Penn Jillette’s atheist fundraiser: Bacon, skepticism and Trump on the side

Matt Donnelly and Penn Jillette prepare for Penn’s Sunday School Podcast during a Church of Bacon fundraiser and barbecue Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015, at Jillette’s house. The house is to be converted into a skeptic and atheist community center and home of the Church of Bacon.

By John Katsilometes
Monday, Oct. 26, 2015 | 12:28 p.m.

Gaining followers as he sheds weight, Penn Jillette realized a vision in the desert Sunday afternoon: The Slammer, his famous first Las Vegas home, has become a fortress for atheist and skeptical philosophies.

That, and some unvarnished rock ’n’ roll.

The first fundraising event at the Slammer for its new tenant, the United Church of Bacon, drew 500 to 1,000 devotees. It was not easy to keep track of them all, for the various doughnut, bacon and couscous stations placed around the property.

But it was a generous and ebullient throng that included three members of “The Real World Las Vegas” cast (being filmed around town as they reside at Gold Spike downtown), a few “Jersey Boys” cast members (including the Singing Fentons), improv comics Paul Mattingly and Matt Donnelly, and even Jillette’s reunited No God Band (with Lon Bronson on drums).

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