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ERIC METAXAS | Is Atheism Dead? (Ep. 248)

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ERIC METAXAS | Is Atheism Dead? (Ep. 248)
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In this episode, Kyle Thompson interviews Eric Metaxas about his new book, 'Is Atheism Dead?' They discuss the cultural implications of atheism, the evidence supporting the existence of God, and the importance of understanding true manhood in a world that seeks to undermine it.
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0:40 This is Undaunted Life, a Man's Podcast.
0:50 I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
0:52 Let's get into it.
0:53 All right, guys, today I've got a very special interview with Eric Metaxas.
0:56 So he is the number one New York Times bestselling author.
0:59 He's also a speaker and conservative radio show host.
1:02 He's written biographies on Christian giants like William Wilberforce,
1:05 Martin Luther and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
1:07 Actually, the Dietrich Bonhoeffer book is on our book list.
1:10 The 100 books every modern Christian man should read list.
1:12 It's an incredibly, incredibly important book.
1:14 He's also written some comedy books, some children's books,
1:16 and he even wrote a script for Veggie Tales, which I found out.
1:19 But he's got a new book out this week.
1:21 If you're listening to this on time, it came out Tuesday, okay?
1:23 It's called Is Atheism Dead, okay?
1:26 So this book is basically in response to what has been happening in the culture since the
1:30 60s, specifically since the 1966 Time Magazine article or Time Magazine cover, which basically
1:36 asked is God dead.
1:38 And this book is a tremendous breakdown of a lot of the things that we've just taken
1:42 for granted in this more secularized culture that we live in.
1:45 And we dig into a lot of those things.
1:47 Now, guys, we didn't have a lot of time in this interview because he was in between interviews.
1:51 This is release week.
1:52 So we're just lucky that we even got to spend some time with him.
1:54 We feel very, very thankful for that.
1:55 But this guy, you're going to be shocked or maybe not shocked.
1:59 A lot of the things that he said in his interview just kind of off the cuff are things that
2:02 we talk about here all the time on this program, okay?
2:05 I absolutely love my time with Eric Metaxas.
2:08 We're going to be getting into more things later on.
2:10 We're going to have him on so we can have a more proper kind of long form interview and
2:13 dig in a little bit more.
2:14 But guys, I'm not going to keep him from you any longer without further ado.
2:17 Let's get into it.
2:19 Eric Metaxas, welcome to Undaunted Life of Man's podcast.
2:23 Would I be happier, thank you for having me on this podcast.
2:27 I already like your audience from the description.
2:29 You just gave me.
2:30 Hey, you know what?
2:32 These guys love guys like you because you bring it whenever you write books.
2:36 I mean, you write long lengthy books, but there's a lot to it.
2:39 There's a lot of meat there, but you're a very prolific writer.
2:42 I mean, I think I counted 20 books since the mid 90s that you've been able to be a part
2:45 of and put out.
2:46 So the most generic way possible to start an interview, why did you become a writer?
2:51 Well, there are certain things that you can't explain except to say, you know, since I'm
2:57 a Christian, I see that the Lord created me to be a writer.
3:02 There's just no question in my mind.
3:03 I mean, I remember just being in high school, I didn't grow up in a writerly family.
3:08 I mean, my folks are working class European immigrants.
3:10 We weren't big readers, but I always had an affinity for words.
3:14 When I was in high school, I loved the humanities.
3:17 When I got to college, I was like, this is what I want to do.
3:21 Now I didn't know what I wanted to write about.
3:23 I was not walking with Jesus.
3:25 I mean, I was just confused and stumbling through.
3:28 And when I was really dramatically born again at age 25 in a dream, the Lord just got a
3:36 hold of me 100% and I knew that I wanted to write for his purposes, but I didn't even
3:42 know what that meant.
3:43 And so it's taken me a little while to figure it out, but it's just how he made me.
3:48 There's no other way for me to account for it.
3:50 Well, you've written a lot of books with a lot of different publishing houses, but most
3:54 of your books are, if not overtly about God, they're tangentially about God, right?
3:59 And so I think it's an impressive thing.
4:01 But have you ever been asked to kind of stray outside of that calling?
4:06 Has it ever even been an interest of you to go outside of that?
4:09 Well, I mean, I want to glorify God with my gifts.
4:12 And sometimes I think we do that by not talking about God or about, because I think, you know,
4:22 like when I write a book about Bonhoeffer or Luther or, I mean, I wrote those books.
