Ask An Atheist

NOTE: I (Sam) am republishing this blog post, because we’ve only got three days left to vote, and when last we checked we were in 2nd place and up against stiff competition.  If you can, please help.   I will be linking things in this post as time goes on.

First, I want to thank all of the people who’ve voted for us to win Best Local Podcast so far in KING 5′s Best of Western Washington Contest. Because of you, we spent over two weeks on the top of the pile in first place.

That changed today, as our biggest competitor in the contest for someone with a much more prominent and well known radio on a major affiliate, has noticed the contest and is actually putting some effort into the race. In a day, they were able to overtake our lead and are now ahead of us by a hair.

We’re now in Second Place.  While we feel no shame in losing to the folks currently in First, we don’t want to settle for being Flintheart Glomgold when we could be Scrooge McDuck!

UPDATE: Here are some other places where you can help get the word out!

1. Requisite Reddit Link!

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Alright, maybe the cake is a lie.

As we’ve previously mentioned on today’s show and on our Facebook page, Ask an Atheist now has a web forum!

It’s the place to discuss and debate not only the newest — or oldest episodes — of our radio show, but a place to interact with Ask an Atheist cast and crew, and to start and join conversations on topics we don’t always find the time to cover on our program.

Sign up now and you’ll be able to brag to all of the uncool people years from now that you were a member of the forum before we sold out and went all corporate.

We’ve now spent a year trying to get someone in the 9/11 Truth movement to be on the show and have a fair discussion of the facts and evidence that could lead to questioning the official narrative.   No one we’ve contacted has stepped up to the plate .  Instead, we’re seeing people creep into our YouTube channel well after the episode airs, and post-show calls questioning how we handled the episode.

We don’t care.  No one has been willing to stand with their beliefs on a live episode, with previously agreed to rules to insure a fair conversation.  As far as I’m concerned, that makes those beliefs suspect.

The Truthers have had the opportunity to be on our show, in front of a microphone, to make sure we get it right.   Monday morning quarterbacking is not interesting.   If you want to ensure we get it right, contact us and we’ll have you on for the debate.

We won’t hold your hand, we won’t give you the whole hour, and we won’t prevent people from asking you questions.   But we will work to be fair.

After a solid twenty-four hours of our second BlogTV fundraising event, the cast and crew of Ask an Atheist is exhausted. We’re going to crash now.

But first, we want to thank everyone who participated in our second online fundraiser, especially those who made generous contributions which will help keep our show on the air! Special thanks to friend of the show, Scott Imbeau who was our biggest contributor.

In total, we raised over $1,200, but it’s not too late to send in contributions of your own. If you like the programming you get from Ask an Atheist, consider sending us a few bucks.

Religious media in this country is ubiquitous. Throw a rock in any direction and you’ll hit a glut of religious television stations, religious websites, religious bookstores, religious magazines, religious radio stations, religious cable networks…and you’d have to search rather hard to find the other 16-20% of Americans without religion get any representation in the media.

As one of the very few shows on commercial radio with an atheistic point of view, our success means that the god-botherers won’t have a total media monopoly on the topics of religion, belief and skepticism. We like to think ourselves as a pebble on the other side of the scales of the public debate.

If you think that having a media voice for skeptical inquiry, freethought and reason is important, make a contribution to our homespun little blasphemous radio show and help make our proverbial pebble bigger.

Or something like that. Now, to sleep. Sleeeeeeep…

This is an audio announcement of the upcoming BlogTV Event and our entrance into the “Best of Western Washington” podcast competition.

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