Bribes, Blessings, and Broken Democracy #708

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The IRS just made a quiet but explosive decision: it will no longer enforce the Johnson Amendment, effectively giving churches a tax-free license to play politics. Frank and Dan break down how this opens the floodgates for dark money, bribes disguised as “donations,” and full-blown corruption in America’s pulpits.

Also this week:

The bizarre satanic panic over viral Labubu dolls
Baylor University rejects LGBTQ research funding after backlash
A church publicly shames an abuse survivor
Pope Leo XIV keeps same-sex blessings—but is it really progress?
Catholics promotes a convicted child rapist priest in France
And pandemic relief funds mysteriously flow into a Catholic trade school

It’s religion, politics, and jaw-dropping hypocrisy—served with a side of laughter and disbelief.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, buddy.
0:18.6	Hi, friends.
0:19.8	Well, from beautifuls Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:22.7	It's thank God I'm atheist.
0:24.5	Where we, a couple of goofball atheists just try to make sense of politics, religion, whatever we got here in these United States of America.
0:34.5	I'm Frank Feldman.
0:35.7	And I'm Dan Beecher.
0:36.9	And coming up on the show today Dan.
0:40.9	The IRS dropped a bombshell on American democracy. The IRS effectively changed nothing and it might
0:51.8	change everything. Yeah. And so we're going to get into that some of the
0:56.4	some of the implications, some of the the possible outcomes that nobody's talking about that nobody's
1:04.3	talking about. Yeah. With regards to the possibility that you might not have to pay taxes anymore.
1:10.2	So make sure you listen.
1:12.4	That's not sure.
1:13.1	Yeah.
1:13.2	So we'll be getting to that.
1:15.8	But first,
1:16.4	there are some other things that happen this week that we should talk about.
1:21.2	Yeah.
1:21.6	We do.
1:22.8	Talking a little news.
1:24.6	Yeah.
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