- [Announcer] Do you believe in a god?
What if there is no god?
- You're an atheist, correct?
- Yeah. - That's the devil
waiting for you in hell,
by the way. (audience laughing)
- There's a growing community of people
that identify themselves as atheists.
- Atheism is on the upswing in America.
Secular Americans now make up
nearly a quarter of the American population.
- [Announcer] Where do they find meaning in life?
Or how do they shape their morality?
Do they believe in the spiritual or the supernatural?
How can you really tell if someone is an atheist?
We brought together seven atheists.
One is a liar.
If the group discovers who the liar is
they'll win a cash prize.
If the liar survives, they win a cash prize.
This is "Odd Man Out".
- My game plan
is to try and trip people up
by talking about their worldview.
- I have a list of questions prepared.
My main goal is just to not get eliminated immediately.
- Yeah, the other half of this
is just convincing everyone that I am an atheist.
And I don't think that's gonna be hard to do.
- I'm kind of suspicious of Joey
because he has a profile picture with devil horns
but it also looks like he's Jesus.
- (laughing) To make fun of religion a little bit
in like a nice way.
I hope they get it.
- I'm going to be looking for
people who do not confidently say why they're an atheist.
- Hopefully I can suss out that Christian
and bring home the money.
- [All] Hi!
- Wassup?
- What's up everyone.
All right, I got a question.
What type of atheist are you?
- Agnostic?
- Secular humanist.
- Straight up atheist
- Agnostic
- Agnostic atheist
- Agnostic too.
- Uh, too many agnostics. (all laughing)
That's gonna be so hard.
- Anyone grew up with religion?
- No
- I was raised Hindu.
- Raised Catholic.
- Same!
- I was raised Catholic too.
- The Joes raised Catholic. - I know, right?
- Why'd you leave?
- I was raised in a Colombian Catholic family.
And being queer as well,
it did not really feel like the place for me.
I tapped into Presbyterian and Quakerism,
but honestly I'm just better off without religion.
I have found happiness without religion.
- Pragmatic atheism, I would say,
would define my atheism more so.
I'm not, I'm definitely not agnostic.
- What are your guys' views on deconverting people?
- Love it!
- Ooh, I think that's a touchy one.
- I feel like it's not really my place.
- I personally have quite a few religious friends.
I don't feel like deconverting them is the right way to go.
Just 'cause, if they find happiness in their religion
that's good for them.
- You have to be careful with that.
- Yeah. - Because
if you come on too strong then people are, you know,
immediately going to shy away.
- Do you think it's moral?
- I don't know, do you? (laughing)
- Yeah, I do.
I think if you can offer
the sort of community and worldview
that can sort of replace the hole that religion leaves.
You know, not just willy nilly deconverting people.
Especially if like, maybe they can't handle
the existential dread that comes along with it.
- Yeah, I mean,
I agree that if people wanna believe it then it's okay.
But there's also like,
if someone is open to hearing about atheism,
then I'm all about telling them about it.
I had a boyfriend when I was in high school
who grew up in a Christian home
but he was kind of like,
"I really don't know what I believe."
And I was like, "Let me tell you about it."
- That's when we strike.
(bell ringing)
- Okay so that round was horrifying.
- Evan was so serious.
And I was like, oh my goodness.
I don't know how to respond to you.
- I'm gonna vote for Katie.
- I think I'm gonna vote for Nina this round
- Just because she didn't really speak much, Emily.
- I think I'mma go for Joey.
- Nina.
- Emily.
- This round, I'm gonna have to vote for Emily.
People who have a sunny disposition like me,
I'm really suspicious of.
- [Announcer] And the person eliminated this round is
- Please don't me.
- [Announcer] Emily. (buzzer sounding)
- Sorry Emily. - Oh my god.
- I think I was being too friendly.
- I don't know how I feel about this.
- I think people got that one wrong.
But, maybe.
- How do your guys' families feel about you being atheist?
- They're totally fine with it.
- I don't think my parents really acknowledge the fact
that I'm an atheist.
I told my father once straight up "I'm an atheist"
and he took away my Kindle and my laptop for a week.
(all laughing)
- I actually haven't really told my father.
He lives in Columbia so I'm glad that,
you know, he probably won't watch this video.
- Whenever my mom is mad at me
she'll bring up my atheism to like spite me.
And I'm like, "Dude, you've known this for like 10 years.
"It's not going away.
"Like, just accept it."
- At first it was really difficult.
I had a lot of arguments
and sometimes my parents would leave the room
during the arguments.
I learned how to be nicer about it
and be a better communicator.
Katie, I have a question for you.
- Yeah.
- Assuming you have an atheist friend,
how would you console that atheist friend
after they had lost a loved one?
- If you lose somebody it's always gonna be hard,
regardless of whether you're a Christian
or atheist or whatever religion.
