the Profane Argument, atheist podcast

Our religious background/opinions: How Did You Become an Atheist? @1:48 How many times have you attended church? @19:10 What religions have you experienced? What happens when we die? @26:21 If there is no god, how does your life have any meaning? What if you’re wrong? And there is a Heaven? @32:35 Without God, where do you get your morality from? @31:07 If there is no God, can we do what we want?...

Local Voting talk @1:57 Follow-up: Greenberg Plea deal @6:07 Chauvin update @12:36 Politics: GOP rewrites Capitol riot history @16:.31 WP opinion by New GOP @28:30 Biggest threat? White supremacy @38:50 News: The end of RvW? @41:57 Jews in America, Pew survey @45:00 Israel v Palestine @46:26 Biden's response Coronavirus: Dashboard CFI: Coronavirus Resource Center FDA is keeping a running list of p...

Follow-up: What is the deal with Rand Paul v Fauci @3:51 U.S. Bishops denying communion to President Biden? “This is a stupid story.” @7:23 Pentecostal Christians should stop believing prophecies that Trump will be restored to the presidency @11:12 Foxmania defense @17:23 News: Israel v Palestine @23:00 NRA update @27:59 Ransomware attack leads to shutdown of major U.S. pipeline system @29:46 Flor...

Follow-up: Mubarak Bala has now been in detention in Nigeria for one year. @1:33 More Gaetz story @2:28 Giuliani @5:21 Religious Nonsense: ~100,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered to celebrate the holiday Lag b’Omer, which resulted in a stampede that killed 44 people. @7:15 U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (Legion of Doom) to decide if President Biden can receive communion @12:55 In Wales, “humani...

Follow-up: Arkansas creationism-in-schools bill was defeated in a Senate committee! @2.08 Bradenton family faces charges for selling bleach as cure-all @4:02 Tucker’s take @6:10 Joe Rogan talk @11:35 News: Richard Dawkins’ trans bigotry @17:13 Politics: Biden administration has reversed Trump’s restrictions on fetal tissue research @32:20 Coronavirus: Dashboard CFI: Coronavirus Resource Center FDA...

Follow-up: Taco Tues, 4/20, and guilty on all counts @6:03 Q: Into the Storm @17:12 News: a group of news outlets are going to refer to the phenomena as a “climate emergency.” @20:03 Google Earth can now do timelapse back to 1984, so, “You can now watch glaciers melt away forever in 3D.” The Supreme Court’s upcoming decision on Fulton v. Philadelphia could open the floodgates on the whole kick-the...

Follow-up: Gaetz Gate @6:26 One of our favorite people to hate doubles down @12:27 Arkansas overrode the veto of Gov. Hutchinson, banning gender-affirming medical treatments for minors @17:45 Arkansas State House has overwhelmingly voted to let science teachers in public schools teach creationism News: George Floyd,Daunte Wright, and police in general @21:49 Politics: Biden on gun control and AFT...

Show start @4:51 Follow-up: Happy Easter! @6:02 Fleecing the trump supporters @7:47 Gaetz story is weird @13:48 News: EPA cleaning house @23:06 Politics: Biden puts out list of judges @24:02 Pew Research has numbers on Americans’ perceptions of President Biden’s faith @27:23 Hey Alaska, this lady could be your next U.S. Senator @29:26 Boehner’s book @33:38 and @45:49 Rep. Mike Johnson puts forth a...

Follow-up: DeJoy still there @2:57 Capitol insurrectionist Anthime Joseph Gionet wants leniency and to be able to go without a GPS monitor because he’s a Christian @8:17 News: Derek Chauvin trial @11:22 Biden calls to ban assault weapons @16:21 Gallup: Fewer than half of all Americans belong to a church @28:28 Politics: Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith says we can’t have voting on Sundays because God @30:18...

Follow-up: The Jesuits to raise $100 million for descendants of the slaves their order once owned. @1:10 Sydney Powell update @2:40 State Estate tax @6:24 News: GA shooting (religion, race, and guns) - church says not their fault @8:14 But let’s take a look… Ammon Bundy was arrested again @25:13 Politics: Religious exemptions on steroids @28:40 KY voting @30:03 Religious Nonsense: 57 Black pastors...

News: Gary Paul Karr, of the Madalyn Murray O’Hair case, was just re-sentenced @1:13 Two charged in Capitol officer’s deaths @5:52 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) @11:51 Tucker’s racism bit on John Oliver @13:48 China Navy @22:40 Military expense China/Russia Moon Base Politics: Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) @28:04 But boy do we need relief from the estate tax Boebert’s lies @32:12 Greene Guam story @35:22...

News: Dr Suess @2:57 Follow-up: French teacher was killed; The person who first spread the news about Paty showing the cartoons was the father of a student who wasn’t even there. @12:33 Megyn Kelly school talk @14:12 Ian school story @15:27 Religious Nonsense: Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville complained on the Senate floor that the U.S. needs to get “God and prayer back into schools.” @19:54 Texas St...

News: Youtube story @1:14 ProfaneArgument Youtube CPAC @5:24 Q-folk harbor doubts about Donald Trump’s triumphant return to power on March 4. @14:23 Religious Nonsense: Fritz Berggren, Christian nationalist and white supremacist. @23:21 Group of evangelicals denounced “radicalized Christian nationalism” as “heretical”. @30:19 The Southern Baptists expel churches for not hating gay people enough @3...

