How rich is The Vatican?

Last week, Pope Francis condemned the world's "Cult of Money" saying that the economic crisis had left millions of people in rich and poor countries worse off. It's a strange person to hear it from, since the Catholic Church are well known for their massive wealth.

Religion in the Family (Atheist Experience)

The Atheist Experience #914 for April 19, 2015, with Matt Dillahunty and Tracie Harris.

Topic: Religion and Families. Tracie talks about how religions can destroy family structures and bonds.

Callers:
Sam from New York, NY - What is the origin of circumcision?
Zach from Charlotte, NC - What brought the universe into existence?
Ben from El Salvador - What do you think of the subjugation of indigenous Americans via religion?
Emily from Wisconsin - Can atheists benefit from 12-step programs like AA?





WHAT IS THE ATHEIST EXPERIENCE?

The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at a non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin.

The Atheist Community of Austin is organized as a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals.

We define atheism as the lack of belief in gods. This definition also encompasses what most people call agnosticism.

Understanding the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Over the past few weeks, we've seen these controversies in Indiana and Arkansas involving laws that could allow religious discrimination against gay people.



Hemant Mehta, 2015

Bryan Fischer Gets Heated In SCOTUS Rant

Bryan Fischer delivers a heated rant about the Supreme Court taking up the marriage case.



Focal Point on AFA Channel, 2015

The Bank of God

The Vatican City is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome. Encircled by a 2-mile border with Italy the city covers just over 100 acres, making it one-eighth the size of New York's Central Park. Vatican City is governed as an absolute monarchy with the Pope as its head. And is one of the most sacred places in Christendom. The Vatican mints its own Euros, prints its own stamps, issues passports and license plates, operates media outlets and has its own flag and anthem. The Vatican also has its own bank.



The Vatican bank serves thousands of Catholic charities, religious orders and dioceses around the world, in addition to roughly 500 people living in the tiny city-state. It has some 33,400 accounts and about $8 billion in assets. Yet the Vatican bank's murky finances, which has been suspected for years of being a channel for the laundering of mob profits, perhaps has a skeleton in the closet. In this movie we look into financial scandals that have always plagued the Bank of Vatican


Aperture. The Bank of God

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CNN Anderson Cooper interviews Lawrence Wright on Scientology Inc

Anderson Cooper asks Larry Wright about his whistle blowing book. Larry Wright worked for 3 years on the book, "Going Clear, Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief."



Interview done in 2012.

God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican (w/ Gerald Posner)

Gerald Posner the author of God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican explains the history of Vatican banking. The Church's financial strategy and its role in supporting the Nazi Party. How the Vatican Church facilitated money laundering for global criminal groups and how the Vatican is still hiding its questionable financial history.

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Crazy Tennessee Baptists Will Make You Smile

Baptist pastors ranted, whooped, and stormed across the pulpit before a cheering crowd last week at a teen camp meeting.

The event took place April 11 at Middle Tennessee Baptist Church, where the fired-up pastors bellowed gibberish and ran into the crowd, where they slapped hands with the congregation...



Clip from the Thursday, April 23rd 2015 edition of The Kyle Kulinski Show, which airs live on Blog Talk Radio and Secular Talk Radio monday - friday 4-6pm Eastern.

How To Stop Football Injuries According To Allen West

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is locked in a dispute with the University of Tennessee Knoxville over it's policy allowing on field prayer before it's football games. In defense of on field prayer is Allen West noted football player and attempted politician from time to time. John Iadarola and Desi Doyen of The Young Turks discuss.

Should on field prayer be banned? Tell us what you think in the comment section below.



"Disgraced Floridian and former congressman Allen West took some time recently to address a Texas conservative group about the dangers of separating church and state—dangers like grievous football injuries, specifically. But thankfully, that ain’t nothing a little prayer can’t fix.

So where does West get off making these claims?

It appears West’s various head-on attacks did a little more damage than he realizes, because his claims of a lack of “catastrophic injuries” back in his day are demonstrably false. What’s more, the instance he was responding to didn’t even involve removing prayer from football entirely."