Ep. 322 - Liberty U. Axed Its Philosophy Dept.

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2020

⏱️ 56 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. — Liberty University just got rid of its entire Philosophy Department. (4:44) — Forget Jim Bakker. Now a respected evangelical couple is under fire for promoting a fake COVID cure. (12:26) — A majority of white evangelicals trust Donald Trump for COVID news, proving yet again that they’ll believe anything. (17:32) — A banner flying over a re-open protest read “Fewer graves if we reopen in waves.” (24:00) — Illinois pastors say not meeting for church is the same as being “sentenced to death.” (31:40) — Pastors are still making the idiotic argument that if grocery stores are open, churches should be too. (33:40) — A Wisconsin hairdresser says she should be allowed to open her salon because it’s a ministry. (39:34) — The game show “The Price is Right” made a donation to Planned Parenthood. (46:22) — This Christian school’s leaders are bragging about how easy their classes are. (48:40) 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 if you like what you're listening to which you will go to
0:08.6	Patreon dot com slash friendly atheist podcast and we have a bunch of people we want to thank their new subscribers
0:16.8	Patreon supporters over the past month
0:19.4	Carmen C literally ha ha ha, cat H, Scott D, Kaya H, Brett G, Johnson H, Melvin G,
0:29.3	Jennifer W, Andy A, Jenny R, Elizabeth D, Joseph D, and Leslie.
0:35.0	Leslie, and just quick heads up is my literal best friend from college who was on the first bonus episode of this show that's also in our regular feed.
0:48.0	So you're saying it took six years to get around?
0:52.0	Here's the thing and this is why I wanted to make sure we brought her up, is that Leslie
0:57.5	and her boyfriend, Jeff, live in Louisville, and we have both on the same time been rewatching lost.
1:05.0	And so not only can you hear Leslie when we do a fun
1:09.0	probably two hour chat about Roxanne, Gay's, bad feminists, which was a delight.
1:15.2	She was up here a couple years ago.
1:18.0	On probably Wednesday or so, Jeff Leslie, myself and my husband Mikey did a four-person episode, a bonus episode
1:30.4	about the second season of Lost and it was Hemant Reader it was three hours long and here's the
1:38.9	fucked up part is that are you Joe Rogin Honestly, I see how he does it. I just have a lot of shit to say.
1:47.0	But here's the real fuck that part.
1:50.0	Did you tell crappy men's pills while you were doing it?
1:53.0	No, I sold a silver thing that you drink and it turns you blue.
1:57.0	You think that's good.
1:59.0	The fucked up thing though is that we ended at like probably 1130 our time my there on an
2:05.4	eastern time mikey went to bed and I brought my laptop over to jump to the
2:10.9	couch and Leslie and Jeff and I continue to talk from last season too for an hour.
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