607 - Christian Nationalist vs. Zohran Mamdani's "Values"

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Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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

— Donor pulls scholarships after University of Arkansas Fayetteville posts Ten Commandments. (1:05)

— Christian HVAC tech fired after invoking the "Billy Graham Rule" sues employer. (11:08)

— The leader of the Anglican Church of North America is mired in a sexual misconduct scandal. (28:45)

— Indiana's Christian Nationalist Lt. Gov. says Zohran Mamdani wants to “force his values” on NYC. (44:19)

— Colorado’s “first public Christian school” is a constitutional disaster waiting to happen. (58:19)

— Christian Nationalist linked to Pete Hegseth defends slavery as "not inherently evil." (1:15:53)

— The Republican war on science is rapidly becoming a public health emergency. (1:30:21)

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0:00.0	this is hemitt and jessica and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast please go to patreon
0:05.5	dot com slash friendly atheist podcast to support this show get your ad free bonus episodes and all of us on
0:12.7	video which is what you want i'm wearing my Halloween it's a Halloween episode spooky my shirt says
0:19.6	girls will be girls and it's got witches on it. And because it's
0:23.2	spooky, we've got a spooky candle behind us. So when this place burns down, you will get to see
0:30.7	it on video if you are a Patreon subscriber. Behold an ordinary candle.
0:38.7	How are you doing?
0:39.6	I'm good.
0:43.5	All the stories happened in the past like 24 hours,
0:48.8	and I feel like I'm in a mad dash to try to make it make sense for today.
0:49.4	That's fun. So I figured, let us start with Arkansas.
0:54.9	Great.
0:55.4	Here's the rundown of where we're at with the Ten Commandments case in Arkansas.
0:59.3	Is that donor?
1:00.6	Donor.
1:01.3	It'll make sense.
1:02.3	Don't worry.
1:03.4	Here is what happened in Arkansas, okay?
1:06.1	Yeah, hit me.
1:06.6	They already passed a law requiring basically every public school, every institution of higher learning, every, like, government facility, you have to display a copy of the Ten Commandments.
1:17.1	They don't even need a disclaimer saying there's any historical relevance to it.
1:23.4	Not even the Tenual Commandments.
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