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b'Live recording of Episode 200 coming on May 20 at 3:00 PM MDT\\n\\nNEWS\\n\\nAn AZ rep\\u2019s secular invocation was followed up by a prayer\\nhttp://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/04/19/an-az-state-rep-gave-a-godless-invocation-so-her-colleague-said-a-christian-prayer-to-correct-her/\\n\\nSan Antonio mayor blames homelessness on broken godless people\\nhttp://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/04/24/san-antonio-mayor-issues-non-apology-after-blaming-poverty-on-broken-people-who-arent-christian/\\n\\nFederal Judge Smacks down Trump\\u2019s attack on \\u2018sanctuary cities\\u2019\\nhttps://thinkprogress.org/jeff-sessions-amateurish-unconstitutional-assault-on-immigrants-dd6ab8a1671e\\n\\nTrump\\u2019s cabinet has a Bible study with an extreme dominionist pastor\\nhttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/trump-cabinet-has-bible-study-meetings-with-pastor-who-wants-disciples-of-christ-to-take-over-the-government/\\n\\nThe religious right is hoping SCOTUS will gut church state separation\\nhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/religious-right-rallying-for-supreme-court-to-weaken-church-state-separation-with-gorsuchs-help/\\n\\nBaby Names\\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/world/asia/china-xinjiang-ban-muslim-names-muhammad-jihad.html\\n\\nRussia has banned Jehovah\\u2019s Witnesses\\nhttp://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/russia-bans-jehovahs-witnesses-after-religious-right-hailed-putin-as-christian-hero/\\n\\nThe Chechen president has vowed to eliminate gay men within a month\\nhttp://www.gaystarnews.com/article/chechnya-president-vows-eliminate-gay-men-may/\\n\\nHomeless trans woman refused meal at Christian soup kitchen\\nhttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/04/transgender-woman-ejected-church-soup-kitchen-wearing-dress/\\n\\nFormer priest extradited from Guatemala, charged with sexual assault of child\\nhttp://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/cops-priest-arrested-at-jfk-charged-with-sexual-assault-1.13516380\\n\\nSaudi Arabia elected to UN women\\u2019s rights commission\\nhttps://www.unwatch.org/no-joke-u-n-elects-saudi-arabia-womens-rights-commission/\\n\\nJordan has removed the marriage rape loophole\\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/39692020\\n\\nMalaria vaccine to start pilot next year\\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/39666132\\n\\nNo, it\'s not a waterfall of gawd\'s blood\\nhttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/glacier-feeds-blood-colored-waterfall-in-antarctica/\\n\\nFEEDBACK\\n\\nRevan via email\\n\\nHello Dustin, Lauren, and Wesley,\\n\\nFirst off, congrats to Dustin and Lauren!\\n\\nI just finished listening to your last podcast "Jehovah\'s Kingdom" and I wanted to fill in some gaps for you. First off all you did a great job explaining what "we" believe. Oh, I guess I should mention that I was a jw for thirty years. I am a second generation and I am a born-in, what we in the ex-jw community refer to those of us whose parents were jws when we were born and that is the only thing we knew. I am an atheist now but for simplicities sake I will simply refer to what the jws believe and what watchtower teaches as "we believe".\\n\\nWe would never use the phrase "Jehovah\'s (JH) Kingdom". It is God\'s Kingdom. We believe that while it is ultimately JH\'s kingdom he is not the king but instead has entrusted his son Jesus as the king of the kingdom. Jesus took kingdom power in Oct 1914 after which he cleansed the heavens and expelled Satan and all of the demons to the earth where they are currently confined until the end of Armageddon. When Jesus took kingdom power that began a short time period called "The Last Days" which is a short time period between 1914 and the beginning of the Great Tribulation. We came to the date 1914 because of the prophecy in Daniel speaking of the 70 weeks of years. In it Daniel has a vision of a great tree that is cut down but then the stump is banded to prevent it from growing for 70 weeks of years. We believe the great tree is the line of kingship from King David and it was cut down when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem in 607 BCE (side note, the 1914 doctrine is the single most important doctrine in JW theology and they insist that Jerusalem was dest...'