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Thank God I'm Atheist

The Memory of Trees #263

Thank God I'm Atheist

TGIA Media

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2016

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Santa vs. Jesus board game ruffles Christian feathers, Catholic priest prevents gay man from singing at own grandmother's funeral, Norway fines Catholic church for falsifying membership numbers to get more taxpayer money, Pope Francis advocates for the climate (and science), new study shines positive light on psychedelic drugs in fighting depression, and sneaky ways Christian types try to block abortions.

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0:00.0

The Hey everybody. Hi guys, hi guys, well from Salt Lake City, Utah. It's, thank God I'm Atheist.

0:23.1

The podcast.

0:24.1

I'm Frank Feldman, and I'm Dan Beecher.

0:26.2

And coming up today, oh, there's, uh, there's been,

0:31.0

there's been a lot of abortions lately.

0:34.0

Well, we're going to talk about it.

0:35.0

There are always a lot of abortions,

0:38.0

but we're going to talk about, yeah.

0:40.0

It's all the interest in the the abortion high amounts of interest. I know that most of you it's a very boring topic and yeah and I pretty much decided on all

0:53.9

all the front everybody yeah I think everyone agrees on what should be done about abortion in the in the world right but there's some new stuff now there's there's no agreement

1:00.3

but there are lots of new things to talk about it was like six different stories in the in the news crazy town

1:06.9

So we're gonna talk about that right? Oh my god

1:12.0

But before we do that we'll do some other stuff. I am going to tell us about Pope Francis.

1:19.0

No. The Pope with the dope. The Pope himself.

1:23.2

Pope a dope, rope, your Pope.

1:25.0

So this one, Mr Pope, Francis, this week he had a message for the world's leaders.

1:36.0

Oh?

1:37.0

I don't think that it's accidental that this happened sort of directly on the heels of the election of one

1:44.3

Mr Donald Trump here in these United States. Uh oh, here's what he said. He said

1:51.5

it's worth noting this is obviously a translation from the Vatican, it's worth

1:55.8

noting that international politics has recent has reacted weekly, albeit with some

2:02.0

praise worthy exceptions, regarding the concrete will

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