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 Mississippi Democrat filed a “trigger” bill to bring Christian prayers back to public schools. (1:00) — Idaho’s “faith-healing” exemption has led to more children’s deaths, and one Republican told me he wants to fix that. (15:53) — If I...
Jan 19, 2023•1 hr 28 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 Mississippi Democrat filed a "trigger" bill to bring Christian prayers back to public schools. (1:00) — Idaho's "faith-healing" exemption has led to more children's deaths , and one Republican told me he wants to fix that. (15:53) — I...
Jan 19, 2023•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! — An art history professor at Hamline University in Minnesota was fired after showing students an ancient depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in class. (0:40) — The Catholic Church in Kansas was home to 188 predators, according to a four-year...
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr 19 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 art history professor at Hamline University in Minnesota was fired after showing students an ancient depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in class. (0:40) — The Catholic Church in Kansas was home to 188 predators , according to a four-y...
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr 12 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! — Prayers won’t help NFL player Damar Hamlin, especially when they come from on-air NFL analysts like Dan Orlovsky. (1:45) — Mark Rozzi, the new Speaker of the Pennsylvania House, is a self-described “freethinker” who has fought against the...
Jan 06, 2023•2 hr 50 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 ! — Prayers won't help NFL player Damar Hamlin , especially when they come from on-air NFL analysts like Dan Orlovsky . (1:45) — Mark Rozzi , the new Speaker of the Pennsylvania House, is a self-described "freethinker" who has fought agains...
Jan 06, 2023•2 hr 43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. 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 ....
Dec 30, 2022•3 hr 47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcas t. 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! — Singer Amy Grant was condemned for hosting her niece’s same-sex wedding at her family farm. (0:43) — A prominent Black atheist leader was accused of ethical violations. (12:00) — Bucksport, Maine chose to take down a Nativity scene befor...
Dec 22, 2022•56 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 ! — Emily Olson , the newest city council member in Owosso, Michigan, has received backlash for trying to end the tradition of Christian prayers at meetings and refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance. (0:55) — The nephew of GOP b...
Dec 16, 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 ! — "Top evangelicals" are not backing away from Donald Trump , no matter what the headlines suggest. (2:11) — A restaurant in Virginia refused to serve members of a Christian hate group. Is that religious discrimination? (13:15) — An athei...
Dec 09, 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 ! — Christian hate-preacher Aaron Thompson celebrated the Club Q shooting , calling it a "good thing." (3:00) — Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis says the victims of the shooting are probably in Hell . (9:45) — Focus on the Family's sign was ...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this solo episode, I spoke with Rachel Laser, who became president and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State in February of 2018. She is the organization's first non-Christian and female leader in its 75 year history. Rachel is a lawyer, advocate and strategist who has dedicated her career to making our country more inclusive. We spoke about her work with religious organizations, whether the Johnson Amendment will ever be enforced, what people still don't get about church...
Nov 24, 2022•39 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 ! — Actress Candace Cameron Bure is making pseudo-Hallmark movies that feature " traditional marriage ," not gay couples. (0:54) — Christian hate-preacher Greg Locke just lost both of his YouTube channels . (23:28) — "Highly religious Ameri...
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 3 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 ! — Pat Robertson 's prediction failed. (3:00) — How did the godless fare in the 2022 midterm elections? (13:35) — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis deemed himself a "fighter" sent by the Christian God to defend the downtrodden. (33:06) — Tenne...
Nov 11, 2022•2 hr 41 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's Halloween bonfire to destroy "witchcraft" artifacts, Catholic symbols, and other things he deems evil got a heavy dose of rain . (3:50) — The IRS isn't doing a damn thing to enforce the Johnson Amendment and stop churches f...
Nov 04, 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 ! — 45% of Americans say we should live in a "Christian nation." Yikes‚Ķ? (0:50) — Even Christianity Today admits public schools aren't godless . (16:50) — Christian "prophet" Robin Bullock says that Jesus was a wealthy man who owned five ...
