Massacre? Don't Worry, They'll Pray About It

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week on Thank God I'm Atheist, Frank is joined by Rachel (with Dan off at Burning Man!) for a lively dive into religion's latest absurdities. Trump's bizarre new obsession with "getting to heaven" makes the headlines, Kentucky churches are stealing library books in the name of morality, Quebec wrestles with prayer bans in public spaces, and a nurse swaps her grandmother's medication for "vitamins and prayers" with tragic results.

In the second half, Frank and Rachel tackle the empty ritual of "thoughts and prayers" in the wake of yet another school shooting. Why do politicians keep offering platitudes instead of solutions? And what does it say about a country that can't figure out how to protect children?

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0:00.0	Hey everybody.
0:18.5	Well, from Salt Lake City, Utah, it's, thank God I'm Atheist, a podcast.
0:24.3	A couple of atheists just trying to get along in these trying times. I'm Frank Feldman.
0:31.5	I'm Rachel. And as you'll notice, everybody, Rachel's not Dan.
0:36.3	It's not Dan. It's not Dan this week. We got Rachel sitting in.
0:41.3	Dan is it Burning Man.
0:43.3	Of course.
0:44.0	If you weren't listening last week, that's where he's at.
0:48.1	And so he'll be back next week. But in the meantime, we have Rachel sitting in.
0:53.5	And so thank you very much for being here. Yeah, yeah, of course. Coming up on the second half of the meantime, we have Rachel sitting in, and so thank you very much for being here.
0:55.0	Yeah, yeah, of course.
0:56.2	Coming up on the second half of the show today, there was that another school shooting in the United States, this time in Minneapolis, at a Catholic school.
1:08.8	And there's been the typical response from the right, asking for thoughts and prayers.
1:15.4	And so we kind of wanted to dig into thoughts and prayers and the uselessness and the
1:24.1	how much prayer and how much thought will help.
1:27.4	Exactly.
1:28.4	So we'll be getting to that.
1:29.8	But first, Rachel, why don't you get us started off?
1:32.5	What did you got?
1:33.6	Well, our dear leader, commander-in-chief, Donald Trump, is this week he's been talking a lot about wanting to go to heaven.
1:43.3	Donald-oh. Donald.
1:45.6	Okay.
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