Religious Extremism and a Dangerous Shift #704
Thank God I'm Atheist
TGIA Media
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
A shooting at a Salt Lake City protest. Two state legislators are shot in Minnesota. As political violence grabs headlines across the country, Frank and Dan reflect on a disturbing new reality—and explore the religious rhetoric fueling it.
Also in this episode:
- Iran expands its ban on dog walking
- Arkansas and Illinois fight to post the Ten Commandments
- Southern Baptists target gay marriage
- A far-right Christian gets a top U.S. religious freedom post
- Faith-healing parents sentenced after their newborn's death
- Pope Leo gets worried about AI… and Dan lets ChatGPT suggest how to fix Catholicism
Plus, a listener email about Mormonism and modern revelation, and a final segment reflecting on how close we may be to a breaking point—and why peaceful protest still matters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, everybody. |
| 0:19.7 | Hi, friends. |
| 0:20.6 | Well, from beautiful, if way too hot, Salt Lake City, Utah. |
| 0:25.2 | It's, thank God, I'm atheist. |
| 0:27.5 | Where we, a couple of goofballs, atheists, try to make sense of religion and politics and current events in these increasingly fascist United States. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm Frank Feldman. |
| 0:40.5 | And I'm Dan Beecher. |
| 0:41.8 | And coming up on the show today, we're going to be reflecting on a day of political violence in |
| 0:50.9 | America, June 14th. |
| 0:55.0 | There might be a bit of unrest here, Frank. |
| 0:57.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.8 | I'm unsure about it. |
| 0:59.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.8 | I feel unresty. |
| 1:01.3 | I don't know about you. |
| 1:02.5 | I slept great last night. |
| 1:04.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:04.5 | I don't think that's what we're talking about. |
| 1:06.3 | No. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, obviously there were the two politicians in Minnesota that were shot as well, you know, like there's significant others as well, right? |
| 1:23.6 | There were two total people killed, right? |
| 1:31.1 | And then of course, there was other, |
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