4:28 My book, If You Can Keep It, I wrote those books obviously for people of faith, but also
4:34 for people who are not on the same page as we are so that when they read, they're interested
4:38 in an historical figure like Luther.
4:40 I mean, the man changed the world.
4:42 Who was this guy?
4:43 When you read that book, you know, it was reviewed in the New York Times.
4:47 Now, if it had been like a faith, faith book, they wouldn't have even looked at it.
4:53 But they reviewed it because it was a biography.
4:54 Of course, in the biography, I'm able to share the gospel five times because that's Luther's
5:01 story.
5:02 And so I really mix and match.
5:05 I have a lot of interest, but I mean, look, we know that all truth is of God.
5:11 We know that all goodness and truth and beauty points to Jesus.
5:16 So the only question is the details.
5:19 And I'm probably going to be writing a book on the discovery of the tomb of Odysseus in
5:22 Greece, which overtly has nothing to do with the Lord.
5:27 But a lot of times when I do stuff like that on my radio program, if I interview somebody,
5:32 you know, like Paul Anka or Rich Little or some celebrity, or I talk to somebody who's
5:39 written, I talked to somebody, they wrote a book about Truman Capote, the author.
5:44 There's nothing ostensibly Christian about it.
5:48 But part of what I'm doing is I'm trying to draw in people who wouldn't listen if we
5:54 were talking apologetics.
5:55 And so they listen and they're fascinated and maybe they'll listen to the next show
5:59 and the next show will be about somebody who's experienced some crazy miracles or it'll be
6:04 about somebody who is, you know, saving people from sex trafficking in the Philippines because
6:10 of their Christian faith.
6:12 So I deliberately mix and match because I feel like it's an effective way of doing evangelism.
6:19 So yeah.
6:20 So there are times when I do things that seemingly have nothing to do with the Lord.
6:25 But in my mind, of course, they do.
6:27 Well, I think you've done a great job of kind of weaving those things together because
6:31 another theme that kind of writes through a lot of your books, which I've taken a lot
6:34 of them down is manhood.
6:35 So you wrote seven men and seven more men.
6:37 You obviously did the biographies of William Wilberforce and Martin Luther and Dietrich
6:40 Bonhoeffer and we have a book list on our website called the 100 books every modern Christian
6:45 man should read and that Bonhoeffer biography is on there in the in the biography section.
6:49 It's an absolutely astounding book, but manhood and great men of history seem to be a point
6:55 of interest for you.
6:56 It's the only art for us here on our show as well.
6:58 Yeah.
6:59 And why?
7:00 Because we're living in a time where anything of God is being deconstructed and destroyed.
7:05 The enemy is on a war path and what do you attack if you hate God?
7:10 You attack men because Jesus was a man.
7:14 We pray to God the Father.
7:15 There is something in that that touches God and that if you want to attack fathers, if
7:24 you want to attack men, you're hurting women and children when you do that.
7:28 So if you love women and children, you need to understand that God's idea of manhood is
7:33 everything and that's been under attack and the reason I wrote the book seven men is specifically
7:39 because I said there's a war on men in the culture and who does it hurt?
7:44 It hurts women.
7:45 It hurts children.
7:46 You need to understand what God's idea of a man is and that's why I wrote seven men.
7:53 I also wrote seven more men, which is obviously seven more men that fit in this category.
7:58 Frankly, I think it's at the heart of everything and we need to be about everything.
8:08 This is all God calls us to different things but when I thought of that, part of it was
8:13 that I couldn't write, I can't write three or four hundred page books about every one
8:18 of these men but I thought if I put seven short biographies in a book, people who don't read
8:23 a ton, they would read that because those are shorter stories and we need to get the stories
8:29 out.
8:30 They're good stories for men like me and men like everyone listening to this right now
8:33 to grasp and wrap their heads around because we're in an age now where just the mention
8:38 of masculinity is in and of itself toxic and so I think it's good for us to be able to
8:43 attach to men like that and also to mimic men like that and also to be manly men and
8:49 to trigger the people, rejoice when you trigger them because it means you're over the target.
8:57 Being a manly man is spiritual warfare.
9:01 When you think about Jesus, I mean he was a builder of houses, a carpenter, the bravery,
9:11 the heart of Jesus, the heart of some of the lions of the faith, that's who God wants us
9:18 to be.
