It is Thursday the 13th of June 2013 and you're listening to Skeptics with the Kay, the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with the Kay is a production of the

Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on

mercy side around the UK and internationally.

I am your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh.

Hello and Cullen.

Hello.

So I went to a christening. Oh a christifying. Not only was I had a christ, this is a genuine story as well. This isn't like the last christening story we told on the show which was just bullshit.

Um, Christing. I went to a genuine... christening story we told in the show which was just bullshit.

On Christing.

I went to a genuine Christening and I was more than that.

I was the Godfather.

Wow, you're not really.

You're the nor godfather.

I'm the no god. Well, I took a view on that because it was it was for my friend Joe and Linders son Jacques. Yeah and Jack Jack. Jack. Interesting, okay.

So Joe and Linda said, you know, we want you to be the Godparents, but we appreciate that, you know,

the atheist thing and the Godparent role traditionally has got a lot of, you know,

well, do you believe in God and are you going to bring him up in the church and yada yada. You just go there, we just hadn't said, no, do believe in God and are you going to bring him up in the church and yada yada yada y'all you

gonna bring him the church absolutely not next well I very nearly when I got down to the

church and the vicar who's called Jeff the vicar yeah yeah how casual is this

that's a very much change and Jeff the vicar came up to me and said oh hi

I'm Jeff I'm the minister today and I very nearly went hi I'm Mike I'm your atheist today I didn't I bit my time

It's really nice to meet you Jeff, but you know I should have done I should have just battered that one back to him I'm the minister the atheist what are you gonna do

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