are my commandments: 1:Do not lie 2:Do not steal from the poor 3:Do not kill without reason of self defense 4:Do not do anything that would harm another 5:Be true to yourself 6:follow logic and reason 7:Do not let emotion rule your life 8: If it defies logic and reason do not believe it.9

Aron Ra is great. Listening to him helped steer me away from useless religion completely after 30+ years being religious, happy being an Atheist now! It is better!

@ 11:00 On fine dining: One experience I had was during an SCA event. (SCA is Society for Creative Anachronism.) We had a 13 course dinner. You brought your own tableware, but the food was provided by the event. One of the things there is you have what's called trencher bread. You use your knife to scoop vegetables onto the bread, and use the bread to soak up the liquid. So if you handled it right, you could eat the entire meal with just your belt knife. The way to survive that without overeating is to take small portions of each course. The dining hall was lit entirely by candle light. If you ever get the opportunity I highly recommend it at least once. The event I went to, we had the King of the Southern Realm present. That year, he was from my city, so that was special as well.

You know what sucks the most @lonestarplate is when Aron Ra starts talking about his disconnection with his family. I'm just starting on my journey and that really bothers me. Gives me relief that I'm not alone. Thanks guys.

I love the shit out of Aron!!!

Minor correction: the metric system was created by the French. It began development during the French Revolution in 1790 by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand. The US slowly began importing some of these measurements and weights in the 1800s but Congress didn't officially establish its use until 1866. In 1875, the US became one of the original signatories of the Treaty of the Meter (the Metric Convention) which was lead by the French, the signing in Paris. This treaty is responsible for the establishment of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures which would eventually classify all of the units it was growing responsibility for (1921) as the International System of Units (1960). That's not to say that many in the US haven't tried their damndest to get metric integrated into public use (1968 Congressional study recommends a 10 year transition, the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 fails to implement a 10 year plan, the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 amends the 1975 act to mandate conversion for federal agencies) but the US certainly didn't _create_ metric.

Good talk once again! I could easily go for two more hours of listening you two discuss things.

Too bad James Randi couldn't have gone back in a Time Machine to the Biblical days and found out that Jesus was a fraud.

"Science doesn't know everything, religion doesn't know anything." - Aron Ra -

You're awesome for letting Aaron on again, really enjoyed both interviews

Religion looks like throwing caution to the wind to me. I just want to walk through life on my terms, without hurting anyone. I think it's better than being angry all the time, and wanting civil war.

Great to see Aron on this channel; keep up the good work!

This is ASMR. I could go on listening to Aron all day. Kudos to the interviewer to let Aron speak. 🙏

Peterson paints elaborate verbal images with cranial diarrhea on a canvas of woo woo

It was so nice to listen to AronRa without the usual mind-numbingly illogical religious opponent of the day. Thanks for having him on the podcast.

"Nucking Futz", one of my favorites!😂😂😂

18:10 I'm with Aron Ra 100% on this point. This is a major limitation of debates and the main reason I usually don't find them helpful in advancing knowledge. When people make claims or present evidence to support claims, it takes research and _time_ to do a thorough review. The time simply isn't there in a debate. If the topic of the debate is very narrow and decided in advance, that can help some. But that's not typically how debates are done now. Debates very often just degenerate into a competition to see which party has the cleverest comeback or does the best gish gallop.

one of the biggest changes in my life since rejecting the indoctrination i was raised in and accepting what atheism really is, is that im more willing and try to force myself to admit when i dont know. im sick of projector people that are all talk. proof or get out. im from the show me state, and regardless of what that originally meant it means put up or shut up for me.

I like Aron . He is a studious guy .

When my brother was 6 he was told that every time you sin, a black mark appears on your heart. He was a smart ass (but factual) and said only a heart attack does that. Our mother was called in by the school to explain this awful lack of faith 😂😂😂

Aron is the shit Would love to break bread with fellow Texan & have a conversation. We're different politically but the same in many other things. You need to incorporate more libertarian/ semi conservative people who have many of the same ideas

Thank you for this video! I'm sorry to hear about the "family" thing, Aron. It's their loss, and a great one at that.

Mr. Aaron Ra. When you mentioned you do not have a family, I really and truly wished I had a father like you. If I were a member of your family I truly admired your courage and your intelligence. Because I am trying to be with my son, a father, just like the way you are, of course, considering that I cannot be exactly the way you are. I am trying to teach my son to think the way you think: logically, scientifically and secularly. Thank you for your amazing dedication to free our minds.

