Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — A Christian hate-preacher condemned me ‚Ķ for quoting him accurately. (1:05) — Creationist Michael Peroutka won the GOP primary for Maryland attorney general. (20:21) — A staffer found illicit pics on a priest's printer. Then the cover...
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Happy James Webb Telescope Images week for all who celebrate! (0:30) — How seriously should we take the allegations against right-wing radio host Jesse Lee Peterson? (10:28) — A Christian writer thinks she's being persecuted for her fai...
Jul 15, 2022•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Why are insane Christians cheering the destruction of the Georgia Guidestones ? (1:16) — A record-low 20% of Americans say the Bible is literally true. (10:50) — A right-wing activist said on a hot mic that she prays with Supreme Court ...
Jul 08, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Roe v. Wade was overturned and the conservative Christian dream is a nightmare for everyone else. (0:01) — The Supreme Court also rewarded a preaching Christian football coach with a decision based entirely on lies. (42:40) — Maine lawm...
Jul 01, 2022•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Evangelist Franklin Graham told a woman to stay with her abusive husband after downplaying her suffering. (1:00) — The Supreme Court's decision in Carson v. Makin was a devastating blow to church/state separation. (16:49) — Georgia's He...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — 81% of Americans believe in God , an all-time low. (2:05) — Students at Seattle Pacific University protested their school's anti-LGBTQ hiring policy by handing rainbow flags to the university president as he gave them their diplomas. (7...
Jun 18, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — A Christian hate-preacher delivered an anti-gay sermon that's even worse than you imagine. (2:20) — A conservative school board candidate checked out all the LGBTQ books in a local library's Pride display so kids couldn't get to them fi...
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — An Oklahoma candidate for U.S. Senate claims his church was "shut down." (1:13) — Atheists don't have to defend Richard Dawkins if he says ignorant things. (12:50) — The Johnny Depp/Amber Heard non-story involving atheism. (55:13) — Stu...
Jun 02, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — The shooting in Uvalde, Texas. (1:03) — Christian predator Josh Duggar is going to jail . (3:24) — After a pastor confessed to "adultery," the victim got on stage and said it was sexual assault that began when she was 16. (12:25) — The ...
May 26, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — A Christian school told students to write a letter urging a (fictional) friend to stop being gay. (1:45) — A Kansas town reversed course and will allow "In God We Trust" stickers on police vehicles... but there's a twist . (4:30) — A We...
May 19, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — A Kansas town voted to remove "In God We Trust" from police vehicles. (2:03) — Canada's Parliament rejected a motion to end invocation prayers in the House of Commons. (6:41) — Evangelical pastors shouldn't be surprised that their churc...
May 13, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — The Supreme Court's supposed Roe decision could backfire on conservative Christians. (1:15) — A Christian college punished a sexual assault victim for having premarital sex. (39:05) — The Supreme Court also said Boston couldn't say no t...
May 04, 2022•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — A Christian show's viral "persecution" marketing campaign backfired . (2:15) — The Supreme Court is about to fumble a simple church/state separation case. (15:05) — An atheist in Florida says if controversial books are banned, then the ...
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this solo episode (Jessica will be back next week), I spoke with Dr. Katie Gaddini, a sociologist at the Social Research Institute, University College London and a research associate at the University of Johannesburg, Department of Sociology. She recently released her debut book, The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church , which is based on over four years of in-depth ethnographic research with single evangelical women in the US and the UK. We talked about puri...
Apr 21, 2022•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Hemant will be giving a talk in Orlando on Sunday, April 24. Details here ! — Kandiss Taylor , a wannabe governor of Georgia, has no respect for church/state separation . (3:19) — An Arkansas official brazenly bragged about pushing Chri...
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Nebraska Sen. Megan Hunt helped defeat an anti-abortion bill with an incredible speech. (4:45) — A school prayer case from 1999 was cited to derail an honor for a historic Black judge. (14:15) — Mubarak Bala was sentenced to 24 years in...
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this solo episode (Jessica will be back next week), Hemant interviewed Thomas Smith, host of multiple podcasts that discuss science, atheism, philosophy, and the law. They include " Serious Inquiries Only ," a show that goes in-depth on topics concerned science and skepticism, " Opening Arguments ," with co-host Andrew Torrez, which takes complex legal issues in the news and breaks them down in an accessible and entertaining way, and " Philosophers in Space ," which uncovers and explains the ...
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Ketanji Brown Jackson was grilled about her religious beliefs by Lindsey Graham . (6:30) — A pastor claimed he could endorse candidates in church because they weren't beholden to the IRS. He's wrong. (18:05) — Brian Houston , the founde...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Senate candidate Herschel Walker proudly denied evolution . (1:38) — There's a $100 million ad campaign for Jesus. It will fail. (16:48) — Christianity Today reporters documented allegations of sexual harassment at... Christianity Today...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Why is a newspaper printing anti-atheist slander ? (1:15) — Creationist Ken Ham has a new list of societal ills. (4:08) — A woman who killed three siblings at a school bus stop got out of jail early after taking a Bible study class. (9:...
Mar 11, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — After saying God already "appointed" her to a State Senate seat, Bianca Gracia lost her GOP primary . (1:29) — Pat Robertson came back to The 700 Club to claim Putin was "compelled by God" to invade Ukraine because‚Ķ Israel . (16:39) —...
Mar 04, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Hold your sympathy for the Alabama high school basketball team whose faith led to them forfeiting their playoff chances . (1:25) — Christian sex predator Ravi Zacharias was effectively aided by the corrupt leaders at his ministry. (30:2...
Feb 25, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Greg Locke says he's going to expose six "witches" in his church. (1:09) — Why won't anyone give Kevin Sorbo the money he needs to make his movies ? (22:26) — Why is the Catholic League's Bill Donohue getting paid a million dollars a ye...
Feb 17, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — A Catholic priest resigned for the dumbest (but strangely consequential) reason. (2:17) — LDS leader Brad Wilcox's racist comments have caused chaos among Mormons. (8:13) — A public school Bible teacher in TN told students " how to tort...
Feb 11, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this solo episode (Jessica will be back next week), Hemant interviewed Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of the New York Times bestseller "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation." The book attempts to explain why white evangelicals overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump, despite all the non-Trumpy values they claimed to hold dear before he came along, by looking at the history of evangelical culture. 2:40 Why did you write this book? 5:00 The subtitle ...
Feb 03, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — What will the Supreme Court look like after Stephen Breyer 's retirement? (2:36) — Jerry Falwell, Jr. opened up about his past in a lengthy Vanity Fair profile. (13:45) — A Mississippi mayor wants to withhold funds from the local librar...
Jan 28, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — OnlySky , a new network for atheist bloggers, podcasters, and commentators, is now up and running! (0:49) — Pastor Mike Todd smeared spit on his brother's face to make a point about Jesus. (8:52) — A proposed law in Iowa would require t...
Jan 21, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — It's never good when a state's attorney general says we need a God-based justice system . (3:12) — A pastor who's been repeatedly accused of spiritual harassment insists that he is eradicating spiritually abusive priests from his church...
Jan 14, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! -- Pope Francis says having pets instead of kids is selfish . (2:00) -- A proposed law in Oklahoma would put the KJV and fundamentalist preachers in certain classrooms. (7:00) -- Marriage is not about being happy , says one very misogynis...
Jan 07, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this (extra-long) podcast, Jessica and I discussed the past year in news! We covered a whole variety of topics, going month by month, so feel free to jump around and listen in at any point! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
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