News: What a Rush @2:13 Texas @7:44 AOC Cruz Russia @18:44 Qatar example @20:25 Taxes on the unemployed @22:38 AZ voting changes @23:28 Follow-up: Trump casino implosion @25:41 TN update: The legislation to allow a man who allegedly impregnated a woman to petition to prevent her from ending her pregnancy. @27:11 South Carolina’s “fetal heartbeat” law, was blocked by a federal judge. @27:59 Abortio...

Follow-up: In the madness of social media: conflicts, hostility, and conspiracy theories: NextDoor @2:12 News: Mavericks stop playing Anthem @5:32 Carano @7:29 Profiles in Sedition: Bracket: https://brackethq.com/b/jujl/ @19:44 Josh Hawley v Mike Lindell Greene v Powell Rudy Giuliani v Lin Wood Politics: Boebert lying on reimbursement @29:22 GOP attacking anyone who turns @31:28 Trump statement on...

Follow-up: Rittenhouse violates bond @1:07 News: Superspreader Sunday! @4:46 Supreme Court ruled that California can’t restrict indoor church services @10:53 Tyler Broker points out the silly comparisons Catholic Church in U.S. was sitting on more than $10B when it got a another $1.5B from the PPP @12:44 Stimulus details @14:12 Anchor on Newsmax walks off @15:19 Morgan Wallen @22:26 Canada declare...

Follow-up: WI Pharmacist update @1:26 Filibuster info @3:05 News: Reddit v Stock Market @7:41 Profiles in Sedition: Lauren Boebert v Zip tie guy @19:48 NRA also to blame @33:43 Christopher Miller, Defense Sec v Donald Trump @ Another Trump crazy @40:37 “The Capitol insurrection was as Christian nationalist as it gets.” @42:08 Didja hear? Biden reduced the age of consent to 8. @43:46 What else coul...

Follow-up: Rebekah Jones turned herself over to police on Saturday @2:31 Profiles in Sedition Bracket @7:00 News: Inauguration: Biden’s MASSIVE amount of god-talk @8:27 Profiles in Sedition: @29:34 “we were actually affecting the quantum realm” Spaz There was a lot of anger How big was the coup attempt? @40:57 QAnon cultists are reeling @41:46 Trump coming back Mar 4 Franklin Graham says no Christ...

Follow-up: Huffington Shit-Post @3:27 News: Still no Superman @5:36 Politics: Mystery unsolved @9:01 Jack Jenkins on the role of Christianity @13:01 Trump is God’s chosen candidate “QAnon … is just the Satanic Panic all over again…” How to live among those who see life as a cosmic war Republican senator Ben Sasse in The Atlantic, “QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within.” @22:55 MyPillow.com accep...

News: Sheldon Adelson is dead @1:51 Politics: Georgia: Dems win, holy shit! @4:59 Another call @6:23 Attempted Coup: Insurrectionists storm congress @10:25 Giuliani may be disbarred @11:57 One of the insurrectionists was former Pennsylvania State Rep. Rick Saccone One of the guys breaching the Capitol was West Virginia State Delegate Derrick Evans Police Chief says unable to call in Guard Capitol...

Follow-up: Mubarak Bala was supposed to have been released from prison @3:41 Coronavirus: Luke Letlow, announced right after recording last week @4:59 a COVID outbreak in Martha’s Vineyard 8:01 CA funeral homes out of space @9:07 At the current pace, “it would take almost 10 years to get the pandemic under control.” @10:20 A pharmacist in Wisconsin sabotaged more than 500 doses @12:01 Mandate Vacc...

News: Nashville   @1:18 Want to Blow up Trump Plaza?    @5:03 Politics: Another Powell witness     @8:01 Loeffler keeps posing with white supremacists     @14:20 Trump “Save America” slush fund has spent nothing on runoff    @18:58 Authoritarian Party suing Pence     @20:01 No legal way for Pence Trump overturning election results? Unlikely. Another 26 pardons (Stone, Kushner, Manafort)     @43:25...

News: Court in Nigeria has ruled that Mubarak Bala must be released after eight months of detention without charge. @2:42 Airmen, Sailors, Soldiers, Marines, and….Guardians!?! 3:33 Fact check: Kamala Harris has not called for Christmas having its status as a federal holiday revoked @5:30 Politics: Barr out @6:44 Trump pardons a bunch of people @9:59 And a Florida man @ GOP anti-abortion celeb anti...

Follow-up: Arizona Court says courts can’t determine whether Mormons are Christians @1:49 Politics: Presidential fit Another Giuliani witness is Jesse Richard Morgan…GHOST HUNTER. @8:50 Powell’s Intelligent witness @13:32 Christians hold “Jericho marches” to undo the election @17:41 Graham says Abrams tricked GOP into helping Biden win @21:04 More Trump grifting @23:15 Loeffler poses with KKK lead...

News: Service animals in flight @1:17 Holiday Suicide myth @4:27 1-800-273-8255 Nine more Catholic priests. There were 16 already discovered. @7:05 Supreme Court declined to take up a case against transgender kids @9:36 Crystal Mason @12:45 Brandon Bernard @14:28 Politics: Jewish group tries to stop Trump arms sale @23:56 Trump making Yemen worse “Save America” PAC is a bait and switch scam Sidney...