Keep Sweet #552

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Company fires employee for not participating in daily prayer meetings, SCOTUS sides with Christian coach allowing him to pray with high school team, Lauren Boebert promotes Christian Taliban during church speech, armed police monitor Hindu pilgrimage, Florida retrains public school teachers to promote Christian nationalist version of US history, Nancy Pelosi takes communion from Pope Francis, and our conversation about "Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey."

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody! Hi, friends! Well, from very hot Salt Lake City, Utah. Oh, it's
0:23.4	got an atheist. The podcast. I'm Frank Feldman, and I'm Dan Beacher. And coming up on the show
0:30.3	today, Dan, we're going to talk about a documentary on Netflix called Keep Sweet and Prano Bay. It's
0:38.8	about the FLDS. That's the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. That's the
0:45.6	polygamous. The ones who keep the polygamy alive. Think, well, somebody has to do it. Somebody's got
0:54.1	to. We can't let the Muslims win in the polygamy war. Oh, golly gee. Yeah, we're going to talk about
1:00.9	it. There's got to be still Muslims that do polygamy, right? There are, yeah, totally. But first
1:07.9	Dan. Okay, I've got the story about a company in by the name of Aurora Pro Services. It's in
1:19.4	Greensboro. I believe that's North Carolina. Okay. And they like to do daily prayer with their
1:25.8	employees. Oh, gross. Isn't that just, isn't that nice? Yeah. Just a moment, everybody goes into
1:35.5	one room. They have a nice little prayer. And of course, everybody would like it. Who wouldn't
1:40.9	like that? Everybody would like that. Oh, every one. We're all Christians here. Except, of course,
1:48.0	this green bird. We're all Christians. Right. Except John Magaha, who, which is a great name,
1:54.4	Magaha. Did you just have a stroke? He's an atheist. And he was working for these people.
2:05.5	And he ends up complaining after the meetings, the prayer meetings, which it started,
2:14.0	they would run about 15 minutes in length. Oh, my God. Which is, which is too much. But
2:20.1	hit it over with Jesus Christ. But he said, that's how much, when they were 15 minutes long,
2:27.6	they were tolerable on some level, right? When they were, I do not like where this is going.
2:34.4	They ended up, they sort of started getting longer and longer and wound up being about 45 minutes.
2:41.2	Sometimes even longer, but only about 45 minutes. And he finally, did they do any work at this
2:47.6	company? You, they prayed, Dan. And then they were so productive after they prayed. In fact,
2:54.8	on occasion, the prayers were offered for poor performing employees who were identified by name.
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