Ep. 179 - Joel Osteen's Hurricane Harvey Hypocrisy

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religious and politics. -- Why Pastor Joel Osteen didn't open his Houston megachurch for people needing shelter during Hurricane Harvey until after he was publicly shamed over it. (0:37) -- The Nashville Statement, an anti-LGBTQ manifesto written by conservative Christians. (The statement is at 17:28; analysis is at 31:32) -- A new survey that shows many Protestants and Catholics don't understand the basic principles of their faith. (43:21) -- A Matt Walsh tweet that was delightfully mocked by everybody. (56:18) -- People calling it a "miracle" when they see a cross or Virgin Mary statue left standing in the midst of hurricane destruction. (1:01:28) -- Ark Encounter finally (and inadvertently) shared some attendance figures. (1:05:35) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The new Samsung Galaxy Z-Flip 5 and Chromebook are better together.
0:07.0	Take hands-free selfies which automatically sync to your Chromebook, ready to edit, and access
0:11.5	recent chrome tabs across both devices.
0:14.0	The new Galaxy Z Flip5 and Chromebook, better together.
0:18.0	Available on Sky Mobile.
0:20.0	Bluetooth and internet connection required.
0:22.0	You must be signed into the same Google account
0:23.6	on both your phone and Chromebook.
0:27.6	This is Hemant and Jessica.
0:28.9	And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast podcast.
0:31.2	If you like what you're listening to,
0:32.2	please go to
0:32.6	Patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast. And then welcome back. Thank you.
0:37.8	We're together again. We're together again. It's been like a month. It has been. It's
0:41.3	it's weird not doing this now because I'm used to it and it's fun
0:45.9	Okay, there's a handful of stories we really want to get to today is
0:49.7	Thursday August 31st. We wanted to get to a few stories
0:56.2	Because a hand Thursday, August 31st. We wanted to get to a few stories, because a handful of things just went completely out of proportion in terms of how relevant they are and how much people are talking
1:01.6	about them.
1:02.8	So let's start with Jolo Steen.
1:07.0	Because the stories, there's a couple of ways of thinking about this.
1:11.8	Here's the story. The hurricane hits Houston, especially Houston and other cities in Texas. It's really bad. People are displaced.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Friendly Atheist Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Friendly Atheist Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.