The Atheist in the Trailer Park

Show notes are here:   http://tparkatheist.blogspot.com/2015/11/episode-75-was-jesus-buddhist-gigolo.html This episode Doane attempts to answer why was Christianity able to prosper.  This episode is part 1 of the chapter from Bible Myths, and I don't have an answer for the question in the title.  I also talk about being able to see Neil deGrasse-Tyson speak in Nashville this past week.  (It was aw...

Show notes can be found here:   http://tparkatheist.blogspot.com/2015/11/episode-0074-shelley-segal-is-cooler.html This episode is part one of my interview with singer/song writer Shelley Segal.  I had hoped to just make the entire episode my interview with her, but with the recent events in Paris, I felt that I had to address those, as well as a few other things, and that meant I had to split thi...

Finally!  The end of the chapter!  Show notes can be found here:   http://tparkatheist.blogspot.com/2015/11/episode-73-christianity-rips-off.html   Doane wraps this up by quoting from some ancient Indian texts which pre-date the Old Testament, but say nearly identical things to both the Old and the New Testaments.  The chapter finishes up at about the 30 minute mark, so I spend the rest of the epi...

Show notes will be up tomorrow night.  Topics covered in this week's episode: Scientology loses its tax exempt status in the Netherlands How do you bury interfaith couples? A secular Bangladeshi publisher murdered, and 3 others severely injured in hate crime attack. A live exorcism was performed on TV. Ken Ham thinks we should all be naked. A dead comet passes close to the Earth DIY 3D food printe...

Thanks to me borking my PC and Nimrod deciding to come home earlier than expected, this week's episode is going to be a little late.

Click here for show notes for this episode.   This episode is part 3 of the chapter on Pagan influences on Christianity from TW Doane's  Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions .   Part 1 can be found here.    Part 2 can be found here.   This section of the chapter covers early Church fathers admitting that Christianity has borrowed from Paganism.  There is one more part left in this ch...

Show notes can be found here:   http://tparkatheist.blogspot.com/2015/10/special-wheezing-episode.html I am still too sick to record an episode, so I've merged two episodes of my other podcast together.  I should be well enough by next week to be able to record a new episode by then.

Just a bit of heads up that there might not be an episode this week due it being so difficult for me to breathe at the moment.

Show notes can be found here:   http://tparkatheist.blogspot.com/2015/10/episode-0070-more-mass-shootings.html   This episode is a little heavy on the politics, but the story about the orgasmic mushrooms and kids getting prosthetics that are as cool as anything you've seen in a movie are worth a listen.

Show notes can be found here:   http://tparkatheist.blogspot.com/2015/10/episode-0069-christianity-rips-off.html A bit shorter than usual, but even if I went for a full hour on the subject, we'd have at least one or two more episodes to go before I finished this chapter.

Show notes can be found here:   http://tparkatheist.blogspot.com/2015/09/episode-0068-blood-moon-survivors.html   Topics covered include: the Dalai Lama discusses his replacement, Scalia skips Papal address to Congress, Fox commentator calls the Pope a "false prophet," defectors complain that ISIS is "corrupt," breakthrough in quantum communication, the birth of the Borg in Washington state, two n...

Show notes can be found here: http://tparkatheist.blogspot.com/2015/09/episode-67-christianity-rips-off.html  This is a dense episode, and Doane goes from a comparison of religious beliefs to discussing which day should be considered the Sabbath by Christians.  I've done what I can to make it easier to listen to, but we're probably in for two more episodes dedicated to this chapter.

Show notes are here.   Apologies for some of the weird noises in the background, but Fuzznuts found something particularly interesting outside the window and kept pawing frantically trying to get at it.  This is a jam packed news episode with stories on NuJudaism, crane accident leaves 100+ dead in Mecca, more butthurt from Ken Ham, Stone Age cooking tips, possible burial place for one of Jesus' d...

