The Apostate's Playground

I've cleaned up the audio as best I could, this is a re-release responding to some articles I came across a few weeks ago. I think we've identified the issues and so hopefully audio quality will improve, if it doesn't, beatings will until quality does.   Website: theapostatesplayground.com Patreon: patreon.com/apostatesplayground PayPal: paypal.me/PoweredByApostasy 

When viewed in the context of Asherah's supreme awesomeness it because clear that Ba'al and Yahweh used her to sleep their way to the top. So there's a bit about them, and then tracing through the first half of the Old Testament (the second half is more of the same) and covering a poem before cementing Asherah and Leviathan in show canon as watery-warrior-wizard and mighty steed. Support: patreon.com/ApostatesPlayground paypal.me/PoweredByApostasy

They-dies and gentle-thems! In this episode there is an addition to the roster of show characters and Patreon tiers! Asherah is a sea (sometimes sun (always mommy)) goddess written about in the Ugaritic texts. Her cult has been revived by Cee (who has a history of drowning fools apparently) and she is El's ex-wife and provides much needed context for Yahweh's subsequent hatred of Baals. This episode covers who she was, a coming out of the closet for a man hating feminist, and also Cee clarifies what she means when she has a soaking wet body count (because of the drowning). 

This episode is covering a constitutional and historical analysis from a guy who bursts into tears any time he goes near a history book.   www.theaposatesplayground.com https://www.patreon.com/apostatesplayground

In which Phineas explains to Cee how one the recent decisions from the Supreme Court affects her uterus, and what exactly they said because, to quite Brett Kavanaugh's diary I assume, "You can't read if you have a uterus because they go where your eye balls should be." The episode starts off with Phineas glossing over Judith Jarvis Thomson's violist argument and Philippa Foot's Doctrine of Double Effect essay to say where he's coming from and why the 'women's bodily autonomy' fails before getting into the truly stupid things that Samuel Alito said. Sources: The decision: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf The Vox article: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23167397/abortion-public-opinion-polls-americans  The abortion statistics: https://www.aecf.org/blog/child-welfare-and-foster-care-statistics https://nacac.org/help/how-to-adopt/steps-to-adoption/learn-about-adoption/ https://www.state.nj.us/njfosteradopt/adoption/AdoptiveParentHandbook_5.2013.pdf (edited)

Hey all, Sorry this is late, I don't have anything in the way of show notes (except https://www.patreon.com/apostatesplayground). I wanted to include here that I sat down to edit and had to take my son to the E.R. cause he quit breathing right and was nearly admitted, and then sat down to edit it and had to take my wife's grandpa to the E.R. because his insides were in horrible pain and he was admitted. So I'm hoping you can forgive me. Love, Phineas

Full disclosure, I mangle a Shakespeare monologue in the beginning for no reason other than because Lee Strobel is tedious.

Patreon: patreon.com/apostatesplayground References: https://youtu.be/t9Dhhxnvt2Y https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc https://www.thekitchn.com/the-science-of-roasting-turkey-nathan-myhrvold-explains-the-maillard-reaction-197591 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4745522/ https://newswire.caes.uga.edu/story/7780/Frying-Turkeys.html https://www.mashed.com/314799/this-is-why-we-call-a-turkeys-tailbone-the-popes-nose/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/the-war-of-the-noses/article18275122/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/nzzkpm/science-explains-why-oil-and-water-don-t-mix-how-viruses-attack

