Debating Debate

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Vicar has a theory about why church attendance is down, IRS actually investigates church over Johnson amendment violations, Catholic hospital argues fetus isn't a person (wait, what?), Heritage Foundation drafts new law in Tennessee, US State Department encourages employees to rat each other out for anti-Christian bias, church rasslin', and we hold a vigorous debate about debating.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, buddy, buddy.
0:19.0	Hi, friends, well from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:22.9	It's thank God I am atheist.
0:25.2	Where we, a couple of those pesky atheists, try to make sense out of religion and politics
0:30.5	and current events here in these United States.
0:33.7	I'm Frank Feldman.
0:35.3	And I'm Dan Beecher.
0:36.3	And coming up on the show today, Dan, we're going to be talking about, actually, we're
0:41.9	going to be having a debate about debates.
0:46.5	I'm debating.
0:47.8	Oh, yeah.
0:49.5	Oh, we are going to light some fires today.
0:52.9	I think, I think we're going to have some folks mad at us. Oh, angry. Angry. That's what we like. We like to rile everybody up. Yeah. We don't want you guys sitting around in your comfortable lives, happy and healthy. No. Well, nobody's happy at the moment dan no it's uh but we are going to talk
1:14.7	about debate as a concept and whether or not we think it's uh good yeah it's debatable isn't it
1:22.3	it's debatable all right well first though, there are things that must be talked about.
1:28.8	Things that happen this week, like a vicar, Dan, over there in the UK.
1:36.7	Church of England. Church of England.
1:38.8	The Reverend David Murray.
1:42.7	He has a theory as to why church attendance at his church has been falling off.
1:50.4	Oh, I'm guessing he's going to be right on.
1:52.8	Yeah.
1:53.3	I'm just throwing it out there right now.
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