RE: The Atheist Experience TV Show
January 24, 2012 at 2:44 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2012 at 2:45 pm by Cyberman.)
(January 24, 2012 at 8:49 am)The Magic Pudding Wrote:(January 24, 2012 at 5:48 am)Hitchslap Wrote: I get excited about this show is because I've been watching it long enough that I've seen certain callers call as absolutely crazy Theists and after a few calls end up turning 180 degrees to become Rational, Atheists.
Does this ever seem a bit sus?
There is one particular guy who calls in as 'Mark' though occasionally with similar biblical sounding names, once or twice under an assumed and astonishingly dodgy accent. He started out as a typical bible-thumping fundamentalist from the Austin Stone church (who incidentally claim, probably correctly, never to have heard of him) but with apparent doubts about his faith; and several shows down the line appeared to have made the breakthrough into thinking for himself. He has since been outed as a troll who seems to call in just to stir up controversy and when he gets busted he delivers a parting shot about the hosts being afraid to debate Chris Langan before hanging up. Apparently the chatrooms go berserk whenever his insipid tones are heard, everyone wondering when the hosts are going to recognise him and kick him off the air.
He also trolls the Atheist Experience blog as either Mark or ChrisLanganFan, prompting this response from Russell Glasser.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
