Playing the Odds with God
Thank God I'm Atheist
TGIA Media
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In a calculated hedge against hell, Dilbert creator Scott Adams announces a death-bed conversion to Christianity, explicitly framing it as Pascal's Wager—a cynical, calculated play for the afterlife. Christians celebrate, atheists groan, and we unpack why this story is catnip for religious propaganda, why the logic collapses instantly, and why deathbed conversions remain one of Christianity's favorite—and flimsiest—victory laps. (Adams passed away at age 68 from prostate cancer after we recorded the show.)
Then: the Pope condemns medical aid in dying after Illinois legalizes it, a lawyer is fined $400,000 for warning a school about an accused priest, the U.S. Defense Secretary pushes Christianity deeper into the military, China cracks down on underground Christian churches, Israel prepares to relocate a so-called "lost tribe" from India, and the LDS Church quietly dismantles its all-female Temple Square mission.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:18.2 | Hi, friends. |
| 0:19.7 | Well, from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. |
| 0:22.8 | It's thank God I'm atheist. |
| 0:24.5 | Where we, a couple of friendly neighborhood atheists, just look around and bury our heads in our hands in disgust here at life here in these United States of America. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm Frank Feldman. |
| 0:40.1 | And I'm Dan Beecher. |
| 0:41.4 | And coming up on the show today, Dan, the, uh, creator of Dilbert, he's still with us. |
| 0:47.2 | Nope. |
| 0:47.9 | Uh, but not for long. |
| 0:49.5 | Unfortunately for him. |
| 0:50.9 | Uh, but yes, he has, Scott Adams. |
| 0:55.2 | He has stuff to say. |
| 1:02.9 | Yeah, stuff to say about his skepticism and Pascal's wager, I guess. |
| 1:03.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.2 | He's taking the bet. |
| 1:07.4 | So unfortunate. |
| 1:08.3 | You're so dumb. |
| 1:17.0 | Maybe you've heard about it, maybe not, but we'll be getting to that on the second half of the show yeah and uh oh that's he could have disappointed me about dilbert the creator of dilbert like it's so disappointing dan i know you feel the same oh my god |
| 1:24.4 | we'll be getting to that on the second half of the show yeah first, we have some things to talk about, some news of the week, including Dan, the very |
| 1:34.2 | sad story about the Mormon church, the Church of Jesus Christ, Elijah Saints, excuse me. |
| 1:40.2 | No, no. |
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