God Commands Me #285

Thank God I'm Atheist

TGIA Media

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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LISTENER WARNING: EXPLICIT SEX TALK IN THIS EPISODE (thanks, Dan…) BYU conducts study, LDS Church steps away from Boy Scouts of America, Mormon Leaks releases LDS internal survey, blasphemy law in Ireland tested by atheist celebs, secular wedding officiants allowed in Oregon, God tells woman to kill, and we explore the question of how much should we let religions get away with.

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0:00.0	The Hey everybody. Hi guys. Hi guys. Well from gorgeous Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:23.0	It's, thank God I'm atheist.
0:25.0	The podcast.
0:26.0	I'm Frank Feldman.
0:27.0	I'm Dan Beecher.
0:28.0	And coming up today,
0:31.0	we're going to discuss what happens when real values, real morals in a society start clashing with religion.
0:45.0	Oh.
0:47.0	Religion has morals, but it's sort of like...
0:50.0	They're like fake morals.
0:51.0	They have fake morals that are sort of intertwined with real morals. They like they're based in
0:56.8	What they have what they have is rules they have rules and
1:00.8	arbitrary and some of those rules aren't good.
1:05.0	Well a lot of them are based on ancient superstitions or ancient ideas about maybe food handling or ancient Chinese secrets about
1:19.3	getting stains out clothing washing that one is just for the old folks. Like us. If you're over
1:28.1	40 you'll know what we're talking about. Yeah, so we'll be we'll be discussing the the coming cataclysm that is
1:39.8	secularism versus
1:49.2	Ors anyway, we'll see but secularism versus versus anyway. But before we get to that what do you got you got something good? Well damn yeah
1:53.0	Just to get this one out of the way. Mm-hmm.
1:54.0	Because we, you know, the best stories are ones you get out of the way.
1:57.0	Right, I think so. I think so.
1:59.0	I think so.
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