9:19 And if you're living in a world where the faith has become feminized and when you have
9:24 a Jezebel spirit at war in the culture, if you don't deal with that, if you don't go
9:30 to war with that, God can't really use you.
9:34 And so to me, this is a really central issue.
9:37 That's how we love women.
9:39 That's how we love children, not by becoming like them, but by becoming the men who God
9:46 created us to be.
9:48 You're speaking my language, Eric, like this is all music to my ears, but I just got to
9:51 tell you as a quick aside, you change my view on manhood with the book Bonhoeffer's.
9:56 And then we'll get into the new book here in just a second.
9:58 But with that book, this is a guy that wasn't your typical masculine man, this culturally
10:04 masculine man, but the dude was a gangster.
10:07 He tried to kill Hitler and so I'm reading through this and this is this fairly effeminate
10:12 pastorally type guy.
10:13 No, no, no, I'm going to cut the head off the snake and the snake happens to be chilling
10:18 in Berlin right now.
10:19 And I just like, man, just an incredible, incredible book.
10:22 Oh, it's so amazing too, because he really was, I mean, the people who knew him described
10:28 him as like athletic and sporty.
10:31 He really was, but he was so cerebral that you don't get that part of it.
10:37 But I mean, it is, I mean, and that's the other thing too.
10:40 We don't want to tell every young man that, you know, you need to be a martial arts fighter.
10:49 That's garbage.
10:50 That's worldly manhood.
10:52 God's idea of manhood comprises all these things.
10:55 Some of them are going to be bodybuilders.
10:57 Some of them are going to be, you know, skinny, cerebral people, but it's the heart of a man
11:03 that God is looking at.
11:06 And I really think that, you know, that's another thing the culture does, right?
11:10 It creates a caricature of toxic masculinity.
11:14 And anything, what are you talking about?
11:16 You know, when I look at the men in a lot of the movies that I watched growing up, whether
11:22 it's the 50s or the 60s or the 70s or in the sitcoms, you know, they were, some of them
11:28 were elegant.
11:29 They, you know, they're wearing a hat and a suit, but they were men.
11:33 They acted like men.
11:34 And I really think that that whole idea, the idea that you get a choice between being
11:39 a feminist or being like, you know, a storoidal monster, like that's garbage.
11:46 God's idea of manhood is different and we need to get that because not everybody is,
11:51 you know, supposed to be a, you know, a mixed martial artist fighter, at least I'm not.
11:57 Well, we attack a caricature manhood all the time because our definition at Undaunted Life
12:02 of what a man is, is a male that cultivates spiritual, mental and physical resilience on
12:06 a daily basis.
12:07 So you could be into fighting and hunting in four-wheel drive trucks, or you can be
12:11 into art, cooking and poetry and do that.
12:13 You can do that in both ways.
12:15 But hey, we're going to get off on a tangent here.
12:16 We don't have a lot of time.
12:17 We've got to talk about the new book.
12:19 Is atheism dead?
12:20 I'm not the fastest reader in the world, but I took this book down in about three or four
12:24 days.
12:25 I thought it was absolutely fantastic, very accessible, even though it was incredibly
12:28 incredibly deep.
12:29 But I love the description of the book that I read somewhere that it's basically an answer
12:33 to the 1966 Time magazine cover, which posed the question, is God dead?
12:37 And then we subsequently saw the deterioration of culture from there.
12:41 So you break down evidence and arguments against the idea of a creatorless universe, right?
12:46 And you essentially are doing a full frontal assault on many of these atheist tropes concerning
12:51 how everything came to be and why we're here.
12:53 Is that a pretty good summary of what you set out to do with this book?
12:56 Absolutely.
12:57 In fact, it was the 1966 Time magazine cover article is God dead that made me think about
13:02 this title.
13:03 And so, you know what, the evidence has piled up over the decades.
13:08 And in the second world in which we live, no one, including most Christians, even know
13:12 about it.
13:14 As I've discovered this evidence, I've been blown away.
13:18 And I'm a kind of a guy.
13:19 I'm all about communication.
13:20 I think like it doesn't matter what's true.
13:22 Do people know that it's true?
13:24 Does your average Christian know that the scientific evidence for God is mind blowing?
13:31 Most of us don't bump into that information.
13:33 And I said, in this book, I want to put the basics of it so that your average person who
13:39 can read a book will say, oh my goodness, it's open and shut.
13:44 Science in these last days is doing the thing that nobody dreamt could ever happen.
