"The Miracle and the Motorcycle" #140

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 19 July 2014

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Adam sits in for Dan for the first half of the show, and Hemant Mehta chats with Frank and Dan during the second half. Hobby Lobby owners want to build Bible museum in DC, a survey of Americans’ views of religious groups, a miracle and a motorcyclist collide, Iraqi Muslims want Christians to pay religious tax, Urban Outfitters and Lord Ganesh, a Muslim supermarket worker refuses to sell pork and alcohol during Ramadan.

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0:00.0	The Hey everybody well from Salt Lake City Utah it's thank God I'm atheist the
0:21.0	podcast I'm Frank and I The podcast. I'm Frank.
0:23.0	And I am Adam sitting in Verdan.
0:25.0	Coming up today, an interview with Hemant Meta.
0:30.0	He's the friendly atheist.
0:32.0	Right. Right, right, right right who sold his soul on eBay
0:36.7	on eBay yeah for for how much did he get fame and and world atheist world domination and the idea of there being people out there that
0:47.1	are just like so angry that somebody
0:49.6	and you're just like well even if you do believe, isn't that his right if he wants to sell his soul?
0:55.6	Well, and to be honest, and he gets to, he gets into it in the interview, but he sold, he actually sold his soul you know figuratively to to attend churches.
1:10.0	It was kind of this whole like, hey, I want to like explore and see churches and whatnot.
1:16.2	And if you if you are the highest bidder, you can say which church I need to go to.
1:21.1	Oh, I thought I thought was that whoever like selling it it wasn't like it
1:25.6	it wasn't like a selling the soul to the devil. Oh well I thought it was that
1:28.9	when you first said that what I imagined you meant was that whoever bought his soul would then take it to church with them.
1:37.0	And I was like, what a great racket. Like you don't have to go.
1:42.0	You just... great racket like you don't have to go.
1:43.0	You just...
1:45.0	Yeah.
1:46.0	Proxy church attendance.
1:47.0	See, I want proxy everything.
1:49.0	Like I said when I used to do...
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