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In this week’s episode, a baby killing contest is adjudicated in the courts, the Pope gets a stern talking-to for letting Muslim people play magic with him, and we’ll wipe some cobwebs off a 30 second timer.

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Headlines:

Conservatives Are Mad the Pope Prayed with Muslims and Jews To End COVID-19: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/05/17/conservatives-are-mad-the-pope-prayed-with-muslims-and-jews-to-end-covid-19/

Anti-vax BAD GUY FIGHT: https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-vaxx-movement-civil-war-has-erupted-and-its-just-as-ridiculous-as-youd-expect

In California, 3,000 Churches Vow to Open on Pentecost Sunday In Spite of COVID: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/05/15/in-california-3000-churches-vow-to-open-on-pentecost-sunday-in-spite-of-covid/

Calif. Christian With COVID-19 Exposed 180 People During Illicit Church Service: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/05/18/calif-christian-with-covid-19-exposed-180-people-during-illicit-church-service/

Hairdresser Says Her Salon Is Also a Ministry, So She Should Be Allowed to Open: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/05/15/hairdresser-says-her-salon-is-also-a-ministry-so-she-should-be-allowed-to-open/

Liberty University Just Got Rid of Its Entire Philosophy Department: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/05/12/liberty-university-just-got-rid-of-its-entire-philosophy-department/

Republican Atheist group releases teeny tiny little list of elected Republican Atheists: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/05/19/this-is-a-very-very-tiny-list-of-elected-atheist-republicans/

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This Week in Misogyny:

Roe admits Christians paid her to say she was anti-abortion: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/05/19/norma-mccorvey-a-k-a-roe-christians-paid-me-to-say-im-anti-abortion/

Comments

Nicolette

Book title: Ritual Sacrifice or Essential Capitalism?

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Book title: Syndemic.

AK

I suggest “America’s Sacred Disease”. It is the reference on the treatise regarding epilepsy (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sacred_Disease) and also Hippocrates is the father of medicine because he tried to deal with ailments as physical and not supernatural entities. He had to say in particular about epilepsy “Translated by Francis Adams It is thus with regard to the disease called Sacred: it appears to me to be nowise more divine nor more sacred than other diseases, but has a natural cause from the originates like other affections. Men regard its nature and cause as divine from ignorance and wonder, because it is not at all like to other diseases. And this notion of its divinity is kept up by their inability to comprehend it...”. (The translated text is here : http://classics.mit.edu/Hippocrates/sacred.html)

Mother pheasant plucker

Faith healing. Because it would be hilarious to get some dumbass Christians to purchase a book about how Christians are dumbasses.

Religion *is* Politics

Hi guys, Can’t tell you how much I appreciated today’s diatribe. One of the first things that ever shook my faith was learning about Nazis at the same age that I was coming to terms with Hell, as a believer. And so, when you noted that many Christians would be thrilled to see us to the gas chambers just as long as their soldiers had wings and halos, it was a familiar thought.

DJA

Got a Kingdom Kurz here in Statesboro

Mark Siefert

Book title: “Plague Went Before Him: How the Christian Right Worsened the COVID-19 Pandemic.” (I’m quoting Habakkuk 3:5 “Plague went before him; pestilence followed his steps.”)

Ann Pollard

Jesus Is My Vaccine. Crowning With Thorns (Or Crowned With Thorns, Crown of Thorns, etc.)

Ann Pollard

Unmasking The Christian Right

Ann Pollard

Meet Me At The Clusterfuck on Sunday

Ann Pollard

I'm assuming a subtitle on all these, explaining what the book's about. "The Covid Pandemic & How the Christian Right Killed People" or some such.

Bra Straps and Bitch Slaps

I’m a dressing on the side person. Sorry guys. In my defense, I don’t pour it on. I dip every bite. The salad gets soggy otherwise. Please don’t hate me.

Ann Pollard

The advantage to "Masks Be Damned" is that when "masks" is googled, viola! It's there. Also, Richard said, "The Mask Of Faith".

Bra Straps and Bitch Slaps

Also, regarding Eli being gone soon: IT’S OKAY. I think I speak for all of us when i say we would MUCH rather Eli get enough time with his newborn son than stress about returning to work. We’re all elated for him and Anna. Take all the time off y’all need!

