Podcast #116: Irony, Stabbings, and Trusting God

3 September 25, 2016 by

116This episode of Drunk Ex-Pastors begins with yet another caller berating us about our ignorance about science, only this one comes from the most famous cosmologist alive. Christian then provides us with a well-studied and non-ironic lesson about irony, after which Jason gets some well-deserved props for his mockery of the South. We take several more calls leading us into such topics as whether mass stabbings are music to the NRA’s ears, whether doubt on the part of an evangelical leader will get him fired, and whether trusting in god is really any different from betting your bottom dollar that the sun’ll come out tomorrow. Christian’s “Feeding Friendsy” tackles the utterly disastrous effects of the Obama presidency. Jason is biebered by unnecessary improvements to things, while Christian’s bieber involves feigned outrage over perfectly reasonable insults of certain kinds of people.

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  1. • Well, declaring bankruptcy four times worked for the next President of the United States.
    • There are a few different ways to declare bankruptcy, if you choose the way to discharge your debt, you can only file every seven years. It discharges your debt, you don’t have to pay it back.
    • If you fought for the South, you’re part of the South.
    • I find myself angry these days because I think our country might have been infiltrated by HYDRA and we don’t have a Captain America to go around punching them out of it.
    • If you see a shrink, they might give you a short term course of antidepressants, if you’re interested in that.
    • Oh, I’m an open book. Even when things are going well, there’s a part of me that wonders when God/the Universe/Life is going to let the other shoe fall and crush my happiness because I somehow deserve it because I’m evil/sinful/defective.
    • Thanks, fundamentalism!
    • If you’re crazy knife stabber had a gun, more people would be dead. Guns are more effective killing weapons than knives. That’s why we invented guns. They’re fucking great at killing people. You can pop off 30 shots from a distance and kill people way the hell over there. You get a knife, you’ve got to run up to people and stab them. They can fight back. They can run away. Gun? Shoot ‘em when they run. Ask anyone. Do you want a knife or a gun in a zombie apocalypse?
    • You should be doubtful about fundamentalist Christianity. It’s fucking horrible. A political bastardization more concerned with gays, abortion, sex, and emotionalism than it is with helping people. Often spewing trite clichés, political opinions as fact, and utter bullshit from the pulpit.
    • http://clergyproject.org/ – I’ve heard this organization can help.
    • Charitably, when people tell you to trust God, they are saying to stop worrying because it will all work out in the end, and if it doesn’t work out in the end, that must be God’s will, so there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s a sort of fatalistic approach to life.
    • Uncharitably: Trusting God: the act of setting aside your normal impulses to worry, plan, and act and choosing to sit on your ass while wishing really hard that your life’s problems would go away.
    • Practically, do your best, and hope that there is a benevolent entity out there that has your back, and if your life goes to shit, you can scream, cry, yell, cuss at the sky and maybe He hears you and will comfort you and wipe away your tears in the end and somehow He will set it right so that your heart doesn’t ache.
    • I don’t understand why God allows such bullshit to happen, but I want to be there to hug and help and be hugged and helped by my fellow man, and I guess we’ll find out when we die if He allowed it because he wasn’t there or if he had a reason that was above my understanding.
    • I give up. People like your friend are fucking stupid.
    • And we have a 50/50 shot of being run by a sociopathic, narcissist, reality show idiot. Because the stupid people are throwing a tantrum.
    • Well, we’re straight white men, so yeah, we’ll be fine.
    • He could cause a recession. He could torpedo the nuclear agreement with Iran. He could start a war with Iran. He could deport or intern Muslims. He could stack SCOTUS with picks that will roll back gay rights.
    • But for now, he is empowering fascists, making white supremacy normal in our political discourse, getting these people out of the woodwork, so they vet their noxious bullshit with pride.
    • Anyway, I think we’re going to get President Trump, so I guess we’ll find out.
    • I think we’ll get him because our media doesn’t practice actual journalism.
    • I should probably stop typing and go brush up on my archery skills and prepare to fight the post-apocalyptic raider gangs.

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