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Our next article is about an inmate
in West Virginia. The article is called

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West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to
participate in religious programmings was by AP News

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by Leah Willingham, published on July
twentieth of this year. So what's going

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on here is there has been a
hullabaloo in a prison where Andrew Miller,

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an inmate for breaking and entering,
was serving a one to ten year sentence.

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And now drugs were not part of
his issue with the breaking and entering.

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As a matter of fact, he'd
been seeing a secular psychiatrist therapist for

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quite a while and he'd been sober
for four years. So this was before

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the breaking and entering though, and
that was on his record. So when

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he went to jail, they said, you're going to have to do our

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rehab program. Problem is, the
rehab program is one of those twelve step

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deals, and those things are remarkably
religious. And that is what this judge

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found. And because he refused to
participate in a situation where they're telling him

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that he has to hear about how
he's sinful for rejecting God and be encouraged

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to give his life to God.
And be discouraged from taking personal agency.

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His sentence was going to be a
lot longer than if he had. So

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this effectively has become go to church
or stay in jail long. And that's

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what this judge has decided. And
finally we have some good news here.

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This is the right call I think
it is. What do you guys think?

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What's up? Chris? This is
awesome? This is like a really

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good ruling. It's it's kind of
crazy to me that a the taxpayers have

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been subsidizing this sort of a religious
program, and it's it's crazy also that

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I mean incarcerations ostensibly for the purpose
of rehabilitation, and it's hard to be

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rehabilitated if part of your requirements to
be rehabilitated or to at least, you

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know, shorten your sentence via the
rules are actually violate your freedom of religion

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or freedom from religion. UM.
So this is a really good ruling.

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UM. I hope this. I
hope this helps across the board and in

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more states than just just this one. Um, and that at least to

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an overall change in the way the
prison system works and the way the parole

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system works. What do you think, Scott? Yeah, um um,

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I agree. I think this is
a great Uh, this is definitely a

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step in the right direction. Tm. But but but I think it's a

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it's a good example of of what
I think is one of the themes on

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the nonprofits, and that is a
religion garner's unwarranted trust from the public.

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And it's just based on the fact
that it's religious alone, that it's it's

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seen as a good thing or you
know, you hear the phrase good Christian,

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right, Well, those words don't
always necessarily have to go together.

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We know that Christians can be just
as nasty as anyone else. Um.

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But but it's just, uh,
it's it's unwarranted trust. We see the

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same thing happen. And these stories
actually, sadly, very sadly, are

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are much more common in the news, the about the child abuse, the

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child sexual abuse in the church and
particularly in the Catholic Church. But families

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trust these clergy members with their children
because they're religious figures and they're and they're

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they're taught from an early age that
you know, the religion is good,

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Christianity is good, or whatever whatever
the religion happens to be. These religious

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leaders are trustworthy and to put our
money where our mouth is. And it's

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almost like maybe a virtue signaling as
well, look at us we trust with

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our children, you know, our
most valuable possession or what should be our

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most valuable valuable possession, go,
you know, go off and you know,

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teach them and do them well,
and and you know we've seen what

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happens there, and so this is
the same kind of thing. Um.

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You know, we know that these
twelve step programs there's questionable success rates at

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best. I mean, there's numbers
all over the place, and I think

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it's it's really difficult to tie them
down on because well, because you know,

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many of these programs are anonymous.
They're not allowed to gather data.

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And I wonder if that is intended
or I wonder if that is. You

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know, the cynic in me is
saying, well, they just don't want

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to have to be accountable and responsible. Um, although the skeptic in me

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says, well, you know,
maybe not, maybe they're just maybe they're

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maybe there's good intent behind that anonymity, and you know it's just a side

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effect here. But um, you
know, but we see that this kind

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of this effectiveness of these programs is
like I said, uh, variable at

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best, and so but it's trusted
because oh it says God right there.

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Okay, so that means we need
to go along with that. Maley,

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I know that you had something to
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Yeah. Well, like you said, it's it's very hard to pin it

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down. And I tried to look
all over the place for results, and

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you know, I saw as high
as sixty percent, six zero percent and

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uh so the Skylance dodes Um.
You can listen to his interview on NPR,

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get his book about this stuff.
But he really looked into the numbers

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and did the best he could with
the information he had. He's a very

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good approach and I forget exactly what
he did, but he talks about it

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in the interview to check it out, and he estimates somewhere between five and

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ten percent. You know, wow, that is definitely not sixty And I

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think he talks specifically about that sixty
percent figure. Again, I need to

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listen to it again to be sure, but it's a twelve minute interview worth

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listening to. When it does work
though, and this is the key part

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it's about. It seems to boil
down to being around people with a similar

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mindedness to you, you know,
being in a community of people who are

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trying to better themselves in the same
way that you are. You know,

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shoulders to lean on encouragement, you
know, and you can get that without

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the God thing for good and darn
sure. But that's that's what's effective when

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it is effective. So what are
they touting this these kind of programs for.

