Ep 412: Dialogue | Anthony Magnabosco | Kevin | Inquisition (Agnostic Atheist Gets Cross)

Summary: Kevin is an inquisitive former Catholic who still wears a cross despite identifying as an agnostic atheist. We cover a variety of interesting topics including certainty, openness, free will, and aspects of morality. I'm half-jokingly sub-titling this an "inquisition" because of the rapid-fire questions and constant interruptions that permeate our talk. Kevin is a very bright and confident individual with good dialogue skills that will most likely improve quickly. Thank you, Kevin, for making me think over both of our talks. Can an open-minded person be sure there is no God? Can a person who's sure there's no God still be open-minded? in·qui·si·tion /ˌinkwiˈziSH(ə)n/ noun 1. a period of prolonged and intensive questioning or investigation. Thanks to The Conru Foundation for supporting Street Epistemology International. Continue the discussion: https://slug.com/streetepistemology Location: San Antonio, Texas Recorded: 20 September 2019 Released: 15 October 2020 Twitter: https://twitter.com/magnabosco (follow me) YouTube: https://youtube.com/magnabosco210 (tons of videos) Facebook: https://facebook.com/magnabosco210 (like my page) Website: https://anthonymagnabosco.com (contact me, appearances) SE Resources: https://tinyurl.com/abm-se-resources SE Community: https://tinyurl.com/abm-se-community SE Discord Server: https://discord.gg/sKap3zM Skip ahead to a desired point in the talk: -- Intro: 00:01 Consenting: 00:42 Topic Selection: 01:05 Start: 02:22 Agnostic Atheist: 02:29 Why Wear a Cross?: 02:48, 14:10 Confidence Level: 03:09 Justification (Why): 03:49 Challenging: 04:30, 05:51, 06:20, 06:33, 09:14, 10:24, 14:48, 22:06 Clarifying: 04:39, 10:43, 13:09, 17:30 Commending: 04:43, 11:04 Defining: 04:54, 05:27, 10:15, 18:11, 20:05 Repeating: 06:03 Storytelling: 06:54, 17:48 Questions for Me: 07:24, 08:56, 11:18, 11:31, 11:55, 13:01, 20:24 Open-mindedness: 09:00 Aporia: 09:14, 19:27 Reframing: 09:27 Dancing: 10:45 Morality: 11:31, 16:29, 18:08 Free Will: 13:01 Mirroring: 13:57 Outsider Test: 14:48 Closing: 16:02 Puzzle Pieces: 16:19 Truth Test: 16:37 Skate or Die: 17:09, 21:58 Relativism: 17:22 Sentence-Finishing: 17:44 Advising: 20:18 Charity: 21:41 Reporting: 22:30 Closing: 23:06 End Screen: 24:58 -- Note: Add 35 seconds to these timestamps if listening to the podcast version of this talk. Audio correction provided by Philipp Grzemba. Intro Music 'Three Wise People' by E's Jammy Jams, provided by YouTube. Music provided by Jim Rhodes, with Dan Harris on lap steel. Links to References in Video: Watch 1st talk w/Kevin: https://youtu.be/cz-vmmEZ0V8 (this video) Watch 2nd talk w/Kevin: https://youtu.be/DwkU4-AyT7g Watch 2nd talk bonus footage w/Kevin: https://youtu.be/rOSf5mYj9sw Watch talk w/Jesse Lee Peterson: https://youtu.be/j46Pi15fXN0 Cosmic Skeptic's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/alexjoconnor Cosmic Skeptic's Twitter: https://twitter.com/CosmicSkeptic Cosmic Skeptic's Tweet Referenced: https://twitter.com/CosmicSkeptic/status/1190285421462409217?s=20 Faithless Forum: http://faithlessforum.com/ ** Add foreign language captions w/YouTube's community contributions tools ** Mistakes: "Topics can range from topic to topic."—Say what?! Also, don't threaten to hit your interlocutor :) Recorded w/Go-Pro. Edited w/PowerDirector. The views addressed here are mine and mine alone, and are not necessarily shared by members of my family and friends.