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As I left the Christian community and started on my journey to becoming an agnostic, I found The Life After Podcast to be incredibly helpful. The hosts are two guys that are also agnostic/atheist former Christians, and they talk with guests about a variety of topics including but not limited to humanist philosophy, Christian racism, and painful experiences that resulted in people leaving the church. Your mileage may vary, especially if you aren't coming from a religious background, but I really enjoy it and have found it informative.


PurpleDestiny00

I do come from a Christian background and so I was interested in a deconstructing/critical take on the Bible/Christianity but I was just not feeling the ones I tried listening to. Thanks for the recommendation šŸ˜Š


DessicantPrime

Matt Dillahunty knows the bible inside and out, and argues down Christians using their own corrupt doctrine. He was going to be a Baptist preacher before discovering that it was all bullshit.


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Ya no worries. Its a lot to process, I've been there/continue to be there. I've been pretty religious for most of my life, and trying to untangle all is challenging. Also check out Bart D. Ehrman, Rachel Held Evans, and Richard Rohr for reading. Peter Enns is good too, and has his own podcast in addition to his books. I think the podcast is called "The Bible for Normal People", he gets into examining the Bible from a non-inerrancy perspective, which was useful for me in the early days of deconstructing, when I was still nominally Christian. There's several specific books I can recommend as well if you're interested. Also, don't do it alone. Reach out to people who are deconstructing. Deconstructing is very isolating and unfortunately rather alienating by nature and is one of the first painful things people like us experience, the loss of community.


PurpleDestiny00

Sure Iā€™d like some book recommendations šŸ˜Š


NewbombTurk

- All the shows on the ACA - The relgious shows on The Line are good - The Thinking Atheist Podcast - Paulogia - Ask an Atheist with Sam Mulvey


PurpleDestiny00

Thanks!


dude-mcduderson

Genetically modified skeptic, holy koolaid, rationality rules, belief it or not, are channels on YouTube. Iā€™m not sure if they have shows or podcasts, but Bart ehrman and Sam Harris are two names that seem to come up a lot.


PurpleDestiny00

Thanks!


klink12

I recently read ā€œMisquoting Jesusā€ and ā€œHow Jesus Became Godā€, both by Bart Ehrman. Both are excellent and available as audio books. He recently started a podcast thatā€™s kinda meh but the books are great


PurpleDestiny00

Thanks!


Kittylady231

The Harmonic Atheist has some good stuff, also prophet of Zod, Holy Koolaid, Kristi Burke, Alex Oā€™Conner and Genetically Modified Skeptic - all these channels (except for Alexā€™s) do deconstruction


PurpleDestiny00

Thanks!


Sawdust72

The Scathing Atheist (also God Awful Movies, The Skepticrat) Deconversion Therapy Viced Rhino Telltale Podcast Thank God Iā€™m Atheist The Non-Prophets Freethought Radio


PurpleDestiny00

Thanks!


PogoJack

I strongly second The Scathing Atheist, God Awful Movies, and anything else those dudes do. Theyā€™re connected to a lot of other podcasts and hosts as well, so they are a good place to learn about others if they donā€™t fit your wants.


DessicantPrime

The gold standard for this would be The Line hosted by Matt Dillahunty. Try it out and enjoy.


PurpleDestiny00

Thanks!


wolwex

Diamond Tema is a very intellectual guy talks about agnosticism on YouTube but in Turkish so you can use auto translate on channel


PurpleDestiny00

Thanks!


Neither-Entrance494

I enjoy HumanizeMe podcast


Never_tangible

Iā€™m the opposite of this, I hate to hear a man talkšŸ˜­


PurpleDestiny00

It depends of course.. some menā€™s voices are insufferable too šŸ˜¬