606 - How Megachurches Use the Bible to Defend Billionaires

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Patreon supporters who give $5 a month will get an ad-free AND VIDEO version of the show!

Join our private Facebook group and Discord server!

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

— Pastor publicly shames woman for donating “only” $1,235 to his church. (2:40)

— How megachurches twist the Bible to defend billionaires and wealth inequality. (19:04)

— Sen. John Barrasso targets American Atheists in bizarre smear of "No Kings" protests. (39:33)

— Pastor who condemned book with gay characters charged with sexually assaulting child from church. (50:09)

— Judge blocks taxpayer-funded Catholic statues from going up at police HQ in Quincy, MA. (57:48)

— South Carolina bars atheist from serving as election worker unless he swears oath to God. (1:08:44)

This content is CAN credentialed, which means you can report instances of harassment, abuse, or other harm on their hotline at (617) 249-4255, or on their website at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Hemin and Jessica. And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast. Please go to
0:04.5	Patreon.com slash Friendly Atheist Podcast to support this show. Get your ad-free bonus episodes
0:11.4	and video podcasts. Now you could see us on the cameras. We're waving. You can read my graphic
0:18.4	t-shirts every week. A big shout out to everyone over the past weekend at the Central Florida
0:22.8	Free Thought community.
0:24.3	It was wonderful getting to meet a bunch of awesome people there and get to talk to them.
0:29.1	And I'm assuming that video will be posted on the Internet at some point.
0:32.3	What was your talk about?
0:33.4	My talk was about how we need to fix the way we fund our movement because we're screwing it up.
0:41.1	Oh.
0:41.6	Good times.
0:42.6	Easy peasy.
0:43.2	I said they should give you a...
0:44.3	It's a really sexy topic.
0:45.4	I said they should give Jessica a bag of cash with a dollar sign on the outside.
0:49.3	Fucking finally.
0:50.3	And then I can sneak off with my black mask.
0:51.7	And everyone gave a standing ovation at the mention of your name.
0:56.0	Before we get started, I just want to tell a quick anecdote that I went to the No Kings March this past Saturday when Hammett was in Florida with my husband's family.
1:07.1	There was like eight or ten of us who went just to the Naperville one. And gang,
1:11.8	guess what happened to me? I got bullied by a teenager. Nice. We were walking toward downtown
1:20.2	Naperville and some like shit had kids, like maybe 16 were by in an SUV with the Trump 2020 flag out
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Friendly Atheist Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Friendly Atheist Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.