Ep. 180 - Atheists Are Helping After Hurricane Harvey

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 10 September 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religious and politics. -- Here's how atheists are helping people in Houston after Hurricane Harvey. (0:38) -- An Illinois library board member was voted out of his seat after his anti-gay comments. (7:55) -- Should atheist groups speak out against Donald Trump’s DACA decision? (13:06) -- Alt-Right leader Steve Bannon says Catholic bishops support DACA only because they need people to fill the pews. The bishops disagree. (23:12) -- Ark Encounter just got its first rebate check, courtesy of Kentucky taxpayers. (26:52) -- Creationist Ken Ham doesn't know what a light-year is. (31:30) -- A survey found that atheists are less open-minded than religious people. (33:33) -- The new Lord Mayor of Belfast skipped a formal prayer and everyone lost their mind. (37:03) -- The pastor who had to resign from his church after speaking out against racism and white supremacy. (41:30) -- The head of Focus on the Family thinks only Christians can teach kids character. (44:50) -- The Australian postal plebiscite and the woman raised by lesbian parents who claims to be forever scarred because of it. (48:45) -- An Illinois megachurch pastor's awful sex sermon. (1:00:09) -- Texas churches are suing FEMA to get taxpayer-funded rebuilding grants. (1:09:50) -- Take care of your mental health, everyone. (1:16:45) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmant and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast if you like what we're doing go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast and feel free to contribute. Thank you so much
0:11.6	We have several stories we want to talk about.
0:14.2	So we're just going to start with a bunch of them.
0:17.5	Yeah, let me start off with this one.
0:20.0	We're recording this on Friday, September 8th,
0:22.3	and Hurricane Irma is about to hit,
0:24.5	and we're still dealing with the repercussions
0:27.3	of Hurricane Harvey in Houston.
0:29.5	And there was an earthquake in Mexico City this morning. The whole world is on fire and half the
0:34.5	countries on fire too. Yeah, literally. So there was a Kentucky
0:39.7	pays newspaper called the Glasgow Daily Times and there was a letter to the editor that was
0:44.6	published in it this week. Random guy, but here's the thing he was saying.
0:49.9	He's saying there's so many relief organizations helping out in Houston. Yes you have the
0:55.5	American Red Cross but you also have Catholic Charities the Salvation Army which is a
0:59.4	Christian group you have a bunch of church groups that are doing things I mean lots of
1:04.3	Christian groups are doing a lot of good things Joel O'stein has an asterisk but
1:09.2	they're helping out but here's the question he asked at the end of this letter. Where are the atheist relief groups? Where are
1:16.8	their fleet of trucks loaded with supplies? Where are their crews that help dry out and clean up?
1:22.1	Blah-blah-blah, like it's not known to the writer, speaking of himself,
1:27.0	and how many hospitals and orphanages were founded by atheists?
1:30.0	He goes on on this.
1:32.0	Basically, this is really appropriate.
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