Mormons Accidentally Drink Green Tea… Chaos Ensues
Thank God I'm Atheist
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4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
A quiet little mistake at BYU sets off a surprisingly big reaction! When a drink at the Mormon-owned Brigham Young University turned out to contain green tea, it reopened the question of what the Mormon "Word of Wisdom" actually bans, and why a 19th-century health rule still causes confusion today. Frank and Dan unpack the green tea mix-up and the strange logic behind Mormon caffeine culture (because they most definitely do consume the stuff!!)
Elsewhere in the episode: Congress launches a "Sharia Free America" caucus, anti-LGBTQ parents win a $1.5 million payout over school books, the Taliban burns musical instruments in Afghanistan, Kansas makes clergy mandatory reporters (with a major confession loophole), a Catholic bishop is accused of embezzling church funds for trips to a Tijuana brothel, and Tucker Carlson's new prayer-app sponsor sparks backlash from Christians.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, buddy, buddy. |
| 0:03.0 | Hi, friends. Well, from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. |
| 0:23.0 | It's thank God I'm atheists. |
| 0:24.7 | Where we, a couple of atheists, try to make sense of the world and the United States and people who believe in magical people. |
| 0:34.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.3 | Here in the United States. |
| 0:36.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.4 | I'm Frank Feldman. And I'm Dan Beecher. And coming up on this show today, Dan, we're going to be talking about something that we have talked about in the past. |
| 0:46.5 | Oh, it's been a long time. But it's been a long time. And there was a story this week in the news about Mormons ringing their hands over whether they can be drinking green |
| 0:55.4 | tea or not. |
| 0:56.6 | Oh, man. |
| 0:57.3 | And so we thought we would talk about the word of wisdom. |
| 0:59.2 | That's the, |
| 1:00.2 | yeah, |
| 1:00.7 | the prohibition against alcohol, |
| 1:02.6 | tobacco. |
| 1:03.6 | It's Mormon kosher. |
| 1:05.8 | Green tea. |
| 1:07.1 | It's rules about how that Mormons. |
| 1:10.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.2 | Oh, but no, we're going to be talking about sort of like what happens when you codify a health fad from a previous century. |
| 1:18.7 | Right. |
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