I don't think that you should-
- What would you say?
- If you are atheist,
I don't think you should fill this void with something else.
Like, I don't want you going to Christianity
or whatever religion,
to kind of help comfort you.
And I think you should kind of deal with it
and just, you know, read more philosophy.
- Let's do like a quick speed round
of just a book or an article
or something specific and tangible
that you've read as an atheist.
I read "The End of Faith" by Sam Harris.
- "The Great Agnostic" by Susan Jacoby.
Which is about Robert Ingersoll,
who is an old orator from the 1800s.
- "The Flying Spaghetti Monster Gospel"
I think is a great work of atheist literature.
- "The Anthropology of Rituals"
is actually very interesting.
Especially talking about, you know, atheist rituals.
- I like Richard Dawkins stuff, Christopher Hitchens
- Which Dawkins?
- Honestly, I have no clue which ones.
But I like, know, like-
- But you've read the books?
- No, just like his articles
and his worldview kind of stuff.
- What's he's career?
- He's some kind of, like, theorist basically.
(laughing) I have no idea really.
- I actually studied philosophy in college at NYU.
- Any atheist thinker that has inspired you?
- No atheist thinkers.
I mean, I've read a lot of philosophers and there's-
- Any Camus, any, you know, something?
- Not one that I can point off the top of my head, no.
(clock ticking) - Interesting.
Making it difficult.
(bell ringing)
- That round was a little spicy.
Freakin' Joey is coming for me.
- Joey was definitely the instigator.
- I don't know what other people are thinking,
but it's kind of suspicious that he's so over the top,
if you know what I mean.
- Yeah, I'm gonna vote for Nina, again.
Just don't believe her.
- I'm the most suspicious of Katie, honestly.
- Katie was acting a little suspicious.
I mean, she couldn't name any atheist works.
- I'm gonna change my strategy for this round.
Instead of going for Joey,
who's, you know, kind of being over the top,
I'm going to vote for Nina.
- My vote is gonna go for Katie.
- I'm gonna vote for Nina.
- [Announcer] The votes are in and we have a tie.
(gasping) Between Nina and Katie.
- That's gonna be interesting.
- Ooh!
- [Announcer] Each person will get 20 seconds
to state your case.
- Okay, guys, I have 20 tattoos on my body.
My most recent one is a tarot card.
Would a Christian have a tarot card tattoo on their body?
I don't think so.
I have a heart on my finger I got when I was 16 years old,
stick and poke by my ex-best friend.
I've been watching "The Amazing Atheist"
since I was like 12 years old on YouTube.
I've gone to like-
(bell ringing) Ahhh!
- Okay, so I believe in science.
I think religion is a bunch of baloney.
I think people just use it to kind of comfort themselves
and give them, you know, a sense of hope.
But I think when you're an atheist you have to look inward
and you have to, you know, really make your own decisions.
And it allows you to be way more introspective.
I think- (bell ringing)
I have my nipples pierced.
(all laughing)
- I still feel like it's Nina.
- I definitely believe Nina.
So, sorry Katie.
- I think I should stick to Katie.
- I have my nipple pierced.
Katie says she has her nipples pierced.
I'm gonna vote Nina.
- Maybe she really is a Christian with pierced nipples
which is now something that none of us will ever forget.
- [Announcer] And we still have a tie.
- What? (all laughing)
- [Announcer] So we're going into a second tie breaker.
- Guys! - We're gonna give you both
20 more seconds.
- Another 20 seconds, okay.
- The gloves are coming off now.
- I think there's a lot of bad juju behind Christianity.
I mean, they're homophobic.
They're sexist.
Why would I wanna associate myself
with a community like that?
I had a friend go,
she was completely open-minded and then read the bible.
And now she's like super judgmental and Christian
and carries a bible with her everywhere.
And it's just, it's awful.
I mean, I've seen what she's become.
(bell ringing)
- The reason that I left religion as a 13 year old
was because I was coming to terms with my sexuality.
I'm gay.
It didn't vibe with me.
I felt really persecuted at a young age.
So atheism was the first place where I felt accepted
and myself and valuable.
And that was really big
for my growth and my development.
(bell ringing)
- I'm gonna vote for Katie.
Nina's anecdote was more specific,
felt more real.
- I think what Katie said was just definitely superficial.
- I'm Gonna vote for Katie again.
- Nina seems nervous,
Katie just seems kind of pissed.
Yeah, whatever.
I'll just vote for Nina again.
- [All] And the person eliminated this round is
Katie.
(buzzer sounding) - Aww.
- I knew it. - Oh my god.
- I swear that Joey is like directing people to vote for me.
He is the mole, I feel it in my heart.
- I have a question for Joe.
You use a lot of religious language.
How does your atheist lens fit into that?
- Anthropology has been a very enlightening way for me,
uh, enlightening. (all laughing)
Been a very revealing way for me
to like see atheism in its beauty.
