33: Salt City Skeptics

Irreligiosophy

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2009

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Having canvassed the entire state of Utah, we have found two skeptics to talk with us about what it's like to live in a crazy, backward state that is dominated by religion. Surprisingly enough, that state is not Texas.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome again to another edition of Ereligiosophy and this week we actually find out who is more grading me or
0:16.2	Charlie and why don't we have our guests introduce themselves?
0:21.2	My name is Patrick Orlov I am a president for lack of a better term of Salt City
0:26.2	Skeptics, which is a local group that here in Salt Lake City devoted to skepticism
0:31.0	and rationalism. How many members in the Salt City Skeptics?
0:35.0	Well, we have, we have actual people who have identified membership,
0:40.0	I'd say we probably have about 250 but that's a way over
0:44.1	estimate of the number of people who are actually there we have
0:46.8	members we have probably between I'd say 15 and 30 people that we see
0:52.2	regularly.
0:52.5	Basically you're inflating your numbers like the LDS Church.
0:54.5	Yeah, yeah, it's basically exactly what I was doing actually.
0:57.5	Do they have to go through a long process just to take their names off of your list?
1:02.0	How do you excommunicate?
1:03.0	They send it to the membership records.
1:05.0	And then we give them the runner-in for a couple months.
1:08.0	I can understand that.
1:09.0	Do you send them a welcome packet once the article?
1:12.0	That's right, it's exactly right. them a welcome packet once the article.
1:12.7	That's right, it's exactly right.
1:15.2	Well, anyway, how did you grow up?
1:16.8	What was your religion?
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