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Irreligiosophy

ANN 31: Halloween, Vatican, and Faith-Based Medicine

Irreligiosophy

Irreligiosophy

Religion & Spirituality

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2009

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

After a long, Satan-worshipping absence, we're back with stories about the idiot Vatican's views on Halloween, some idiot Christian's views on Halloween, and our very own idiot Senator Orrin Hatch's measure to include prayer as a form of medical treatment in his health reform bill.

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0:00.0

All right, Welcome to this edition of Atheist News Network.

0:13.0

We're back, bitches!

0:14.4

We have finally got off our asses and are paying attention to what our listeners want to hear.

0:20.2

Well I think despite our at best efforts we still have a few listeners left even after not doing the

0:26.5

podcast for a month. You know I would have thought all that you would have stopped listening after us

0:30.8

hiding from you after a month but but you know the the constant stalking is

0:35.6

still prevalent and I am impressed. Nothing but pestering. Well we got some new content what What do you think? Which will we hit first? We got three articles.

0:45.7

Oh, I'm thinking we do the Halloween ones first, seeing how that's our favorite time of year.

0:49.8

Let's go with the Vatican.

0:51.2

All right, so this one is the Vatican condemns Halloween as anti-Christian.

0:55.4

Yeah, yeah, actually the funny thing is the reason why this article even came about

1:00.4

is because over here in America we celebrate Halloween so widely that it's

1:06.4

actually starting to spread into Europe it's hitting Britain Italy such places

1:10.9

as this and now Italy and the Vatican are completely terrified

1:16.4

that all of these paganistic ideas and devil worship is going to start

1:20.9

spreading rampantly throughout their societies.

1:24.4

Yeah, it says the Holy See is warned that parents should not allow their children to dress up as ghosts and

1:29.0

ghouls on Saturday, calling Halloween a pagan celebration of terror, fear, and death, which is so different than say,

1:35.0

oh, I don't know, Christmas.

1:38.0

Well, let's not go so far as to point out that they have all Souls Day which actually had its derivative in

1:45.0

sawween or Halloween or whatever you want to call it.

1:48.0

Right, they tried to replace it but Satan's holiday is much much better.

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