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It's thank God I'm atheist.

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Here in these United States.

Indeed.

Coming up on the show today, Dan, we're going to be talking about how Christian messaging

and influencers have sort of co-opted the online diet culture, exercise culture.

You know, just pin a sign to every church that says no faties.

That's all they.

That's the current messaging, it seems like, if you're to dig a little into at least how online influencers are presenting.

So maybe I should have put a little trigger warning before I said that.

But be aware that this will be a body positive discussion on our end anyway.

Yes, even if they're being really, really negative dancies about the whole thing.

The worst. It's so gross. They're gross. All right. We'll talk about that later. We'll get to that in a bit.

First, we have some news that happened this week, things in the world. Dan, there is a new fatwa.

Oh!

A fatwa, as you know, Dan, is, I think we learned this from a listener, issued by Ayatollahs.

Is that a thing?

Yeah.

Or at least this one is.

The Grand Ayatollah Makaram He's one of Iran's

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