Episode 3: Can Atheists Be Moral?

03/02/21 • 50 min

In this episode, Todd and Nathan discuss whether atheists can be moral. Is everything permitted without God? Where do we get our morality from? And what does jaywalking (or lack thereof) say about different societies?
Secular Community Survey: https://secularcommunities.com/scs2021
Follow Nathan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NathGAlexander
Follow Todd on Medium: https://todd-tavares.medium.com/
(Addendum: in the episode, Nathan mentioned research about conservatives and disgust reactions. Here is an article about this: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/the-yuck-factor/580465/ But recent research shows things might be more complicated: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/11/27/no-conservatives-dont-experience-feelings-of-disgust-any-more-than-liberals/)

Our most controversial episode yet! In this episode, Nathan and Todd ask: what is identity politics? Is ALL politics really identity politics? Todd has some thought experiments for Nathan.
Le Chiffre (atheist villain in Casino Royale): https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=62&v=J0U0oY_nqbg&feature=youtu.be
Secular Community Survey: https://secularcommunities.hfa.ucsb.edu/
Follow Nathan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NathGAlexander

In this episode, Todd and Nathan are joined by their first ever guest, Dr. Juhem Navarro-Rivera, the Research Director and Managing Partner at Socioanalitica Research and a scholar of politics, race, and religion. We talk about his latest project, the Secular Communities Survey, and learn a lot as he details some of the remarkable findings from his past research on the politics of nonreligious people.
For people in the United States who have belonged to secular communities, please fill out the Secular Communities Survey: https://secularcommunities.com/survey
For more info on the survey: https://secularcommunities.hfa.ucsb.edu/
For more on Juhem: https://juhemnr.com/home/
And follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JuhemNR
See also Juhem’s 2020 Secular Voices Report: https://secularvoices2020.socioanalitica.com/
Follow Nathan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NathGAlexander
Follow Todd on Medium: https://todd-tavares.medium.com/