Drinking the KoolAid with Thomas Westbrook

🌱LINKTREE: linktr.ee/deepdrinks Thomas is a former Christian, now athiest who promotes scientific scepticism and free thought, helping people build the skills necessary to debunk pseudoscience and misinformation, Thomas is the creator of the popular youtube channel Holy Koolaid which boasts over 235k subscribers and over 26 million views.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Coming Up
1:00 Welcome
2:10 Drinks Poured
10:35 Growing Up Christian
17:10 The Psychology of Religious Experiences
22:30 Questioning Faith
25:20 The Beauty of Reality
38:45 Dealing with Pseudoscience
50:28 Checkmate Atheist (Rapid Fire Q&A)
57:55 Athiest Activism
1:09:59 Question & Answers
1:34:14 Outro

[@HolyKoolaid]

Thanks for having me on. This was fun!

[@DeepDrinks]

Was an absolute pleasure!

[@rebeccaberlin]

Westbrook has such a great perspective. I really dig him

[@David.McDonald]

He does!

[@ValeriePoynter]

Thomas' Holy Koolaid channel was the first I subscribed too. His channel helped me and I appreciate his honesty!

[@DeepDrinks]

He’s stuff is brilliant! I’m glad he could help you. 😊

[@charityzimmerman4529]

What a brilliant interview this is! I found Thomas Westwood (Holy Koolaid) at the beginning of my deconstruction and his videos were so comforting to me that I would have to pause them to weep before I could move on.
The bits of your conversation where you captured the intense joy at all the new things you were learning coupled with the helpless terror at watching all familiar things crumble down was so relatable. I remember those days well. I have no doubt that you are bringing the same reassurance and encouragement to new skeptics and questioners with the videos you publish. Kudos to you for remaining kind, curious, and empathetic in your approach. I'm so excited to keep watching your newer work, I recognize so many names and am eager to see what interesting questions you raise. Cheers!

[@kevinstewart1878]

The bottom line is, the moment someone's religion starts saying I'm going to hell, as many do. That religion is now, in part about me. If a religion is about me, I get to talk about it, and weigh it on the validity of it's claim.

[@DeepDrinks]

That’s an excellent point

[@wolfos420]

HK, you and I are the only people I've heard say anything about the Egg, I too like the thought of this.

[@David.McDonald]

It sounds like a good book.

[@wolfos420]

@@David.McDonald Yeah, it's an easy read that only takes a couple minutes to get through, but it's worth to dwell on it afterward. Really brings in perspective on how we treat others, and how we take others comments or actions.

[@DeepDrinks]

Just finished! Really enjoyed. So short too :)

[@zacharydoepp717]

Thomas Westbrook looks like if idubbz was put in a perm press

[@DeepDrinks]

Love those locks

[@hilliardbynd8412]

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