Ep. 262 - Don't Handle Chickenpox Like Gov. Matt Bevin

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2019

⏱️ 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. — Hemant is speaking at the Freethought Festival in Madison, Wisconsin next week! Come watch! (0:30) — Hemant’s working on two new projects! Here’s what they are and how you can support him! (0:59) — The Nones are #1… what does that mean? (5:21) — A university in Calgary canceled a talk by an ex-Muslim atheist out of sensitivity to victims of the New Zealand terror attack. But when’s the right time to criticize religion? (10:55) — LifeWay, the largest Christian retailer, is shutting down all stores. You’ll have to buy your Christians elsewhere. (18:31) — FOX News’ Todd Starnes thinks we need “heterosexual history classes.” (24:28) — Chick-fil-A is back in the news for its anti-LGBTQ ways. (31:26) — If you want to help your kids deal with chickenpox, don’t do what Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin did. (40:58) — An Italian politician who fought against mandatory vaccination contracted chickenpox. (47:33) — A kid is suing his local Department of Health in Kentucky after getting banned from his high school’s events for being unvaccinated. (49:12) — Christian moms are furious over a new supposedly sexualized Kit Kat commercial. (51:15) — Georgia is on the verge of banning abortions after six weeks. (57:00) — A physicist got $1.4 million for saying science and religion might be compatible. (1:00:18) — The Neil deGrasse Tyson investigation is over. What did we learn? (1:03:50) — The Irish prime minister and his same-sex partner had some words for Mike Pence. (1:13:28) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Heman and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist podcast.
0:07.0	Thanks.
0:08.0	How are you?
0:09.0	Oh wait.
0:10.0	I'm good.
0:11.0	It's so nice out.
0:12.0	It's 50 degrees. That counts as nice. The sun is out. Yes. It's great. How was your trip to Florida?
0:18.4	Excellent. Didn't even need a jacket. That was nice. I still need one here here that's sort of the only thing they had
0:23.5	going for that it was good people were nice the talk was fun it was good and
0:27.3	speaking of which I'm gonna get some personal stories out of the way. Next weekend on March 29th, that weekend anyway.
0:37.0	I'll be in Madison, Wisconsin giving a talk
0:40.2	at Free Thought Festival.
0:42.2	It's their eighth annual Free Thought Festival. It's their eighth annual Free Thought Festival.
0:45.0	I'm speaking Saturday afternoon.
0:47.4	There's a bunch of awesome people who are speaking all weekend.
0:50.8	It's the event is free of charge, and it's in Madison at the University of
0:55.2	Madison in Wisconsin. So if you're in the area check it out and I'll go ahead and say
1:00.4	my other thing which is I'm working on two new projects that are totally
1:06.8	separate from this podcast and kind of separate from the website I know I know I
1:11.1	know I'm using my I know I'm using my I know I'm using my so here's here's the first
1:16.6	project one is a bunch of people who maybe listen to this podcast know me
1:20.3	because of a YouTube channel that I used to make a bunch of videos for, the atheist voice.
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