Do Atheists Have More Empathy Than Christians? (Patreon Teaser)

[00:00:00] Welcome to Sacrilegious Discourse. For this is what the sovereign Lord says! Why do you need prophets to tell people who you are and what you want? If you can justify everything that the God of the Bible has done, then you can justify any of your behavior.

[00:00:14] A lot of this mentality is trickling into what is now mainstream right wing Christianity. I am capable of empathy greater than this God of the Bible. This is a Bible that they tell kids. This is the good Lord. This is the good book.

[00:00:32] This is he is fantasizing about murder, mass murder. And over to Sacrilegious Discourse.com right now I got how to leave a sort of you or some What is on patreon. Wife, do you not were doing today? Well something that is way overdue.

[00:00:53] But in this assembly we're doing this on the correct day so there's that so what are are we doing? Pagio! Yeah that's right and what are we what are we patriotic today?

[00:01:02] Well you and I were having a conversation about curiosity and empathy and how those two kind of go together and you can't have one without the other. One leads inevitably to the other.

[00:01:15] It was in our recent episode I think I can't remember exactly which one but yeah we were talking about it on the air I think. I don't think it was on the air I thought it was after.

[00:01:22] Yeah that could be. I get them confused so well. No but regardless. At some point recently we were talking about this. We haven't talked and then we started kind of talking about how atheists versus Christians have those traits or don't. Or don't. Yeah.

[00:01:42] Just thought we kind of maybe talk about that a bit more expand on it and bring it around you know? No I mean not to jump too far into the conversation right off the bat but I mean I think that a lot

[00:01:54] of atheists know or have a sense that they are more compassionate and caring than a lot of Christians are. Oh god damn it we just have to turn this whole thing off now. Just want to generalize you know

[00:02:05] overall you know feeling as to how people relate to one another and other. Sure. And being that will I'm saying. So all right so you ready to really talk about empathy and curiosity? Yes let's do

[00:02:18] it. Okay don't keep. All right so we are hopping into our beach. Yeah yeah and I thought we'd start off by talking about curiosity. Yeah I like curiosity. They killed the cat. It's kind of

[00:02:36] what we do this podcast right we were curious about survival. True true. Yeah. Curiosity is a strong desire to know, learn or understand something. Yeah. No. That's definitely what curiosity is. I

[00:02:48] like to learn a lot of what that. Well I mean yeah I think I have a very strong desire to understand the world around me and you know better than anybody that when something comes up

[00:03:01] I want to know more than just what the headline is I dig into it and I want to find everything out about it and I mean it's an anointing extension sometimes. Yeah I'm the same way and it is

[00:03:11] to an anointing extension and in school it always got me in trouble because I would ask all the wrong questions that the teachers didn't want to answer because I understand now that they didn't have

[00:03:23] the answer or it was beyond the scope of the lesson and just like not what they were there to do. I'm just trying to imagine what both of us would have been like in Sunday school. Oh my goodness.

[00:03:36] I do not envy the teacher any teacher of any subject that would have had us both the students. Right yeah yeah. Curiosity is also the impetus behind exploration, innovation and learning

[00:03:49] yeah all things that I care very much about yes. I wish that we would hurry up and do more space stuff. I agree. I feel like the reason that we started doing space stuff was for military reasons

[00:04:02] and I wish that more of what we were curious about and explored was more centered around just pure curiosity. That's scientific knowledge. I'm not going to say that like not trying to show up

[00:04:14] Russia or China but like just to see what's out there and you know wow woo we why can't we all be in awe about what surround us as a minuscule dot in the in the grand scheme of the university.

[00:04:29] Or if we have to have a reason maybe it could be a back-o-plan for if the earth gets demolished. Sure. Does it have to be out of greed or for the other self preservation? Right.

[00:04:40] Does it have to be out of greed or showing up another country? Right. Like couldn't it just be a combined earth effort to save itself and see what's out there? The answer right now is no.

[00:04:51] Absolutely no. No. Curiosity feels empathy by motivating us to pay attention to others experiences and perspectives. Yeah. I agree with that. That was part of our discussion that we were having and you know I don't think that there are a lot of things from my childhood that I

[00:05:11] didn't understand that I've that because of curiosity I do now understand and have empathy for. And one of those one of the larger things from my childhood that I didn't understand was the LGBTQIA community.

[00:05:24] I didn't understand what it was to be gay. I didn't understand what that meant. I didn't in fact I was probably dericive towards those groups when I was younger. Not directly. I didn't have

[00:05:34] anybody directly to be dericive too. But it was socially acceptable to be dericive towards those groups when I was younger. Not just acceptable but encouraged. Like that's what your peers did so that's what you do. Right. But it was my curiosity. Well this is a human being.