In which 2 cases of possession and Satan's handwriting samples are discussed amid Cee Cee tricking Phineas into disparaging Italian Sorcerers until he has a breakdown, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Covering religious nationalism from the founding of the United States to the decision by the Supreme Court to not issue an injunction (with Future Phineas busting in to address the injunction and appeal that -was- granted by noting it exists) Anti-anti-abortion resources: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/txfunds https://reprolegaldefensefund.org https://www.house.gov/representatives Our info: Website: www.theapostatesplayground.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/apostatesplayground Phineas' Twitter: https://twitter.com/XistentialPanda CeeCee's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SheikahShaman The websites Phineas read for the episode: https://theconversation.com/revisiting-the-legacy-of-jerry-falwell-sr-in-trumps-america-79551 https://theconversation.com/fundamentalism-turns-100-a-landmark-for-the-christian-right-123651 https://theconversation.com/how-the-religious-right-shaped-american-politics-6-essential-reads-89005 https://www.prri.org/research/qanon-conspiracy-american-politics-report/ https://www.rawstory.com/trumps-big-lie-2653686451/ https://theconversation.com/how-in-god-we-trust-bills-are-helping-advance-a-christian-nationalist-agenda-164143?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=This%20Week%20In%20Religion%20%20July%2022%202021%20-%202009219736&utm_content=This%20Week%20In%20Religion%20%20July%2022%202021%20-%202009219736+CID_93a94ba7247e848332ad769cc954de0b&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=How%20In%20God%20We%20Trust%20bills%20are%20helping%20advance%20a%20Christian%20nationalist%20agenda https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/roe-v-wade-is-dead-in-texas-u-s-supreme-court-owes-us-an-explanation/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/ https://www.axios.com/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-justices-b1ed8ea8-6a8e-403c-aa07-3e1f5a1f636d.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&ute_campaign=onhrs https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/07/09/brett-kavanaugh-abortion-rich-barlow https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2021/09/15/texas-abortion-law-supreme-court-nancy-gertner https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2021/09/01/texas-abortion-ban-roe-v-wade-supreme-court-jesse-mermell https://www.webmd.com/baby/fetal-doppler#1 https://www.babycenter.com/pregnancy/your-baby/fetal-development-your-babys-heart_20005022#:~:text=During%20the%20first%20few%20weeks,bends%20into%20an%20S%20shape. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/18/texas-heartbeat-bill-abortions-law/ https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/31/texas-abortion-law-supreme-court/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpworld-lawyers-charles-harder-marc-kasowitz-marc-mukasey-and-jay-sekulow-split-as-storm-clouds-gather?ref=scroll

CC is back! To hang out with her buddy but also to help me knock down Genesis 31 while I'm lining it up. In this episode there is camel chases, land claiming, god-napping, and grown ass men being afraid of menstruation.   Just a day in the life of a bible-thumper.

This episode is a little of a try something new time and will be punctuated with hippo dicks, but only after dinosaurs and birthing competitions.

The second part of the twitter-fight episode deals with the philosophical argument for the existence of God and uh... I'll be doing a whole couple of episodes of that with real research so I kinda phoned in. If you don't want to listen to me phone it in might I recommend Embrace the Void? I told him I'd give him a shoutout if I decided to rip him off and I didn't as much as I thought but give it a go.

For real, I had a fight on Twitter where someone told me I didn't know an argument I got pissed off because there's multiple arguments under the he-   You know what? It's fine.

An episode about Jacob being tricked out of his wife-wage goes into a tailspin when discussing an errant semicolon. Semicolons: https://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Commentary-The-reign-of-the-semicolon-15130282.php https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/08/01/the-birth-of-the-semicolon/ https://writingcooperative.com/the-fascinating-history-of-the-controversial-semicolon-c13918316df2 https://writingcooperative.com/the-fascinating-history-of-the-controversial-semicolon-c13918316df2 https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/commas/commas_vs_semicolons.html Things the episode was actually about: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/246621/jewish/Jacob-at-Labans.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY-l0X7yGY0

In which a conversation about Genesis 28 goes violently into different models of God and about how Ray's god hates you! McFague on Climate Theology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjK4d8ci1e0&t=1s Spiritualist seed faith: https://www.msia.org/origins-of-tithing# Jew tithes: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/tithing/https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/tithing/

Isaac copy and pastes Abraham's adventure with Abimilech, Jacob escalates the prank war. https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/guzik_david/StudyGuide2017-Gen/Gen-26.cfm https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/54460/do-genesis-20-and-26-refer-to-the-same-abimelech https://www.thetorah.com/article/rebeccas-character Texture perception with age: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Touch_in_aging#Texture_perception https://phys.org/news/2009-11-extinct-goat-cold-blooded.html https://phys.org/news/2021-05-mammals-anus-emergencies.html

