13: Atheist News Roundup, Part 2

Irreligiosophy

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2009

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode, we talk about the "R-word," Texas stupidity regarding evolution and creationism, and a recent study showing that the most religious patients were the most likely to desire the most aggressive interventions at end of life.

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0:00.0	Hello again and welcome to another edition of our Ir religophy podcast this week since we couldn't find any of the
0:15.9	LDS persuasion to stand up and talk to us we are going to do another atheist news
0:21.6	roundup. Yeah we got a lot of stuff to talk about today.
0:27.0	A lot of idiocy coming out of Texas for some reason.
0:31.0	And we have a special Olympics, uh, for some
0:35.0	irritation rising out of the
0:36.0	irritation rising out of Obama's remarks on the tonight show.
0:40.0	And I'm sure Charlie's been itching to talk about that where I'm concerned.
0:45.4	Yeah, let's go into that right now.
0:47.0	Oh, okay, all right.
0:48.5	We'll have the link up on the site, but basically Special Olympics takes on use of the R word and they have a graphic
0:56.6	here that are you on the same page with me here?
1:01.6	Oh I'm on the same page with me here? Oh, I'm on the same page.
1:03.3	Yeah, they have a bunch of epithets
1:08.1	about, say, African Americans, Hispanics,
1:12.3	homosexuals, and they have the little words taken out, or letters taking out, and the
1:18.0	last one says, retard.
1:20.8	And therein lies the problem. Because you're not taking any letters out of that last one.
1:25.0	Well, I could try to say retard without any of the letters, but then I'd just be calling them a tard.
1:33.4	But the organization would prefer the R word.
1:36.0	Why don't you say the R word from now on?
1:38.3	The R word.
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