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🗓️ 7 May 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Catholic Church pay off priest's gambling debts instead of paying sex-abuse victims, Anti-Defamation League goes off the rails, former troops allege 'religious purge' of US military, recent SCOTUS round up, Pope Francis has a warning for Russian Orthodox patriarch, Christian TV show ad campaign, and our response to 'Under the Banner of Heaven' TV series.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody! Hi, friends! Well, from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah, it's Thank God I'm Atheist, the podcast. I'm Frank Feldman, and I'm Dan Beecher, and... |
0:29.0 | Coming up on the show today, Dan. You might expect us to be talking about one thing. We'll get to it at some point, but our big topic of the day is, under the banner of heaven, the new team of show, yes. |
0:41.0 | Oh, on FX. We have our own insiders take. |
0:47.0 | Yeah, yeah, I mean, I figure if anybody, I figure Hulu's and FX are promoting the shit out of it. |
0:55.0 | So, you know, you need your Mormons, your resident Mormons to comment. |
1:01.0 | You need us to chime in, and we are going to. And we will. Yeah, we're not going to leave you hanging like that. |
1:07.0 | And we'll be getting the other stuff, including that one topic that's unavoidable this week. But first, we got some stories, Dan. |
1:15.0 | Yeah, did you know that the Catholic Church has this like priest problem, meaning they have priests. |
1:23.0 | And there are problems. Yeah, exactly. And it's remarkable to me. |
1:29.0 | You know, this is, it's hard to joke about victims of sexual abuse and all of that. And of course, we don't talk about that part of it. |
1:38.0 | But what we do joke about is the Catholic Church falling all over itself to handle the situation correctly. |
1:46.0 | And in this case, is that what they do? |
1:50.0 | Yeah, I'm not sure I'm buying it or falling all over themselves to handle it incorrectly. |
1:56.0 | Right. That sounds closer. |
2:00.0 | The archdiocese of Cologne, that's in Germany, everybody, it has come out that this is after they have had to deal with priest sexual abuse issues. |
2:13.0 | Right. They have a fund money that they've set aside that one of the purposes of this fund is to, it's a compensation fund for victims of sexual abuse at the hands of priests in their archdiocese. |
2:29.0 | Well, it has come to light that about one million euros was spent to clear the private debts of a priest that included gambling debts from this fund that has paid out around to 20,000 euros to sex abuse victims. |
2:51.0 | Wow. |
2:53.0 | That's a bad look, you guys. |
2:58.0 | You may want to do another, do another calibration on your, on how you're handling the situation. |
3:07.0 | You might not have gotten it entirely right yet. |
3:10.0 | I'm not sure that, yeah, especially when you throw in gambling debts. |
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