Irreligiosophy

Apparently I was wrong, there will indeed be a podcast this week — provided to us by long-time listener and prior guest interviewee Emma. In honor of “Fuck You Fans Month,” she hosts an interview with Leighton and I for “Fuck You Hosts Day.” Give it a listen, but I’d like to remind all you [...]

As you probably already know, we’re late on the podcast this week — it’s just been too damn busy around here. We’ll have one up next Tuesday, and it may or may not be the Proposition 8 podcast we’ve been threatening for weeks. That all really depends on getting Leighton off his lazy ass to [...]

[leighton] After we interviewed Nathan, we thought it might make for an interesting show to have his sister, the figurehead of the Westboro Baptist Church, come onto the sow. Unfortunately, in our opinion, we believe we were woefully wrong. Between attempts at maintaining calm there is little more than a long litany of quoted scripture [...]

In this podcast, we discuss Fred Phelps and the infamous Westboro Baptist Church with estranged son Nathan Phelps. We discuss details of Westboro Baptist theology and practices, how Nathan managed to get the hell out of Dodge, and how he dealt with the aftermath of his upbringing. It’s a rare, fascinating, and deeply personal glimpse [...]

For this episode, we cover the strange LDS practice of baptizing corpses just in case they change their mind and want to become Mormons in the afterlife. We cover the roots of the practice, why it’s done and what scriptural justification Mormons give for it, and the various controversies surrounding it. Also, we actually brought [...]