Ep. 225 - The Faith of the Next SCOTUS Pick

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2018

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Is Ark Encounter lying about attendance again? (0:39) -- A Republican congressional candidate thinks women are best described as "helpers." (15:52) -- What does Scott Pruitt's resignation letter say about God? (26:22) -- The man who destroyed the Ten Commandments monument in Arkansas doesn't regret it. (30:40) -- In Virginia, a new city council was sworn in... and they got rid of prayer. (36:21) -- A priest conducting a funeral went crazy after someone bumped into a chalice. (39:30) -- Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a potential Supreme Court pick, has a church/state separation problem. (43:58) -- Southern Baptist donors are furious that a seminary fired Paige Patterson, a man who downplayed or ignored sexual abuse. (58:22) -- This church protested Donald Trump's immigration policy by locking the Holy Family up in a cage. (1:02:37) -- There's a cultural vacuum in Trump's White House. (1:04:37) -- The issue of government-led prayer is in chaos because of the Supreme Court. (1:10:26) -- Don't get suckered in by Christians saying "I'm sorry" at a Pride parade. (1:21:30) -- The new season of the StartUp podcast is looking at a church plant. (1:31:08) -- We've got listener mail! (1:33:10) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmant and Jessica and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast if you like what you're listening to go to patreon.com
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0:10.1	Take two. We have so many things we want to talk about so we're going to get right to them.
0:14.4	Before we do that though, I just want to give quick shout outs to some of the most recent
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0:34.4	Thank you so much for your support.
0:35.6	We really appreciate it.
0:36.8	Thanks, guys, we really, really, really appreciate it.
0:39.6	I wanted to start because this is the thing that's been on my mind for like two days
0:44.4	running now and it's not political in the least so it should be like the least
0:49.8	important thing I know it makes no sense. It's Ken Ham and it's the attendance
0:56.4	numbers. No, no, no. Hear me out on this. Okay, I'm going to give you, here's the thing. He's
1:02.4	lying about his attendance and I think we caught him
1:05.5	He can't lie. He's a Christian. He'd get straight by line. I know so called science
1:09.2	It has to do with arc encounter his newer attraction not the creation museum.
1:13.7	But here's, let me give you the quick rundown of what he has said in the past.
1:18.2	Keep in mind, Arc encounter opened in July of 2016.
1:23.0	They are celebrating the second anniversary this weekend.
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