Everyone's Agnostic Podcast

Singer/songwriter, poet, Patsy Moore is our guest.  Cass became a fan of Patsy’s in the 90’s when she had 2 albums in the Christian market.  Now a student of New Thought Metaphysics, Patsy, Bob, and Cass have a good conversation about Ferguson, Robin Williams, suicide, and the longing for Home.  Check it out!  

Blake is one of us who reinvented himself at middle-age.  Spiritually, politically, and maritally.  Another candid interview of the personal journey and what we learn from the difficult choices.  Blake is a dear friend and fellow pilgrim on the sojourn.  I think you'll benefit from his story.  

Sam works in show business in L.A. and Nashville.  He and Cass were friends in high school.  He came out gay at age 30 and was recently diagnosed with HIV.  He walked out on church and didn't get struck with lightening on the way out.  After a year and half break-up with "god," he found passage in the Kabbalah.  He's funny and feisty and doesn't take any sh*t from Cass.  

You're gonna envy Julia's mother's side of the family, nee Divine.  Julia paints a picture of family reunions full of laughter, singing, and cimematic characters.  And how they reacted to her "coming out" as lesbian.  The patriarchal side is not so funny.  Julia's father sexually abused her for most of her childhood.  We talk about the notion of God being "father" and how that image obviously doesn't work for some.  Listen for how Julia finds her way through the maze of the sacred and the profane into a place of self-acceptance and her own spirituality.  

Mary was in Cass' youth group as a teenager.  Both have sojourned out of religion.  Now Mary finds herself back working under a Methodist umbrella as a bridge-builder, community-builder.  Its all about love for Mary.  We talk about being good without God, the inter-connectedness of all things, and God being the space between us all.  Her background is anti-religious and yet she finds herself able to work her magic with the institution of organized religion.  

Ben comes from a United Pentecostal background.  He considers himself a humanist.  Ben is the least angry person you'll meet regarding his religious background.   He loves Jonathan Haidt, considers himself to have a conservative brain, and amicable towards all points of view.  

Bob is a man still redefining himself after 60+ years of successes and failures.  He's a dreamer, a creator, a screenwriter, an avid reader and ironically intrigued with religion, even as a lifelong atheist.  He doesn't have a mean or angry bone in his body.  His story is one of close-calls, near misses, and yet he gets up, dusts himself off and looks for the next thing.  Gotta love him.  

In the second installment of the hosts interviewing each other, Bob interviews Cass.  Cass is a narcissist extraordinaire and loves to talk about himself.  Bob barely gets a word in edgewise.  One little question and Cass goes for days, linking thought upon thought til only the keenest listener can make sense of it.  How Cass got his nickname, his religious timeline, his kinky babysitter, his porn habit, his exit from Christianity and how his life hangs by a thread to the teachings of Hitchens, Camus, and Nietzsche.  Cass gets more and more inebriated as the show progresses.  He's slurring words, advising as a presumptious expert, and is clueless to how embarrassed the rest of feel for him, and how he should feel for himself.