Show notes can be found here.   I forgot to mention it in the podcast, but I was a guest this past week on the  ORly Radio Podcast.   This episode is chapter 35 of Bible Myths, entitled The Trinity.  It, as usual, shows that the concept of 3-in-1 gods isn't at all unique to Christianity.  (Surprise!)  Its a bit longer than usual, but I didn't want to chop up the chapter into two parts.

Show notes will be up tomorrow evening.  In this episode I talk about Josh Duggar's latest scandal (and how it probably won't be the last), arrests in the case of a murdered blogger in Bangladesh, the death of an archbishop who had a large child porn collection, the discovery of an ancient Spartan palace, our ancestors enjoyed carbs, and Sarah Palin's interview with Donald Trump.

Show notes are here.   A bit shorter episode than usual, because the chapter didn't quite fill out the hour.  In this chapter, Doane reveals the Christian church copied the idea for Christmas from other religions, and that similar such celebrations are found on Dec. 25th in even societies which never heard of Christianity.   I also rant about my idiot roommate's stupidity, and give a brief update...

Show notes for this episode.    This week I interview the lovely and charming Callie Wright from the  Gaytheist Manifesto podcast .  We talked about some of the issues facing those in the trans community, such as the high rate of suicide, discrimination, and the struggle for recognition.  I also got Callie to open up about something that's very important to her, that she's never talked about on a...

Show notes can be found here.  This finishes up the chapter on Christian symbols, with Doane talking about the cross in pre-Columbian Americas, the XP symbol in Constantine's standard, the trefoil, triangle, the shamrock, the fish, and the serpent(!).  Since its a shorter section, I also cover two news stories.  One on the death of yet another atheist blogger in Bangladesh and the discovery that S...

The guys who're getting ready to launch the  Atheist Apocalypse podcast  had asked me to insert their promo into one of my episodes, but like an idiot, I kept forgetting to do that, so here's the podcast, along with an update on Beth's  GoFundMe campaign , to help her take care of her bills in the wake of her having had a mild stroke.

Show notes can be found here.   A bit of a disjointed episode as I'm tired from baking in the hot sun for the past two days.   GoFundMe campaign for Beth from the Beyond the Trailer Park Podcast who recently had a stroke.   Topics covered include, but are not limited, KY snake handler gets his Darwin Award, preacher is suing for the "right" be abusive to LGBTQI youth in jail, Mike Huckabee makes a...

Show notes can be found  here.    This episode covers the second half of chapter 32 of   Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions   by TW Doane, as well as the first half of chapter 33.  Chapter 32 talks about the various Mary-like figures in other religions, while chapter 33 covers Christian symbols, such as the cross, which can be found in religions that pre-date Christianity.

Show notes will be up tomorrow.  Topics covered in this episode include a preacher who forces his congregation to eat live snakes, white supremacists claim their numbers are growing, my review of the 2009 movie  Creation about Darwin writing  On the Origin of Species , and more.

Show notes, along with the illustrations talked about in the episode can be found here.   This is part one of Chapter 32 of TW Doane's  Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions , which talks about the worship of the Virgin Mary and the numerous parallels to this worship which are found in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Greek mythology, among others. As a reminder,  I'm scheduled to be on an epi...

Show notes for this episode can be found here.   This week, I cover the Indian kid who was thought to be the reincarnation of the Monkey God deciding he'd rather be able to walk than be a "god," county clerks who refuse to hand out marriage licenses to gay couples, discoveries by NASA's New Horizons probe, Ken Ham shows off a construction site, and progress towards equality in Africa, along with m...

This week I read from TW Doane's chapter entitled 'Baptism,' and this leads to infant mortality rates from circumcision in both modern and ancient times, as well as finally explaining what The Book of Mormon (and other religious texts) mean by the phrase "baptism by fire."  Suffice it to say, that baptism pre-dates Christianity, and even Judaism by a good number of years.  Its not even a ritual un...