Ep. 325 - Trump's Church Photo Ops Pleased Nobody

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 6 June 2020

⏱️ 68 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. — Donald Trump‘s photo ops in front of two churches pleased nobody. (1:07) — Is Trump finally losing some of that white evangelical support? (10:44) — Southern Baptist churches had their largest membership drop in a century. (18:28) — Should a high school graduate be denied college acceptance for a racist comment online? (25:49) — According to the Lt. Governor of Texas, we can’t fix racism without Jesus. (39:53) — Pope Francis condemned the murder of George Floyd. (48:44) — The Department of Education, under Betsy DeVos, says allowing trans athletes to compete in high school sports could lead to government defunding of those schools. (1:00:33) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmett and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast leave reviews send us nice messages wherever it is you want to do. Hello.
0:13.0	Hi, how are you?
0:14.4	I'm hanging in there yourself.
0:17.0	Same.
0:18.0	This has been a lot, you know, a lot's happened since we last recorded.
0:21.6	And yeah, I don't know man I as I was putting together
0:26.4	notes for today I'm like I don't have a ton about the the protests as much as I
0:31.2	have about Trump and the stuff he's been doing this week, but I'm sure they'll all coincide sometime tonight.
0:38.6	Yeah, man, I don't know, I kind of feel weird about like putting my voice out there right now as a
0:44.7	hot person but I don't know we're still going to bring people news related to you.
0:50.7	It'll come up as we talk about.
0:52.4	Should we just kick it off with like Black Lives Matter and we support black people and all cops are
0:58.8	bastards? I don't know if you can co-sign on that.
1:01.2	Agreed co-signed, we're good.
1:04.0	Okay.
1:05.0	So let's talk about the thing he did this week with the churches because that gets into the
1:09.8	protests as well.
1:12.8	So here's the setup for it.
1:14.6	I believe this was on Monday night.
1:16.6	Trump wanted a photo op in front of a church
1:20.1	because he can't lose his church audience.
1:22.8	Sure, sure, sure.
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