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609 - TikToker Exposes Churches That Won't Help a Hungry Baby

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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

— A TikToker is exposing churches that refuse to help a hungry baby. (2:32)

— Axios tried to shame Christian U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico—and ended up exposing itself. (24:30)

— Texas sues school district for following the law and not posting the Ten Commandments. (54:17) 

— Anti-abortion conservatives in Australia tried to turn a mother’s tragedy into a political game. (1:05:09)

— Texas’ third-largest school district just rejected Christian extremism on the board of trustees. (1:19:00)

Pumpkin Palooza panic: How a cross-carved gourd sparked a mini culture war. (1:28:30)

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0:00.0

This is Hemant.

0:01.6

And Jessica.

0:02.2

And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast.

0:04.9

Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support the show.

0:09.8

Get your ad free and bonus episodes and video version of this podcast because I'm looking

0:14.4

into a camera right now.

0:15.7

Hey.

0:16.2

And we want to give a shout out to some of our more recent Patreon supporters.

0:20.0

They include Christian S.

0:21.8

TTW1.

0:24.0

Christian Soldier is listening? Not two. Not two. That is right. Lauren E. The Haggis God.

0:30.5

Lucinda D. Beth Kaye, Don C. Don C. Twisty pretzel.

0:34.5

Don C. D. Ad day. There we go.

0:37.9

I knew Don Cito would listen someday.

0:41.1

There is a story I'll get started with this one because this is the one.

0:47.8

Those are some words you put together in an order?

0:49.8

I got so many messages about this one story last week that's like, all right, fine, I'll check it out.

0:57.5

The Kim Davis thing?

0:58.7

No. The Kim Davis thing wasn't even a story because everyone who follows legal news was like,

1:05.5

Kim Davis is not going to win this case. It's a bad case. And the Supreme Court said,

1:09.0

we're not listening to the Kim Davis case. Okay, Mikey was asked me about this yesterday, and I feel, was it like the thing that we've seen a few times of the court was like, hey, I see what you're trying to do here, and I agree with it, but this ain't the way to do it. Do you get that sense? Kim Davis herself had no actual argument that a court was going to hear. And then they changed her argument to say, this isn't about Kim Davis. We want to overturn O'Bergafel and make gay marriage, same-sex marriage, not even a nationwide thing. So they were stretching it. And the court said, we're not listening to this one. Okay. Which means not only does Kim Davis lose, same-sex marriage is safe for now.

1:47.2

For now.

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