605 - Gun-toting Pastor Promotes "Violent Action of Faith"
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
— Hemant will be speaking near Orlando, Florida this weekend!
— A Christian pastor aimed an AR-15 at the congregation to "run out the unbelief." (1:57)
— In victory for free speech, UK court overturns Qur'an-burning conviction. (16:31)
— Ohio Republicans used a life-saving Narcan bill to promote more religious indoctrination. (42:38)
— After settlement, Catholic priests in Washington can keep sex predators' confessions secret. (56:50)
— Anti-LGBTQ Catholic schools lose bid to discriminate in Colorado's universal preschool program. (1:13:09)
— Florida's first public school chaplain is a Jan. 6 supporter—and a warning to everyone. (1:26:18)
— Judge shuts down California school district's attempt to revive Christian prayers at meetings. (1:36:10)
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.com. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.com.uk.uk slash wondering. |
| 0:12.0 | This is Hemet. |
| 0:13.3 | And Jessica. |
| 0:14.2 | And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast. |
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| 0:29.2 | I was in bed 20 minutes ago. |
| 0:31.8 | We clean up for you good. |
| 0:34.6 | While I'm thinking about it, I owe a lot of people stickers. |
| 0:38.4 | So if you are a Patreon subscriber and have not received your sticker, which I probably should |
| 0:45.3 | have sent to you in the last, like, calendar year, make sure you update your stuff in Patreon. |
| 0:52.4 | I've already ordered the stickers. |
| 0:53.9 | I need to order so |
| 0:55.5 | many stamps. And then I will be sending those out in the next week or two. And a quick personal |
| 1:02.1 | note this Sunday, I will be speaking, giving a free talk near Orlando, Florida. If you're in the Orlando area, the talk is sponsored by the Central Florida Free Thought |
| 1:16.4 | Community. |
| 1:17.5 | It's Sunday afternoon at, I believe, 1 o'clock local time. |
| 1:22.7 | But in any case, we will have a link to in the show notes. |
| 1:26.1 | It's in Winter Park. |
| 1:30.5 | So come. Jessica will also be there jessica will not be there she would love to be there if somebody would pay to send her |
| 1:35.0 | places and talk to people she loves to do that do it cannot be more clear about it wow you're |
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