(2012/04/07) If God exists I hope he has a good excuse (Religion)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 7 April 2012
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Edition #593
If God exists I hope he has a good excuse
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Tolerance And Holding It Inside - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date: 4-6-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: The Easter Bunny Song - Katie Goodman & Broad Comedy
Ch. 4: Act 2: Catholic Church Officially Anti-Gay Bigots - David Pakman - Air Date: 3-12-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Natural Blues - Moby
Ch. 6: Act 3: Santorum should learn what Catholic means - Bill Maher - Air Date: 3-9-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Shed a little light - James Taylor
Ch. 8: Act 4: Procrastinating Catholic 20 Rosaries Behind - The Onion
Ch. 9: Song 4: Like a prayer - Madonna
Ch. 10: Act 5: Vatican Probes Wrong Thing, Leakers Instead of Child Abuse - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 3-20-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: In God's country - U2
Ch. 12: Act 6: Faith Healers - O My God - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date: 2-23-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Genesis - VNV Nation
Ch. 14: Act 7: GOP quotes bible as science fact - Green News Report - Air Date: 3-13-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Watermark - Enya
Ch. 16: Act 8: Concerned Parents Demand Removal Of Arsenic From Periodic Table Of Elements - The Onion
Ch. 17: Song 8: Show me what I'm looking for - Carolina Liar
Ch. 18: Act 9: Pray To Stop Tornadoes: Pat Robertson - The Young Turks - Air Date: 3-7-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Best God in show - NOFX
Ch. 20: Act 10: The gospel of commerce. Supply side Christianity - Jimmy Dore - Air Date: 3-16-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: My wife dumped me for a guy named Jesus - Paul Dinello on Exit 57
Ch. 22: Act 11: The religious assault on free speech - Johann Hari Air Date: 2-24-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: There are so many other reasons to criticize Mormonism - Dave from Olympia, WA
Ch. 24: Reaction to Rebecca on Mormonism - Andrew from Clearwater
Ch. 25: Oppression of an atheist - Skeptical Zack from California
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Final comments on oppression and the definition of 'rights'
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, where details visit |
| 0:06.4 | the membership tab at bestableleft.com. |
| 0:09.1 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Kupsade from the Jimmy |
| 0:12.4 | Door Show, the David Pakman Show, Real Time with Bill Mar, The Onion Radio News, The Green |
| 0:16.8 | News Report, The Young Turks and Johan Hari, and a note of clarification, this episode |
| 0:21.6 | mocks crazy religious people, so if you are religious but not crazy, you are not being |
| 0:26.4 | mocked. |
| 0:27.4 | Kups just disagree with. |
| 0:30.1 | Well this evening marks the beginning of Passover with Easter on Sunday. |
| 0:34.3 | Millions of people will celebrate these holidays with a deep rooted faith that any of those |
| 0:38.2 | things really happened. |
| 0:40.2 | And some of us, whether Jew or Christian or for that matter Hindu or Muslim, might take |
| 0:44.6 | a moment to ask ourselves whether we are all really all that different from each other. |
| 0:49.9 | To which people of all religions would no doubt reply, yes, we are much better than everyone |
| 0:54.5 | else. |
| 0:55.5 | We are strange looking and not that clean. |
| 0:58.9 | But most of us don't say it out loud because you have to do business with those people. |
| 1:04.8 | And in this country, generally speaking, we tolerate each other. |
| 1:07.7 | We don't want any trouble. |
| 1:09.1 | We just want to go to work in the morning and come home in the evening. |
| 1:12.3 | Or in my case, stay home all day and occasionally look for a job. |
| 1:16.4 | So this weekend, let's think about the importance of tolerance and save our hostility for something |
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