Quarantine USA! (Pt. 6 — Sunday Service!)

Matt D’Elia Is Confused

Matt D'Elia

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Because it is Sunday (aka The Day Of The Lord) Matt stays on the theme of religion for most of this episode— particularly the Christian community’s response to the present coronavirus pandemic. Topics covered in today’s sermon include but are not limited to: Matt’s unironic love of gospel music, the obvious problem with going to church during a deadly pandemic, the less-obvious problem with the brains of the people who are still going to church despite everyone begging them not to, the real reason some state governments refuse to shut down religious gatherings, and madman pastor Kenneth Copeland’s latest unsuccessful effort to kill COVID-19. Matt also gets into his personal feelings about religion and belief, how those feelings have changed over the years, how he arrived at his current state of mind— and his recent coronavirus-pandemic-induced epiphany on the subject, which has shifted his always-evolving perspective on these matters yet again.

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0:00.0	Not to the young, it's going to be. Hello and welcome to Matalea is confused. This is Matalea and this
0:25.0	is another quarantine USA episode. This makes it six straight solo episodes without a guest.
0:31.0	I've been going without a guest.
0:32.0	Six episode. without a guest. I've been going without a guest six episodes in a row. I usually
0:35.8	just do one sprinkled in every once in a while but these have been going good and I
0:41.3	really can't as I've said before, I can't really imagine focusing on something that isn't at least somehow related to the pandemic. It's just it's kind of all I can think about. It's
0:58.7	all a lot of people that I know it's all they can think about too and it's just it's it's hard for me to even have the desire to stray too far.
1:09.0	Now, today is a special episode though even more special than normal because I have a particular
1:20.4	theme that I want to sort of at least mainly stay on throughout and that is religion.
1:28.8	I know a lot of my guests are sort of experts you could say in one way or another in religion, whether that is Bob Larson, who is a famed Exorc Bob Larson who I disagree with about just about
1:47.2	everything and he's having a fucking field day right now for anyone who
1:51.2	listen to that episode that is still our most
1:54.2	listened to episode and I do know why we talk about sexually transmitted demons and
1:59.8	the pastor he knows that had sex with a hooker that got a demon then brought it home into his own bedroom gave his wife the demon it was pretty hectic so so but also we've had more serious minded guests from true believers to atheists and in general
2:19.2	I've tried to stay agnostic when I have a guest on.
2:24.3	I don't really, when I have a guest on who, to talk specifically when it is about religion,
2:31.3	I don't like to get into sort of a back and forth the classic sort of atheist versus believer argument.
2:39.5	I don't find that to be fruitful.
2:40.7	I don't find that to please anyone besides people who one person or the other who
2:48.4	already agree with one person or another I mean if you don't already
2:50.9	agree with a believer or an atheist you're not going to come out of it
2:54.6	with your mind changed let's say so so I try to stay agnostic in that regard but now that I'm solo I'm going to sort of spread my wings a little bit like an angel.
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