Japan Protects Kids from Religion #709

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Ever wondered what it means when a church goes full corporate? Frank and Dan wrap up the episode with a deep dive into the Mormon Church’s 26-story office tower and the billions behind it.

But first: witches selling spells on Etsy (and why it violates Etsy’s own rules), Texas making it illegal for secular celebrants to perform weddings, the Magnolia Network featuring a gay couple and triggering conservative outrage, Pride organizers in Newfoundland banning Recovering From Religion, Japan moving to classify forced religious participation as child abuse, and Billy Graham’s family suing over his words being used against Trump.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, buddy, buddy.
0:19.0	Hi, friends, well from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:23.4	It's, thank God I'm atheist.
0:25.3	Where we, a couple of goofball atheists just try to make sense of religion and politics and, you know, whatever else happens in these fascist United States of America.
0:35.8	I'm Frank Feldman.
0:37.1	And I'm Dan Beecher.
0:38.4	And coming up on the show today, Dan.
0:44.6	You're already just laughing.
0:46.2	The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they've got a, I mean, you call it a high-rise.
0:52.4	It's not really a high-rise, but it's a high rise for Salt Lake City.
0:55.5	For the longest time, for so long, until literally very shockingly recently, it was the tallest
1:02.7	building in the state of Utah.
1:05.0	Yeah.
1:05.6	And anyway, it is turning 50 years old.
1:09.7	Yeah.
1:10.2	This year.
1:12.3	And we thought we might kind of talk about the phenomenon of a church with a high-rise office building.
1:23.2	Yeah.
1:24.0	You know, a church that sits on top of a vast pile of cash.
1:32.0	Yeah.
1:32.7	I believe it's like Smog's Lair down below the church office building.
1:37.8	It's just it's just mounds of gold in a cave.
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