List of charities at the bottom: https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a35479305/anti-transgender-legislation-2021/ Also has a list of organizations: https://www.seventeen.com/life/a35978774/trans-healthcare-rights-organizations/ Are organizations: https://www.aclu.org , https://www.thetrevorproject.org Are articles: https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.4/north-activism-montana-trans-two-spirit-and-non-binary-activists-fight-anti-trans-legislation https://www.them.us/story/montana-senator-bryce-bennett-trans-athlete-ban-op-ed https://www.them.us/story/activists-fighting-2021-anti-trans-bills-onslaught ---------------------------------------------------------------- Are more relevant to the show: Mad cow: https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/02/health/mad-cow-disease-fast-facts/index.html HIV death: https://www.statista.com/statistics/184594/deaths-by-hiv-disease-in-the-us-since-1990/ Growth of atheism: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/atheism-fastest-growing-religion-us/598843/ Earth needs to settle down: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/matter-in-motion-earth-s-changing-gravity Sam Harris and Utilitarianism: https://theobjectivestandard.com/2012/11/sam-harris-unscientific-morality/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon poll: https://www.patreon.com/posts/which-to-play-1-50371889 The Teepublic (support independent artists, I don't take any money from them): https://www.teepublic.com/stores/powered-by-apostasy?ref_id=14752 e-mail: poweredbyapostasy@gmail.com Twitter: @XistentialPanda and @ApostatePowered

Two paragraphs from Genesis expanded into a full episode about magic pants, soup, and sibling jealousy about holes that have your mom in them.   https://www.aish.com/tp/i/wbr/48938527.html https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/2372639/jewish/Esau-Sells-His-Birthright-for-a-Mess-of-Pottage.htm https://www.patreon.com/posts/50371889 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Game Poll: https://www.patreon.com/posts/which-to-play-1-50371889

Abraham dies, and then is recast as Isaac for the reboot. And I'm pretty sure the vowel dots in Hebrew weren't around for the old testament and the vav makes a v sound? Mostly it's just me gettin' mad about stuff. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The two chabad articles I used: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/698144/jewish/What-happened-to-Abrahams-other-descendants.htm https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4937157/jewish/14-Facts-About-Esau-Everyone-Should-Know.htm   ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/apostatesplayground The store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/powered-by-apostasy?ref_id=14752 The hiking pictures: ko-fi.com/outsideyparts

A good natured shallow dive of Rasputin and the KGB files on the Khlysty sect of the Russian Orthodox church. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/murder-rasputin-100-years-later-180961572/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/40650435?seq=1 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283325389_The_Social_Functions_of_Group_Rituals  

Show notes: https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/how-much-water-does-a-camels-hump-hold/#:~:text=The%20hump%20is%20not%20used,20%20gallons%20at%20a%20time. https://www.aish.com/atr/Isaac-Age-at-the-Binding-Akeidah.html ------------------------------------------------------ Patreon: patreon.com/apostatesplayground Teepublic: https://www.teepublic.com/?ref_id=14752

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Texas resources: Act Blue: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/aoc-social-20210218/?refcode=aoc-social-20210218-7pmtweet Texas Tribune: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-power-outage-help-warming-shelter/ Resource Livedoc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wgC-hxI58vhQDg9wdaPiWcITKtj3Y8yiW99vuuJyH4I/edit#gid=513562996 Weather Crisis Assistance: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11GplfTTLRv6yV-2AC6GFw5Gy4izlPdGSay1HdRQcRjQ/edit http://www.krupar.com/gallery/galleries/vissarion.htm,  https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/eastern-europe-central-asia/russia, https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-12/disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories-keep-russias-hiv-inf, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/16/AR2007071601938_2.html, https://tass.com/society/1203421, https://pledgetimes.com/the-court-granted-the-claim-to-seize-the-land-plot-from-the-church-of-the-last-testament/, https://pledgetimes.com/the-court-granted-the-claim-to-seize-the-land-plot-from-the-church-of-the-last-testament/, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sergei-torop-russian-jesus-vissarion-cult-leader-arrested-in-siberia-today/, https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/332858-siberian-cult-vissarion Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/apostateseminary?fan_landing=true Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/powered-by-apostasy?ref_id=14752

In which some of the history of antisemitism is explored, connected to Q and MTG, and boy is that not great coming from the theocrat party. Vox on MTG and the Kosher Space Lasers: https://www.vox.com/22256258/marjorie-taylor-greene-jewish-space-laser-anti-semitism-conspiracy-theories  BBC on Who Killed The Jesus: https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/history/whokilledjesus_1.shtml  The ADL: https://antisemitism.adl.org/deicide/  https://antisemitism.adl.org/power/  https://antisemitism.adl.org/disloyalty/  https://antisemitism.adl.org/greed/  https://antisemitism.adl.org/blood/  https://antisemitism.adl.org/denial/  https://antisemitism.adl.org/anti-zionism/  The Rothschilds: https://www.britannica.com/story/where-do-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theories-about-the-rothschild-family-come-from  https://www.globalcapital.com/article/ry3hgfjfbv79/old-money-battle-of-waterloo-making-a-killing  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rothschild-libel-why-has-it-taken-200-years-anti-semitic-slur-emerged-battle-waterloo-be-dismissed-10216101.html  Soros: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-49584157  Jew stats: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/02/how-many-jews-are-there-in-the-united-states/  https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/16/156688596/what-americans-earn _____________________________________________________ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/apostateseminary The Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/powered-by-apostasy?ref_id=14752  

