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Friendly Atheist Podcast

Ep. 311 - The Cross Won't Prevent Coronavirus

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2020

⏱️ 70 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. — Mike Pence is handling the spread of coronavirus and that’s horrifying. (4:27) — Once again, Attorney General William Barr said we have to believe in his Christian God. (10:32) — Catholics are debating whether they can eat plant-based “meat” on Fridays during Lent. (15:10) — Some Christians can’t handle how Pete Buttigieg gave good advice to a gay boy. (19:33) — A third of Poland is now an “LGBT-Free” zone. (26:40) — An effigy of a kissing gay couple was burned in Croatia. (27:42) — BYU changed its honor code, but the Mormon school insists it’s still anti-gay. (28:55) — Flat Earther Mike Hughes died while flying in his homemade rocket. (33:22) — A prominent Canadian Catholic leader, who died years ago, has been exposed as a predator. (38:20) — A Christian mail carrier is suing the US Postal Service because he has to work on Sundays. (42:00) — With the Supreme Court now on their side, an appeals court ruled that a giant Christian cross in a public park in Florida is legal. (47:58) — A Hindu priest says menstruating women who cook food for their husbands will be reincarnated as dogs. Because logic. (53:45) — Most Americans don’t think the Democratic presidential candidates are religious. They’re wrong. (57:33) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reminds us that this administration uses religion to hurt people. (1:05:50) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Hemmant and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist podcast.

0:04.1

Please go to Patreon.com slash Friendly Atheist podcast to support what you're listening to.

0:10.3

Hello. Hi, how are you? I'm doing excellent. It's almost the end of February. It is. We made it through

0:16.7

another Chicago winter. It's going to be like 50 this weekend. I heard. Very excited.

0:21.6

So before we kick off we just have a couple fun announcements to make

0:26.8

First of all I want to thank Kathy who

0:30.3

Really generously offered to do our transcriptions for us.

0:34.3

I had said a couple weeks ago that, you know,

0:36.6

we do kind of a rough transcription through a program.

0:41.6

And then if I had time, I would try to go and clean it up and Kathy said you know

0:45.4

I have time at my desk I would love to help you guys and so she's doing that for us.

0:49.3

Many thanks Kathy.

0:50.3

Yeah we really appreciate that.

0:52.1

So if you go to the podcast website, I think the latest one is from like a week or so ago,

0:57.0

that we made a transcript for, Kathy fixed it up.

1:00.0

That one's available now for anyone who prefers reading our words instead of listening to us.

1:04.4

Yeah or you know it's good for sharing if you hear anything you like.

1:08.0

So we really appreciate that so I would say give us about a week to get the transcripts up once the episode drops.

1:15.0

Next, if you are a patron subscriber, there's an interview that I did with Purvey's China, who's an actor and comedian, and a junior high friend of my

1:26.6

husband's.

1:28.4

He's great.

1:29.4

We talk a lot about kind of being Indian American actor and being, you know, gay in Hollywood and all that fun stuff.

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