598 - James Dobson Is Finally Dead

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Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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

— We’re having an in-person celebration in Naperville, IL to mark our 600th episode (and other pleasant things)! Details are here. Hope you can join us on September 13!

— James Dobson, an architect of evangelical Christian cruelty, is finally dead at 89. (1:50)

— The Jehovah's Witnesses now say college is OK... after decades of saying the opposite. (31:10)

— Republican congressional candidate torches Qur’an in hate-fueled campaign ad. (49:00)

— Federal judge strikes down Minnesota's sensible "faith statement" ban for PSEO schools. (1:00:49)

— Federal judge dismantles Ryan Walters' frivolous lawsuit against atheist group. (1:17:35)

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0:00.0	This is Hemet.
0:01.1	And Jessica.
0:01.7	And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast.
0:04.2	Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support this show and get your ad-free and bonus episodes.
0:11.3	And if you are hoping to be or are near the Naperville area on September 13th, which is a Saturday in Illinois, on September 13th, which is a Saturday
0:23.9	around 5 p.m. local time. We are having a celebration of sorts for our 600th podcast
0:32.3	anniversary. Episode. Slash, uh, Jess is my 40th and my 10th anniversary with my husband
0:40.0	All are falling within like 10 days of each other
0:42.8	Yeah so if you're able to come
0:44.5	It is at solemn oath brewery
0:47.3	And the link to that will be in the show notes
0:49.4	Kids are welcome, pets are welcome
0:51.3	Come on by, it's outdoors, it'll be fun
0:53.6	Just paid a $50 deposit So so it is on, gang.
0:57.4	There you go.
0:57.9	I can't get that money back.
1:00.0	How are you doing, Hemmett?
1:00.8	Don't make us lose $50 in deposit money doing fine.
1:06.3	Do you want to tell everybody how good we were at trivia?
1:08.1	We were so good at trivia that we took at least
1:11.9	49th place out of 50 teams. There were 80 teams and at one point they were like naming all of them
1:19.6	and I was like, wow, we're doing really good because they haven't said our name yet. And then.
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