[pz]Irreligiosophy has hit the big time! We spend an hour or so shooting the breeze with reigning king of science blogging and New Atheist™ PZ Myers of Pharyphilongula fame about all kinds of godless goodness: the “frackin’ cracker” incident, his appearance on Expelled, his experiences debating creationists, fr*ming, the time he spent in Utah among those crazy Mormons, and lots more.

All this and an announcement on how to obtain your very own Irreligiosophy Doctorate, guaranteed 100% every bit as credentialed as Kent Hovind’s, or we’ll refund your $1.99 back. Check it out here.

[irrelig]Continuing our fan-requested and much-beloved guest month, we discuss an inordinately strange cult surrounding a little old lady who claims to be an avatar of God, but can’t cure her own diabetes and deafness. Fun and hijinks abound as we discuss chakras, yogic meditation, and a whole host of unpronounceable Hindu words with a guy who grew up inside the insanity. Go ahead and spin your chakra right here.

Also, we knew we’d have to do something special for our 69th episode, so we lined up our biggest guest to date. In fact, our guest for episode #69 is slightly more famous than our only other famous guest, Bob Price. He actually has a huge following, and has even been on the silver screen. Find out who in 3 short days.

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[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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[irrelig]Well, it’s finally up so now I can get some real sleep. In this episode, we cover 3 more Chick Tracts, all sent in by our audience since our Thai child passed on during our absence: “Oops,” a “tract for blacks,” “Fairy Tales,” about a poor little boy screwed up by his horrific upbringing, and “The Last Generation,” an accurate prognostication about the “near future” apocalypse as told by the Bible and interpreted by our intrepid scribe, Jack T. Chick.

Check it out here. Me, I’m off to bed and hope to wake up sometime next week.

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[irrelig]And here we go … the talk with Leighton’s brother Sean ran a marathon 3+ hours, from which we have distilled the resulting two episodes. A quick summary: Sean repeatedly castigates us for not showing proper respect to ludicrous and patently untrue beliefs while simultaneously approving of his Church’s attempt to deprive homosexuals of basic human rights. He refuses to answer important, pertinent questions regarding his faith, blithely ignores reality, and even Godwins us at the end of the first episode. What I found most impressive is that he remained cheerfully impregnable to reason and logic all the way to the end.

Since we’ve missed a few weeks in the past, we figure it’s only fair to release both episodes at once. Have at them.

[irrelig] Get your 75 million year-old body thetans and past life negative engrams purged, disconnect from any PTSs, prepare to perform auditing procedure R2-45 on any SPs, and read your KSWs, because this episode is all about Scientology. And out of fear of further chastising emails from Leighton’s brother Sean, we treated this particular belief system with exactly the respect it deserves.

Which is to say, none at all.