566 - Church Publicly Shames Unwed Mother

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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

— Virginia church publicly shames unwed mother, then forbids her from having a baby shower. (0:30)

— Most national atheist groups release pro-LGBTQ statement. (14:47)

— Proposed North Dakota law would force students to say the Pledge of Allegiance. (23:07)

— Atheists sue West Virginia water agency over $5 million grant to Catholic school. (34:15)

— With awful logic, Christian professor says atheism leads to more sexual assault and self-harm. (39:08)

— South Dakota Republican proposes illegal Ten Commandments-in-schools bill. (56:45)

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0:00.0	This is Hemet and Jessica.
0:01.7	And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast.
0:04.1	Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support this show.
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0:12.5	Hello.
0:13.5	Hi, Hemet.
0:14.1	How are you?
0:15.0	Excellent.
0:15.7	We have so many things.
0:16.6	I've been sitting on a story for a week, and we didn't record since this came out.
0:21.2	So I'm so excited to share this with you because you're going to flip out.
0:24.8	Oh, that seems out of character for me.
0:27.0	Should we start?
0:27.5	Should we start with that one?
0:28.6	I guess.
0:29.1	Let's start with this one.
0:30.7	So last week, there was, there's a church in Virginia, Hampton, Virginia.
0:36.9	It's called the True Vine Apostolic Church of Christ, predominantly African-American church here.
0:42.5	And what happened last week is this church started going viral on like black Twitter,
0:47.9	black TikTok, for all the wrong reasons.
0:51.4	And then, because I'm not cool, it it got to me last but the story here is that
0:57.8	on Twitter is mostly like stem stuff yes and now all of Twitter is a cesspool as it always has been
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