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176. Does Religion Make You Happy?

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🗓️ 24 July 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:00.0

Alright, Jesus can't keep the heat out in there.

0:06.2

Oh man, nice and warm.

0:08.1

It's jumping sweat.

0:09.3

I'll tell you what.

0:10.6

It's Joel Rogers and his father, Wayne.

0:13.2

Yeah, so we're just about to walk into Grayslifes Baptist Church

0:16.2

and worship with my parents.

0:18.4

And my brother also, my sister's about to be here running

0:20.6

with the latest usual.

0:21.6

So yeah.

0:23.4

We're in Makala, Alabama, about 20 minutes outside of Birmingham

0:29.7

on a very warm Sunday morning.

0:31.5

God, I'm school man.

0:33.1

Wow, crazy.

0:35.7

It's a, I would say, a fairly typical evangelical service.

0:39.9

It used to be an old gym.

0:41.1

And so it's set.

0:42.2

The setting is a little different than a traditional church.

0:44.7

There are no windows in here, anything.

0:46.6

But there is a praise band up on the stage.

0:49.2

Sometimes there's a choir.

0:50.2

The choir is all right now for summer.

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