Ep. 321 - Churches Shouldn't Get Pandemic Stimulus Money Unless...

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2020

⏱️ 60 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. — Televangelist Jim Bakker had a stroke. And his legal team had a bad reason to keep selling his Silver Solution. (1:35) — Do churches deserve stimulus money during the pandemic? (8:50) — A New Mexico sheriff “deputized” 20 church members… which not-so-coincidentally means they don’t have to follow lockdown orders. (16:44) — An Illinois judge told a pastor the Bible says he doesn’t need to gather in person to have a church service. (25:54) — Just because Jesus didn’t wear a face mask doesn’t mean you should avoid one. (29:27) — Guess how much a lifetime pass to Ark Encounter costs? (31:49) — Cardinal George Pell escaped conviction for child sex abuse but he still knew about child sex abuse. (35:18) — Here’s what a major study of atheists found. (39:06) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmant and Jessica and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast leave us reviews whatever it is you want hello.
0:13.0	Hi how are you? I'm doing okay. It's Friday afternoon I want to go out it's cold so yeah
0:21.4	it's kind of nice out. Before we get started I wanted to announce a new
0:28.1	podcast that I am that I just put out. It's called Cooper Dupor. It is a journey through Twin Peaks.
0:37.2	It's my husband who is a die-hard Twin Peaks fan and myself who has also seen the
0:41.9	show.
0:43.0	We're just doing an episode by episode rewatch
0:45.0	and discussing it and it's sort of meant to be both for people who like it
0:49.4	and for people who have never really watched the show before.
0:52.6	It's very much like how I liked reading a lot more
0:56.8	in college when I would then go to class
0:58.6	and kind of discuss what was going on.
1:00.6	It helped me, you know, keep on track. So anyway, yeah, it's just fun, it's very casual.
1:05.7	We're, the preview episode is out right now, and then I just have a little bit of editing to do on the
1:12.3	pilot podcast. and they will be out
1:15.2	weekly we have decided on a day but we're kind of making this up as we go along so
1:20.3	subscribe to Cooper duper on iTunes.
1:23.8	Very cool.
1:24.8	Congratulations.
1:25.8	Thank you.
1:26.8	It's a huge accomplishment.
1:28.2	Sorry in a podcast.
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