The Hey everybody from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. It's thank God I'm

atheist, the podcast. I'm Frank and sitting in for Dan. I'm Doug and

Coming up today. It's that special time of the year again. The Mormons gather in mass downtown Salt Lake City and we're

going to be talking kind of a little preview and some recollections of general conferences passed and whatnot.

So, yeah, where do we want to get started?

Do you have a story?

Well, speaking of general conference, I do have a kind of an update on a story you guys have been following and it's about

the Mormon practice of making very young children tell their sexual picadillos to old men in a

room with no one else there.

As you guys have discussed the Mormon Church has been under fire lately for, you know, I think in the context of the Me Too movement, among many other things.

The practice of having to go once a year, once a year, once a year, once a year.

Once a year, and sit with your bishop, who is always a man,

right, and kind of inventory your crimes and sexual

indiscretions and impure thoughts.

And you must do this from the time you start out around eight years old

because it's at post-baptism because all your sins are washed away when you get

baptized right and then from the rest of your life you go in and spend an hour a year telling your bishop all of the terrible

things you've done over the course of the year. Nowadays it take more than an hour

but...

Well I mean I guess I never saw it that way as a kid. Oh really I get to meet with the Bishop.

Yeah, I never seemed creepy.

I remember one bishop asking me if I,

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