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Friendly Atheist Podcast

Ep. 260 - Taxpayers Aren't Funding Churches... Yet

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Donald Trump is signing bibles for victims of the tornado in Alabama. (0:25) — I’m giving talks next week in Tampa and Orlando! Come on by, people of Florida! (4:14) — The Supreme Court won’t hear a case involving taxpayers funding church renovations. (5:38) — A boy has tetanus. A kid has measles. A major study of 650,000 patients found no link between vaccines and autism. Will vaccine deniers ever accept reality? (13:15) — A college dean resigned from her position (but not the school) after the campus said no to bringing a Chick-fil-A on campus. (26:55) — Utah is about to make premarital sex legal. Which means it wasn’t legal. (31:08) — A Christian firefighter is suing his department because they wouldn’t let him grow a beard. (36:20) — The GOP is confirming anti-church/state separation judges at a rapid rate. (39:36) — For the second time, a patient was cured of HIV! (43:03) — Planned Parenthood and the American Medical Association are suing the Trump administration for punishing family planning clinics that refer women for abortions. (44:42) — Changing your religion before marriage is the lowest form of religious conversion. (47:20) — Was it sensible or cowardly for a high school Christian wrestler to forfeit matches to avoid matches with girls? (50:30) — Did you know drive-thru ashes were a thing on Ash Wednesday? (58:00) 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.

0:04.0

Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast.

0:07.0

You got me a little unaware of that start, Hammond.

0:09.0

I did it just as you moved away.

0:11.0

You sure did.

0:12.0

How are you? I'm okay. How are you? I'm pretty good. It is 40 degrees. Let's talk about the

0:16.4

weather war. There's so many things to discuss. I don't know if you know this because

0:20.2

I have in about three minutes before I walked in this room.

0:23.2

Okay.

0:24.5

But we could start with this if you want.

0:27.0

Donald Trump is in Alabama visiting the tornado devastation, the ruins the

0:32.7

the ruins the area there and remember when he was in like Puerto Rico when he

0:35.6

threw paper towels at people he didn't do that this time

0:39.1

threw brooms at people's

0:44.0

on he's according to a picture that's circulating on Twitter he's signing people's Bibles

0:49.0

which sounds about right? I haven't, I could have sat here for hours guessing dumb shit that he might have done. Do you have a picture? Oh, I have a picture.

1:02.2

Oh, my my he's signing

1:03.4

everyone has like he wrote them like yeah I mean he's used to like taking

1:08.8

credit for things other people have written but this is just so right.

1:15.0

Like, you could, I could just see him saying like God's name is very large on here.

1:19.5

Okay, I'm not sure what I'm looking at in this picture.

1:21.1

It just looks like a group of people.

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