624 - Christian Nationalism Has Taken Over the GOP
Friendly Atheist Podcast
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
— Christian Nationalism has captured the Republican Party. (2:28)
— A Tennessee bill would force Bible lessons and prayer in public schools. (16:23)
— Ten Commandments posters must go up in schools before Louisiana families can sue, says federal court. (30:18)
— "Pro-life" Tennessee GOP pushes amendment to murder women who have abortions. (39:54)
— Kansas House passes bill making clergy mandated reporters... but Confession loophole remains. (56:50)
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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 |
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| 0:11.4 | and you are back from seattle yeah i got back at one p.m. today took a real dank nap um and in |
| 0:19.8 | shower and here i am and you now think at 6 a.m. |
| 0:22.2 | and it's the opposite. You guys, it's Hemm. and I wouldn't have noticed it unless I, I looked in my phone and I had in my calendar. And he would, he would not have told me. He would have let this whole recording go by. No, no, don't worry. I want to spend my birthday skipping survivor and doing this. Thanks. |
| 0:37.3 | You motherfucker. You bullied me |
| 0:39.4 | into this. I want to do it tomorrow. Wait, before we get |
| 0:43.0 | started, I just want to say I had the most amazing weekend and big shout out to everybody |
| 0:47.2 | who showed up to Snaquil me for the meetup. It was so incredible. It was so much fun. Every person was kind and wonderful and |
| 0:56.4 | generous. I do want to tell the greatest story that's ever happened to me. Unfortunately, I do |
| 1:01.5 | forget the name of the guy who told me this story, but it doesn't matter because this gift will |
| 1:05.9 | last me forever. He comes down about 20 minutes after the thing starts and he was like, I'm sorry, |
| 1:10.5 | a thing just happened to me and I need to tell you about it. I was like, great thing starts, and he was like, I'm sorry, a thing just |
| 1:10.9 | happened to me, and I need to tell you about it. |
| 1:12.3 | I was like, great, love this energy. |
| 1:14.5 | He said, I was walking around. |
| 1:16.5 | I forgot, everyone was like, I forgot to look up what you look like. |
| 1:19.1 | So everybody had to identify me by my laugh. |
| 1:21.9 | And he comes down and he says, I just somehow found a different Jessica with a podcast in this bar. |
| 1:31.6 | That's the most Washington state shit I've ever heard. |
| 1:34.9 | And spent five minutes like fan girling over her until they realized like, oh no, this isn't the right person. |
| 1:42.4 | What podcast does she do? |
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