Stephen Fry said the same thing about the hell of heaven, if memory serves, on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson some time in 2012. What a great podcast this is… I’m going to have to subscribe to your channel and viva AronRa

Aron is always good value.

Took me a sec to figure out what Aron meant by "an orange god" super LOL 🤣

This is one of the best interviews I've watched with Aron.

I'm barely 5 minutes in and have to ask. Do you often feel the need to apologise to atheists before interviewing prominent religious figures? Edit: Just finished it. Great stuff! I appreciate your bravery in going outside your comfort zone and being a talented interviewer.

Never knew Aron and I were the same age! Great thinker. Incredible knowledge.

Although my parents think I am crazy the way I eat so spicy they found me a hot sauce the got for Xmas called "Exit Here" Carolina Reaper. Can't wait to try it but also prepping for the regret. Aron would probably do shots of it lol.

I was hoping someone in Aron's family would be on his side. So sad to hear otherwise. :(

Aron is awesome. Always enjoy hearing from him. His UKposts channel just reached 300k subs recently.

I am embarrassed to say that I, a physician, used to "suspend my disbelief" of the ridiculous claims in the Bible (i.e. talking snakes, donkeys, etc) and followed the "teachings of Christ." But then I came across Aron Ra, Mike Delihunty, Christopher Hitchens, and began to QUESTION the ridiculousness of Slavery (which negatively affected my ancestors for over 400 years), the allowance of hunger, violence against women, and the failure to believe THE SCIENCE OF EVOLUTION which all in combination WOKE ME UP from the pure fallacy of the existence of a god. I wish I had been awakened from the nonsense 30 years ago!

I have no choice but to believe the truth and accept it for what it is.Candy coating a turd is not an option.Lies are like a turd to me.Religion is the biggest one of all!

I grew up in the evangelical cult, the daughter of missionaries and a pastor. The most misanthropic people I've ever met have always been "believers". It boggles the mind.

Thanks to Aron Ra! he is really wakes my true consciousness to understanding the reality of everything science,religion..u name it,

First time watching, I'm here for Aron Ra! Thank you for saying his name right in the intro. I am an athiest who believes religion is toxic and poison the mind. I enjoyed this pod cast.

One of the most dangerous aspects of religion is that it almost requires that you isolate yourself from anybody who can reason. Religion is a strange thing. I'm still not sure how a person is supposed to "believe harder". It's like the age-old question, "how does Superman fly faster?"

Talking about the 2 + 2 = 5 thing, Christians certainly have no problem with saying 1 = 3, and vise-versa!

Aron Ra has a great sarcastic sense of humor.

Love the host, he's like holy sh*t this world is crazy! 😂

Aron is opening people's minds .I am sure some of his viewers and subscribers gave up the God thing or at least started to question religious doctrine after Aron sparked their skepticism and curiosity.

Love it! Start of the video, straight off the bat. No BS, just quality TRUTH AND FACTS.

Aron out here helping change lives. All respect for this man. Great interview.

Actually, Richard Carrier had the best response to the argument that the earth is such a "perfect" environment for us that it had to be created. He pointed out that there are billions of planets in the Universe and that what you would expect to see is life evolving on the few that are suitable for life. The puddle of water int he road pothole thinks the pothole was made perfectly, just for him!

Aron is great good talk guys

Great interview.. It was intrigued listening to your own take about being a non believer... Im an atheist...and i dont get many takes on the subject from many in my surroundings

Aron Ra has the most logic and common sense of anyone I have ever seen. Atheists aren't about putting down religious people. their about pointing out the stupid shit they say. I would point everyone to check out Aron Ra. the truth is you won't be sorry. if believing in God is so great? believing in Carl Sagan should be much greater because he was real. Anthony Freemont is similar to the Star Trek episode. where whatever you think about happens. and the moral of the story is you should be very careful what you think about. George Harrison is my favorite of the Beatles also. believing God is exactly the same as having an imaginary friend. Carl Sagan is a huge inspiration to me. religion is based on how easily you can be bullshitted. I don't have the ability to be charismatic but I'm still an Atheist. Aron says to the dog do you mind. I bet he would he flip if the dog said yes. LOL. if God were to show himself to me. I would have some serious questions for him. like why did you make some people's lives so miserable. but I know that will never happen. in the end all I can say is Aron Ra is AWESOME!!!!!

