AS5: Atheist Churches

AS5: Atheist Churches

Author: seriouspod.com February 3, 2014 Duration: 50:15

Should atheists have churches?  Find out what the guys think about this as well as bogus positive thinking experiments and nuns opting out of Obamacare.

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