Matt Dillahunty
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| Matt Dillahunty | |
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 Matt Dillahunty on The Atheist Experience TV show, 25th July 2006. |
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| Born | March 31, 1969 |
| Nationality | USA |
| Known for | Atheist activism |
Matt Dillahunty is the president of the Atheist Community of Austin, and is also a host of the live internet radio show "Non-Prophets Radio" and of the Austin Public-access television cable TV show "The Atheist Experience.[1]
The show of which he is one of the hosts, "The Atheist Experience", has become popular on YouTube and is consistently on the top discussed and top rated pages. The show involves people calling in to discuss various issues pertaining to religion.[2] He is also the founder and contributor of a counter-apologetics encyclopedia at Iron Chariots and its subsidiary sites.[3]
[edit] Personal life
Matt was raised as a Baptist Christian and sought to become a Baptist minister.[4] His religious studies, instead of bolstering his faith as he intended, ironically led to a rejection of Christianity and, eventually, all religions. [5]
Dillahunty served on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier during the Gulf War and in Haiti during the early 1990s.
Dillahunty married Beth Presswood, a microbiologist, on October 30th 2011.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.secularstudents.org/mattdillahunty
- ^ Collection of Atheist Experience excerpts at YouTube
- ^ Iron Chariots - the counter-apologetics wiki.
- ^ Flynn, Eileen E. (18 March 2007), "Preaching his own teachings of atheism", Austin American-Statesman, http://richarddawkins.net/articles/765
- ^ Atheist Experience: Matt Dillahunty
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWV0KEWnUgE
[edit] External links
- Matt Dillahunty on Twitter
- The Non-Prophets homepage
- The Atheist Experience homepage
- Saving believers: Former Christian finds calling to preach the good news of atheism
- PBS: Public-Access TV Fights for Relevance in the YouTube Age
- The Atheist Experience live stream
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