Ep. 228 - Goop Has A Fact-Checker?

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- 50 years ago, the pope said birth control was immoral. (1:15) -- Did you know Gwyneth Paltrow hired a fact checker for Goop? (9:40) -- This 11-year-old college grad wants to pursue astrophysics so he can prove God's existence. (19:44) -- Computer models could help us understand the future of religion. (30:25) -- A Republican candidate for office thinks the Founding Fathers put "One Nation Under God" in the Pledge... which wasn't written until after they all died. (45:35) -- Two South Asian atheists face blasphemy charges in their countries. One's currently filming a reality show. (56:25) -- This alternative Ten Commandments is incredible. (1:02:20) -- We answer a question about whether or not to show off your shoulders in a very Mormon part of Utah. (1:07:17) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hamming and Jessica 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 and leave us all the star reviews however many stars they have now.
0:13.0	I don't know anymore.
0:14.0	I would say five is generally the consensus.
0:15.8	I'll take five unless it's out of ten in which case, that would be mean.
0:20.0	How are you doing tonight?
0:20.9	I'm okay.
0:21.5	Happy, you're gonna go away for a long time?
0:24.0	This is a rare midnight at midnight.
0:26.5	Wednesday, my vane, I have vacation brain.
0:30.5	Look at you.
0:31.5	I'm not going to do super great tonight. No, I'm leaving for the Pacific Northwest
0:36.9	early tomorrow morning, Thursday morning. So it's a Wednesday night. I just drove back from the city to play because I was playing
0:43.6	kickball with my husband's kickball team as one does. As one does I did
0:49.2	haven't I know you're wondering extremely well I went four for four and caught two pop flies I did
0:56.7	extremely well. They want to bring me back but you know what I'm going on
1:00.8	fucking I can't you get to go on vacation. It's okay.
1:04.0	Every time I would do anything I kept yelling how I was on island time and complaining that I
1:08.8	wanted to go back to the bench because I had a beer there. Nice. So I'm very
1:12.2	fun to play kickball with.
1:14.0	Well, let's talk about the news.
1:17.0	There's some stuff.
1:18.0	Happy anniversary today.
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