Podcast 004: Forget Polite, Let’s Talk Religion




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Summary: In This Episode: “We’re told that in polite society that you don’t talk politics or religion.” Yeah, whatever: as Clare says, we’re not always in a polite society. Episode 2 talked politics, so let’s get to religion!<br><br> <br> Jump To…<br> <a href="https://thisistrue.com/wp-content/uploads/week-1205.png"></a><br> <br> * <a href="#notes">Show Notes</a><br> * <a href="#subscribe">How to Subscribe</a><br> * <a href="#comment">How to Comment</a><br> * <a href="#transcript">Episode Transcript</a><br> * <a href="https://thisistrue.com/category/podcasts/">List of All Episodes</a><br> <br> <a name="notes"></a><br> Show Notes<br> <br> * Columnist Ken Herman’s <a href="http://www.mystatesman.com/news/opinion/herman-texas-agency-says-its-cross-nonsectarian-symbol-death/Xo05tCJud7PqtxsOrNylcP/">column in the Austin American-Statesman</a> was the basis for the story discussed.<br> * I quoted the <a href="https://ffrf.org">Freedom From Religion Foundation</a> in my discussion.<br> * The font for road signs is called Highway Gothic Expanded.<br> * Tom Robbins’ book that Clare mentioned: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00FJ376EQ/thiistru-20">Tibetan Peach Pie</a> (A True Account of an Imaginative Life) — Which Robbins declared was his “un-memoir.”<br> * Malcom Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast, a production of the 121-employee Slate Group, which was created by Graham Holdings Company (of the Washington Post fame) but is now owned by Univision Communications, a multimedia company with 16 broadcast, cable and digital networks; 61 television stations; and online and mobile apps, products and content creation facilities in New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami, is <a href="http://revisionisthistory.com">here</a>.<br> <br> <a name="subscribe"></a><br> How to Subscribe<br> Search for Uncommon Sense in your podcast app or on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/uncommon-sense-the-this-is-true-podcast/id1259380128">iTunes</a>, or manually enter this feed URL into your app: https://thisistrue.com/feed/podcast<br> Also available via <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Ixj6haluiswf4e5wiw4qksmlzni?t%3DUncommon_Sense:_the_This_is_True_Podcast%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16">Google Play</a>, <a href="https://player.fm/series/uncommon-sense-the-this-is-true-podcast-1496500">PlayerFM</a>, and more to come.<br> <a name="comments"></a><br> Comments and Questions?<br> Your comments on this episode are welcome below. Questions can be added there, sent via this site’s <a href="https://thisistrue.com/contact/">Contact Page</a>, or tweeted to <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisIsTrue">@ThisIsTrue</a>.<br> <a name="transcript"></a><br> Transcript<br> Randy: Welcome to the Uncommon Sense podcast. I’m your host, Randy Cassingham.<br> Clare: And I am Randy’s co-host, Clare Angelica.<br> Randy: Yay!<br> We’re told in polite society that you should not talk about politics or religion.<br> Clare: I don’t think we’re polite society sometimes.<br> Randy: Maybe not. Maybe not! Well, a couple of weeks ago we talked about politics, and you know it’s only episode four: let’s go for religion.<br> Clare: All right.<br> Randy: Last week’s newsletter had a story out of Texas. In 2011, Texas legislators passed a law theoretically to raise awareness for motorcycle safety. And what the law does is allow family or friends to buy a sign that the state will put up at a crash site in memory of the person who was killed. The kind of interesting thing about this, and why it’s religion, is the law requires, no matter whether the person was religious or not, and no matter if they were Christian or not,