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OK, so I didn’t go see Episode 3 on Friday. Hooray for me!

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Yeah, I know. But I really was in no shape to go out to the movies and deal with (shudder) crowds. So I went to hang out with Absu and Monster and the girlfriends instead, and a much better time was had by all. Maybe I’ll go see it tonight instead. Monday afternoons are great for seeing movies: no one goes to see movies on a Monday afternoon.

In the meantime, I’d like to point y’all to yet another one of the many podcasts I listen to daily: Stupid Church People. Now, those of you who know me, also know that I’ve become a fairly dedicated agnostic and humanist. Couple that with my general disdain for most churchgoers, which comes from having been part (unwillingly, for the most part) of both catholic and protestant churches for a large chunk of my life. All of this together means that I generally wouldn’t listen to one of the many so-called ‘godcasts’, religious podcasts, not even if you paid me. I’ll admit that I have a generally dim view of most religious folk, and while I do try to move beyond this prejudice, I’m not there yet.

Stupid Church People, however, has shown me that there’s a bit more out there than just the usual ‘god hates fags but loves your gun rack’ crowd. The hosts of this podcast, Steve and Josh, are christians, and both of them come from typical ‘hellfire and damnation, now pass the collection plate’ churches, and, thankfully, both are mostly recovered.

They do a weekly podcast where they talk about their experiences in their church, whatever comes to mind, and point out the huge amount of hypocrisy, blindness, and idiocy that pervades their church brethren. They curse, they gamble, they drink, they listen to 50 Cent, and that’s all right. These guys are hilarious, smart, and laser-accurate when they start dissecting the problems with the church and church people in general.

In the past couple of weeks that I’ve been listening, these guys have gone to an indian casino, compared going to church with sucking on God’s nipple, claimed that Jesus poops, taken Benny Hinn to task, and they’ve been consistently smart, funny, and brilliant all throughout. I’m a huge fan of these guys, and even when I don’t agree with their faith, I can still respect and admire them as humans, and I can only wish that more stupid church people were like them. Go check them out at StupidChurchPeople.com.