583 - Jehovah’s Witnesses Target Longtime Critic

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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

– There’s a new pope! (0:10)

– Jehovah’s Witnesses are suing a reporter for "wiretapping"—after inviting him on the call. (5:45)

– Conservative Christian pastor Josh Buice trolled himself out of power. (22:16)

– Despite credible misconduct allegations, Christian radio host returns to ministry. (39:03)

– Kentucky cops are paying Christian ministries to train their dogs at Ark Encounter. (1:04:49)

– How Ethnos360 turned its back on abuse victims... again. (1:15:30)

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1:00.4	And before we get to any of the news stories, I realized last week, when we were recording,
1:06.7	the white smoke came out.
1:07.8	But we didn't actually know who the Pope was other than a CNN
1:11.0	headline or something. So we never actually talked about it, but since you've now had a week
1:16.5	to digest, any thoughts on the Pope?
1:20.9	The Pope? That's pretty good.
1:23.5	I'm not the first. No. Yeah, no, it's fun.
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