Ep. 319 - These Christian First Date Questions Are Scary

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2020

⏱️ 64 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. — The Nebraska GOP is trying to hurt a Republican primary challenger by suggesting she’s an atheist. (0:31) — The Christian Moms are mad at the cartoon Duck Tales for showing a gay couple. (8:27) — These are awful questions for a first date, brought to you by a Christian fundamentalist. (14:45) — A pro-bleach church may be advising Trump because we’re a nation of idiots. (24:33) — Ark Encounter ticket sales have plummeted for obvious reasons. (28:39) — “ReOpen Church” Day is a horrible idea. (30:36) — Donations to churches have fallen dramatically. What does this mean for their future? (35:49) — Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says dying isn’t the worst thing. So thanks for that. (38:15) — Scotland will soon abolish its blasphemy law! (47:02) — The U.S. Army removed proselytizing videos from Facebook that were posted to a base’s official page. (49:09) — Surprise! The anti-viral drug FOX News and Trump were raving about without scientific support… doesn’t work. (53:25) — Televangelist Pat Robertson knows exactly who to blame for COVID-19: Gays, the abortion people, and anyone who’s anti-Israel. (56:58) 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. Please go to
0:05.2	Patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast. It's week two or we're trying to do this at
0:10.1	a distance. We'll see if it works again. Who knows?
0:12.8	Who knows?
0:15.3	Did you get back from last week's episode?
0:17.4	None whatsoever.
0:18.4	Perfect.
0:19.3	I assume that means everything was perfect.
0:21.2	So, yeah.
0:21.8	Yeah. I wanted to get right into this with you
0:24.9	because I have some stories that I just really, really
0:28.2	want to talk to you about.
0:30.2	Okay.
0:31.2	The first one that I wanted to bring up is the story that happened in Nebraska that got virtually no attention because it has nothing to do with the pandemic.
0:41.0	But it...
0:42.0	Wait, we can talk about a non-pandemic story?
0:44.0	I know, yeah.
0:45.0	Unprecedent.
0:46.0	Yes, and it's the weirdest story for so many reasons.
0:49.0	So let me give you some background here.
0:51.0	Nebraska, for people who don't remember from like high school, Nebraska is the
0:55.7	one that's a unicameral legislature. Everybody's a senator in their state
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