595 - Southern Baptist Ethics Leader Resigns
Friendly Atheist Podcast
Friendly Atheist Podcast
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🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
— Ryan Walters may not have watched nude women at work. But he still slandered his colleagues. (0:40)
— Southern Baptist ethics leader resigns, likely due to pressure from MAGA extremists. (27:55)
— Arizona Appeals Court reopens case against Mormon Church involving child abuse cover-up. (47:32)
— Federal judge blocks Arkansas law forcing the Ten Commandments in schools from taking full effect. (1:06:28)
— Bowing to religious pressure, West Point will rebrand bibles with academy's crest. (1:22:00)
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hemet. |
| 0:00.9 | And Jessica. |
| 0:01.6 | 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. |
| 0:10.9 | Let me give a shout out to some of our more recent supporters. |
| 0:14.2 | They include Paula V. Sharon Lynn, Aaron M. Dion L. Viol, B, Catherine B, Ted W, Gray S, MP, just the initials, and Joe C. |
| 0:28.0 | Thank you so much for your support. |
| 0:29.2 | I think it's actually an MP from the UK. |
| 0:32.3 | Yep. |
| 0:33.3 | Parliamentary minister, is that a few? |
| 0:35.2 | Not even close. |
| 0:36.3 | Yeah, no, the entire UK really backs up our effort. |
| 0:40.8 | I have to start up to start off with an update from last week. |
| 0:45.8 | We have an update on a Ryan Walter story. |
| 0:49.0 | There's more. |
| 0:49.8 | There's more. |
| 0:51.0 | And I know you haven't heard this yet because I know I just found out about this recently. |
| 0:55.4 | Oh, yay. And I haven't seen this permeate everywhere. I'm so excited. And I have a glass of wine. |
| 1:01.0 | Oh, what a time to be alive. So let me give you a reminder of where we were at last week because it was the |
| 1:05.4 | happiest we've been in a very long time. Can I recap it? Please. Because I've gotten to do it a lot. |
| 1:10.4 | So our pal Ryan Walters has proved |
| 1:13.8 | himself to be an unreliable co-worker. And so for some reason, his two GOP co-workers had to verify |
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