Matt Fradd

Yeah, well, let's talk about atheism for a little bit, since this is kind of how you cut your teeth as an apologist.

Were you an atheist growing up?

It's weird, isn't it, how public opinion influences people?

And by people, I mean me.

You just think of the different waves of...

isms that roll through culture and make them seem maybe okay.

You know how they say people usually vote the way their neighbors vote?

I mean, you see why that's the case.

I mean-

marriage thing, the LGBTQ stuff.

Like right now for many people, they go, whoa, that seems insane.

Or like, whoa, two dudes getting married.

Well, how was that ever a thing?

But if you lived during those decisions, man, the pressure was so strong.

I remember seeing adverts like, don't be on the wrong side of history.

Like, I don't want to be, I don't want to, I want to be on the in crowd, you know?

And then the new atheism thing, that was just so pervasive.

I don't know if a lot of younger people appreciate how pervasive that was.

You just felt like an idiot.

Dawkins was telling us outright that we were abusing our children if we taught them about Christianity.