The Non-Prophets, Episode 21.43 airing Sunday, October 23, 2022 featuring Jason Sherwood, Helen Green, Richard Firth-Godbehere and August

he time to take back The Non-Prophets is now! No longer will the gay frogs, or some kind of media, or billion dollar judgments stop us from bringing you the news and topics of the day from a skeptical humanist perspective. Especially since there are settlements and closures that can help us heal from history. This week I get to lead an amazing panel of Helen Green, Professor Doctor Richard Firth-Godbehere, and August. This episode was so packed we hardly were able to end it properly! Let’s get into it.

First, we start in our own backyard of Austin Texas. Where friend of the show and shouty conspiracy broadcaster is ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars in damages to the victims and families of the sandy hook school shooting. Will this get appealed? Will he show up to that appeal? Does he have any appeal? It’s hard to say. The good news is he can always start over by going back to the Austin Public Access station.

Next up we head over to the Equal Rights state. Awesome, that means only good things coming out of Wyoming right? A ranch for troubled teens… Oh no. Closes following abuse allegations. Oh come on! Seems this ranch is little more than a work camp designed to use impossible working conditions and violence to keep teen girls in line. Oh so it can get worse! Well fine they are closed down at the very least that has to be a step in the right direction. Except the state didn’t shut them down. This one’s a rollercoaster.

Whew, well maybe we can take a little look back. Let’s see Salem Witch Trials! Dang it! For this we explore what happened in those days and how the media has turned it into a running joke. Us Non-Prophets are not laughing though. We take a hard look at our history so that we can stand and say never again on our watch will we let this happen again. We won’t stand by while others minimalize the idea of a “witch hunt”

Finally this week we talk about Vatican II and the rise of Atheism. At the Vatican sees it at least. Many a strawman will be talked about. We will also see the basis of theist apologetics that persisted for decades. With so many generalizations and misunderstandings, it’s amazing Atheists and Theists can talk together at all.

Segment 1: Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook families nearly $1 billion for hoax claims, jury says Rueters/ By Jack Queen and Jacqueline Thomsen/ October 12, 2022

https://reut.rs/3TrKMDl

$1B judgment against Alex Jones not the final word / AP News/ DAVE COLLINS, MICHAEL HILL and JAKE BLEIBERG/ October 14, 2022

https://bit.ly/3eWiMca

Segment 2: Wyoming ranch for troubled teens closes following abuse allegations NBC News/ By Tyler Kingkade / October 6, 2022

https://nbcnews.to/3D05N1f

Segment 3: Looking Back - Community at its absolute worst’: revisiting the horror of the Salem witch trials/ The Guardian/ Veronica Esposito/ October 5, 2022

https://bit.ly/3gwAHGT

The Witches of Salem/ The New Yorker/ Stacy Schiff/ August 31, 2015

https://bit.ly/3z4DZHB

Segment 4: Vatican II and the Rise of Atheism/ The National Catholic Register/ Stephen Bullivant/ October 13, 2022

https://bit.ly/3VSeJ1e

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