13:50 It is pointing like a laser to God.
13:53 Now, a lot of people when they hear me say they go, that's just crazy.
13:57 Read the book, I dare you to tell me I'm wrong because I know I'm not.
14:02 There are so many arguments from science, whether you're talking about the Big Bang,
14:05 the fine-tuned universe or the abbey of Genesis stuff, which is like the most fascinating
14:09 to me, it gets freaky and hardcore atheist, materialist, scientific people that say there's
14:18 only the material universe.
14:20 If they look at this evidence, they are shaken.
14:22 Don't kid yourself.
14:23 They are shaken.
14:24 They don't know where to go.
14:26 They come up with insane, ridiculous, anti-science ideas like the multiverse theory.
14:32 That's called desperation.
14:34 I also deal with evidence from archeology.
14:37 Most believers don't even know most of the evidence from archeology.
14:41 Archeology for 170 years has been pointing to the truth of the Bible in a way that if
14:45 you just look at the highlights, which I put in the book, you're going to say, how did
14:49 I not know this?
14:51 This is nuts.
14:52 How did I even buy into the fact that my faith is intellectually questionable?
14:57 On the contrary, what's intellectually questionable is people who don't have your faith.
15:04 I'm not saying that to be triumphalist.
15:05 I'm saying you need to just know that this is true.
15:09 At the end of the book, I talk about atheism itself and how the new atheists were so intellectually
15:16 sloppy and they were allowed to get away with that in many ways by Christians who were
15:20 polite and I thought, sometimes being polite is not loving.
15:27 If somebody says something insanely stupid, pointing that out is a loving thing to do.
15:35 A lot of the new atheists like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, these are brilliant men
15:41 who when it comes to philosophizing are horrible.
15:46 I could not get over how bad some of their writing and what they said was.
15:50 It was embarrassing to me.
15:52 It would be like if I went out and started to lecture on calculus and people would be
15:58 like, well, I don't want to embarrass him or whatever.
16:03 Well, you're not doing somebody any favors if you let them blather like an idiot and
16:07 sell books so that 10 years in the future some guy like Eric M. Taxis is going to read
16:12 a couple paragraphs and say, this is the dumbest thing I ever heard.
16:16 If you care about somebody, you're going to call them on what they're saying.
16:20 They said things that are so ridiculous.
16:22 What's interesting to me is there are one of the astounding things in this book, which
16:27 again, half of this stuff that I discovered writing the book, but one of the most astounding
16:32 things I discovered, which I still almost can't believe, the two most famous atheists
16:39 in the 20th century, or probably two of the most famous, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus,
16:44 these French existentialists that were very honest about trying to figure out, we live
16:48 in a world without God, what does that look like?
16:50 How do we have ethics?
16:51 How do we have a moral code?
16:53 They tried to work that out.
16:54 They were serious about it.
16:55 They were not happy about it.
16:57 You have people like Christopher Hitchens and Dawkins and Company, they act like giddy that
17:01 they think there's no God.
17:02 If you're serious about this stuff, you're not giddy.
17:06 You think this is bleak, atheism is bleak.
17:09 There's no meaning.
17:10 There's no truth.
17:11 There's no goodness.
17:12 How do we get past this?
17:13 Well, what I discovered was that those two men, and almost no one knows this, and that's
17:19 why I think people are going to write about this, they're going to attack it.
17:23 This is a fact.
17:25 These two men that took atheism more seriously than almost anybody at the end of their lives
17:30 independently, one in 1960, the other in 1980, came to faith in God.
17:39 That is a headline.
17:40 That is like loony stuff that we don't know this.
17:43 How do we not know that these people who wrote books that are being read in colleges
17:47 today on this philosophy, this atheist philosophy, both of them came to believe in something
17:54 dramatically opposite of what they were writing in those books?
17:58 That's why I wrote this book is that I've got to get this information out, so I'm begging
18:01 anybody listening, please buy a copy now because the secular world tries to crush this stuff.
18:09 It doesn't get out of the gate, which is like this week with big numbers, it doesn't hit
18:13 any bestseller list, and it goes away.
18:16 So I just beg you, if you think you'll buy a copy, please buy a copy like now, and on
18:22 my website, which is ericmataxis.com, if you scroll down on the page, the book page, there
18:29 are some links where it's literally 45% off.
18:32 That goes away at the end of this week.
18:35 So please take advantage, it's just important to share this on social media.
