604 - Megachurch Pastor (and Trump Ally) Sentenced to Jail

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Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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

— An appeals court has vacated a ruling saying Ten Commandments posters in Louisiana schools are unconstitutional. (1:26)

— Oklahoma has already started erasing Ryan Walters’ disastrous legacy. (14:14)

— The Christian Right tried to make a late-night talk show—and it bombed spectacularly. (36:09)

— Trump's NSPM-7 memo casts critics of Christianity as enemies of the state. (1:05:19)

— Megachurch founder and Trump ally Robert Morris pleads guilty to child sex abuse. (1:20:00)

— Faith, fear, and forced labor: The Kingdom of God Global Church scandal. (1:39:12)

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0:00.0	This is Hemet.
0:00.8	And Jessica.
0:01.4	And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast.
0:04.0	Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support this show.
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0:11.1	And now you can watch video of this because you want to find even better ways to hear this show
0:18.7	by looking at our dumb faces while we talk about these stories and just see the tears
0:23.3	and see all the beverages I consume in the course of this. I have two right now. I can do all
0:28.4	things through multiple drinks. There you go. And let me give a shout out to some of our more recent
0:32.7	supporters. They include Shauna C. Cat, Maggie N, Miri, Pip, Carrie J, Heather R, Aaron, Jason, Jay, Kristen S, Dean M. Kelly, Bailey, S, J, Rick, Jay, and Wuder.
0:50.9	Lots of you. Thank you so much.
0:52.5	Wooder.
0:53.8	Kristen S, who's buried in there is my college roommate slash one of my bridesmaids. Love it. And she's about to move to Sweden. And guess who's going to go visit her in Sweden? Everybody, live episode in Sweden. Make it happen. Thank you, Kristen, in advance. I don't think she even listens. I think this is just like
1:11.6	friends with money kind of way of supporting me. I really appreciate it, Chris. Love you. Okay.
1:18.1	Let's here we go. Start with an update to a story. This is kind of breaking news and I don't
1:23.9	quite know what to make of it. But basically, you may, let me talk about the Ten Commandments because there was an update
1:29.9	to one of these cases.
1:31.1	Here's where we are at right now.
1:33.0	Yes.
1:33.4	Three states have passed laws saying, let's put the Ten Commandments, King James Version,
1:39.0	in public schools.
1:40.0	It is.
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