The How-To Heretic

A User's Guide to Life Beyond Religion

Whether you're just thinking about leaving your religion, or you're a dyed-in-the-wool decades-long atheist, your audio uncles Mark and Dan are here to help. With the aid of wise friends and experts in all sorts of fields, The How-To Heretic Podcast will guide you through the scary worlds of heathen living, and make sure you have fun in your new heretical life! We're here for you, friend; so kick off your shoes and join us!

Filtering by Tag: the Confederate States of America

143: Brigham's Bust

June 17, 2020  /  Dan

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This week! Uncle Dan surprises us with Mormon murders we'd never heard of, Uncle Doug uses math to clown Lord Xenu and Uncle Mark ponders the limitations of statues.

tags / Kirtland Cult, Mormonism, murder, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Community of Christ, true crime, Scientology, Xenu, L Ron Hubbard, Revolt in the Stars, the Confederate States of America, racism, racial terror, the Daughters of the Confederacy, Utah, Brigham Young

136: The Shining City

April 29, 2020  /  Dan

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This week! Uncle Doug examines the deadly intersection of good penmanship and murder with Mark Hoffman and Uncle Mark shares part 1 of his interview with journalist and author Jared Yates Sexton to explore the nightmarish origins of American theocracy.

Find the work of Jared Yates Sexton on Twitter @JYSexton, his blog is themuckrake.com and listen to his excellent podcast the Muckrake. His upcoming book we discussed today is American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed its People. It comes out in September 2020 and is available for preorder now.

tags / Mark Hoffman, murder, Mormonism, forgery, fraud, the White Salamander letter, the McLellin Collection, Jared Yates Sexton, American theology, the Confederate States of America, Abraham Lincoln, Jerry Falwell, Manly P. Hall, Ronald Reagan, the cult of the Shining City, American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World and Failed its People