But I actually did wanna ask about,
you know, about the rituals that we follow
that are not associated to religion.
So Nina you talked about, you know, having your tarot card,
I also do a little bit of tarot.
I like, you know, following the horoscope as well.
And like, you know, seeing the stars-
- (laughing) I love Evan's reaction here.
- Joey and I are like, "If they believe in tarot cards,
"what else might they believe in?"
- I feel like astrology is irrational as believing in god.
I don't know, I just don't understand the basis of it.
- Because that's so, that's ascientific.
- You should find meaning
wherever you want to find meaning in.
And I think, you know, I'm a Taurus sun,
a Cancer moon, and rising with Venus and Pisces.
So you know it's like-
- Even if I did believe in astrology,
I wouldn't say this in an atheism game.
- Right. - This is a bold strategy.
- Nina just seems like she's nervous,
I'm just gonna call that out.
- Well she was - I'm just excited.
- almost eliminated the last round.
So I feel like that's pretty valid.
- Thank you.
I'm also a Leo sun, so I'm very extroverted.
For me astrology and like, tarot card reading, whatever,
it's just, it's fun.
It's really fun for me to like, think about the stars
and think about, you know, our connection
with the world around us.
- Riya, you've been kind of quiet.
So what's one thing about religion
that you have, like, a moral issue with.
- There's not a specific aspect
of Christianity I take issue with.
I was severely depressed in middle school
and I actually used to pray significantly.
Not just to the Hindu gods, to god in general as a concept.
And I didn't get better from that.
And then I went to high school,
I started actually seeking real help.
I sought therapy and I realized
that I could provide comfort for myself
in a way apart from religion.
- With the astrology stuff,
hmm...
- I'm a classic atheist man, that rubs me wrong.
My vote today is gonna go for Evan.
He hasn't really added anything valuable
to the conversation, in my opinion.
- Eenie, meenie, miney, Joe.
- I'm gonna vote for Joe this time.
- I think I'm going to go with Evan.
- I'm gonna have to vote for Evan this round.
I'm a Leo sun, Cancer moon, Sag rising.
Sorry buddy.
- [Announcer] And the person eliminated this round is
Evan. (buzzer sounding)
- What!
- I really thought it was gonna be me!
- I'll take it as a compliment, you know.
Maybe um, maybe I seem, um...
No, it's not a compliment.
I don't know what I'm saying,
this is totally ridiculous.
- [Announcer] Give me a thumbs up
if you want to continue the game.
If not, give me a thumbs down
if you think you already caught the mole
and want to end the game now.
- I don't really know what to do right now.
Oh my god.
I'm panicking.
I don't know, I don't know what-
- They voted.
We're ending the game.
- I completely regret my decision. (laughing)
- [Announcer] If the color turns green, you guys win.
If it's red, you all lost and the mole is still in the game.
In three,
two,
one.
- Yes! - Woo-hoo!
- We won. (cheering)
- We got the mole out!
- I got stuck with two astrology believers.
You guys, this is like- - Dude!
- My t-shirt is an astrology T-shirt.
- That's an astrology shirt?
- It's an astrology shirt, I don't even believe in it.
It's just a cool design.
- [Announcer] The game is over and the atheists have won.
That means that the winners will be receiving a cash prize
and we're also gonna be gifting them
the Akinto experience.
Where you'll get to pick your favorite basics
from our new interactive apparel brand.
- Who is it? (all laughing)
- Will the mole please raise your hand
in three,
two,
one.
- [All] Ahhh!
- Yeah, you got me. - From the start.
- Yeah, I was like, "Maybe I can make it to round 2."
Nn, no. (all laughing)
So everything I said was true.
I grew up in a Catholic household, became an atheist.
And then the boyfriend that I tried to deconvert
converted me.
- That's what made me trust you?
Because I was like, "Wait, I've done that."
- That's what made me suspicious.
I was like, Christian boyfriend, nn-nn.
- Wait, who voted for Evan and why?
- That's what I wanna know.
That's the biggest mystery of this.
- Evan came for me, I had to get you out.
- Nina, you and I are on the same page.
You came for us. - You came for us.
(laughing) - Yeah, I felt really attacked
at the end of the last round.
- Their stars aligned, I bet that happened.
(all laughing)
- I didn't really know
that people identified in so many different ways
when they identified as atheist.
- A lot of people think that atheists are immoral.
But you know, in my experience, it's usually the opposite.
Their atheism is often fueled
by seeing so much injustice in religion.
- I call myself a Secular Humanist
because atheism is what you don't believe.
Secular Humanism is what you do believe.
I believe that most people want what's best for the world.
- Atheism is about happiness.
You find happiness and meaning within your persona,
within your soul,
that does not have to attach to religion.
I think that's good. (laughing)