The idea that religion or belief in religion makes someone a good person is nonsense. There, we said it. It’s like boozers or potheads. Whether someone drinks too much or smokes too much weed isn’t what makes them a good or bad person. What makes a good or bad person is how people treat each other. That’s it. Nobody, religious or otherwise, has a monopoly on goodness. It’s just not a thing that’s true. How we treat each other, and how we take care of others as well as ourselves, is the measure of the goodness in humanity, and right now, a lot of folks are ticking boxes in the ‘not good’ category.

We have in the USA this obsession with the charismatic extroverts who have often times questionable qualifications for for leading a country (i.e. Donald Trump). We keep electing these people repeatedly, act appalled that they don’t actually do what they say (ahem, where’s the infrastructure plan DJT said he would deliver?). Now, across-the-board among Republicans, these people blindly love Donald Trump. They claim he’s a Christian (if he is, he’s certainly never acted like one). They claim he’s a man who knows how to get stuff done (I guess if you count tax cuts for the wealthy, then ok). It’s gotten so bad in some red states and areas that preachers openly say that if you are a Democrat, you’ve got a demon inside and they're kicking Democrats out of churches.

This episode is about cults. More specifically, it’s about one cult: the cult of MAGA. Tune in and understand that the radicalization situation is worse than you think.

In this podcast, Don, Chuck, and Christina begin discussing the January 6th hearings. But in true Right and Freedom fashion, we quickly dive into a discussion about the fact that Herschel Walker has been said to have been more Christian than Ralph Warnock. Now, for the thousandth time if you listen to our podcast, we have to say that laws in this country shouldn’t be based on anyone’s religion. So does it really matter who is the more Christian of the two? Not a chance in hell. And yet, Newt Gingrich is just short of a divinity in the minds of many on the right, so no doubt this endorsement will sway some people.

Troubling indeed.

Couple that with banned books and some side-conversation about parthogenesis among frogs and other animals, and you have the crux of what this podcast episode is about. Mostly — it’s about freedom, and how the only way to a truly free society is to completely extricate the religious arguments from our debates about laws. Period. Because any society that makes its laws based on any particular religion cannot be said to have true freedom of religion, can it? Take a listen and you decide!