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Podcast: Sacrilegious Discourse - Bible Study for Atheists
Episode: Pondering Christianity Across the Pond
Description: America claims separation of church and state, then turns Christianity into a loud, sweaty political identity, complete with church “startups,” worship bands, and a whole personality built around telling strangers they’re going to hell unless they buy the premium “personal relationship with Jesus” package. Meanwhile, across the pond, England technically has a state church… and yet religion mostly shows up as background noise, like cultural wallpaper you get baptized, married, and buried in, without making it your entire Facebook bio. The hosts tear into the weirdness: in the U.S., “I’m a Christian” often reads like a polic...