Heart and Soul: America’s atheist street pirates

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On a busy street in Los Angeles a group of people in yellow vests are holding a ladder against a lamppost. Up the ladder, 34-year-old Evan Clark is ripping down a sign that is nailed to the post. It reads “Jesus: The way, the truth, the life”. These are members of the Atheist Street Pirates, local activists who track and remove religious signs affixed to public property. They, along with other volunteers, interfaith leaders and progressive Christian pastors who have joined the pirates to remove signs, as they believe they interfere with creating a pluralistic society. Nastaran Tavakoli-Far travels to Los Angeles and joins the Atheist Street Pirates out on a hunt for religious signs,

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0:00.0	Whether you call it football or soccer in your part of the world,
0:03.4	Match of the Day Africa Top 10 is the podcast from the BBC World Service
0:07.2	ranking the best African players.
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0:11.3	Will it come in turn?
0:12.6	Boom!
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0:15.8	Remember that yet?
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0:20.4	Find it wherever you get your BBC podcast.
0:24.3	I don't even know where it is.
0:25.3	Where is it?
0:25.8	You're on the corner, that's how it goes.
0:27.2	So we've just stopped at a parking lot in downtown LA.
0:31.0	There's big buildings behind us.
0:32.4	Yeah, I'm really happy.
0:33.5	There are more moves you can pull out.
0:34.9	There is a small metal structure.
0:39.1	It's a heart and a cross.
0:41.0	The sacred heart.
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