562 - Predictable Fury Over Satanic Displays

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Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— After vandalism, a new Satanic display is up outside the New Hampshire Capitol. (0:28)

— Iowa officials ban Satanic event over made-up claim that it'd be "harmful to minors." (5:52)

— California Bible college vows to remain open after state orders it to shut down. (15:30)

— Democrats didn't "weaponize" the government to "target" Christian schools. (33:50)

— Supreme Court to decide if Catholic-aligned group deserves tax exemption. (53:25)

— Citing legal concerns, two Florida districts vote against allowing school chaplains. (1:02:22)

— Catholic group unveils anti-atheist holiday billboard: "THIS IS OUR SEASON—NOT YOURS." (1:11:28)

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0:00.0	This is Hemet and Jessica. And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast. Please go to patreon.com
0:05.8	slash friendly atheist podcast to support the show and get ad-free and bonus episodes. This is, I guess,
0:12.3	our Christmas show just because it's the closest. Oh my God. We have to do year-end,
0:17.3	shitty year-in review. Oh, that's your job. Yeah. We'll do that soon.
0:21.5	Yeah.
0:23.0	We'll just get right into this thing because I have a long list of things to discuss.
0:27.6	One of them is an update on something we covered last week.
0:30.4	Remember, they put up a Baphomet statue outside the New Hampshire capital.
0:34.7	And it got smushed.
0:36.5	And it got smushed like hours after they put it up.
0:40.2	This was again, this was a satanic temple statue of Baphomet, the goat-headed, whatever
0:46.8	you want to call it, with an apple and flowers and the seven fundamental tenets plaque at the
0:53.2	bottom.
0:53.7	And yes, it got vandalized. Well, after it got
0:57.2	vandalized, a couple developments happened. One is that the mayor of Concord, Byron Champlin,
1:05.4	he responded by saying at the city council meeting last week, I'm quoting him directly,
1:11.9	my preference was to deny the permit
1:14.1	and accept the risk of the threatened lawsuit.
1:17.2	I oppose the permit because I believe the request was made
1:20.4	not in the interest of promoting religious equity,
1:23.8	but in order to drive an anti-religious agenda.
1:28.1	I mean, he's not wrong.
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