AS20: The Holy Church of Hobby Lobby, with Noah Lugeons (Part 2)
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Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2014
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Thomas and Noah continue the discussion on Hobby Lobby, and then take things to a more esoteric place with a discussion about an experiment described on Freakonomics.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. I'm going to Hey everyone on today's episode we're just going to go and continue the |
| 0:36.5 | conversation from last episode with a ton of gusto and knowledge, |
| 0:49.6 | backstory and all that in terms of this court case and I found it very interesting and we're going to continue that and then after we're done with that discussion stay tuned for another one of my little |
| 1:06.5 | I don't know non segment little tidbits little little not directly atheism related but just just something that I brought up with |
| 1:11.6 | him that was a I thought an interesting thought but hopefully you'll feel the same but anyway |
| 1:17.2 | So I'd like to thank Noah again for coming on and enjoy this episode. I'll go ahead and start that interview now. |
| 1:24.0 | Well I think the other, you know the only point that, the only really big point that I think that we |
| 1:30.6 | haven't touched on is when you talk about the actually what |
| 1:35.5 | brought up the the discussion we had earlier on corporate personhood is what it |
| 1:40.7 | means for a company to exercise its religion. |
| 1:43.8 | Now, in oral arguments, Klemut, the guy who's arguing for Hobby Lobby, |
| 1:49.4 | was challenged to come up with an example. |
| 1:51.2 | And I've also heard several people who are you |
| 1:53.8 | know affiliated with different lawyers that are working this case on on NPR and on |
| 2:00.4 | CNN etc when they're posed to this question, they try to establish Hobby Lobby's religiousness through corporate policies. |
| 2:09.0 | You know, they say, well, you know, the store closes on Sundays and they pay higher than the average |
| 2:14.7 | wages and and they you know they they close their store early so that people can be |
| 2:19.6 | home with their families these are all things that come from their |
| 2:21.8 | religious belief not from their, you |
| 2:24.7 | know, whatever corporate desire to make more money. |
| 2:27.6 | Right. |
| 2:28.6 | I don't understand how any of that is relevant. |
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