The sacrifice of Isaac and the death of Sarah. It's not interesting but you should listen anyway so I can get the downloads. Bodie Hodges with the only relevant link: https://answersingenesis.org/bible-characters/contradictions-my-two-sons/ ________________________________________________________________________ The store is also a relevant link: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/powered-by-apostasy?ref_id=14752

No show notes for this one, it was pretty off the cuff.

What is the war on Christmas? How did we come to be fighting it? Is Bill O'Reily kinda stupid? War on Christmas: https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/the-war-on-christmas Puritans and Pilgrims: https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/puritanism https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/godinamerica-early-american-groups/ Salisbury Historical Society on WoC: https://www.salisburyhistoricalsociety.org/christmas/ Westminster standard: https://www.apuritansmind.com/westminster-standards/ Nazi Christmas: https://www.history.com/news/the-nazis-war-on-christmas The parts of Nazi Christmas that really would have brought the whole episode down: https://blog.oup.com/2016/09/christmas-in-nazi-germany/ The COVID on Christmas: https://newrepublic.com/article/160605/coronavirus-lockdowns-war-christmas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Royalty Free Jingle Bells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ahD-2LK_Zw A Really Good Wassail Recipe: https://ohsodelicioso.com/wassail/ An Out of This World Cranberry Spiced Cider Recipe: https://ohsodelicioso.com/cranberry-spiced-cider/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/powered-by-apostasy?ref_id=14752  

Just some mopping up, really. How old is Ishmael? Is the progenitor of Arab folks? How do mirages work? Sources ---------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/gerar https://biblehub.com/commentaries/genesis/21-19.htm https://amazingbibletimeline.com/blog/old-ishmael-abraham-sent-away/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/43721785?read-now=1&seq=11#page_scan_tab_contents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmaelites#Genealogical_trace_of_the_ancestry_of_Arabs https://www1.cbn.com/onlinediscipleship/is-the-arab-nation-descended-from-ishmael%3F https://www.meforum.org/57936/ishmael-father-arabs https://www.jstor.org/stable/44012112 https://www.jstor.org/stable/544794 --------------------------------------------------------------- Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/powered-by-apostasy?ref_id=14752  

The where, the how, and the why and of Sodom and Gomorrah and the stuff that comes after. Secular https://www.britannica.com/place/Sodom-and-Gomorrah https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2018/11/29/is-the-biblical-destruction-of-sodom-and-gomorrah-based-on-a-real-life-impact-event/?sh=77b71b764c29 Christianity https://answersingenesis.org/contradictions-in-the-bible/what-was-primary-sin-sodom-gomorrah/ https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/manual/old-testament-seminary-student-study-guide/the-books-of-genesis-moses-and-abraham/genesis-19-sodom-and-gomorrah?lang=eng https://www.westarinstitute.org/blog/sodom-and-gomorrah-how-the-classical-interpretation-gets-it-wrong/ https://reformationproject.org/case/sodom-and-gomorrah/ https://gracethrufaith.com/ask-a-bible-teacher/lots-sons-in-law/ Judaism https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lots-daughters-midrash-and-aggadah https://reformjudaism.org/learning/torah-study/torah-commentary/judge-society-its-hospitality https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/destruction-cities-sodom-and-gomorrah https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2017931/jewish/Sodom-and-Gomorrah-Cities-Destroyed-by-G-d.htm Chelyabinsk meteor https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/exploding-meteor-over-russia-injures-more-than-1-100-1.1312154   -------------------------------------------------------------   Teepublic: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/powered-by-apostasy?utm_campaign=14752&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=Powered%2BBy%2BApostasy

Sodom and Gomorrah, and Lot and his daughters in a cave... I don't want to talk about it. It's gross. ------------------- Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/powered-by-apostasy?ref_id=14752

I apologize for missing the episode this week, the goal will always be to start at weekly and move on to twice a week+ but class loads are starting to pick up in the last few weeks before finals and I don't want to burn out. I'll see you next week.

