Ep. 318 - Christians Are Already Suffering From COVID Negligence

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 54 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. — A Louisiana church that won’t close now has a hospitalized lawyer and a dead parishioner. (2:22) — A Virginia pastor who told people God could defeat COVID-19 has died of you-know-what. (9:30) — Christians suing the state of Kentucky for closing churches claim their predicament is just like Japanese Americans during World War II. (11:37) — A Kentucky judge allowed drive-in church services with a ruling that read more like a sermon. (15:02) — A megachurch in New Mexico says it can’t operate without an in-person staff of 30. (18:48) — CBS is breaking up with the show “God Friended Me.” (21:20) — Credit card companies don’t want to work with televangelist Jim Bakker. (24:33) — A Liberty University student filed a class action lawsuit against the school and Jerry Falwell for putting students in danger. (25:49) — A Christian book publisher just released a Qur’an… with “Christian commentary.” This can only end well. (32:02) — What is wrong with Dr. Oz? A lot, but maybe not as much as everyone thinks… (35:07) — Anti-vaxxers are joining the COVID protesters because of course they are. (45:28) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's go and I'm in and Jessica and you're listening to the friendly atheist
0:04.9	podcast please go to patreon.com and patreon.com slash friendly atheist
0:10.4	podcast we are trying something new today which is trying to
0:13.7	record this thing remotely and it is weird for us but we'll try to get through it
0:19.6	and see if it works. Well because neither of us are like audio tax nor do we have a
0:24.0	producer we're having to use sort of a I'd call it a Jerry rigged system but is
0:29.5	it is so very Jerry rigged. Don't worry I see Hemant twice, once in my computer screen,
0:34.6	once in my phone screen.
0:36.1	Which is totally how the professionals do it.
0:38.9	Yeah, definitely, for sure.
0:41.5	But we will try to make this work and we'll go from there.
0:43.8	I also can we talk about your microphone for like a hot sec? Don't even.
0:50.1	Don't make fun of this microphone I've had in storage for who knows how long.
0:55.0	It's just like this lavender purple thing and when Hemet puts his face all the
1:00.9	way up on it he looks like fucking shredder or like a scorpion like purple scorpion
1:07.1	from mortal combat it's my work here is done
1:14.0	anyway so let's let's My work here is done. Anyway, so... Let's start with this Louisiana pastor.
1:18.0	There's so many stories this week about pastors and Christians in general trying to fight the virus by suing their states.
1:26.0	Dude, have you, I presume you saw what happened in Michigan and Ohio right?
1:34.8	The people protesting stuff?
1:37.1	Uh-huh.
1:37.9	Yeah, those people are in for a rude awakening in like a week.
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