Cleveland comedian Bill Squire joins the podcast to break down his hilarious bit about baptisms from his new album Bam Bam to prove that you CAN laugh at indoctrination.

Though this episode explores what's funny about the religious ceremonies and stories that have indoctrinated (and killed) millions over the centuries, we have to be able to question the societal and social stories that have been drilled into our heads since we were kids too.

It's hard to question the identities we've build around these stories, but the moment you start to take a step back, it's hard not to laugh about the double standards and silliness that exist just under the surface.

Sometimes all it takes is a good baptism joke to do it.

In this episode, we also talk about:

-Making boring topics dark.

-How Bill’s baptism bit is funny first to distract from the controversial stance he's taking.

-Boring old ceremonies like graduations, weddings, and baptisms.

-Adding your own flavor to traditional ceremonies.

-The origin of many major religious ceremonies and traditions.

-Relating Mormonism to mainstream Christian religion.

-Thrusting the responsibility of choosing a religion and baptism on 8 year-olds.

-The dark story behind why many faiths baptize babies.

-The fear of sinning as a kid.

-Not having the answers, but having to have AN answer.

-Astrology.

-New ceremonies and traditions on social media.

-Joking about generational differences.

-The Good Samaritan.

-Using reasoning and critical thinking to challenge pre-conditioned beliefs.

-Having a counterpoint of not liking science.

-Starting a religion.

-Questioning and challenging your conditioning instead of questioning and challenging the questioning and challenging in order to improve the conditioning for the next generation.

And more!!!

Learn more about Bill at billsquire.com

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Listen to The Bill Squire Show: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1248-the-bill-squire-show-63493488/

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Instagram & Twitter: @billsquire

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