Ep. 199 - They Gave the Pastor a Standing Ovation for Assault

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- All the action in local governments: A secular affirmation, the end of one city's invocations, how one politician compared atheist invocations to baby murder, a delightful atheist invocation in Florida, and two officials in California who aren't standing for the Pledge. (4:46) -- Feminine hygiene products are free for public school students in Illinois and California. (18:32) -- An elected official told his committee they needed another man to fill a vacant seat because the Bible said so. (20:02) -- Dan Harmon's worthwhile apology. (26:39) -- Megachurch pastor Andy Savage received a standing ovation for assaulted a girl decades ago then giving a half-hearted apology for it. (31:21) -- Joshua Feuerstein said the actresses at the Golden Globes couldn't credibly speak out against assault because they were "dressed like hookers." (44:35) -- Gwyneth Paltrow wants you to spend $135 to spray coffee up your butt. (59:54) -- A Turkish scientist claims Noah called his son on a cell phone before boarding the Ark. (1:00:30) -- Bill Donohue claims the Catholic Church is a “model” for handling sexual misconduct. (1:02:03) -- Singer Charlie Daniels doesn't like that Taco Bell mocked the Illuminati. (1:03:20) -- Donald Trump's "spiritual advisor" is capitalizing on her fame by asking everyone to give her a month's salary. (1:04:37) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.8	up top? Okay. We'll do one quick correction that I need to make. Okay. Last week we said after the head of the Mormon
1:04.8	church had died that there's the quorum of the 12 apostles and the oldest guy on
1:10.8	that group would be the next president. I was wrong about that when I said
1:15.4	that. It's actually the oldest member of the quorum, like who's been on
1:20.8	there the longest? Yes. And usually that is the person who is the
1:24.9	oldest but not necessarily so I think the next Mormon church's president is
1:30.3	both the longest serving person there and happens to be the oldest guy there
1:35.3	coincidentally but anyway that is thanks for everyone who told me that yes
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