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🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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A Catholic school in Pennsylvania put the words "Arbeit Macht Frei"—the infamous phrase from the Auschwitz gate—on the back of its Halloween float. Frank and Dan try to understand how something this shocking made it through so many adults without anyone realizing what it meant, and what it says about religious education and historical ignorance.
Also this week: a "family values" lawmaker caught up in the Ashley Madison data leak, ICE detains an Episcopal priest who's legally in the U.S., and the Pope shuts down the "Mary as co-redemptrix" movement. Plus, Bangladesh clerics push to ban music in schools, and churches fail a TikTok test on helping hungry families.
Finally, the guys talk about the outrage over New York City's new Muslim mayor, why so many people equate "Muslim" with "terrorist," and what that says about the fear that still drives American religion.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, |
| 0:02.0 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi, friends. Well, from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. It's, thank God, I'm atheist. |
| 0:24.9 | Where we a couple of wacky-do atheists just try to make sense of life in these very Christian, very scary United States of America. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm Frank Feldman. And I'm Dan Beecher. And coming up on the show today, we're going to be talking about New York City's new mayor. |
| 0:42.5 | Ooh. |
| 0:43.1 | Who also, amongst all the scary things that he is, he's also a Muslim. |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.6 | And, uh, brown. |
| 0:50.6 | He is Ugandan by, by nationality. |
| 0:54.0 | I, we don't know. |
| 0:54.8 | I like, yeah. |
| 0:55.9 | Indian by descent and African by nationality. |
| 0:59.7 | What is happening? |
| 1:01.2 | He's a Democrat. |
| 1:02.7 | He's a social. |
| 1:03.8 | He's a socialist. |
| 1:05.6 | Oh my God. |
| 1:07.6 | But, uh, but yeah, uh, we're going to be talking about the Christian and indeed Jewish reaction to |
| 1:14.9 | having a Muslim taking over a very powerful role here it's scary it's scary stuff |
| 1:25.4 | oh no one knows what to do. |
| 1:28.9 | What are we going to do? |
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