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Thank God I'm Atheist

Prophets for Profit #319

Thank God I'm Atheist

TGIA Media

Exmo, Exvangelical, Tgiatheist, Atheists, Atheist, Currentevents, Society & Culture, Religion, Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Mormon, Atheism, Exmormon

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The New York Times runs an honest obituary about Thomas Monson and the mormons don’t like it, Supreme Court doesn’t take anti-gay Mississippi case, ten commandments monument erected at shopping mall, schism in Mennonite world, lawyers for Kansas assholes want more assholes on jury, school lunch woes in France, and the mechanics of choosing a new LDS prophet.

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Offer ends 27th of February 2019. And the Hey everybody. Hi guys. Hi guys, well from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. It's thank God I'm Atheist. The podcast. I'm Frank Feldman and I'm Dan Beecher and coming up today Dan there's been a death tragedy. Tragedy has struck Utah. Salt Lake City is in mourning.

1:04.0

Oh, and you can tell because the billboards on I 15, Dan.

1:07.0

The electronic, the, the, yes, the big, uh, ever-changing electronic billboards now frequently flash with the in memorial of Thomas S.

1:20.3

Monson Thomas Spencer Monson. Oh now we get to know his middle name. It's never

1:25.7

revealed until their death. You never know and then at their death it's like

1:31.9

Fight Club. That's actually not true. That's actually not true. But yeah, Prophet Seer and Revulator,

1:37.0

President of the Mormon Church until last Tuesday, has passed away. Yeah. And we're going to be talking in the second half of the show about sort of how that works.

1:49.0

Yeah, about the new leader.

1:51.0

About the succession of Mormon leadership and and what it means yeah and stuff yeah you know what

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color is the smoke that comes out of the temple?

2:04.4

No, no, out of...

2:06.4

The angel...

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Marona's horn.

2:08.4

Oh my God, how does that not happen? How does that not happen? I don't know I we I don't know who I need to write a letter to but that's gotta I know I know and then out comes the smoke. Well anyway well we're promising that for the second half of the show and just because it is such a big story.

2:31.0

Oh I have a story that's related. Oh. To the whole Thomas S. Monson

2:38.0

passing. In that the New York Times ran an obituary about his death.

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That's how you know you've made it.

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