Just talkin' about ye olde All Saint's Eve Christian alternatives to Halloween. :https://www.crosswalk.com/special-coverage/halloween/christians-devise-a-number-of-alternatives-to-halloween-1074542.html Ray Comfort says give kids bible tracts: https://www.livingwaters.com/turn-the-tables-on-enemy-this-halloween/ Not-actually-Satanist actually-witches don't like Trump: https://www.bibliatodo.com/En/christian-news/thousands-of-satanists-will-perform-witchcraft-on-halloween-against-trump-and-in-bidens-favor/ Halloween is scary ya'll!: https://www.icr.org/article/devil-halloween/ Halloween got violent: https://www.history.com/news/halloween-was-once-so-dangerous-that-some-cities-considered-banning-it A review of Paradise Lost: https://readgreatliterature.com/miltons-many-voices-in-paradise-lost-readers-guide/ Prentalia and Feralia: https://historyandarchaeologyonline.com/appeasing-the-ancestors-the-parentalia-and-feralia/ Parentalia: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Parentalia-Roman-religious-festival#ref269429 ----------------------------------------- The Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/powered-by-apostasy?ref_id=14752

A third trigger warning, this episode has a lot of ick but it's a complete reading (me reading, then retelling). Circumcision Information Resource Pages: http://www.cirp.org History of Circumcision: https://bjui-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.0830s1001.x Is Your Newborn Baby's Immune System Strong Enough?: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/is-your-newborn-babys-immune-system-strong-enough/ What is colostrum?: https://www.verywellfamily.com/colostrum-the-first-breast-milk-431990  Breastfeeding Benefits Your Baby's Immune System: https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/breastfeeding/Pages/Breastfeeding-Benefits-Your-Babys-Immune-System.aspx New Ingredient In Formula Helps Baby's Immune Systems: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-10/m-nii102516.php#:~:text=The%20study%2C%20published%20today%20in,response%20more%20like%20breastfed%20babies.

To wrap up last week the conversation turns to Stephen Palmquist's book "Biblical Theocracy" and I bring you a bag full of show notes: Biblical Theocracy: http://staffweb.hkbu.edu.hk/ppp/bth/toc.html A Religious Portrait of African Americans: https://www.pewforum.org/2009/01/30/a-religious-portrait-of-african-americans/ Sodomy Laws in the United States: https://www.pewforum.org/2009/01/30/a-religious-portrait-of-african-americans/ The Women Killed On One Day Around The World: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46292919 Christian Amendment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_amendment Christian Evangelicals Want To Make Us A Theocracy: https://www.christianpost.com/voices/christian-evangelicals-want-to-make-us-a-theocracy-true-or-false.html When Exemption Is The Rule: http://www.politicalresearch.org/2016/01/12/when-exemption-is-the-rule-the-religious-freedom-strategy-of-the-christian-right#toc--religification-and-zones-of-exemption A Wall of Separation: https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danbury.html Anti-Sharia Law Bills In The United States: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/02/05/anti-sharia-law-bills-united-states Amend The Constitution To God's Standards: https://thinkprogress.org/huckabee-amend-the-constitution-to-god-s-standards-9961f94967ce/ Sharia Law Has Come to America!: https://www.mediaite.com/online/sharia-law-has-come-to-america/ Rick Santorum explains God's role in American law: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/11/04/1033313/-Rick-Santorum-explains-God-s-role-in-American-law#comment_43844405 The Conservative Christian Crusade for Christian Sharia Law: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-conservative-crusade-for-christian-sharia-law?ref=scroll The Conservative Crusade to Establish Theocracy in America: http://churchandstate.org.uk/2020/05/the-conservative-crusade-to-establish-theocracy-in-america/ American Theocracy: http://www.brucegourley.com/christiannation/theocracy.htm Thomas Jefferson on the First Amendment's Religious Implications: https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_religions45.html Accelerated Christian Education: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Christian_Education Christian Democracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_democracy Christian Right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_right The Evangelical Divide Over Religion In Politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qWT_ok_17o The Man Who Mobilizied The Evangelical Vote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcC53j32BW4&feature=emb_logo Chris Hedges: "American Fascists": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcC53j32BW4&feature=emb_logo The Roots of Evangelical Political Fervor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAzPVhn-drU&feature=emb_logo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- You can support the show and independent artists by buying stuff to advertise your godlessness here: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/powered-by-apostasy?ref_id=14752

A brief history of and explanation of the views of, the evangelical right. Show notes will come when the episode is released as a whole.

