All right, hello and welcome to the 26th episode of Atheist News Network. I'm Chuck Morrison. I know Leighton keeps

calling me Charlie, but my name is Chuck, damn it.

Well, you may go by

the check but ever since I've known you it's been Charlie oh and by the way this is late and all red talking

what what before we get into our two articles I wanted to talk about some local news

some really local news in my family. My son got ordained as a deacon I think he's 12 years old.

Is that right? Deacon? Yeah, he'd be a deacon at this point.

So they gave him the ironic priesthood.

In the Mormon church there, two priesthood you can have.

Aeronic and the Melkizitic.

What's the difference, Lein?

Well, basically the differences is as you move up in the in the Mormon church

you get what's known as keys and it's keys to the gospel keys to the priesthood and the erotic

priesthood is kind of like the priesthood with training wheels on it.

You can't really heal the sick or so on and so forth as the Melkestic priesthood is but you you do have

training wheels at that point. So the ironic priesthood the only thing I know they can

do is bless the sacrament. Can he do that as a deacon or does you have to be

older? No no actually as a deacon he doesn't bless the sacrament he passes

the sacrament that's when he's allowed to do that it's actually when you become

a priest that you're able to bless the sacrament that's when you move up and actually get

the those keys well he came home after being ordained I didn't go I probably should

have. Well oddly enough I was kind of finding this funny because when you told me

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