America (Almost Never) Reads the Bible

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If all going to church does is make you support ICE and hate your neighbor, one, your church is doing it wrong, but also just the act of going to church or just the act of reading the Bible doesn't accomplish what you think it's going to accomplish precisely because it's just performative.

Hey, everybody, I'm Dan McClellan.

Dan Beecher (3:23)

And I'm Dan Beecher.

Dan McClellan (3:24)

And this is Data Over Dogma, where we increase public access to the academic study of the Bible and religion, and we combat the spread of misinformation. About the same. How are things today, Dan?

Dan Beecher (3:35)

Things are good, things are good. You and I just spent some lovely time out in Cambridge, Massachusetts, talking to some folks over at the Harvard Divinity School, and that was a barrel of laughs.

Dan McClellan (3:51)

I got to have some Dunkin Donuts, so, which was great, so.

Dan Beecher (3:55)

I skipped it. I shouldn't have, but I didn't.

Dan McClellan (3:57)

You did not become a Dunking, huh?

Dan Beecher (4:00)

No, I managed not to dunk this trip. I'll do it again another time.

Dan McClellan (4:06)

All bets are off, yeah, next time.

Dan Beecher (4:08)

Yeah. But yeah, it was a wonderful time. If you want to hear us talk more about it and heap praise upon the organizers of it and talk about the Religious Trauma Symposium that we went to, you can become a patron and hit us up over on patreon.com where we talked about it quite a bit on the after party that our patrons get. That's the bonus content. Plus, if you sign up for that, you get to listen to this whole show early and without any ads. So it's a great reason to go and head on over there. Anywho, we have a fun show to talk about this week. We got some interesting stuff going on.

We're going to start with, we're going to get topical and talk about America Reads the Bible, which is a marathon event in which a whole bunch of mostly smiling white folks read a bunch, read the Bible straight the way through, sort of 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. over at the, what do they call it, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC.