Ep. 202 - Eric Trump Thinks We're All "United on God"

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 3 February 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Eric Trump is mad Democrats didn't stand up for God during the State of the Union. An atheist lawyer schooled him on why that happened. (0:32) -- Wait for it. Donald Trump says he's not a feminist. (8:15) -- Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered powerful remarks against religious bigotry. (10:28) -- A Texas legislator wants to ban abortions so women learn to be "more personally responsible." (15:15) -- A televangelist says we don't need to get flu shots because Jesus got one for all of us. (21:05) -- What does the chair for the academic study of atheism do? (26:55) -- Are men threatened by intelligent women? (30:35) -- This is how Christian groups trick public schools into handing them fresh meat. (33:05) -- Mel Gibson is making a sequel to Passion of the Christ. Because why the hell not. (40:48) -- A gay Mormon who married a woman is getting divorced because (wait for it) he's still gay. (47:15) -- Why won't this New Zealand church tell me if they approved an advertisement calling their pastor hot? (57:00) -- David Brooks is wrong. Democrats shouldn't adopt anti-abortion policies to win elections. (59:47) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmett and Jessica 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	It's Friday afternoon when we're recording this and we'll just get right into it because
0:13.7	there's so many things we want to talk about. Like literally as haven't was coming
0:17.5	over here I got the push alert saying that the memo was released so we don't have
0:21.6	anything on that. I'm going to guess it makes
0:23.8	Trump look foolish. Yeah. I don't know what he thought he was going to
0:27.6	accomplish with that. Speaking of Trump, oh good. Let's start with this right away
0:31.5	because it happened this week during the state of the Union.
0:35.0	Oh, I did not. I don't want to brag. You know I hate to brag, I'm listening.
0:38.5	I did not watch a second of the state of the Union. I haven't watched any clips of it. I've heard some like hot
0:44.5	takes about it. We are so the opposite. I like I watch pre-game coverage. I was I enjoyed
0:52.2	the live tweets.
0:53.0	This was my thought is that it is...
0:55.0	That is my Super Bowl.
0:56.0	The thing is like I figured it would be exactly what I expected it to be.
1:01.0	It would be dry and boring. He wouldn't drop any
1:04.2	en bombs and like it just wouldn't show us anything new which I... Oh no you're right.
1:10.4	Yeah. So I just like I just kept that rage inside. I was over at my
1:14.5	front Ann's place and we just drank wine and watch parks and rec all right. It was all night.
1:18.0	It was excellent. You win the night. Yeah, oh for sure. Yeah.
1:20.6	Yeah. One of the things Trump said in the State of the Union, among many things, is that, you know, we're all
1:26.4	united.
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