Ep. 315 - COVID-19 And Bad Decision-Making

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2020

⏱️ 63 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 will be on Jeopardy on Wednesday! (0:20) — Yes, the government can force churches to close down in the pandemic. (3:48) — Liberty University is open for business… for some reason. (7:45) — A Pennsylvania lawmaker proposed a resolution blaming COVID-19 on our sins. (13:30) — A boy drowned at a low-budget Creation Museum and Kent Hovind doesn’t seem to care. (18:16) — Is abortion an essential health service during a pandemic? (25:13) — A Texas lawmaker praised COVID-19 for saving lives by shutting down abortion clinics. (26:45) — A pastor who said our COVID-19 response was “mass hysteria” died of you know what. (34:49) — A Louisiana pastor brought in 26 busloads of people for Sunday services. He’s not planning to stop. (38:01) — An IL church held services on March 15, Now most of the people who attended are sick. (39:45) — Oklahoma’s governor led a televised Christian prayer rally while Mississippi’s read from the Bible during a livestream. (42:57) — The White House’s Bible study leader is blaming COVID-19 on gay people and atheists. (54:30) — A Romanian priest gave communion to people with the same spoon. (57:00) — A GOP leader in Nebraska said the virus wouldn’t affect them because there aren’t a lot of Chinese people there. (57:38) 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 if you like what you're listening to please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast leave a review
0:10.7	Download tell your friends it's all good.
0:12.8	Yeah, we've got nothing but time so listen to podcasts.
0:16.6	We are sitting far away from each other as is custom.
0:20.4	I'm going to start by just getting this out of the way.
0:23.7	Next week is Jeopardy Week.
0:25.4	Oh yeah, I assume the Jeopardy Party invited me to is cancelled?
0:28.8	It is cancelled.
0:30.6	It'll now be me and maybe my parents and my kids who will poop during the show and then I will have to leave just to take care of that.
0:41.0	That's fun.
0:42.0	Yeah.
0:43.0	I don't know.
0:44.0	I did see, now I'm stalking all the other contestants too, because we're all part of like a special club.
0:48.6	Oh, sure.
0:49.6	You know.
0:50.6	You know. But one of them had a virtual party.
0:52.4	I was like, oh, that's an interesting take I
0:54.1	wonder if I could pull that off I don't think I could with a
0:56.0	constitute a virtual party and I have kids around and I'm like you
1:00.0	you me Skype yeah so but it's on Wednesday.
1:04.0	So if you are home, because you know, you have nowhere else to go.
1:08.0	You will be.
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