In which Lot is kidnapped and Melchizedek is Persian before Persia is a thing. Shirts n' stuff! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/powered-by-apostasy?ref_id=14752 Who was Melchezidek? https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1326593/jewish/Who-Was-Melchizedek.htm More Melchizedek: https://www.thetorah.com/topic/melchizedek Even more Melchizedek: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10602-melchizedek Book of Judges: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Book-of-Judges Nothing Fails Like Bible History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iep4gnmJeRE Kadesh: https://www.britannica.com/place/Kadesh Hebron: https://www.britannica.com/place/Hebron-city-West-Bank Israel Palestine Conflict: and Hebron https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-palestine-news-conflict-hebron-contested-city-photos-tour-2018-7 More Hebron: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7465-hebron More... Hebron: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/history-and-overview-of-hebron Sodom and Gamorrah: https://www.britannica.com/place/Sodom-and-Gomorrah  

Amy Coney Barrett is Trump's nominee, and there's been a lot of talking about her legal record and her weird religious group, but is anybody talking about how far along into theocracy we are and screwed that makes us? Yes, but so are we! (I do apologize that the end seemed clumsily done, I didn't expect to go solo) The articles we read and the Opening Arguments podcast: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/amy-coney-barrett-case-rulings https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amy-coney-barrett-abortion-record-trump-supreme-court/#app https://www.openargs.com  https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/09/24/amy-coney-barrett-faith-420928 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thenation.com/article/politics/amy-coney-barrett-extremist/tnamp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/517756-judge-amy-coney-barrett-for-her-intellect-instead-of-catholic-faith%3famp https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/22/in-scotus-confirmation-fight-expect-democrats-to-embrace-anti-catholic-bigotry/ https://www.news-journalonline.com/opinion/20180702/ponnuru-kennedys-replacement-should-be-amy-barrett https://www.pewforum.org/2011/12/19/global-christianity-exec/ https://www.ncregister.com/features/the-people-of-praise-community-what-it-actually-is https://judiciallearningcenter.org/the-us-supreme-court/#:~:text=The%20Justices%20use%20the%20"Rule,they%20will%20take%20the%20case.&text=The%20majority%20of%20the%20Supreme,state%20Supreme%20Courts%20as%20well https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/trumps-amy-coney-barrett-pick-for-supreme-court-might-backfire-analysts/#.X2_VB0Rfcgg.twitter People of Praise Website (it really is totes a cult though): https://peopleofpraise.org

Where is the Tower of Babel: https://answersingenesis.org/tower-of-babel/where-in-the-world-is-the-tower-of-babel/ Canaan: https://www.ancient.eu/canaan/ Mormons on Adamic language: https://latterdaysaintmag.com/article-1-5457/ I mean... they just wanted to find their way home:

Some common logical fallacies are gone through as expressed by CreationWiki because they're hurting logic. The page I got the list from: http://creationwiki.org/Logical_fallacy 2005 Ph.D. requirements for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: http://web.archive.org/web/20060210061505/www.biology.ucsc.edu/eeb/grad/phddegree.html  How Stuff Works!: https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geology/carbon-14.htm#:~:text=Because%20the%20half-life%20of,to%20about%2060%2C000%20years%20old.&text=Potassium-40%20is%20another%20radioactive,life%20of%201.3%20billion%20years. Brittanica article on archaeology: https://www.britannica.com/science/archaeology/Interpretation#ref523113 

In which rainbows are explained and Chinese people are co-opted.  Cousin fucking: https://www.popsci.com/marrying-cousins-genetics/#:~:text=It's%20estimated%20that%204%20to,parents%20are%20more%20distantly%20related. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/04/us/few-risks-seen-to-the-children-of-1st-cousins.html Slave Ham: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325131348_Black_and_Slave_the_Origins_and_History_of_the_Curse_of_Ham_in_The_Bible_and_Interpretation_August_2017 Tables of Nations: https://answersingenesis.org/racism/what-about-extra-biblical-tables-nations-genealogies-that-go-back-noah/ The Miao: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlEjRNNx3QA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Y3KEwXP9o&t=2s https://www.everyculture.com/wc/Brazil-to-Congo-Republic-of/Miao.html Miao Creation: https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/chinaflood.html#:~:text=The%20Hei%20Miao%20(or%20Black,one%20interrogative%20and%20one%20responsive. Shangdi: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Shangdi What the ICR says about Miao Creation: https://www.icr.org/article/genesis-according-miao-people  

