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 Doug gets up on his Rameumptom to yell about big buildings, Professor Jim stops by to see what's fallen through the cracks and Uncle Dan shows us one simple trick for for getting pan-fresh man-flesh every time.
Rameumptom, Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith
God of the Gaps fallacy - with Professor Jim, science, superstition
Eucharist, Catholic sacrament, transubstantiation, cannibalism
This week! Is that a bustle in Uncle Mark's hedgerow? He is sore afraid! Uncle Dan violates both the spirit and the letter of the rules of his own goddamned podcast, and Seth Andrews of the Thinking Atheist joins us to talk about a journey from faith to freedom.
Find Seth at his website-
http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/
The infuriating Frontline Documentary about recovered memory and multiple personality malpractice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlW9GNb70Xg
The hilariously terrible police training video about Satanic crimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_T5EF-uzU
The Satanic Panic, Michelle Remembers, backmasking, recovered memory, quackery, pseudo science, devil worship, Dungeons and Dragons
Ganesh, Garden of the gods, India, elephant
On this week's show! Uncle Doug, Uncle Dan, and Uncle Mark combine forces to take on the Queen of woo and her snake-oil hatchlings. Are you feeling hungover but don’t want to be a lesbian? There’s a murder for that. And science and reason activist Aron Ra joins for an Evolution How-To that will make you want to adapt all over again.
Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Oz, Dr Phil, Deepak Chopra, Jenny McCarthy, vaccines, quackery, pseudo science
St. Bibiana - Find your Patron, Catholic saint, murder, torture
Evolution, creationism, fossils
Find Aron Ra and support his amazing work at:
This week! Uncle Dan explains the long honored biblical prohibition against shaving babies and extols the virtues of carcass honey, Uncle Doug takes a knee like the commie pinko he is, and Andrew Seidel of the Freedom From Religion Foundation joins us to chat about the state of freedom in these United States and how we all can protect it.
Samson, Bible story, Delilah, lion, honey, genocide, foxes, animal cruelty
Pledge of allegiance, under god, in god we trust, e pluribus unum
Andrew Seidel, Freedom From Religion Foundation, church and state, 1st amendment
This week! Uncle Dan explains a strange word and Uncle Mark sees a face in it, We meet a genocidal group of Buddhist / Hindu / Christian / other lunatics, and Andrew Copson of Humanists UK joins us to discuss his excellent new book, Secularism.
Pareidolia - Coming to terms, psychological phenomenon, hallucination
Meet Aum Shinrikyo - Japanese cult, sarin, nerve gas, Buddhism, terrorism
Andrew Copson Humansist UK, secularism, Turkey, United States, India, France, government