Oct 27, 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 ! — Atheist candidate Mike Itkis made a sex tape to boost his flailing congressional campaign. (1:44) — Preaching history teacher and Christian bigot David Paszkiewicz is running for public office in Kearny, NJ. (14:35) — Christian hate-pre...
Oct 21, 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 ! — Bart Barber , the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention, was featured on 60 Minutes but revealed the bigotry underlying his faith. (1:13) — Christian hate-preacher Steven Anderson delivered a very explicit and homophobic serm...
Oct 14, 2022•1 hr 26 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 ! — Texas mother Jamie Gooch is warning people against Hocus Pocus 2 . (0:33) — Minnesota lawmakers are launching a Secular Government Caucus to combat Christian Nationalism. (11:54) — Will the revelation that Herschel Walker paid for an ab...
Oct 07, 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 ! — An 8-year-old girl was expelled for not wanting to send her teacher a picture of herself reading in the bathtub. (0:55) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is going after Republican Darren Bailey for using a fundamentalist Christian curriculu...
Sep 30, 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 ! — Greg Locke is very unhappy about his depiction in the Peacock series Shadowland . (1:47) — Despite the Supreme Court giving him his old job back, Joseph Kennedy , the football coach who held prayer spectacles at midfield after games, is...
Sep 23, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Andrew Seidel is the Vice President of Strategic Communications for Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the author of " The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American ." He's written and spoken extensively about these issues in a variety of online and print publications, and on several news shows. His latest book, out this month, is called " American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom ." 0:00 Intro 1:08 How did you write a book about ...
Sep 15, 2022•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this bonus interview, Jessica spoke with Mike Flanagan, the writer/director behind "Haunting of Hill House," "Haunting of Bly Manor," "Doctor Sleep," and (most recently) the critically acclaimed "Midnight Mass." They discussed his sobriety journey as an atheist, why Bev Keane from "Midnight Mass" could probably get elected to Congress, how to engage with criticism, and why we probably shouldn't. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com...
Sep 09, 2022•2 hr 5 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 ! — Britney Spears said in a now-deleted Instagram reel , "I'm an atheist, y'all!" (3:45) — Even married advocates of Purity Culture can't handle Bridgerton . (12:57) — A federal judge ruled that an HIV drug mandate violated Christians' rel...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr 6 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 ! — Christian pastor and church planter Matt Chandler is on a leave of absence because of "unwise" DMs he sent to a woman on Instagram. (4:20) — Valley Christian Academy in California will forfeit an upcoming football game rather than play ...
Sep 01, 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 ! — A conservative Christian influencer wants women to stop touching themselves . (1:00) — A Texas law requiring donated "In God We Trust" signs in schools has a loophole, and one atheist is taking advantage of it . (13:27) — The Door McAll...
Aug 24, 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 ! — The attack on Salman Rushdie is an attack on free expression. (1:38) (Note: Read this for more background on Rushdie and why The Satanic Verses is controversial.) — An evangelical pastor demonized "wokeism" after making up his own defin...
Aug 19, 2022•1 hr 6 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 Texas church put on an illegal production of "Hamilton" in order to convert the audience. (0:55) — A Baptist school kicked out a five-year-old orphan after she was adopted by lesbians. (36:19) — Let's talk about Christian sword drills...
Aug 11, 2022•1 hr 18 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 ! — SPONSOR : Check out God Pod ! — The abortion referendum in Kansas was a rebuke to the Catholic Church . (2:10) — Christian furries are worried about being outed ... as Christians. (16:15) — Do we really need a " new kind of atheism "? N...
Aug 05, 2022•1 hr 19 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 ! — SPONSOR : Check out God Pod ! — Republican Rep. Glenn Thompson voted *against* a bill to protect same-sex weddings... then attended his gay son's wedding . (1:52) — Why is Ted Haggard back in the news ? (13:07) — The Church of Scientolo...
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
