586 - Sen. Joni Ernst Uses Jesus to Distract from Death

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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

– Sen. Joni Ernst defends "we all are going to die" comment with pitch to embrace Jesus. (0:48)

– Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht accused of massive financial misconduct by former ministry insiders. (14:05)

– Colorado passed a law to protect trans people. These pastors repeatedly lied about it. (31:39)

– Quincy (MA) faces lawsuit over taxpayer-funded Catholic statues at police HQ. (49:20)

– Catholic bishops file lawsuit to protect the secrets of sex predators. (1:06:46)

– In California, students with disabilities can now attend religious schools on the public dime. (1:24:35)

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0:00.0	This is Hemet and Jessica.
0:01.7	And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast.
0:03.7	Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support this show and get your ad-free and bonus episodes.
0:12.0	We have much to talk about.
0:14.4	I'm very excited.
0:15.4	We're recording Wednesday evening.
0:16.8	I know.
0:17.2	It's unusual.
0:18.0	We're having a glass of wine.
0:19.0	It's been a while.
0:19.6	It's a real good throwback.
0:20.7	You will need it for all of these.
0:23.3	Oh, that doesn't feel good.
0:24.5	You're welcome.
0:25.2	I did get an email today.
0:26.5	Can you do, here's a sad story for you.
0:28.7	I'm like, thank you.
0:29.5	I appreciate the tip.
0:30.8	And then followed by, if you do talk about this with Jess, just please follow it with a happy story. Oh, bless their hearts. To which I responded, that's not how this works.
0:39.1	No, that's really not an option.
0:41.0	We just do misery constantly.
0:43.3	So anyway, patreon.com.
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