Ep. 316 - Franklin Graham's COVID-19 House O'Bigotry

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2020

⏱️ 75 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 was on Jeopardy and he’s eternally sorry to Canada. (0:28) — Some evangelists have very unusual ways to destroy COVID-19. (16:09) — There may be 32,000 churches still open during the pandemic. (20:00) — A Florida pastor was arrested for holding services during the pandemic. Good. (24:58) — Florida’s GOP governor is still allowing churches to gather despite a stay-at-home order. (28:00) — Secular Celebrants are now allowed to solemnize marriages in Michigan. (31:50) — Texas is trying to shut down abortion clinics during the pandemic. (35:33) — Republican are still trying to confirm bad judges to lifetime appointments. (40:30) — Volunteers at a Christian virus clinic in New York City must be anti-LGBTQ. Should the city be partnering with them? (43:42) — Anti-gay hysteria is preventing scientists from testing enough blood for a virus vaccine. (1:00:40) — Malaysia has some bad advice for wives during the lockdown. (1:04:40) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemet and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist podcast.
0:03.4	Please go to Patreon.com slash Friendly Atheist
0:06.8	podcast and give us the reviews and the stars or whatever it is people do during a pandemic.
0:11.8	Yeah. Yeah.
0:12.9	Hello.
0:13.9	Speaking of the reviews, we have officially hit whatever arbitrary number I picked.
0:17.7	So at the end, I'm going to read one of the five-star reviews.
0:21.2	Maybe I'll always read a one-star reviewstar review too to really put you in your place.
0:25.0	That's good.
0:26.0	It's going to be mean about me.
0:27.0	Hey, Heaven, I was watching TV yesterday and two days ago, and I saw this nerd and he won some money so I guess what I'm
0:37.2	wondering is haven't won an episode of Jeopardy! I won won. Yeah, it's done now. Yeah, I won an episode. I went back for day two,
0:48.0	which was Thursday. I did lose that one. I did lose that one totally legit fair I here's what you did really well and
0:55.3	you miss both final jeopardy questions I totally did you know so I watched I was
0:59.8	there they tape five episodes in a day.
1:02.6	So I was sitting in the audience Monday and Tuesday, quote unquote.
1:06.5	I was picked to play on Wednesday.
1:09.8	I stayed through till Thursday and then I lost and then I watched Friday. I knew
1:15.0	Final Jeopardy on Monday I wasn't playing. I knew the one for today's game on
1:19.7	Friday and I did not know the middle three and it just so happened two of those
1:24.7	were games I was in but uh it's such a luck of the draw thing in terms of which
1:29.4	categories and stuff but uh it was such an amazing experience I I'm so happy that I can finally talk about it with people.
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