The Atheist Experience:5/5: 1.5 hr; Call in public-access TV show with a different topic each week related to atheism. Articulate, insightful hosts. Must see!
Point of Inquiry: 4.5/5: 30 min; The official podcast of the Center For Inquiry. Host D.J. Grothe has a different guest every show.
Skeptoid:4/5: 5-10 min; Very short series that gets right to the point and exposes different supernatural claims for what they are.
Skepticality:3.5/5: 50 min; The official podcast of Skeptic Magazine. A solid program that covers a variety of subjects.
The Nonprophets: 3.5/5: 1.5 hr; Great banter and conversation between hosts, but content sometimes comes across as unprepared.
Dogma Free America: 3/5: 1 hr; 1/2 International news, 1/2 Interview. Great news stories from around the world, very professional, very funny
Freethought Radio:3/5: 45 min; "Irreverant views, news, and interviews." Hosted by the outstanding Freedom From Religion Foundation. Good interviews, but content can be a little dry and slow at times.
Humanist Network News:3/5: 60 min; A monthly one-hour talk show created by the Institute for Humanist Studies. HNN is the official podcast of the American Humanist Association.
Infidel Guy: 2.5/5: 60 min; Decent show hosted by Reginald Finley, a pioneer in atheist podcasting. Has a variety of good guests on to discuss a variety of themes.
I was raised as a Lutheran. I was a very committed believer, and went to church almost every Sunday. I was confirmed in the church, and gave them a lot of money as a child, for which they were more than willing to provide me the donation envelopes. When I went to college, I began to doubt my faith. Over the course of 2 years, I went from a stringent believer, to a person willing to call myself an atheist. This was not something I just woke up one day and decided to do. It was a process of learning about the bible, exploring different contradictions and incorrect history that it contained. I realized that there was no good reason to believe that the bible is the inspired, inerrant word of a god. So, after much reading and contemplation, I realized that if I didn't believe in sections of the bible, than I had to question what I really did believe. I found that I needed good reasons to back up my beliefs. I discovered that there were no good reasons to believe almost anything in the bible as literal truth. So at the end of it all, I realized that I was an atheist at the age of 22, and I continue to remain so.
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