Ep. 328 - Should Statues of White Jesus Come Down?

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2020

⏱️ 71 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. — An Arizona church lied and claimed it had air filters that blocked out 99% of COVID. (2:30) — The daughter of a Republican candidate for State House in Michigan says you should not vote for her dad. (10:44) — Should statues of “white European” Jesus be taken down? (18:40) — A Republican senator cited J.K. Rowling when voting against an LGBTQ rights bill. (33:38) — Mississippi wants to replace its racist flag with a religious one. And here’s a Roman Mars video about flags! (36:30) — A Catholic Church fired a married lesbian because it remembered how Catholicism works. (42:00) — A couple of anti-maskers in Florida don’t want mandates that get in the way of God’s Wonderful Breathing System. (56:25) — Five years after Obergefell, the Religious Right’s predictions never came true. (1:00:55) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.6	You were telling me about a park.
0:43.0	Oh yeah, we were just talking about our relative days and I met my folks at a huge dog park that's like up in Lombards so they live in Wisconsin so it's like 25
0:54.0	minutes for me and an hour for them or so and so we just had some hiking it
0:58.2	rained it's the first time I've seen my dad since February, maybe Christmas, oof, that's not great. But I had a fun reminder that my
1:09.8	parents listen to this show. Like regularly forget because they're kind of like interstitial listeners.
1:16.6	My dad is like, yeah, I listen to your podcast the whole way down.
1:19.2	I was like, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
1:21.0	And of course, like, the second I say a thing, it's gone from my brain.
1:25.0	Like, my dad said, oh, do you remember that thing you said about this thing?
1:27.6	I was like, no.
1:28.6	He's like, well, you mentioned my grandpa.
1:30.5	And I was like, oh, did I?
1:31.3	That sounds cool of me. I just completely disregard anything I say. It's just verbal diarrhea. Anyway, how are you Bud? So you had a child every day?
1:44.0	Yeah, one day I'll tell my parents what I do.
1:47.0	I know I didn't have my kids with me all day and I'm still exhausted for no reason.
1:52.0	Oh, before we get into anything important, can we please talk about the real drama on our
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