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! Uncle Mark talks about Parisian head, Uncle Doug talks about Mormon head, and Uncle Dan tells us beef is not what’s for dinner. It’s all pretty gross, actually. Enjoy!
St. Denis - find your patron - Catholic saint, cephalophore, cephalophory, martyr, decapitation, grave robbing
Book of Mormon, Laban and Nephi, beheading, Laban's sword, murder
Kamadhenu - Hindu sacred cows
This week! Uncle Doug helps us bury a long-gone god, Uncle Mark hopes you'll indulge him, and Uncle Dan introduces us to a group of people who are good at wanting the apocalypse but bad at doing math!
Gok Tengri - Gokturk god - Graveyard of the gods, Asia, Russia
Catholic Indulgences, forgiveness for money, Pope
Meet the Seventh Day Adventists
This week! Professor Jim returns to show us how we can be right about a thing by being right about a thing, Uncle Mark wants us all to be wary of strangers with yellow cravats, and Uncle Dan gets Uncle Mark all sweaty with the gayest part of the Bible yet!
Confirmation bias fallacy - with Professor Jim
Meet the Thuggies, Indian murder cult, Hindu, Muslim, Kali
David and Jonathan in the Bible, homosexuality, gay, love
This week! Uncle Dan lays his hands on some soft serve Mormon Magic, Uncle Doug Explains the slippery slope from banana beer to mass murder, and together we have what will be the first of several How-To’s about how to leave homophobia when you leave religion.
Mormon Patriarchal blessings, hot reading, magic, psychic
Ugandan Movement for the Restoration of the 10 Commandments of God cult, Africa, murder
How-To get over homophobia, Mormonism, pseudo science, suicide, oppression
This week! Uncle Uncle Dan can barely speak through his oily mouthful of dumb, Uncle Mark casts a hard eye on the world's totes most bestest person ever, and together we explore the positive benefits of spontaneous roadside circumcision.
Oil pulling - Watch out for woo
Dalai Lama - Who is that? Tibet, China
Moses, the burning bush, circumcision, 10 commandments