Mid-Apocalypse #589
Thank God I'm Atheist
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4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Mormons drop in the polls, Christian university sues public school district, Oklahoma school abuse disabled students (and cite the Bible), teacher uses physical violence to make student recite Pledge of Allegiance, anti-gay Mormon leader to speak at public university commencement, dioceses declare bankruptcy instead of paying victims of clergy abuse, and supposedly there's an anti-Christian bias in Hollywood.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody! Well, hi, friends! Well, from Gorgeous Springtime in Salt Lake City, Utah. It's Thank God I'm Atheist. The podcast. I'm Frank Feldman. And I'm Dan Beecher. |
| 0:30.1 | And coming up on the show today, Dan, there are accusations of flying about anti-Christian bias in Hollywood production. |
| 0:41.9 | Oh my gosh, it is so prevalent that they have actual examples. So many really, really good examples. |
| 0:51.8 | And we also, apparently, strangely, anti-blonde bias, which is also mixed into the whole thing. We'll get to that. |
| 1:00.7 | Maybe they're mad because this was written in the Utah-based Mormon-owned newspaper, The Deseret News. |
| 1:11.1 | And a lot of Mormon people like to, well, mostly women like to dye their hair blonde. So maybe they're mad. |
| 1:18.0 | Maybe it's all part and parcel. Well, there's a lot of little toe heads running around this state. So, I mean, blonde is a thing here. |
| 1:24.4 | Yeah, that's true. It is a very white state, and there are a lot of blondes. There's a lot. It's just Caucasian as far as the I can see. |
| 1:34.4 | The Caucasity of it all, indeed. And they're angry, and they're just sick and tired of these poor representations. |
| 1:44.5 | And we are sick and tired of them. So we'll talk about it. |
| 1:48.8 | But first, Dan, some things happened this week. We need to talk about one of which, Pew Research, |
| 1:57.7 | who we love, has released some results of a poll that they conducted last fall, where they surveyed |
| 2:05.6 | over 10,000 American adults about their attitudes about other religious groups in America. |
| 2:15.4 | And there have been some interesting shifts. I remember this one. I found a fairly recent one |
| 2:20.9 | from a number of years ago, from 2017, where, you know, us atheists and Muslims were just like bottom |
| 2:30.8 | of the list. No, everybody was like, those guys fucking suck. Well, things have kind of moved |
| 2:38.8 | around a little. And at the end of 2022, Muslims and atheists were no longer at the bottom of the list. |
| 2:48.8 | We're fairing, okay. And we are. And this is important. We're fairing better than the Mormons. |
| 2:58.3 | By the fair margin. Some key takeaways from the poll. The survey found that 35% of Americans express |
| 3:10.5 | vary or somewhat favorable attitudes toward Jews, while 6% express unfavorable attitudes. |
| 3:18.9 | Americans overall also express more favorable than unfavorable attitudes toward mainline |
| 3:25.2 | Protestants. 30% favorable versus 10% unfavorable. And Catholics, they were in the same boat, |
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