18:41 I really believe the Lord led me to write this book, it wasn't some brilliant idea I had,
18:45 and I just, let me put it this way, I know he's going to use it, so I'll leave it at
18:50 that.
18:51 Well, I think it's a great deal, and we have that in the show notes for you guys, so you
18:53 can go and check that out yourself.
18:54 Again, this is coming out the week of the release of the book, so make sure that you
18:57 do that, it's a very, very important book.
18:59 And guys, in order to get into some of the scientific arguments that you talked about,
19:02 eric, you know, you have to get into the books, you give a lot of detail, same thing with
19:05 the archaeology, but I want to skip to the third part, which you alluded to, the third
19:09 part of the book where you're talking about some of these atheists, there was one particular
19:12 quote, there were several, but I had to pick one just so that we could talk about it right
19:16 now.
19:17 So I want to read it to you here and get a little bit more context.
19:19 Before 1991, the Oxford mathematician, John Linux, traveled a numeral times to the Soviet
19:24 Union and to Soviet block countries.
19:26 Since the fall of the Soviet Union, he has gone back and spoken with those who once believed
19:30 that communism might be a good thing who thought that atheism could bring about a better world.
19:35 We thought we could get rid of God, they said to him, and retain a value of human beings.
19:39 We were wrong.
19:40 We destroyed both God and man.
19:43 I feel like that one quote that we get from, you know, John, John Linux, the great mathematician,
19:49 somewhat summarizes that third portion of the book, which is this utopianistic idea as
19:54 to what society can be as fallible humans and what we can create is absolutely bankrupt.
20:00 Oh, it is.
20:01 I mean, there's so much like that.
20:03 And by the way, I say to people, if you want to read the last third of the book first,
20:07 like that's some of the more entertaining writing, feel free.
20:12 I just, I thank God, I thank the Lord that he allowed me to put this book together.
20:17 I think it's going to arm the body in a way that we need at this dark time and he's going
20:24 to use it for his purposes.
20:27 And I believe revival is coming.
20:28 And this is, this is just a part of it, but it's, it is, it's an important part.
20:33 And I, I'm like humbled that I get to, to, to put this information out there.
20:37 Well, you spent a lot of time in that last section, kind of taking away the foundations
20:42 of what a lot of, especially the new atheist, but then just kind of our more secular culture
20:46 has come to be.
20:47 But as you were doing this as an intellectually honest person, which I'm assuming that you
20:51 are, I'm sure you came across arguments that were a little bit vexing even for you.
20:55 And so the thing that I was curious about while reading this, just being a little bit
20:58 cynical is what is the best atheist argument for a creatorless universe in your opinion?
21:05 I, I don't think it's possible to believe that the universe is creatorless period.
21:14 What I do see is the atheist point of view, in other words, the questions that smart people
21:21 have saying like, a lot of this doesn't make any sense.
21:26 Like a lot of this, what you believe sounds insane to me.
21:31 The whole idea of this infinite being, creating the universe, who is this infinite being,
21:38 where did he come from, what it just sounds nuts, and I'm not having it.
21:42 I get that.
21:43 I get that emotionally.
21:45 I feel that myself sometimes.
21:47 So I think we have to be honest that people have good questions and good objections.
21:51 But on the facts, I think we're at a place now where we just have to go, you know what?
21:57 This might sound crazy, but the alternative definitely sounds crazier.
22:02 And if I want to be logical, I'm going to have to go with this crazy because this crazy
22:07 has the facts backing it up, or at least has way more of the facts backing it up.
22:12 So I say that very sincerely.
22:15 I think it's a fantastic read guys.
22:16 I mean, again, it gets a little heady in different sections and I'm a very straight
22:20 from the beginning to the end type person.
22:21 So even though you encouraged us to jump around, I just can't do that.
22:24 I got to stay in my lane.
22:25 I got to go from beginning to end and read every single word.
22:28 But I know in you've alluded to some future projects, you know, the tomb of Odysseus and
22:31 different things like that.
22:32 But what can you tell us about other things that you're going to be working on in the
22:35 future?
22:36 Do you have any other big biographies coming up?
22:38 What can we expect from you in the future?
22:40 Now, I want to write a sequel.
22:44 My last book before this is called Fish Out of Water, which is the story of my life up
22:49 until I came to faith.
22:51 And a lot of it is just really funny.
