I'm Kim McPhail: Democrat, Atheist, Ex-Christian, Antitheist, Secular Humanist, and your designated spiritual trouble-maker. (Yes, that's a real thing, and yes, it's as fun as it sounds.) We’ll be serving up a hearty dose of truth about Christianity—and aggressively side-eyeing Christian Nationalism because, frankly, the separation of church and state isn't a suggestion, it’s a social boundary we all need to respect. We’re cutting through the noise and shining a massive, secular spotlight on the biggest issues of the day: Christianity, Fascism, and MAGA. This podcast, Secular Strike Back, previously known as the Kim McPhail Podcast, is for the Atheists, Skeptics, Ex-Christians, Secular Humanists, and anyone actively choosing freedom over dogma. PS: For those of you who are wondering about my looks, I can't wear an upper denture right now. Those who judge me on how I look rather than on the message I carry shouldn't be here.
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Managed to get another car, a used one as usual. Still in the middle of closing out on the old auto loan for totaled car but was allowed another loan as long as proof of loss was provided. Due to some eye strain issues yet from eye surgery weeks ago while waiting for eyes to heal enough to get new prescription for glasses, I have not been pushing out many videos lately. As many of you know, I totaled out my previous car from sliding on black ice 2 weeks ago, all while eyes still healing from cataract surgery but have been good enough to drive and having all clear to drive. I should be back to pushing out more videos soon enough on my usual schedule. It has been harder to do videos within the past month I have had all this stuff happening. I think I only did 3 videos or so in that time if I had to guess. To my audience, the atheists, antitheists, secular humanists, exchristians, evangelicals, those who are new to my channel or have been watching the channel for sometime, know I am still here and stay with me. I have not quit and I will stay strong and hope to be back to my normal self here on YouTube shortly.
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My phone has been quite busy since the car accident a week ago with handling the insurance company, getting ready to settle up and close out on old auto loan and getting approved for another one and looking for another car which I hope to get soon.. I haven't been recording videos very much in recent time for two different reasons. The last video I put out a week ago I talked about the 3 instances in my life where I have been in vehicles that rolled and got totaled due to black ice. 2 of which were my vehicles. In the video I gave credit to seatbelts, dumb luck, and the fact that people noticed me and got me out and made sure I was okay. At no time did I feel some need to cry out to a God to save me. At no time did I feel the need to thank a God for sparing my life. I made these points clear in my last video and yet, still have someone thanking God for getting me out of all those accidents. As much as I thank people for their concern over my life during this difficult situation, I do not pretend to agree with them when they say God saved me in all those instances. I am honest with myself. While some are quick to see certain things that happened in these instances as God saved me, or view these things as miraculous, I take a more realistic viewpoint. You need to prove there is a God in order to make the claim he saved me from harm, when I, and some kind strangers, and a seatbelt saved my life in these instances. What makes a person think that God saved me, an atheist in these accidents in my life, yet others die in car accidents as a result of sliding on black ice just like I do every few decades? The difference between me and someone else that dies is that they die and I lived. And, if there was a God, why would he want to save an atheist? That would be going against biblical standards set by the God Christians claim to follow.
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This video was recorded last night, on Tuesday. My car accident was on Monday morning. This video pertains to the differences atheists and christians have when it comes to times of crisis and near death experiences such as these 3 instances that I speak of in the video. In this video I speak all about the accident and how I am doing with my eyes. And, believe it or not, the eyes had nothing to do with the accident. I hope you all enjoy the video. It's a long one, but I'm sure it's of interest to my viewers.
https://youtu.be/9Ig_lthwxtI
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Totalled out my car on some black ice. I am fine as I was wearing a seat belt. But have no means of transportation, am in a small town and hiring transportation is very expensive when they have to drive from another town to here. Currently working with insurance company and my auto loan on this. Then will see after if I can still get another auto loan for another vehicle as my credit isn't great these days. My eyes were healed up enough to be able to drive. But since accident, one eye is acting up a little. Hoping nothing went wrong with the eye from the artificial lens as eyes were still healing yet.
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I'm home. 2 down= 0 to go. Lola refused to pose with me for pic.
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Heading for the hospital soon for my 2nd and last cataract surgery. Left eye gets operated on today. Right eye was operated on 2 weeks ago.
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Hey all you heathens, happened to wake up at 4AM to use the bathroom and now realize it was a mistake to check my phone and look at the YouTube comment section. I been awake ever since. It's now almost 7:30AM and I have a busy day planned. Another eye doctor exam and some phone calls I need to make. I am clearly going to feel like dropping from exhaustion later.
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Attention all you heathens out there, I finally got around to recording a new video as I had cataract surgery in my right eye this past Monday and been taking a bit of a break from recording. You will see in this video that I have sunglasses on as it was too bright in here for me while recording as I had to have enough light to work with but my eyes are sensitive right now to too much light. Immediately got up and closed the curtains and shut off most of the lights I had on while filming, after I was finished with the video. Though difficult to edit video and upload it, I managed to get through it by taking frequent breaks. But, here it is and I hope you enjoy. It pertains to the claim christians make about "God told me" and my answers to why it is dangerous to do so. I hope you enjoy the video. I apologize for not being around much this month, but I do hope you all understand. The left eye will be operated on in a week, on the 26th.
https://youtu.be/MN72PUo5SdI
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One down, one to go. Next surgery is the 26th.
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ATTENTION all you heathens. A reminder, I am having cataract surgery this Monday, January 12th, on my right eye. I may wear a patch over that eye during recording until its looking better as some of my audience may get a little squeamish when looking at a wounded eye. Surgery is scheduled for the left eye on January 26th. I am told that once they put in those prescription artificial lenses after removing the natural lens which has the cataracts, that I may not need glasses. However, the stigmatism is bad, the shape of my eyes are like footballs, therefore I will probably still be wearing glasses to fix that issue. The shape of the eye also distorts the vision. Insurance companies do not pay for specialized artificial lenses like that to fix the stigmatism in the eyes when doing surgery. I am told its $700 extra out of pocket per eye if I want the ones with the special type of lens to fix stigmatism thing in there so I can see well. Cannot pay that. Just letting you know about that in case one of my viewers have the same type of issue going on when it comes to stigmatism and cataracts.
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