Ep. 306 - The Church That Doesn't Want Old People

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2020

⏱️ 68 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. — Donald Trump appeared at the misnamed “March for Life.” (0:25) — Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers has an important question about God. (5:29) — Was a church wrong for telling old members to get out? (11:03) — The Church of England reiterates that only straight married people can have sex. (14:52) — A survey shows that atheists know more about the Holocaust\ than Christians. (19:10) — This controversy over invocations in Berea, Kentucky will inevitably lead to a lawsuit. (28:13) — Conservative Dennis Prager says private conversations aren’t an accurate reflection of someone’s character. (35:14) — Utah (!) has finally banned gay conversion torture. (43:20) — An Indiana legislator wants to make his anti-abortion bill immune to lawsuits. (45:25) — The Supreme Court heard a case that could upend church/state separation. (50:05) — Mike Pence spoke at a church where a pastor delivered a rabidly anti-gay sermon. Because of course he did. (55:00) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	This is Hemet and Jessica and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast.
0:34.0	Please go to Patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast.
0:38.0	It's Friday good morning afternoon whatever it is.
0:41.0	It's the afternoon I have a glass of wine,
0:43.0	so it has to be afternoon.
0:45.1	We have a ton of stuff that, and big stuff going on.
0:51.4	Let's start with what's Trump doing today?
0:55.4	So every year there's a group that has the March for Life,
0:59.8	which is the anti-choice group and normally and it happens every year in Washington DC and they're
1:08.6	very dramatic about it this is normally it just is a thing that happens like so many like there's literally like a
1:15.4	March a day in Washington DC it's not like not everything is newsworthy. This year
1:20.4	our president Donald Trump decided he's going to speak at the March for Life,
1:26.8	which Putson has as the first president to do so,
1:32.0	another dubious honor that Donald Trump holds.
1:35.0	He appeared I think via video in the past and obviously Democrats haven't gone to it I don't believe but like yeah he's there which here's what I want to know about I'm not surprised that he's he's going there I'm not surprised he's trying to make sure anti-abortion people are like in his camp because he can't afford to lose anybody.
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