22:52 If you just want a funny read, which, you know, it touches on the important questions,
22:58 but there's a lot of humor in it and it ends with my coming to faith.
23:02 And it's a good book if you just want to get away from, you know, all this heavy stuff.
23:07 But it ends with my coming to faith.
23:09 And I want to write the sequel, which starts with me coming to faith and all the experiences,
23:16 many of them, genuinely miraculous that I have had that tell that story.
23:22 I think it will also be a fun read.
23:26 But it's going to blow some people's minds because I've experienced real miracles.
23:30 I don't say that lightly.
23:32 And I want to express that in a journalistic literary way.
23:36 So that book and the Odysseus book are probably the next ones I'm working on.
23:40 I'm working on raising money to fund Socrates in the city because I want to do that like
23:46 practically every week.
23:48 There are a lot of projects, my, if you can keep it book, I want to turn that into, you
23:53 know, a video series because not everybody's a big reader.
23:56 So a lot of that stuff I'm working on too.
23:59 But I praise God I get to do it.
24:01 Well, we'll make sure that we can have you back on at some point to go into more detail
24:04 in some of those things, but I did have a couple of ideas because you didn't ask me
24:07 for advice, but I'm going to give you some.
24:09 There are a couple of biographies that I think Eric Metaxis needs to write.
24:13 Okay.
24:14 So St. Patrick and St. Nicholas, those are two very, very culturally significant men that
24:20 most people have no idea who these men really were.
24:24 St. Nicholas, you want to talk about a gangster, we were talking about Bonhoeffer already.
24:27 I mean, those two guys are absolutely incredible.
24:30 I wrote a children's book about St. Patrick that has not yet been published.
24:35 Okay.
24:36 There you go.
24:37 Where I'm still listening.
24:38 I think it's easy to get published.
24:39 I can't get published.
24:40 St. Nicholas, same thing.
24:42 I didn't write a book about it, but those are two awesome ideas.
24:45 I don't say this.
24:46 A lot of times people have ideas like, Oh, sorry, I'm not writing a biography on John
24:49 Calvin.
24:50 Yeah.
24:51 Well, let me tell you those are great ideas.
24:53 So let me say thank you and I'm going to actually pray about that.
24:56 I appreciate that.
24:57 Okay.
24:58 Sounds good.
24:59 I know we're running up against time, but that's all for me.
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25:11 this and interviews that I do with really amazing people on my, on my radio show and
25:17 stuff and podcast and TV show.
25:19 So just go to ericmataxis.com and sign up and thank you for having me.
25:23 This was fun.
25:24 All right.
25:25 Guys, that'll all be in the show notes.
25:26 Thanks for coming on on Daunted Life, a man's podcast anytime we'll do it again.
25:30 There you go.
25:31 Guys.
25:32 I hope you enjoyed my time with Eric Metaxis.
25:33 But before we let you go, we are going to do a quick resilience boost.
25:35 As you know, by now at undaunted life, our mission is equipping men to push back darkness.
25:39 And specifically, we do that with content like this podcast that helps you forward spiritual,
25:43 mental and physical resilience.
25:44 So we've got the link to Eric's website.
25:46 So that's where he said to where you can go and get like 40 or 45% off on the book.
25:49 So you can check that out there.
25:51 And on some of the other links that he was talking about also, we've got a link in his
25:54 website.
25:55 And I've got the link for you just to go to his atheism dead.
25:58 So if you want to pick that up, I can go to it right there.
26:01 You can just basically click the link, get right to it.
26:03 And then also I've got a link to his radio show, the Eric Metaxis radio show, so you can
26:06 follow along with that as well.
26:07 All right, guys.
26:08 Thanks so much for listening to this podcast.
26:09 We do appreciate it.
26:10 Wherever you're listening to this, please subscribe, right and leave us a positive review.
26:14 If you want to come speak live at your event or on your podcast, you shoot me an email
26:17 to info at undaunted.life.
26:19 That's I N F O at undaunted life.
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26:29 Just go to www dot undaunted life.
26:31 And we want to thank the band August Burns read for allowing us to use their entire music
26:34 library for our content.
26:36 The answer out to a track on this podcast is our song, cutting the ties, which is off
26:39 their 10th anniversary re-recording of their album leveler.
26:42 The links are in the description.
26:44 I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
26:46 Remember keep pushing back darkness, keep forging spiritual, mental and physical resilience.
26:53 Keep seeking the lion of Judah.
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