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We round up some of the best examples of what\u2019s available in atheist media.\xa0 We discuss 5 short selections from atheist youtubes and podcasts, including pieces from Mr. Deity and Richard Dawkins, Noah Lugeons of The Scathing Atheist podcast, youtuber Qualia Soup, TJ Kinkaid, aka The Amazing Atheist, and we close with an excerpt from Christopher Hitchens\u2019\xa0 last public speech on earth. \xa0

This show was taped on March 4th, 2015.\xa0

Credits:

"Towering Mountain of Ignorance" introduction by Hank Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3v3S82TuxU

"Never Know" by Jack Johnson

\u201cAuratune\u201d off Master Plan by Dave Weckl

\u201cMr. Deity and the Atheist\u201d featuring Brian Keith Dalton and Richard Dawkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUFK0SrbaZs

Noah Lugeons, The Scathing Atheist Podcast, Episode 103, the Diatribe: Post-Secular\xa0

http://scathingatheist.com/2015/02/05/episode-103-show-notes/

QualiaSoup \u201cLack of Beliefs in Gods\u201d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNDZb0KtJDk

TheAmazingAtheist, TJ Kincaid, \u201cAtheists Are Just As Bad.\u201d\xa0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n8d_KCUtrs

The End ~Christopher Hitchens, by Scientific Unity\xa0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yr5OLePNlI

The edited portion of Hitchen\u2019s speech transcribed:

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I\u2019m not as I was.\xa0 Something I urgently felt I ought to do or say\u2026and one mustn\u2019t repine or give in to self pity about that, but at this present moment I have to say, I feel very envious of someone who is young and actively starting out in this argument.\xa0 Just think of the extraordinary things that are happening to us. Go, for example, to the Smithsonian museum (I hope you\u2019ve done this) to the new hall of human origins-- magnicificanty curated in a new exhibition--which shows, among other things, the branch, or branches along which perhaps three, certainly three, maybe four if you count Indonesia, humanoid, shall we say, anthropoid species died out not very long ago, within mearuable distance of 75,000 years or so.\xa0 Possibly destroyed by us, possibly not, we don\u2019t know.\xa0 We know they decorated their graves.\xa0 We think they probably had language ability.\xa0 We don't know if they had souls (I'm sorry I cant help you there).\xa0 But I so envy those who could glimpse...I've only mentioned three or four of the things that have magnetized and charmed and gratified me to think about in the recent past, and how much I hope that each of you form some such ambition this evening and carries it forward.\xa0 In the meantime, we had the same job we always had, to say as thinking people and as humans that there are no final solutions, there is no absolute truth, there is no supreme leader, there is no totalitarian solution, that says if you would just give up your freedom of inquiry, if you would just give up, if you would simply abandon your critical faculties the world of idiotic bliss can be yours but we have to begin by repudiating all such claims.\xa0 Grand rabbis, chief ayatollahs, infallible popes, the peddlers of surrogate and mutant, quasi-political religion and worship. The Dear Leader, the Great Leader, we have no need for any of this.\xa0 And looking at them and their record and the pathos of their supporters, I realize that it is they who are the grand imposters.\xa0 And my own imposture this evening was mild by comparison.\xa0 Thank you very much.\xa0 \u2013Christopher Hitchens, 2011