Brave people have an overwhelming trait modesty ☝️🧐

Really starts at 16.19

No better guest for discussing these things! 😎💯 If I lived in Texas, your channel would mean more to me, but after watching your interviews with AronRa, you have a new subscriber. I am happy to see another bright, young, public figure come public with their skepticism! 🤩 I know that this isn't your normal content, but more of this would be great for the movement toward teaching critical thinking skills! 🧐 I enjoyed this enough to leave this comment, and wished I'd seen it sooner. Thank you! ✌️🧡🤘🖖

@ 1:43 What about the children I know about where their heart is outside of their rib case. What kind of loving god would do that to a child. One slight squeeze, and they are dead. That's no kind of love.

“Heaven for the comfort, Hell for the company” Mark Twain

Aron Ra is the man! The one we need, but unlike a messiah, he is actually real and here, doing good things!

9:If an action seems wrong dont do it. 10: think bwfore you speak

@ 13:45 I used to be able to handle Jalapenos just by themselves. Can't do that any more though. I do like a little heat, enough to make be break out into a sweat, but more than that I can't do.

It makes me sick to the stomach that these mega church pastors can control these people to the point that they ignore the money have and the govt even are being grifted by being tax exempt. Crazy. Keep up the good work

That was a fantastic conversation!

There's a bit of a question as to who "invented" the metric system, but it was not America John Wilkins, an English clergyman, and brother-in-law to Oliver Cromwell, first wrote about it two years before Gabriel Mouton, who is considered by many to be the founding father of the metric system. In 1670, (107 years before America was founded) Mouton proposed a decimal system of measurement that French scientists would spend years further refining. In 1790, the national assembly of France called for an invariable standard of weights and measurements having as its basis a unit of length based on the Earth’s circumference. As a convenience, the system would be decimal-based, with larger and smaller multiples of each unit arrived at by dividing and multiplying by 10 and its powers.

That corrugated metal is Texas' favorite building material...

I lost my best friend to Q. He's an athiest who regards Trump as the messiah. Blows my friggen mind!! 🤯

I love you guys so much and the work you do is so important and I just wanted to say thank you for that. I know this is already a year old but it’s great to see you Collab much love from Kennewick Washington Washington state on the mighty Columbia river our arms are forever wrapped around you both.

I’m at a place where I don’t want anything to do with any organizations.

Its hard to go out to eat when you are a food snob.Most places that are reasonably priced suck.Thats why i cook my own food.

I ❤️ AronRa

There's always the family dog 🐕 in the background😂

I live in far west Texas and although I’m grateful it’s not the Bible Belt it ain’t as secular as the Pacific Northwest either and most people here are nominally Catholic at least, before moving here I grew up on the other side of the Rio Grande in the state of Chihuahua in a pretty conservative Catholic family and I took that north where not only did I double down on the religiosity but also started ironically getting influenced from the Protestant fundamentalists I despised so much so I was basically a fundamentalist Catholic who also went to the Mass still done in Latin and all the politics that accompany it (something rarely found back in Mexico but I’ve noticed it’s influential in American Catholicism). It was only back in late 2019 when my faith finally fell apart and I basically had to put my life back together piece by piece and it wasn’t until last year when I finally realized I was an atheist after listening to one of Aron Ra’s videos of all things so being a Mexican American atheist feels like being a minority within a minority while also wondering if I betrayed my cultural background (more recently I’ve started reading more about Mexican secularism and I’ve learned that while Texas was still part of Mexico Catholicism was the state religion, which at least de jure being Protestant was pretty illegal, but I imagine that was rarely enforced up here since I don’t recall reading most of the settlers actually converting) so thank you for sharing this interview with the world. I go to the local Unitarian Universalist community because that’s the closest thing there is to a secular/Humanist community so I’m technically still religious, I like to hang Tibetan prayer flags for decoration (so I guess that’s the closest thing to praying for me) and sometimes burn incense but it’s way less devotion to what I used to do while I was a Catholic, contemplating the night sky is what I do now as well. 42:37 and I think this is the main reason why Pascal’s Wager falls apart, one time back in college I got into an argument with a Southern Baptist missionary and we were throwing back arguments back and forth about which one of us was going to hell, it’s possibly the most absurd situation I’ve ever been because neither of us were getting any closer to the truth and if Islam is true then the both of us were damned anyways no matter how devout we were. During those years I was also very, very repressed because I was told having sexy thoughts would lead me to hell and what hurts the most about Purity Culture for me is knowing I missed out on many things for nothing in the end, this is the one thing I’ll probably never forgive the Catholic Church for because the shame served no purpose other than to control the flock probably (and the audacity of celibate men to dictate what our sex lives should be like while all the abuse is going on!). After my deconversion I was very depressed because my mental health was already very poor while I was a Catholic (Catholic guilt after all) and having to rebuild my own identity, purpose and other things from scratch was a huge blow and I nearly offed myself because I felt I had nothing left to live for (and it didn’t help that I wanted to be a priest for a long time but now that possibility was gone) but my sister, who left years earlier, is one of the reasons why I’m still here and in part I keep on living out of spite to the people I left behind and because I refuse to be made an example of to discourage others from leaving (when you’re told it’s impossible to have a happy and meaningful life without god and their group it can become a set fulfilling prophecy for some who leave). Since I consider myself a Humanist as well now I try to have hope in the future as awful everything is now.

