Ep. 293 - Will Elizabeth Warren Hire A Secular Outreach Director?

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2019

⏱️ 61 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. — Hemant has a new YouTube channel! Have you subscribed? You should. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she’d consider hiring a “Secular Outreach Director” and Julián Castro says he doesn’t think atheism is a dirty word. (0:37) — A Major League Baseball umpire under fire for his violent pro-Trump tweet also happens to run a Christian ministry. (10:03) — The Christian Moms are furious at a commercial for period-proof underwear that featured men. (15:51) — The company Always removed the female symbol from its sanitary pads. (20:05) — An Italian photographer was convicted of blasphemy and ordered to pay a hefty fine. (22:15) — Pastor Greg Locke burned a book by attorney Andrew Seidel because it threatened him with education. (26:58) — A Tennessee GOP official trashed Democrats for having a “queer running fo president.” (37:14) — Guess why abortion rates are falling in Colorado? Hint: It has nothing to do with abortion restrictions. (39:44) — Bible teacher Beth Moore needs to “go home” because she’s a woman, said a male Christian preacher. (44:00) — A Republican didn’t really say women considering abortions should have to wear ankle monitors. (47:47) — God supposedly gave this woman the winning lottery numbers. But she didn’t play them. (52:41) — 31% of white evangelicals think Donald Trump is infallible. (55:19) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.3	Jessica and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast if you like and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist podcast if you like what you're listening to go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast
0:38.3	Hello
0:39.9	It's been a long week since we recorded and then everything happened as usual and we have so many things to discuss
0:46.8	I know does him sound better does he sound a hundred dollars better his his microphone shit out on us It better be We'll see if this works. Donate to friendly
0:56.0	athletes. Patreon.com slash readily atheist. So Jessica's sick heaven's
1:01.6	microphone shut out. We're having a day. So Jessica's sick, Heavens, I will take over everything.
1:04.7	Don't worry, we're all good here.
1:06.0	Okay, let's do this.
1:08.2	There's, if you live in Iowa,
1:11.6	every candidate in the world is coming to like your city to do any town hall to get any attention to get any voters on their side before the Iowa caucuses, which is awesome if you're a progressive person and this is a year
1:25.4	when a ton of Democrats are running just like it was if you were the opposite in 2016
1:29.8	but that also means like you have Elizabeth Warren coming to your town and you can ask her questions and everyone else too.
1:37.0	And this week, so I mentioned Warren because she was in Cedar Falls this week.
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