Ep. 198 - The Mormons Are Getting a New Leader

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- A Mississippi legislator wants to make the Bible the official state book. For the third time. (1:38) -- The head of the Mormon Church, Thomas S. Monson, is dead. What should he be remembered for? (7:21) -- South Carolina Republicans wanted to honor black people who fought for the Confederacy, but they missed a key detail... (18:48) -- Roy Moore's Jewish lawyer is actually a Christian. (21:58) -- FEMA says churches can get taxpayer funding to rebuild after “Acts of God.” (30:18) -- "Raw water" is a thing now... at least if you're rich and dumb. (35:42) -- This church has “documented proof” that God answers prayers. (43:04) -- Bill Nye needs to read more books, says rapper who believes the Earth is flat. (47:23) -- A Texas mall just installed a giant Ten Commandments monument. Oh, the irony... (50:02) -- A Noah’s Ark replica broke free in the Netherlands and then caused massive damage. (53:33) 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.
0:09.0	Really quickly before we start just want to say once again
0:13.0	queer disbelief a book I've been working on with an author Camille Barricick
0:17.6	for the past like year and a half it's now available in paperback and the Kindle
0:22.0	edition is now available too for anyone interested.
0:24.8	There's a stack of boxes as high as me and Hemant's entryway.
0:28.8	I haven't had a chance to sort through them yet, but Kickstarterers will eventually get their copies.
0:33.6	Yeah also haven't it's really starting to feel personal that you're trying to keep me out of your
0:36.7	house because there's literally like an icicle dagger hanging over your head and
0:40.8	your entire front porch it's just a sheet of ice. It's for the
0:43.6	intruder. So it's like a home-alone-esque trap that you're setting for me and
0:48.7	it's hurtful is what I'm saying. How's your news? The message was sent. It was good. It was
0:54.2	uneventful. Good. Good. Good.
0:56.7	Yes. Mine was good. Thanks for asking. I was about to. I was getting there. You
1:00.3	are not you liar. You don't care. I tell you that I sat with the babies. That's all I did they had confetti they had confetti they threw it around
1:08.1	notoriously easy to clean up confetti the vacuum was nearby we hung out at my house and watched bad movies and then watch that documentary that a lot of people have treated me about.
1:19.0	Which one?
1:20.0	I know that voice, the voiceover actors, it's impossible to find anywhere. People keep
1:23.9	tweeting. I can't find it. I'm like, I don't know my husband about the last one.
1:26.5	But I was watching that at midnight. Thank you very much. God I love it so much.
1:32.4	Okay, that is awesome. Hemmett. What do you have this? Thank you very much. God I love it so much.
1:32.6	OK, that is awesome.
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