Ep. 211 - Do Atheists Have An Alt - Right Problem?

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2018

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Whether atheists are indeed "veering dangerously" toward the alt-right. (0:15) -- Why Creationist Ken Ham has a lot of job openings, but no takers. (30:20) -- Some incredibly manipulative faith-based backstabbing in Victoria, Australia. (34:57) -- Why Christians must disavow Donald Trump, according to a Christian. (40:15) -- Little Free Libraries are becoming havens for religious proselytizing. (45:50) -- The backlash to a vaccination bill in New Jersey. (50:50) -- A Christian author says we have to avoid vaccines since the Bible never mentions them. (54:58) -- After 73 years of marriage, this Canadian couple chose to end their lives together... and some people are furious. (59:13) -- God’s Not Dead 3 tanked at the box office. (1:05:05) -- This "perfect" way to stop gay couples from renting a wedding venue may backfire. (1:09:15) -- This is depressing: A third of Americans ages 18-24 aren’t sure the Earth is round. (1:13:09) -- Many people want to kill women who have abortions. (1:16:55) -- We answer listener mail! (1:26:15) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemet. 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.
0:08.0	You nailed it that time, Hemet. This is take number seven. We had a little flub. How's it going buddy?
0:13.2	Going good.
0:14.2	Good. Let's talk about so many things this week.
0:17.8	Yeah, this is a big wig.
0:19.3	Let me start off with maybe the one that seemed most personal to me, which was this article that appeared
0:25.6	in Vice.
0:26.6	It was written by Chris Stedman, who used to run the humanist community at Yale.
0:31.6	I think he's now in Minnesota. Good guy works with a lot of good community groups.
0:37.2	Good organizer. He posted an article on Vices website and the headline is too many atheists are veering dangerously toward the alt-right
0:47.7	subtitle and atheists can't afford to be quiet about it.
0:51.3	And we'll go through some of the salient points of what he was saying.
0:56.0	The problem I have is this implication that too many atheists
1:00.0	it's never quantified and when you see that headline it's like oh wow this is a huge problem among
1:07.2	atheists and I don't buy that I don't think that's accurate and maybe the best way I can try to show you what I mean by
1:15.3	that is there were polls I remember taken when before the Obergefell ruling
1:20.3	where they asked like do you support marriage
1:24.0	and they asked this of everybody and they diced it up
1:26.7	maybe this is the Pew Research Center or something
1:28.7	they diced it up by religions by beliefs
1:32.0	and you know you would see it's exactly what you would expect like
1:35.6	20 some percent of evangelicals said yes were in supported gay marriage
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