In the Pews #355

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 22 September 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Pastors attempt to ban banned books, group in UK attempts to keep Franklin Graham out of country, American doctor performs FGM, Catholics update abuse numbers, LDS church gets serious about medical marijuana, a gun goes off in LDC chapel, and a discussion about why it’s so hard to leave religion behind.

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0:00.0	The Hey everybody. Hi guys, hi guys, well from Salt Lake City, Utah. It's thank God I'm Atheist. The podcast. I'm Frank Feldman, and I'm Dan Beecher. And coming up today, we're going to talk about, essentially non-believers in the pews.
0:33.2	Yeah, fence sitters and pew sitters.
0:36.6	Both at the same time.
0:37.6	At the same time.
0:38.6	You really can't do it.
0:40.0	And that's what we're talking about.
0:41.2	Building fences on pews. is the name of the show.
0:46.2	Good fences, good fences make good.
0:48.9	Perishners.
0:49.9	Forish.
0:50.9	Anyway, yeah, we're going to talk about that.
0:53.6	Okay, that's a thing. That'll be later. All right, Dan. Yeah, I got something for you.
0:57.6	There's a group of pastors, you know, up in Rumford, Maine, who are... I just laughed at the name Rumford.
1:10.0	That was what got me on that. That's not it it Dan. Okay. It is a funny name but that's not the point. That's not that's not the end of the story. Good. Keep going. They are, I guess the local library, right, is having, sort of their's they're participating in what is it banned books week okay
1:36.9	they have a little display up well these pastors are trying to ban some of those
1:41.0	books they're fine with the display but there's a couple
1:45.0	of them there that need to be banned. I get what you're doing. Let me just make a
1:50.0	couple modifications. Maybe you don't get what we're doing. No no I get it I get it.
1:58.0	Yeah okay. Uncle Barry Finn we all love it but but we hate it. Now hang on a minute though so what are the what are the ones that they're like well
2:06.2	apparently the top ten banned books for the year are all well five of them are LGBT, have LGBT, have LGBT,
2:16.2	LGBTQ characters.
2:20.0	Oh, that's the worst.
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