637 - This Religion Wants to Destroy Your Pets
Friendly Atheist Podcast
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
— James Talarico will face Ken Paxton this November in a battle for the Senate. Who will white evangelicals choose? (0:20)
— A secretive Christian sect is pressuring members to purge their pets. (2:25)
— Dozens of Oklahoma Republicans fought a bill banning child marriage. (17:25)
— The evangelical Christian hit “Testify to Love” just got a powerful pro-LGBTQ reboot. (35:45)
— Ché Ahn says drug users must choose between Christian rehab or Bible lessons in prison. (45:27)
— Rockwall County courthouse in Texas unveils illegal Ten Commandments monument. (50:07)
— The rising cost of reaching secular voters is good for democracy. (57:50)
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hemet and Jessica. |
| 0:01.9 | And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support this show and get your ad-free and bonus episodes and videos. |
| 0:11.8 | Much to discuss. |
| 0:13.3 | Yes. |
| 0:13.9 | But really quick, since we're recording this on Wednesday morning last night. |
| 0:17.4 | Early Wednesday morning. |
| 0:18.7 | Ken Paxton won the Senate primary in Texas, making him the worst possible candidate for |
| 0:25.5 | Republicans. |
| 0:26.4 | Now, Ken Maxton is the one who was censured by the... |
| 0:31.4 | They tried to impeach him. |
| 0:33.2 | He has so many scandals. |
| 0:35.2 | The Cook political report has already changed the prediction of the thing |
| 0:39.8 | from likely Republican victory to leaning Republican victory. And so this should be an interesting |
| 0:46.2 | battle against James Tala Rico, the Democrat. And what will be interesting to see is Tala RICO is |
| 0:53.3 | openly Christian and progressive. |
| 0:56.2 | Paxton is a Republican and so awful. |
| 1:02.0 | All the corruption that Trump does, |
| 1:04.7 | Paxton's like... |
| 1:05.9 | More, more, more. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, and he's just a horrible human being. |
| 1:09.5 | And there's so much we don't know in terms of like |
... |
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