Ep. 282 - The Mike Pence Rule Strikes Again In A Sheriff's Office

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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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. — In New Zealand, evangelicals have a “trust” problem. (0:36) — Neil deGrasse Tyson‘s thoughtless tweet after last week’s mass shootings. (6:30) — Donald Trump hammed it up for a picture with the baby who’s now an orphan because of Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric. (21:45) — This Ohio lawmaker blamed the Dayton mass shooting on everything and everyone except guns. (26:59) — Mike Huckabee thinks more Jesus will prevent mass shootings. (29:29) — A Christian Cross in a Pennsylvania county’s logo isn’t promoting Christianity, a court says. (34:11) — A Christian sheriff says he was fired for his faith. It’s actually because he wouldn’t train a woman. (39:35) — Mike Pence has some horribly worded post-shooting advice. (46:00) — Does the Mormon Church deserve to be sued for lying to people? (48:15) — Most Catholics don’t believe in Eucharist, so why are they Catholic? (54:55) — Conservatives always offer “thoughts and prayers” in response to guns but never abortion. (1:02:26) — Joe Biden made a Bidenlike gaffe. (1:04:40) — The Boy Scouts have been sued for acting like the Catholic Church. (1:06:02) — Wanna do battle in the Times mini-crossword? Bring it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemet and Jessica and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast give us good reviews moving on hello. Hi
0:10.5	How are you? I'm good. It's been a long week. Yeah, you know what? I've had an
0:14.9	exceptionally bad day preceded by a not great week. And guess what? All of my
0:20.0	stories are really fucking depressing. Welcome to the news.
0:23.0	So I have a pretty tall glass of wine.
0:25.0	I have a couple good stories for you.
0:28.0	Okay. So we'll try to knock those out or do you want to mix them in so I don't self-destruct.
0:32.0	I'll mix them in so I don't self-destruct. I'll mix them in.
0:33.8	Okay.
0:35.1	Here, I'll give you a good one to begin with.
0:37.5	Okay. Okay.
0:38.5	So after the shooting in New Zealand, the Christchurch won, there was a group that was doing
0:49.5	a survey on religious attitudes people have toward religious people.
0:54.0	So this is the Institute for Governance,
0:56.3	governance, and policy studies at Victoria, University
0:59.9	of Wellington.
1:01.2	They were doing surveys, then the shooting happened, and then they're like, we wonder if this has an effect on how people perceive Muslims or Christians or anybody else.
1:11.0	Obviously, not the first thought they had.
1:14.1	But one of many thoughts they had.
1:16.1	Do you want to refresh?
1:17.1	So the shooting in New Zealand was a white perpetrator against targeting Muslim.
1:21.6	Yeah, like four dozen Muslims in their mosques.
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