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!

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175: Gimme Some Skin

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This week! Uncle Dan makes the Book of Mormon seem kinda dumb with 3rd Nephi part 1, Uncle Mark thinks the story of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle should be rated R, and Uncle Doug does a Q with no A with Heretics in the news!

171: UFOH?

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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

168: Three Unwise Men

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This week! Uncle Dan wonders about the point of 3 weird dudes with the Magi, Uncle Doug "Discovers" something some people have known about for thousands of years, and we discuss the horror of the BYU "conversion therapy" program (CONTENT WARNING!)

For more context on Uncle Doug’s segment, see here:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/29/sistine-chapel-of-the-ancients-rock-art-discovered-in-remote-amazon-forest

145: The Hunchback of Vietnam

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This week Uncle Mark takes us to sunny Vietnam to meet Coa Dai, Uncle Dan knocks over Saint Junipero and Uncle Doug tells us everything is not alright with the Alawites. 

Here is the article for the all Esperanto William Shatner film, Incubus (I know I misspoke when I called it Succubus, don't @ me!!)

https://qz.com/1035897/the-bizarre-story-of-a-long-lost-horror-film-made-entirely-in-esperanto-starring-william-shatner/