Ep. 205 - The Useless Bag Of Prayers

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Lawrence Krauss faces sexual misconduct allegations from multiple women. (1:00) -- The death of Billy Graham and his sad legacy. (20:54) -- GMOs are good for you, says a new study. (28:47) -- The phrase "In God We Trust" will not stop bullets. (31:30) -- South Carolina's education chief said school shootings could end if we just taught kids more about Jesus. (35:20) -- Even Pat Robertson (!) called for a ban on assault weapons. (37:45) -- A GOP congressman gave Donald Trump a literal bag of prayers after the school shooting. (44:22) -- A PA church (near an elementary school) will bless your assault rifles next week. (46:03) -- An ex-Jehovah’s Witness killed her family, then herself. Was it because of her shunning? (50:15) -- Why are these Christian non-profits telling the IRS they’re churches? (53:57) -- Iceland may ban circumcision for non-medical reasons. (59:17) -- The Teenagers Roast Marco Rubio Show. (1:02:39) 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
0:08.9	We're taping this for like the second time because the previous version just blotted out
0:15.2	Jessica her mic just decided not to record even though it was recording.
0:19.9	Oh no I would argue there's a segment of people who would like totally listen to that.
0:24.8	I just thought you wanted to hang out with me again,
0:26.5	I know, I know and I do.
0:28.0	And talk about the exact same thing
0:29.0	so we did yesterday.
0:30.6	The reason we wanted to re-record it is because there was so many important things happening that it's like we want to get this as right as weekend.
0:39.0	So before we do that, let me give a shout out to some of our Patreon subscribers. Thank you for your
0:44.3	support. Bill M Michelle B Nathan J Brendan R Mike E Cassandra K Benjamin B. Travis B. Shelly S.
0:54.0	Thanks everyone.
0:55.0	We appreciate it.
0:56.5	Shout out to Benjamin Button.
0:59.0	OK, so the first thing, kind of the elephant in the room
1:01.8	sort of thing, is this story about Lawrence Kraus that came out a couple days ago as
1:08.6	I'm as we're recording this and essentially buzzfeed three of their reporters made this
1:16.0	bombshell article they they posted this bombshell article that basically said
1:20.9	he's been accused of multiple allegations from several women of sexual misconduct.
1:27.0	And just to be clear, there's no crime that happened.
1:30.0	There's no police report that's ever going to be filed about this.
1:35.0	This is stuff where it's just inappropriate behavior.
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