The Pope's a Dope #527

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 8 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Megachurch goes exclusively online, wounded rabbi charged with financial crimes, Mother Teresa's charity targeted by Indian government, COVID outbreak hits Mormon missionary training facility, Oklahoma law would allow preachers and bibles into classrooms, Utah tech nazi sends antisemitic email to industry leaders, and the pope calls adopting pets "selfish".

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Hi, friends. I almost said guys, but I didn't. Well, from beautiful
0:23.2	Salt Lake City, Utah. It's thank God I'm atheist. The podcast. I'm Frank Feldman. And I'm Dan
0:28.7	Beecher. And coming up on the show today, Dan, senior poppy man has something to say.
0:36.9	El Francisco about people who are adopting dogs. Oh, he's instead of having children. He is
0:43.9	pissed off. He's got a lot to say about a lot of things. We're going to dissect it and get to
0:49.6	the bottom of it. It's a very point some fingers. Oh, yeah, we're at other problems. You're
0:54.9	positively wagging your finger at this point, scolding. There is a finger wagging followed by a
1:00.9	skull. Are you guys prepared for the wagging of fingers? Because that's coming up later. But first,
1:07.7	Dan, I've got the story of a mega church in Colorado. Okay. That didn't survive the pandemic. Oh,
1:16.5	no, they are closing their doors and they're going 100% viral of virtual virtual. Yeah, sure. I mean,
1:24.6	they probably had some viral problems at the mega church. Yeah, prime, prime, prime,
1:28.9	prime. They went viral. And now they're going virtual. But now they're going online exclusively.
1:35.5	They say that's where the people are. Yeah. But imagine, imagine the savings in overhead.
1:42.4	Oh, my God. No kidding. Well, donations were down. That's the problem. Yeah.
1:46.6	Attendance was down. Donations were down. They just couldn't because why the fuck would you go
1:51.5	to church? Well, I don't know. I mean, it is 137,000 square feet. They could have just
1:58.8	distanced just fine. But I think, me thinks the real issue here, Dan, is this little tidbit,
2:10.7	the valuation of the property that they are selling somewhere in Colorado. Colorado at $12.2 million
2:21.3	worth of property. Wow. The mega church wasn't just gigantic and enough itself. It also sat on
2:28.5	a large 32 acre piece of property surrounded by, you know, houses and on a commercial corridor.
2:38.9	Okay. And so DHI communities has plans to build 500 duplexes and apartments on the property. They're
2:49.7	going to put in a five acre park. And it's just going to be nice, nice. I mean, if you know DHI
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