Evangelical Bible Tinkering #502

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 17 July 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Woman lets god drive and he wrecks her car, it turns out the Southern Baptist Convention isn't liberal after all, an alternative to traditional burial draws Catholic opposition, highest EU court rules that employers can restrict religious apparel, new numbers about religion in America, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus causes controversy, and a chat about Bible translations.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, hi friends, well from swelteringly hot Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:23.6	It's Thank God I'm Atheist.
0:25.2	The podcast.
0:26.2	I'm Frank Feldman, and I'm Dan Beecher.
0:29.4	I'm coming up on the show to date Dan, oh that wacky Bible and it's many translations.
0:37.3	When will it learn that Bible?
0:40.7	Oh, what a piece of work that is.
0:43.3	Yeah.
0:44.3	Yeah, it starts out in lots of different languages, you know, it's not even consistent in its
0:50.6	original form, but by the time it makes it to English and you know, I assume other languages.
0:59.3	Some choices have been made, let's just put it that way, yeah.
1:03.8	You don't just translate a language into another language, you make choices, that's true.
1:09.3	And when it comes to holy texts, those choices are going to have consequences, so we're going
1:16.4	to talk about it.
1:17.4	Yeah, some recent changes that, well specifically that the evangelicals have done, but we're
1:23.6	going to talk about some other stuff too, so yeah, they're pretty cute, those are
1:27.8	awful.
1:28.8	Well Dan, here's a kind of story that just doesn't come along often enough, although in
1:35.8	one way it's good that it's not coming along very often, because it's another one of
1:39.6	these, Jesus takes the wheel sort of stories, that's always bad, yes, but it's delightful
1:49.1	at the same time, you know, somebody testing their own faith, right?
1:56.8	Even God and their own faith to find out that, you know, you didn't take the wheel, you
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