Garments, Glory Holes, and Goodbye Dobson #714

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week Frank and Dan take a long, hard look at the legacy of James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and one of the most influential figures of the Religious Right. He spent decades pushing child abuse as “discipline,” spreading anti-LGBTQ hate, and shaping the culture wars that still drag us down today. With his passing, we’re not exactly breaking out the hymns…

We also dive into:

Mormon women going wild over new, shoulder-baring garments
An Episcopal priest who turned psychedelics into his new ministry
A Catholic money man trying to steer investments away from LGBTQ rights and Planned Parenthood
Bible verse sneakers making their way into the Museum of the Bible
Mormon leaders panicking as church members turn to AI to write their sacrament talks

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, buddy,
0:03.0	Hi, friends, well from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:23.0	It's thank God I'm atheist.
0:24.2	The podcast where we, a couple of dopey atheists, uh, just try to make sense of all of the horrors that surround us in our everyday lives now.
0:36.4	Oh, I'm Frank Feldman.
0:38.1	And I'm Dan Beecher.
0:39.5	And coming up on the show today, Dan, oh, we lost a good one this week, Dan.
0:44.3	Whoa, a real treasure.
0:46.5	A real treasure of this world, Dan.
0:49.3	Somebody who, no, didn't do horrible, horrible, lasting, perhaps irreparable harm to America.
0:57.4	James Dobson.
0:58.6	James Dobson.
0:59.9	Focus on the family.
1:01.6	I have seen a lot of people in the past few days saying things like, I don't speak ill of the dead.
1:09.4	You're not supposed, you shouldn't speak ill of the dead,
1:11.7	but, uh, I, you know, the Mark Twain quote, I, you know, I won't speak ill of the dead, but I've
1:17.0	read some obituaries with great relish or whatever the heck it was. Right. Right. I'm going to
1:21.9	fucking speak ill of the dead and fuck that guy.
1:29.7	I think we need to change it.
1:33.1	I think we need to relish speaking ill of the dead.
1:36.0	What is he going to come back and hurt me?
1:38.2	What are we afraid of?
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