[irrelig]After the Hindu podcast debacle, we go back to our roots in this one. Nice, familiar, Western religion, filled with slavery, nonsensical tirades against sex and children, and old-fashioned antisemitism: the Acts of Thomas and the Epistle of Barnabas. Ahhhh, it’s good to be back.

Plus, the Mims Carter Skunk Dick of the Week and a surprise announcement for June. Catch it here.

[irrelig]Well, you asked for it. Leighton does all of the research and most of the talking, and I sit back and attempt to add some color to the weird, weird story of Hinduism. If you’ve ever wondered what the hell is going on with the third largest religion in the world, well, we can’t really help you. We don’t understand it either. But go ahead and give it a listen here anyway.

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[chuck]While editing the new podcast on Hinduism, I noticed it was “Draw Muhammad Day.” Well, we here at Irreligiosophy couldn’t let that pass by unnoticed, so we put our intrepid starving Thai children to work. It took multiple threats of watching Kent Hovind videos, but here’s what they finally came up with:

New podcast up soon.

[irrelig]Finally! More than you ever wanted to know about comic books and the puritanical busybodies who almost destroyed them. We discuss the events leading up to the hysteria of the 1954 Senate hearings on juvenile delinquency, as well as the key players such as Bill Gaines of EC Comics and the dreaded Dr. Fredric Wertham. This episode has it all — crime, horror, gore, suppression of free speech, a televised showdown between giants, and a befuddled little psychiatrist who kept referring to his personal case records as “a laborious clinical study.”

It clocks in at just over 90 minutes; check it out here. And while you’re waiting for that to download, here’s a peek at another EC Comics cover to whet your appetite:

[chuck]Thanks for your patience. This week has seen some health problems in the family and a minor surgery, as well as Leighton’s finals, which are tonight. Give us a day or two more to get our shit together, and we should have another podcast out by Friday or Saturday.

Here’s a hint as to the subject material: