Ep. 226 - Throw Away The Used Communion Wafer

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- The new Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the one right-wing group that opposed him (temporarily), and his claim that church/state separation is "based on bad history." (0:30) -- This is why it's a problem believing communion wafers are the literal body of Christ. (20:14) -- Apparently you're not a real man unless you have a first-born son. (25:29) -- Kentucky can't decide if religious license plates should be allowed because atheists would get to have them. (27:44) -- Donald Trump's spiritual adviser Pastor Paula White says (wrongly) Jesus never broke the law. (33:00) -- A judge ruled against the least offensive atheist bus ad ever. (38:09) -- What did you do, Papa John? (43:47) -- The studio behind God's Not Dead wants to make a movie about the Thai kids trapped in a cave. (46:53) -- The Center For Inquiry is suing CVS for selling homeopathic medicine in misleading ways. (52:40) -- Australia is punishing parents who don't vaccinate their kids. Good. (57:52) -- The UK government is planning on banning gay conversion therapy. (1:01:10) -- A 12-year-old girl is working to bring a Pride parade to Buffalo Grove, Illinois. (1:04:20) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hammond and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast. Please go to
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0:11.1	Hello. Hi Hammond, how are you?
0:13.0	I'm good.
0:14.0	It's very hot here in Illinois.
0:16.0	It is.
0:17.0	We really, like, I mean, Chicago Land is not known for its balmy weather, but we really went from 45 to 90 and just this is where we live now.
0:26.7	It'll snow this weekend I'm sure that's how it works.
0:29.7	So let me start off with an apology, not an apology, I was wrong about Amy Gunny Barrett.
0:37.8	She's not the Skotis pick.
0:39.6	Oh yeah, you were so.
0:41.0	I was so sure she would be.
0:43.7	So I got a push alert about the actual pick
0:47.3	and I like text him and immediately like, ha ha,
0:50.7	you're wrong, because that's the kind of thing I enjoy and he had already
0:54.4	posted a backup article of the actual pick like I mean I think a couple hours in
1:00.5	advance people were saying no it's this guy everyone like they were like she's
1:04.4	home in Indiana like kind of pissed and they said a great sign I see they said the same
1:09.7	thing about someone else like we're stalking his house he's out here and it's like well then it's not
1:14.0	them so it's like all right is this guy yeah let's let's talk about Brett Kavanaugh because
1:21.7	the big conversation that I've heard in all the news articles is he's going to be of course the fifth vote to overturn Roe v. Wade
1:28.4	There are a couple of things to be concerned about specifically regarding church state separation with this guy and it's not it's not like the main thing anyone's talking about with regards to him because it's not the biggest decisions he's made.
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