'Spiritual' Practices #559

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

School librarian fights back, school district bans the Bible, parents complain that some female high school athletes aren't 'feminine enough,' a skiz in Australia, a school board makes right decision about Pledge of Allegiance (and then the wrong one), Jesuits take their time on promised reparations, and the benefits of 'spiritual' practices like yoga and mediation.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, hi friends, well from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:22.9	It's Thank God I'm Atheist, the podcast.
0:25.2	I'm Frank Feldman, and I'm Dan Beacher.
0:28.1	Coming up on the show today, Dan, turns out spiritual practices might have some benefit.
0:37.5	If you can figure out what the hell the word spiritual means, which I never, I'm so mad about it.
0:43.4	I love that that's your public facing take on the word spiritual.
0:46.4	I just heard you talk about what it is.
0:50.2	You heard me talk about what they define it as.
0:53.7	Okay, which is fine.
0:55.6	Okay, then we'll just use that.
0:58.5	Anyway, what they're talking about is like yoga, meditation, that sort of thing.
1:03.4	And we're going to talk about that.
1:05.2	Well, why does that have to be spiritual?
1:07.0	Why can't that just be helpful?
1:09.6	Why can't that just be psychologically useful?
1:14.3	What the hell does spirit have to do with anything?
1:16.4	Oh, golly gee.
1:17.6	Okay, because anyway, we'll get to it.
1:19.9	All right, fine, I will rant later.
1:22.7	The first we need to get to some news from the week, Dan.
1:27.0	Yeah, so I've got the story of a school librarian who is fighting back against those that would
1:36.5	defame her online, which is this is a problem.
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