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!
This week! We meet an unfortunate looking fellow, even by the much lower standards of the day, we are joined by the great Andrew Torrez of the Opening Arguments Podcast to pray the school day away, and learn to read all over again with Professor K.
St. Drogo - Find your Patron, Catholic saint, ugly
Prayer in School - Religion and the law with Andre Torrez, church and state
How-To read with Professor K
This week we visit a recently vacated temple, we lose track of all reason and meaning with Uncle Doug in Watch Out for Woo, and our therapist friend Page helps us figure out How-To come out.
Deepak Chopra - Watch out for woo, Oprah
Meet the People's Temple, Jim Jones, Guyana, mass suicide, cult
How-To come out as an atheist - Page
This week! We chat with Professor Jim about Hanlon and his razor, we learn some sad shit about yet another way people can be the wrong color in the wrong place, and Rabbi Gruber tells us about his exodus.
Hanlon's Razor fallacy with Professor Jim
Albinos in Africa - Oppression expressions, murder, witchcraft, dismemberment
Rabbi Gruber, Atheist rabbi and officiant
This week, Uncle Dan and Uncle Mark welcome Auntie Mel to help us bury a boozy god, we roll a 3 on the commandment of the week, lament baldness and bears, and young Quinn tells how a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
The 3rd Biblical commandment
Elisha and the bears, murder of children
Dionysus - Graveyard of the gods, Greek, wine, theater
Quinn Johnson, ex-missionary
This week Uncle Mark and Uncle Dan warn you to watch out for woo, they go south of the border for the graveyard of the gods, they introduce us all to some really out there religious folks and have all the fun with Lot and his daughters.
Homeopathy - Watch out for woo,
Coatlicue - graveyard of the gods, Aztec, blood, fertility
Meet the Raelians, flying saucers, cult
Lot and his Daughters, Sodom and Gomorrah, rape, genocide