The Atheist in the Trailer Park

This episode is a bit of a long one, I'm afraid.  It clocks in at an hour and twenty minutes and tells the story of Samson, the strong man, and how he's most likely a sun god from an earlier religious tradition that has been adapted by the writer of the book of Judges to a heroic figure.   This episode also has some listener email, from a listener in Taiwan who's started a couple of atheist groups...

Slight problem with recording so the audio might not be as good as it could be.  Hope to get the problems fixed before the next episode.   This is a news episode, stories covered include TN decides to drug test welfare recipients, discovers only one of them uses drugs, TN governor decides prayer's the solution to the failing educational system in the state, and TN judge says gay marriage ban doesn...

This episode covers chapter 7 of TW Doane's  Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions , which deals with the 10 Commandments.  Its only about 30 minutes worth of material, so the rest of the episode consists of news stories.  Think of it as a bonus news episode, rather than being deprived of more of Doane's work.  Show notes can be found at  tparkatheist.blogspot.com

News stories include:  How much do Christians donate to churches?  Nutjob preacher predicts Christians will soon be rounded up and killed.  Pakistani mob murders babies because of "blasphemous" Facebook posting.  British MP wants doctors to try astrology.  TX police department gets busting for trying to put "God back in schools."  Alabama politician says, "If God didn't want us to burn coal, why'd...

Hi, I'm drunk.  I think that everything I've mentioned should show up, somehow, in the various versions of this that I've done.  If not, then Google it, and you'll get the answer in a couple of seconds.  Please remember that Professor Fuzznuts Jr., loves you and blesses you!  I'll have a new episode up some time this weekend.

Sorry I don't have time to put the links in here, but I'm two days behind putting this out, and if I took the time to put the links in, it'd probably be another two days before I got this posted.  Its been a busy week, you can hear how tired I was when I recorded this.

In order to keep the lengths down to an hour long or so, I'm going to alternate between doing a news episode and reading from Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Regions.  In this episode, we cover chapters 3 -5 which deal with child sacrifice (What exactly was Abraham up to when he took Isaac out?), the Tower of Babel, and how Jacob's dream about angels climbing a ladder is about reincarnati...

Find us on Facebook!   In the news:   Gitmo detainees to use Hobby Lobby decision to protest lack of communal prayer during Ramadan.    3D printing aids where prayer doesn't.   3D printing aids diabetics with foot problems.    Finish reading chapter 1 and 2 of Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions by TW Doane .   Ancient Mexican skull provides clues to origins of Native Americans.   ...

As you can hear from my voice, I'm a bit under the weather, so I skipped the news and other topics I'd planned to cover and just read partway through the first chapter of Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions.

Seriously, its crap.  Like all first episodes of podcasts, its crap.  Don't listen to it. Here read this story about atheists in Saudi Arabia instead.   If you don't like that, then  read this story about a 16 year old girl in India who invented a washing machine.   Don't like that?  How about this story about a  physicist who thought Pluto was an interstellar transportation system.   Don't like t...