Ep. 187 - Jacindamania

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2017

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- The new Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, is an ex-Mormon who describes herself as Agnostic. (1:41) -- There's a push for Christian churches to clarify where they stand on issues involving LGBTQ rights. (8:18) -- An ad campaign for the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter makes no sense at all. (19:40) -- Most Americans no longer believe you need God to be good. (28:00) -- Here's how a Religious Right group is misleading Congress about support for the Johnson Amendment repeal. (35:06) -- The Boy Scouts of America will let girls join! But open atheists are still banned. Don't worry. A Christian alternative still proudly bans everyone who isn't a straight, cisgender boy. (44:04) -- Young people are shedding their faith long before they go to college, contrary to the plot of movies like God's Not Dead. (56:35) -- Go watch this incredible (and short) documentary of an atheist who escaped the train to Auschwitz during World War II. (1:11:00) 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 you're listening to please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast a quick update on a kickstarter campaign we were doing for this book Queer Disbelief.
0:15.0	It's something I've been working on for a really long time and we've been talking about it for a while.
0:19.0	It ended tonight as we're recording this, the Kickstarter campaign, and it was funded.
0:24.6	So I just want to say thank you to everyone who supported it, and when the book is available
0:29.2	for release elsewhere to everybody, I will let you know about it it but I'm very excited. Thank you
0:34.8	for everyone who donated anything for that cause. Hey Hammit, where were you when you
0:39.3	got the news? Let me tell you where I was when we found out when the campaign ended. I finally got to go to the
0:46.7	olive garden and use my never-ending pasta pass because someone finally agreed to go with me.
0:51.0	Okay, I'm sorry. I have been aggressively campaigning for us to go to Olive Garden.
0:56.0	Yes, and actually a couple of people, listeners were like, I'll take you to Olive Garden if you want, which I thought was very
1:01.1	nice of you all. So I finally got to go.
1:04.0	So right now it's Thursday the 19th.
1:06.0	We were supposed to eat.
1:08.0	We were going to watch this Cubs game.
1:10.0	That was going to be amazing and then we were going to record.
1:13.4	We decided we'll just skip the Cubs game because...
1:18.2	It was a not good end to their season tonight.
1:20.6	So we stopped watching the seventh inning, it was 9 to 1, I think.
1:25.2	I think that's usually a sign.
1:26.2	I've got my phone on sleep mode so I can't get the inevitable death now of the Cubs
1:32.4	lose forever. Hey, we always have last year.
1:35.4	Yeah that's our new phrase now. We don't have to look for next year is just
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