In which WLC gives bad advice, and I give bad, but (hopefully) progressive advice on dating a trans man, with sources! William Lane Craig should read a better book: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/what-should-i-do-about-my-transgender-boyfriend/ David Reimer (TW: Genital mutilation, sex abuse, suicide): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer Sex Differences in the Brain: https://www.the-scientist.com/features/sex-differences-in-the-brain-34758 Are the Brains of Transgender People Different from Those of Cisgender People: https://www.the-scientist.com/features/are-the-brains-of-transgender-people-different-from-those-of-cisgender-people-30027 WHO Gender and Genetics: https://www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/

This week I escape from the bible to tackle baraminology. The scientific field of making things up until you feel like you've destroyed evolution forever, but you haven't and your definitions are bad and you should feel bad. Baraminology: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Baraminology The Creationist Orchard:https://creation.com/is-the-evolutionary-tree-changing-into-a-creationist-orchard Some stuff about chromosomes:http://www.evolutionpages.com/chromosome_2.htm Todd Wood praises the amount of evidence there is for evolution: http://toddcwood.blogspot.com/2009/09/truth-about-evolution.html Todd Wood is bad at stick figure analogies: http://toddcwood.blogspot.com/2010/06/stickman-explains-homology.html Kevin Miller saying smart stuff about chromosomes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8FfMBYCkk Biblical Thinking Students are racist: http://biblicalthinkingstudents.blogspot.com/2011/09/baraminology.html Forest elephants aren't bush elephants: https://www.awf.org/news/africas-forest-elephants-called-separate-species#:~:text=Forest%20elephants%20are%20smaller%20than,also%20differs%20between%20the%20two.

In which the flooding stops, the waters recede, and there is math. Bob Cornuke, the guy who found the Ark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Cornuke Various sites about how fucking stupid that is: https://www.icr.org/news/70/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/4/100428-noahs-ark-found-in-turkey-science-religion-culture/#close https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/429804/Does-Noah-s-Ark-stranded-in-Iran https://biblearchaeology.org/research/contemporary-issues/2848-noahs-ark-in-iran  

In which the ark is... mathed. Yao Ming is tall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Ming Business Insider does ark stuff: https://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-noahs-arc-would-have-floated-with-70000-animals-if-built-by-dimensions-in-the-bible-2014-4 What is gopherwood? https://christiananswers.net/q-eden/gopherwood.html Who lived when in the OT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Genesis_patriarchs I have 30 years left to live: https://www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/life_tables/situation_trends_text/en/ What does Genesis 6:12 mean? https://www.bibleref.com/Genesis/6/Genesis-6-12.html The Smithsonian does ark stuff: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/could-noahs-ark-float-theory-yes-180950385/ When did Methusela die? https://answersingenesis.org/bible-timeline/genealogy/when-did-methuselah-die/ How did Methusela die? https://www.icr.org/article/how-did-methuselah-die How much does a sheep eat? https://www.smilingtreefarm.com/blog/how-much-grass-does-sheep-eat A new podcast series is inspired: https://answersingenesis.org/creation-science/baraminology/what-are-kinds-in-genesis/ That time I couldn't leave my house when I was 8: https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2016/02/oregon_flood_of_1996_20_years.html Southern Methodist University does ark stuff: http://www.physics.smu.edu/~pseudo/ScienceReligion/noahflud.htm

In which murder is invented and people baby make.   AIG explains Cain's wife: https://answersingenesis.org/bible-characters/cain/creation-basics/   Blue BIble explains Cain's wife: https://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/don_stewart/don_stewart_717.cfm

In which some stuff is made. Websites: Concordance: https://biblehub.com/hebrew/4725.htm Bible Translations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_into_Greek#cite_note-2 1 Corinthians 15:45: https://www.bibleref.com/1-Corinthians/15/1-Corinthians-15-45.html https://biblicalworldviewacademy.org/part-4-what-is-a-life-giving-spirit-1-corinthians-1545/