Sorry this one is late, guys n gals. I am in the process of moving the Atheist News Podcast over to a new service provider and had hoped to have it done with already so I could just post this in the new location. Unfortunately, I have had some problems importing the database from here to there and, long story short, I can’t move the site until it gets fixed by them. So, I am going to post Episode 035 here and then when I can move the site I will.
We once again start with the news and leave the letters for last as an experiment. I am putting up a poll, the results of which MAY VERY POSSIBLY HAVE SOME EFFECT MAYBE on when we do the news and when we read the letters. Go check it out.
I am kind of aggro on this weeks show. I am also kind of waffley. Lots of stuff to talk about if you want to chime in. Poor Richard attempts to be stolid. We discuss Quran burning some more and most of the letters this week concern that very question. We got some really awesome responses.
I also tried to edit out the background noise, but there are people painting my house and I couldn’t get it all. So there is some ladder noise that escaped my wrathful deletion. I did manage to cut the show from two hours to an hour and a half, though; saving myself the trouble of officially changing the name of the show to the “Atheist Snooze Podcast.”
Also, I babble on about the Pope and his implicit involvement with the church cover-up of child sex abuse, but I do a terrible job explaining what the hell I am talking about. This is what I am talking about.
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5 comments
Brad says:
October 1, 2010 at 5:14 pm (UTC -8)
quick thing about the pastor in Atlanta…the relationships began years before the actual sex acts. even with age of consent, he was doing something even shadier, he was ‘grooming’. At least that’s what i’ve found out from several media sources. Richard is right on this one. vulnerable children from troubled backgrounds being groomed to this one powerful mans’ will. remember that in the african-amerian evangelical movement, these pastors are treated as superstars. it’s definately a form of coersion!
take care,
Brad
moJoe says:
October 1, 2010 at 8:32 pm (UTC -8)
Yeah, you’re probably right one this one then. The way the article was worded, it sounded fairly stupid and trivial, but this, if it’s true, is quite heinous.
Mieu says:
October 2, 2010 at 8:59 am (UTC -8)
Actually, I follow this podcast just because I like hearing you guys babbling. So just babble on. ^_^
Seriously, though, you guys may not notice it but your discussion on the news and other topics quite widened my horizons and helped me thinking on many issues, not just atheism-related.
I do think reason is something we truly lacked back here in my homeland, which is also full of living examples of non-religious childhood indoctrinations.
Shaun says:
October 2, 2010 at 2:00 pm (UTC -8)
Listening to the podcast right now. I remember from my astronomy class in college that the equation for estimating the potential for life on other planets is called the Drake’s Equation in case you were wondering.
Love the show, keep up the good work.
Also you guys babbling on the show is a large reason of why I listen. Feel free to babble on.
Timothy says:
October 10, 2010 at 10:21 am (UTC -8)
The statement Joe reads from Dawkins somewhat bugs me. If by the criteria listed in the statement, I would expect that the majority of the religious in England would “believe” that Jesus is transformed into a wafer, since as someone whose family is almost completely Episcopal (my father and I were about the only in my family who weren’t, I being an atheist and he being just a “vague Christian”), which is a branch from the Anglican church that the Queen is head of, our prayer books still have, and the church still practices almost every week, the rite of Communion, which entails the whole transubstantiation bit. Hell, our prayer books still refer to keeping the catholic church alive and well.
There may not be a lot of Roman Catholics, but I would figure there are at least 5 million in England who believe in transubstantiation, if the Episcopal still reflect the Anglican church.
Then again, I could be completely wrong. I haven’t actually listened to the guy up at the pulpit, in my life, and I’ve only been to weekly service twice, and one of those times I was about eight, and so what I know is from my grandparents talking about it, and reading through the books while the guy is up there talking.