Matt Dillahunty

Matthew Wade Dillahunty (born March 31, 1969) is an American atheist activist and former president of the Atheist Community of Austin, a position he held from 2006 to 2013. Between 2005 and October 2022, Dillahunty was host of the televised webcast The Atheist Experience.He formerly hosted the live Internet radio show Non-Prophets Radio and founded the counter-apologetics project Iron Chariots.Dillahunty is a regularly invited speaker, or debate participant, for local secular organizations and university groups as part of the Secular Student Alliance Speakers Bureau. In the summer of 2017, Dillahunty joined a speaking tour promoted by Pangburn Philosophy, where he shared the stage with fellow atheists Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Lawrence Krauss. Raised Southern Baptist, Dillahunty considered becoming a minister. His in-depth examination of his Christian beliefs, instead of bolstering his faith as he had intended, led him to no longer believe in the basic tenets of Christianity and, eventually, all religions. Dillahunty spent eight years in the U.S. Navy before leaving to work in the field of computer software design. Dillahunty later became a founding member of the Counter-Strike team Clan Killers 3, and participated in early Cyberathlete Professional League events and the QuakeCon 1997 event. He now streams a variety of video games regularly on Twitch.He first co-hosted The Atheist Experience in March 2005 and would go on to become a regular host of the program. In October 2011, he married The Atheist Experience colleague and co-host of the Godless Bitches podcast Beth Presswood; the couple divorced in 2018. On the October 2, 2022, broadcast of The Atheist Experience, Dillahunty announced that this episode would be his last as host after 17 years of participation.Dillahunty describes himself as a feminist. He is one of the subjects of the documentary films My Week in Atheism (2014) by director John Christy, and Mission Control Texas (2015). He is also a magician. He has no formal degrees, and did not attend seminary.