Beards, Bibles, and the Need to Feel In Charge #702

Thank God I'm Atheist

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4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Frank and Dan tackle a full slate of religious absurdities this week: a Halloween costume sparks Christian outrage in Arizona, Utah quietly buries its own study on gender-affirming care, and a UK teacher sues for the right to misgender students. Meanwhile, school cancels a student play for being too “controversial,” and Delaware legalizes medical aid in dying. In the second half of the show, the guys dig into why young men are turning to conservative religion—and what secular folks can offer instead.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, everybody.
0:20.0	Hi friends, well from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:23.5	It's, thank God, I'm atheist.
0:26.1	Where we, a couple of ding-dong atheists try to get out there and make some sense of religion and politics in the current events of these United States of America.
0:36.4	I'm Frank Feldman.
0:37.9	And I'm Dan Beecher.
0:39.0	And coming up on the show today, we're going to be talking about this awful phenomenon
0:46.5	in the United States of young men finding religion.
0:53.5	Oh, I thought you were just going to say the awful phenomenon
0:55.6	of young men in the United States. Both are related. It's a related conversation, Dan.
1:03.6	And they are problems. No matter what, no matter how you swing it. There's a, there are,
1:09.0	oh, the boys are not all right.
1:12.5	The boys are not all right,
1:13.1	you guys.
1:13.7	Uh, and the problem,
1:15.1	yeah,
1:15.8	and they're finding all the wrong homes to come home to.
1:19.6	So,
1:19.9	so we'll,
1:20.8	so we'll be talking about that on the second half of the show.
1:23.4	Coming up,
1:25.0	uh,
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