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 spins off into silly space with UFO cults, Uncle Dan gazes into your eyes for cult recruitment, and Uncle lets loose torrents of blood with Joshua part 1.
Here is episode #12 of Carl Sagan's original Cosmos series in which Sagan uses the Drake Equation to estimate the likelihood of intelligent life in our galaxy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f77B2gRZhSo&t=2940s&ab_channel=TopDocumentaries
This week! Uncle Mark lists the apocalypses that weren't, Uncle Dan tries to take your money with NLP, and Uncle Doug examines a life without meaning in Ecclesiastes.
This week! Uncle Mark tells a very different version of your favorite fairy tale with Operation Snow White, Uncle Dan leaves the Ewoks out of the Witch of Endor and Uncle Doug laments a cult exploding right before our eyes.
This week! Uncle Doug gets sees triple with the First Vision, Uncle Dan reviews one of the best bad movies ever made with the Ten Commandments, and Uncle Mark speaks with cult expert Steven Hassan.
Find the good work Steven Hassan is doing here:
And keep both of these links handy for when you're trying to assess the 'cultishness' of any group or behavior:
https://freedomofmind.com/bite-model/
https://freedomofmind.com/influence-continuum/
And here, dear listeners is a weaponized vision of the most profound sadness, the Hosannah Shout in an empty room: