Ep. 252 - The GOP Is 'Operating Like A Religious Cult'

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Congressional Freethought Caucus co-chair Rep. Jamie Raskin said the GOP is “operating like a religious cult.” (5:30) — Canada has granted asylum to the Saudi woman trying to escape her religious parents. (7:41) — Catholics trust clergy members less than ever before. (14:20) — The historical phrase “CE” is upsetting British Christians. (17:17) — States are already pushing for mandatory Bible classes in public high schools. (21:25) — Liberty Counsel is furious that an anti-lynching bill includes protection for LGBTQ people. (29:05) — Hate-Pastor Donnie Romero has resigned from his church after admitting multiple sins (but he insists he still hates gay people). (33:36) — The Dutch version of the anti-LGBTQ Nashville Statement has pro-LGBTQ secular competition. (39:10) — Pat Robertson doesn’t understand how internet searches work. (42:42) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemm and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast.
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0:11.6	How are you?
0:12.4	I'm so tired. I'm sure I literally walked into
0:15.8	Jess's place like two minutes ago then shut my mouth and I was like well wait
0:20.4	till we start recording because I want to hear about this trip you got back like now.
0:24.4	Yeah I got back like an hour ago.
0:26.4	And I know nothing about what happened there.
0:28.7	I don't even know who you talked to to be honest with you.
0:31.0	No, no, no, no, you don't.
0:32.6	I think I'm going to keep that under my vest.
0:37.1	I see how that is.
0:37.8	Close to my events.
0:39.4	You're mixing metaphors somewhere.
0:40.8	I'm tripping over metaphors all over the place. God it was amazing. Southern California
0:46.0	has the best fucking weather in the world. It is January. It was 65 degrees.
0:51.3	It was incredible. So I had originally planned on tentatively talking to six people that
0:57.6	dwindled down to four, but there are four cool fun interviews that I'm super stoked
1:02.3	to share with everyone.
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