Podcast #541, Religion: There is No God, and We are His Disciples

Drunk Ex-Pastors

Christian Kingery

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy

4.7 • 565 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In our Religion Block we hear from a caller who asks why God can denounce empty and pious platitudes from Christians who refuse to actually help the needy, while he himself rarely seems to show up in times of trouble. In response we suggest that perhaps God only helps the poor by means of his people, and that he neither afflicts nor heals anyone directly (which is why Dietrich Bonhoeffer insisted that the best thing for a Christian to do is to live as though God does not exist).

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0:00.0	I like your Dharma initiative shirt.
0:04.2	Yeah, that's the Swan Station.
0:07.0	Yeah, and I know you have inside clothes and outside clothes.
0:11.7	I get it.
0:14.0	I do.
0:15.6	Here's how it works.
0:19.7	I love this shirt, though.
0:20.9	I think my kids, my kids, yeah, it was like a Christmas or birthday gift for my kids.
0:25.1	Oh, nice.
0:26.1	Yeah.
0:26.4	Very nice.
0:27.0	Speaking of my kids, Ainsley got engaged.
0:30.8	That's right.
0:32.0	I need to text her and tell her congratulations.
0:34.2	That's so awesome.
0:34.7	Yeah, she's my oldest.
0:37.2	She's a student uh and college graduating
0:41.1	hopefully in december but yeah she she and her fiance texted with the picture of the ring and
0:48.5	yeah yeah it was funny because um she told me that he because she knew that he's going to propose at some point over the summer.
0:57.4	Yeah.
0:57.8	But he was trying to throw her off the scent, you know?
1:01.1	Yeah.
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