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What is it? It's not for
the effectiveness. Um, it's just

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because it's religious, I guess.
And the state is mandating this, well,

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I guess maybe not quite mandating so
much as not giving you because you

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know, parole isn't required, you're
not guaranteed it, right right, Yeah,

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it's mandating, not mandating, but
gun to your head you have.

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It's it's a difference between the stick
and threatening you by saying no carrot for

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you. It's effectively the same thing. It's jail or church, take pick

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your poison. That's what it boils
down to. Yeah, I wonder if

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just being um opposed to a program
like this, a Christian program like this,

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is just dangerous as to somebody trying
to get parole out of some places

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in this country. Anyway, Mally, before we started the show, you

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mentioned the Bible belt. If somebody's
down in the Bible Belt, then they're

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in prison and they are a known
atheist. Is that going to hurt them

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on their chances for parole? And
I'm afraid it would it? Really,

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I really am. One of the
things that really stood out to me really

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about this program was and I'm going
to read this, I'm going to risk

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myself sounding like a middle school or
talking doing a book report. But this

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came from a US Justice Department memo
from nineteen ninety four. As part of

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their rehabilitation, many inmates are ordered
to attend alcoholics anonymous meetings. This practice

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is ineffective and maybe a violation of
prisoners civil rights. This is from the

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Justice Department nineteen ninety four. Prisons
should offer a variety of treatment options for

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alcoholic inmates. So it surprises me
somewhat that West Virginia it took this long

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to come on board with this Justice
Department memo. This is what like thirty

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years later? What were they thinking? You know? And I wonder if

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the state legislature has a bill right
now how to make teaching intelligent design in

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public schools legal now, because I
mean, this is this seems so backwards

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to me in this state, and
I'm really worried about things like this.

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Uh, Chris, you have something
you'd like to add. Yeah, it

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really doesn't surprise me unfortunately, Um, that it did take this long,

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especially in a state in this area. M What bothers me is that I'm

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very skeptical that, well, this
is a good story. I'm very skeptical

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that it's actually gonna have a lasting
impact because I mean, what are the

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chances that people on that parole board
that we're making that decision did or didn't

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know about the religiosity of this specific
program and in the objections I mean,

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I believe that he would have had
the opportunity to, you know, voice

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his objections to that specific program.
So they made this decision with the full

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knowledge of of the the issue.
So I'm just sort of wondering if these

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sort of biases are just going to
take another form at the end of the

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day. Well, I think you're
onto something there, because because these parole

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boards are people. They're human beings. You know, they're not robots interpreting

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the law or executing the law or
whatever not yet, but um, but

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these are these are human beings.
They're from that area. And I think

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if what I'm hoping that something like
this would do would be to clarify the

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decision making process for for these boards
so that way they can so a they

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have guidance on how to make their
decisions and whether parole is warranted or not,

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but also be that there's accountability for
these people. They're making very important

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decisions about these people's lives. This
was a decision on whether or not somebody

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was going to stay in prison or
was going to be set free, you

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know, having satisfied the requirement,
you know, they're paid their debt to

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society, as it were, And
so these are big things for these people.

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And it's and it's almost it's almost
like a flippancy. It's almost like

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a like a it's more important to
stress the religiosity or it's more important to

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make that point than to oh,
well, oh it's gonna you know,

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this person's going to stay in jail
because of my decision. Oh well,

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you know, that's the way it
goes. You know, it's we need

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to take the decision making out out
of the out of the dark. Out

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of the dark, right, we
need to shine light on it, we

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need to have clarity of purpose.
We have to have clarity of execution.

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We have to have clarity accountability,
who's done what, and so that way,

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if something does happen, then you
know, we can go back and

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look at it. So I think
so hopefully my hope would be that that

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it would be something that we could
get out of this. If this brings

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attention to this type of thing,
Like you're saying, nineteen ninety what was

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it, nineteen ninety four, that
the ninety four, Yeah, that this

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had been decided already, and so
what we're thirty years later? Okay,

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well thirty years is better than nothing, but you know, if it's taking

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this long. There are other places. I tried to find out how religious

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West Virginia is. I'm not really
familiar with that area. What what I

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gathered was they were slightly more religious
than the nation as a whole. Um.

