Mormon Moment 2.0 #558

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Wandering monks poo where they may, Japanese cabinet faces reckoning, German bishop who helped wanted pedophile priests escape consequences in Europe, little girl kicked out of school, Hungarian Prime Minister speaks at CPAC, church adds Christian message to the musical Hamilton, and the Mormons are having a big media moment. Why aren't they happy about it?

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0:00.0	Hey everybody!
0:19.0	Hi friends, well from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah, it's Thank God I'm atheist.
0:24.8	The podcast.
0:25.8	I'm Frank Feldman, and I'm Dan Beecher, and coming up on the show, Mormons are having
0:32.5	a moment, not sure it's the moment they want to be having, they're miffed a few of them.
0:42.2	They're sad.
0:43.2	Yeah, there's been a lot of attention in like TV land, has been paying a lot of attention
0:48.2	with like Mormon stories in the last couple years.
0:51.7	How about, we're going to talk about, are they being treated fairly, are all religions
0:56.6	being treated fairly, or are they being persecuted in Hollywood?
1:02.8	So mean.
1:03.8	Mmm, don't talk about us.
1:08.6	How dare they?
1:09.6	All right.
1:10.6	Well first Dan, got the story coming to you straight from India, buckle up, you're familiar
1:18.4	with the Jains, right?
1:20.4	Sure.
1:21.4	Apparently there's two main sects of Jainism, of Jainist, Jainist, whatever, there's the,
1:32.6	I'm not even going to get into it, there's just two different ones.
1:35.7	One of them, Wikes to send out a bunch of nomadic monks, who wander the countryside as
1:44.5	part of their ascetic tradition.
1:47.1	Yeah.
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