Marcus

KALAM COSMETOLOGY. Thank you Heath. C r u s h i n g . I t .

fanghur

Book title: "Dr Strangegod: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the end times" "Exponential Dumb" Or a more serious one: "Deadly Devotion"

Autumn Sunset

"Hymnal of the Plague Year" "God's Plan-demic" "Plague Shepherds" I'm sure Noah can think of a better subtitle than I could, but hope you like these!

Melanie Gordon

Book titles would be easier if we knew any particular sections'/chapters' overarching concept idea. It probably breaks down into more than "Christians are bad, mmmmm'kay" Are you looking for single title or with sub-title? Feel free to rearrange or chop apart. Flock mentality: How Christianity Exacerbated a Pandemic Led astray: Christianity's Negative Influence on Pandemic Response Christianity's Killer Consequences: The Harm of Religious Ideology in a Pandemic

Melanie Gordon

I like Deadly Devotion, it sounds like a thriller/romance novel.

Fame and fortune guaranteed in the state of Tintucky

"A plague of helmeted locusts" "The Creed of COVID" "Reason in a time of pandemic" "The plague of God" " Plague of the mass' " Something that a religious person would pick up by mistake but is some what descriptive

Scott Lesch

I saw Shiva Ayyadurai campaigning at Market Basket in Gloucester. He had the "Real Indian" banner on his campaign school bus. I remember asking him about the "Real Indian" slogan and when he said Elizabeth Warren I turned and walked away. The next time I saw a poster for him it was on a derelict building on one of the shabbier sections of Route 1 outside of Boston.

BriggsyBoy

Plague of Serpents Subtitle: How Christian Venom Trumped Medicine or How The Religious Right Made America Sick Again I feel a bit fuzzy on the subtitle but you get the idea, some version of that. Their leaders and lackeys are the serpents, speaking with forked tongues and injecting venom into the discourse, and it works in the Trump phenomenon, and of course illness. The "sick again" part could even be a nod toward their role in past events like the influenza of 1918-1919, but I don't know if the book covers that aspect or not. And of course it's also a reference to the Biblical plague of fiery serpents.

Paul Oles

The Pandemic of the Apes

Alastair Lichten

My ideas: - Pestilent Priests - Preistdemic - A Pale Horse Great ideas: - How The Religious Right Made America Sick Again (BriggsyBoy) - Plague Shepherds (Autumn Sunset)

Chad from Cincinnati

Did you say Liberty University gets $800M A YEAR from the government!!!! I literally went to a university which, in the last five years, had to cut half its engineering department because someone had the gall to build a modern science building and it drained the last of their savings.... but hey, that guy from Cast Away wrote a $5M dollar check, soooo, square?

Colin Young

Suggested book title : “Blinded to Science”

Samantha Brown

These aren't very good titles but my idea are "Killer Beliefs: How America's Christian Right led one of the world's biggest health crises" or "Christianity Kills: How false beliefs led to the down fall of the American health care system in a time of crisis"

Jim Phynn

How about COVIDicus?

Oxford Comma is Mandatory

The last 2 predictions of Harold Camping the wife and I "celebrated" by going to a local strip club.

Ben O'Brien

Few title ideas: "Angels of Death", "Corona of Thorns", "Kissing the Lepers Clean" (that actually comes from a Catholic hymn called "the Summons"), "A Green Horse", "The Eleventh Plague"

Ben O'Brien

Subtitle idea: "How religious attitudes exacerbated the covid-19 pandemic"

Burls Bros

"how Trump used the church for a culture war." "Covid didnt kill grandma, Jesus did." "The scathing guide to religion." "'I wont stop preaching until i'm dead...' and other evidence god thinks you're doing it wrong" "What churches don't want you to know" <- that might boost sales for the rage wave crowd "If god loves you, why did he do this? The tale of two plagues working together"

Katie Stienmetz

Book title suggestion "God's Pandemic: Religion's effect on the spread of Covid-19"

crystaloftruth

Can we please make every future Patreon goal be another pajama party please?