Ep. 281 - From Purity To Apostasy

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — 40% of Americans are Creationists. (4:00) — Answers in Genesis says they get no money from Kentucky taxpayers. That’s a lie. (9:25) — “Purity Culture” poster boy Joshua Harris says he’s no longer a Christian. (18:45) — A Greek Orthodox priest has a very strange idea about where gay people come from… (24:44) — Where did Target’s “Humanist” throw pillow go? (30:10) — This is awful advice for women whose relationships have fallen apart. (34:52) — Attorney General William Barr is bringing back the death penalty. Does that conflict with his Catholicism? (40:00) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hamid and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast. Please go to
0:04.4	Patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast and like the show and then give money. You know how it works.
0:11.0	You've gotten worse at that somehow.
0:14.0	Speaking of which, you just got back from a wedding,
0:19.0	your brother's wedding.
0:20.0	How did that go?
0:22.0	It was magical and incredible.
0:25.0	So it's Friday night as a recording.
0:27.0	Yeah.
0:28.0	He got married on Thursday.
0:30.0	And I officiated the wedding. It was so much fun. I was extremely nervous about the
0:37.4	ceremony because his wife's family is very Catholic, very religious and so there was a little tension around whether they're
0:45.5	going to be like super thrilled with my particular brand.
0:48.9	Because you don't look like a priest.
0:50.3	I don't.
0:51.5	My aunt made the same joke three times about where are your robes and oh landed every time every time
0:57.6	Funniest but yeah it was really, really wonderful.
1:03.8	We just talked a lot about what family means
1:06.5	and what it means to pick your person and symbolism
1:09.6	and all that stuff.
1:11.3	It was genuinely incredible. I had the time of my life. Today we all
1:17.2	got up and had brunch and went on an architectural tour of Chicago. Which is good
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