Interview with David on Science, Religion, and the Loss of Faith
Original Audio can be found here. I sound pretty bad in this, with lots of stuttering. Wouldn't recommend listening to it, but it's there if you want it.
Landan: Ok, I'm here with my good friend David and I've been doing a series on the relationship between science and religion. David is someone who used to belong to the Christian religion until he moved to atheism. So I think he can bring a unique perspective to this topic. So...David
David: Yes.
Landan: In high school you seemed really devoted to your faith. What prompted you to start down the road of religious skepticism.
David: That's a funny question. It was actually started at Ouachita Baptist. Umm...there was a guy, Bart Ehrman, who wrote "Misquoting Jesus". It was talking about biblical inaccuracies, translation problems, and the different kind of manuscripts that they found. And so I prayed before I started reading the book. I said, 'God I will never deny you as king and I just want to know the truth, so guide me through this process'. And at first it was, ok I'm a Christian Humanist. So I evolved from fundamentalist to Christian humanism, where I derived my morality from reason. And then it eventually devolved into pure humanism, which is purely atheistic in its nature