Might be something to eating hot foods to " flush" out the beer yeast. That likes to eat our bellies.

The idea of eternity has always been so scary to me. I never understood why anyone would want that. Especially to be next to, and have to worship a fascist forever and ever and ever.

Thank you Aron Ra for all your work for reason and rationalism!

As a fellow atheist I have only this to say: Make your face (because it's public) friendly. Can you see how you would be scary to children? Don't evangelize atheism, but show compassion to your neighbors. A neighborhood is a place that would take care of you when you are in distress. Extremism has never been the answer. Influencing the youth is the answer. What would Mr. Rogers do? Strive to be like Mr. Rogers.

Aron Ra is always on point.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Re spicy food: Pain is not a flavor!

Real conversation starts at 14:30

1:39:42 "I know this [thing I've just said] is not true, but I choose to believe it anyway".. "At that point, what can you do with that?" For me.. first, the only reason I'm participating in that discussion is because someone has asked me why I don't believe, or has made some unfounded or inaccurate claim about what I do/don't believe or why.. so I'm in the conversation to explain or defend my viewpoint. Consequently, if the conversation turns to what they believe and their determination to believe it even in the face of knowledge that it is false, I tell them "That's fine. I am not here to tell you what to believe or to suggest that YOU apply my standard of evidence to your beliefs. I don't even care that you choose to believe something you say you know is untrue. I'm here because you asked me why I don't, or you made some inaccurate claim about me and how I see things. I hope you understand why I CAN NOT DO what you just said you do, and I hope you can acknowledge that I have a RIGHT to disbelieve anything which I know is false or for which I see no credible evidence of its truth.. and I hope you can recognize that I have absolutely no obligation to believe anything that has no credible evidence to show its truth."

I realized that the bible was just someone's explanation to answer questions when I read the opening chapters of Genesis. The creation story, in other words, because the authors did not know, so they filled in the gaps with god and his magic.... That is when I stopped believing and became an apistevistic atheist (although I was unaware of those terms at the time)

This just popped up in my feed, so you've got a new #sub

Starts off with Aronra rant, ha I'll watch it.

If it has no logic or evidence i cannot believe in it.point blank.I will not be convinced of somthing that defies reason or reality.Ive always wanted proof.

I'd say I'm atheist but even so I lean more to agnosticism due to the fact that the beings that each religion advocates for can not exist, it's not just impossible but not possible in there entirety of the sense.

There's a little hole in the wall on bee street in farmers branch called Victoria's that has outstanding tortilla soup. I've be cautious of going back after getting food poisoning a few years back.

Although I never came from a religious family l have to admit that bizarre events have possibly happened, entities appearing and perhaps places have a consciousness good ones and bad ones l can't rule it out that these "things" exist.

I lived in Euless Tx ... it was a tad depressing

Guys have a crazy fun chemistry, that shit was golden.

Ya, if he was as amazing as he's said to be, everyone would absolutely know it..

I cook for my cats because i dont trust the petfood industry.Today they are having tuna rice cassarole with peas carrots corn and mushroom soup.They love it!!!

Fantastic interview. Straight truth.

Drunkin Crab in FT Worth Stockyards! Awesome place

There's a Biergarten near me. Pretty good.

In a world ever increasing towards godlessness it is evident where we are headed ,while we could dispute the past ,the present reality is evident to the open minded!

At the 1:12:30 mark: Aron was trying to recall who it was who said that one of the great pleasures in heaven would be watching people suffer in hell. It was Aquinas, who said: “The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.” That's some sick, demented sh!t right there!