Prejudice and the Mormons #526
Thank God I'm Atheist
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🗓️ 1 January 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Catholic Church imports clergy to US, ultra-Orthodox Jews vs. COVID-19, Putin insults our intelligence, California offers abortion vacations, theologians help NASA ahead of alien life discoveries, Israel makes exception to their travel ban, and speaking out against the prejudice of a top Mormon leader puts anti-prejudice resources in jeopardy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody! Hi, friends! Well, from Wintertime in Salt Lake City, it's Thank God I'm Atheist, the podcast! |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Frank Feldman, and I'm Dan Beacher, and coming up on this show today, Dan, we're going to be talking about prejudice and the Mormons. |
| 0:33.0 | What we're going to be talking about is power structures and the Mormons, but all power structures. It applies to everybody and to everything. |
| 0:43.0 | Alright, Dan, so the Catholic Church, apparently, in this country, has a little bit of... |
| 0:49.0 | We still have one of those? A staffing problem. |
| 0:52.0 | Oh, they're having a hard time getting priests. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh! |
| 0:56.0 | So what do you do, Dan? What do you do if you need priests? |
| 1:02.0 | You apparently still have enough parishioners that you need priests. |
| 1:06.0 | I run out to the gay clubs, and I start shaming like the wind. |
| 1:11.0 | Nope, nope. You are right to go searching. |
| 1:16.0 | The Catholic Church, apparently, is importing clergy at this point. |
| 1:23.0 | Oh! |
| 1:24.0 | From Africa, where the Catholic Church is growing? |
| 1:29.0 | Oh, my God. And so they have an abundance of people who are excited... |
| 1:34.0 | They're excited about Catholicism. |
| 1:36.0 | They are young and hungry. |
| 1:38.0 | And so they're going to the seminaries and they're becoming priests, and they don't really need them in Africa. |
| 1:45.0 | And so they're coming to the United States, where the number of priests has dropped 60% in the last 50 years. |
| 1:55.0 | That makes sense to me. Like, who the fuck would want to be a priest in modern America? |
| 2:01.0 | No kidding. |
| 2:02.0 | That's a disaster of a calling of a job. |
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