Dogma Meets Data #594

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Please be advised that there are trigger warnings during this episode: A church gets its power cut off for not paying their bills, a cardinal is charged for his crimes, a ritual suicide in India, an anti-trans lawmaker in Missouri, the upcoming coronation is a religious service, surprising gay violence, and a visit by Dan (ours) and Dan (not ours) from a new podcast called "Data Over Dogma."

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, hi friends, well from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:23.0	It's thank God I'm atheist, the podcast, I'm Frank Feldman, and I'm Dan Beecher, and
0:28.5	coming up on the show today, the second half of the show, we're going to have Dan McClellan on
0:34.5	your new podcast partner on your data and dogma show. Data over dogma, over dogma, sorry, that's right.
0:42.5	I don't know, it's fine, it's fine. Yeah, TikTok star Dan McClellan is going to be joining us,
0:49.5	so that'll be fun to talk to him. Indeed. All right, but first we have some news, Dan.
0:56.5	Yes, and some news of the day and some stuff happened this week. Oh my God, Dan.
1:02.5	Oh, which one do I start with? Okay, Dan. Yes. What happens if you don't pay your power bill?
1:12.5	I mean, I never paid my power bill. I'm off grade entirely. I'm sure I'm sure you're not at all.
1:21.5	I would imagine that my power would be turned off. Yeah, that's the normal thing. That's a typical expectation.
1:27.5	That's what I would expect. Well, not the good folks over at Friendship Baptist Church
1:33.5	that has run up a $30,000 power bill that the Baltimore Gas and Electric company has decided
1:42.5	that they're taking action on and they've cut off the power to the church. Sure.
1:49.5	And I mean, I'm imagining that if I run up a couple hundred dollars worth,
1:56.5	my power is going to get it shut off. So yeah, I would think at 30,000. 30,000. You might lose power.
2:02.5	30,000. Well, the good Reverend Alvin Gwynn Jr. of the Friendship Baptist Church has this to say,
2:12.5	you're chopping God's worshiping services off. That's what you're doing.
2:18.5	You just turn the lights off in God's house. Imagine that.
2:24.5	In a written statement, the power company says BGE works with all customers,
2:31.5	including Friendship Baptist Church, to help them access various payment options
2:36.5	and energy assistance resources. I'm sure they did. I'm sure the last thing they wanted to do,
2:42.5	actually, from a PR perspective. Right. Right. If nothing else, just strictly PR,
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