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If anybody knows better than that,
then let me know. But don't

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I just lost my track train of
thought there, So I don't know,

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Kelly, take bail me out here. I'm going to send it back to

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Chris because I know Chris has something, so no, I just I'm kind

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of wondering how they're really going to
be able to fix this because there's really

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only two options, um, now
that this has been ruled unconstitutional, and

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that is either to give to give
an another option to give some sort of

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a program that is a religious So
they have those two options, which is

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just going to highlight who chooses which
one and give them another area to be

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biased about, or it's going to
lead them to have to remove the religiosity

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from the program entirely. Um,
And like Scott was saying, to bring

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the sort of the decision making out
out of the out of the darkness and

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into the light and removing the ability
to have that sort of a bias.

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That's what I That was my That's
the point that I forgot that would lost

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track of that was it? Thank
you Chris for reading my mind and for

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putting that period right at the end
of that sentence for me. I appreciate

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that we need to have Chris around
Bore. I guess, yeah, no

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kidding. Can you come and hang
out with me in the classroom sometime?

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And you know, I to follow
up on that. Though these programs are

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usually voluntary, they're run by volunteers, they're not they're not funded by the

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state. And if we are going
to offer another program, a secular program,

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we need to get the volunteers for
it. I'm always talking about volunteering

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for a good cause. This is
a good cause. I'm not saying it

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telling everyone they should go out and
do it. But if you are going

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to do something, this might be
something that you want to think about to

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change the world into a better place. So um, that's what I'd like

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to see is to see more volunteers
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I don't think we're going to be
able to change this until we have that

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ability to provide these other programs to
people. Without being able to provide the

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program, the people like our defendant
here are going to be stuck. They're

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just going to be stuck. So
I don't I don't know where to go

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without that. So, Mally,
what what do you got for us?

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Well, you know, I don't
know that it would be that difficult to

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take the religiosity out of it.
The framework's there, The camaraderie that solves

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the problems, when the problems get
solved, is there. You know that

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you have the high I'm you know, Malle, and I'm an alcoholic.

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I actually, well, no,
I'm not. Well, it's there,

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so there's not a whole lot that
needs to be subtracted. The major points

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are things like, you know you'll
die in alcoholic hopeless death without God.

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Maybe take that out. And you
know you are irresponsible in lack of agency.

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Maybe take that out. And you
know there's um, there's not a

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whole lot more to be done.
I don't think you know, you could

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have two tracks in this program,
you know, one where you know you

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are responsible for yourself and you're gonna
learn the coping skills, and another one

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for the people who feel too helpless
to do anything without a daddy involved.

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It's just a thought. I mean, I don't know that. I's it's

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not a bad thought. If that
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withdraw the funding. My dad ran
an Alano club. That's the club the

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AA sets up an Alano club.
He ran his local Alano club for like

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fifty years, and he was not
a believer. And I when he passed

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away, and they had a memorial
service for him there, and I went

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there and it went on for six
hours of people coming up and talking about

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how he had changed their lives and
got them out of alcoholism. And he

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did it being an atheist. I
mean, he did it with the alcoholics

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anonymous, with the twelve step program, but he did it as an atheist.

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So I know it's possible to do
it. And I know that,

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like I have heard that again,
like it was mentioned before, five to

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ten percent success rate, My dad
seemed to have a lot bigger better success

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rate than that. It seemed like
anyway, at least that's six hours of

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people coming up there. I can't
say how many people dropped out of the

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program, but maybe maybe that they
need to get rid of God. Maybe

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that might be a key to making
more people successful in the well. There

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are other options too besides uh,
you know, talk therapy or group therapy,

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that kind of thing. There's medication
out there. There's was it now

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trek Zone is that the anti addiction
drug. I mean they've had great success

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with with NAL trek Zone and there's
uh, there was a good uh Malle

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mentioned Lance Dode and that reminded me
of this article that I saw in the

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Atlantic many years ago, and they
did a big review of all the different

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types of programs and they found that
the AA was the worst and that the

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most effective, uh treatment was just
take a pill and and and it affected

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the uh you know, the pleasure
centers in the brain that are triggered by

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this addictive behavior. And you know, that's that's attacking the problem. But

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but you know that doesn't have God, and so you know, I don't

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know how that would go. But
there are options. I mean, there

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are options, that's the thing.
And so they're they're kind of um and

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I you know, I maybe making
this full circle back to that unwarranted trust.

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You know, if they have options
that that are effective and that do

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work, they're putting this this unwarranted
trust in this program just because it says

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that maybe they just do a word
search for God and the document and any

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you know, oh, it mentions
God forty eight times there and only two

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times over here. God can solve
all of our problems. So exactly right.

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Of course, God would also be
the source of all of those problems

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too, is the source of all
right. But uh but that's you know,

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that's a that's that's I'm taking that
out of context. I guess I

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forgot one thing to add, and
that is ya, science exactly definitely,

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Yes, yeah, we can figure
out what works and what doesn't if we

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apply the right methods to what we
look out crazy, you know, all

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right? Um, I guess we'll
wrap it up there then, And if

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