Irreligiosophy

Anthropology Professor Ewa Wasilevska returns to discuss the content of a few classes she teaches at the University of Utah, including Anthropology of Humor and Laughter, Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, and a class on Death Rituals and Mummification. The result is quite interesting as we introduce Dr. Wasilevska to new ways to offend. Catch it [...]

Just in time for the season, we cover the angelic annunciation, Jesus’s trip down Mary’s perpetually virginal birth canal, Herod’s slaughter of the innocents, the Magi’s visit, Joseph and Mary’s flight to Egypt, and Jesus’s rocket ride from Krypton. All in one nice little tidy package wrapped up in a bow. Merry X-mas! [adbrite]

In this first guest episode in a long while, we discuss Jehovah’s Witnesses with former JW Tall Penguin. We discuss crazy doctrines such as the whole blood transfusion garbage, sexual behavior that is allowed, frowned upon, and downright verboten, the JW practice of shunning former members, and nearly everything else. The only thing we didn’t [...]

[leighton]Due to our episode on the Jehovah’s Witnesses we received a comment from a very special woman who we were able to convince to come on and speak with us concerning her experiences. She enlightens us much more than any research we could do and we’re glad to have her on to discuss her experiences [...]

Listener Rick got me off my fat, lazy ass to set up an Irreligiosophy group at Atheist Nexus, which you can find and join here. Join away. We may even put up some extra content on there, or something. [adbrite]

[leighton]Win or lose, Tod Cochrane just sent us the podcast awards packet. Looks like there may be an acceptance or rejectance speech from us after all on a live, non-editable feed. As long as there is no new age music it should be a good time. “CRITICAL: Please do some test Skype Video calls with [...]

We’ve come to the second part of our expose on the PodCastAwards competition, the “mostly skeptical” portion. Not to worry, there are still a few religious loons to dress down, but the majority of the podcasts we go over this week are indeed skeptical. And unfortunately, very boring. Nothing we could do about that — [...]