Ep. 204 - Prayers Don't Prevent School Shootings

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Republicans should just admit their prayers to stop school shootings aren't helping. (1:09) -- A pastor was found with a naked, tied-up man in his car. He swears “on a stack of bibles” that nothing happened. (11:45) -- This racist cartoonist published a cartoon attacking DREAMers. (14:55) -- A Colorado teacher has been charged with abusing and assaulting a student who wouldn't stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. (19:50) -- Even Omarosa Manigault, a minister, thinks Mike Pence is a crazy Christian. (23:57) -- The Trump administration's response to the Rob Porter scandal has been disappointing and exactly what you'd expect. (26:55) -- The Tennessee GOP Unleashed an attack on a “radical atheist” running for State Senate. (32:46) -- Dennis Prager says evangelicals aren’t hypocrites for backing Donald Trump. Even though they totally are. (39:35) -- A New Mexico city owes the ACLU $700,000 after not taking their advice about a Ten Commandments monument, then losing the court case. (50:54) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmett 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	Hi Jess, hi Hemm and how's your week going? It's been all right has it's it been all right? It's been all right?
0:14.0	Has it been objectively terrible?
0:16.0	It's been pretty terrible for reasons.
0:18.0	I have nothing to do with the podcast and everything to do with giant floods everywhere
0:22.0	in my life because of bad weather.
0:24.0	But...
0:25.0	Haven't and I've had singularly poor weeks, which always makes...
0:29.0	It's noon and I went downstairs to get a pop for recording and I accidentally came back with a beer
0:33.4	accidentally it was I really like literally walked away with the pop was like no so I'm drinking
0:38.4	new glareis cabin fever if you were ever in Wisconsin I've been there You don't drink beer I don't it was such a not
0:45.0	useful trip for me. It was a cute place though. Yeah no my folks live in in
0:49.9	Wisconsin and cabin fever it so New Galeris only sells in Wisconsin.
0:53.5	Spotted Cow is its famous thing but they sell this Cabin Fever which is my
0:57.5	favorite beer and they sell it one month per year so whenever we find it we like go crazy and stock up on it. So
1:05.3	myself pity bear. So while we're talking about horrible things, let's get this out of the way
1:09.7	because this is Thursday when we're recording this.
1:13.1	And there was a school shooting, another one yesterday in Florida.
1:18.3	And I mean, here's the thing about this,
1:21.0	which is the reactions to the shooting,
1:24.6	we've heard the story before.
1:26.3	It's always the same.
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