571 - Alabama Wants to Punish Schools That Don't Pray

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Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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

— Alabama schools could lose funding if they don't mandate daily Christian prayers. (0:22)

— Oklahoma lawmaker: I don't want "pink-haired" atheists teaching the Bible in schools. (11:56)

— Oklahoma lawmakers shoot down slew of Christian Nationalist bills. (21:48)

— Tim Barton: We "arrest students that break the Ten Commandments," so we should put the list up in schools. (42:15)

— Australia will keep screwing up the religion question in its 2026 Census. (49:15)

— Survey finds low levels of "Religious Nationalism" in America. Why doesn't it feel that way? (1:07:35)

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0:00.0	This is Hemet and Jessica.
0:01.8	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 and get your ad free and bonus episodes.
0:12.3	Hello.
0:13.1	Hi.
0:13.7	How are you doing?
0:14.4	Excellent.
0:15.4	I have so many things to tell you about.
0:17.4	It's so cold out.
0:19.0	It is very cold out.
0:20.0	Okay.
0:20.7	So let's start with this, which is remember,
0:24.6	like, was it last week we were talking about how North Dakota wanted to pass a resolution to
0:29.6	honor the kingship of Jesus Christ? Uh, yes. And how did that go for them? They're still working on it.
0:36.1	Okay. But there is another piece of Christian nationalist legislation that might top even that one in terms of how horribly pro-Christian it is trying to be.
0:47.4	Okay.
0:47.9	Because at least that one in North Dakota was just symbolic.
0:50.6	It was stupid, but it was also just symbolic.
0:52.7	They weren't going to, like, punish you for it. This one is Christian nationalist, and they're going to punish you for it.
0:58.4	When you say it's not symbolic, do you mean literal Christ is in their classroom, and that's
1:02.9	why they're doing? Like the North Dakota resolution to honor Jesus Christ was that's it.
1:07.7	That was symbolic. It's symbolic.
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