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Friendly Atheist Podcast

Ep. 329 - Christian Schools Can Now Get Taxpayer Money

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

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 Idaho church held an indoor service. Masks optional. 1,000 people came. (0:55) — Jehovah’s Witnesses are among the few groups not taking part in an Australian program meant to help sexual abuse survivors. (5:06) — A pastor and his wife were arrested for taking part in an embezzling scheme. (11:33) — The Supreme Court just made it possible for private religious schools to receive taxpayer money. (16:58) — Sen. Rand Paul hates experts. (24:23) — A powerful megachurch pastor let a potential predator work with kids. Now we know why. (41:18) — A Catholic priest was suspended after comparing Black Lives Matter organizers to maggots. (50:23) — The numbers are in! The Catholic Church spent more than $280 million on sex abuse cases in 2019. (54:20) — “Cancel Culture” doesn’t need to get rid of Darwin. But it wouldn’t matter if he got canceled. (1:02:14) 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 happy? It kind of is almost.

0:15.0

This is a front holiday in the best of times and this year it's, I think I'm just going to gracefully

0:21.2

ignore it.

0:22.2

Yeah, there's, have fun going nowhere, right?

0:26.0

I'm just hoping that after the fourth,

0:28.0

people will stop blowing fireworks every fucking night.

0:31.5

Are they going around you? I have heard some at night for sure. It

0:35.6

drives me nuts. Like the other night it woke my dog up and she made me go

0:39.8

downstairs with her to check it out because she's a toddler and then she came back

0:44.7

upstairs and sat on Mikey's pillow. It was like 11 p.m. I have a human toddler dog.

0:50.8

Congratulations. Thank you.

0:53.0

We're very proud of her.

0:55.0

Let's get through a few of these big stories.

0:58.7

One of them that I didn't even realize until days afterwards in Moscow, Idaho relatively

1:07.0

there's a Moscow Idaho.

1:09.0

All right.

1:10.0

There's a church that's like one of the mega churches in that region for sure and they basically

1:16.6

said hey we're going to hold a joint service for instead of like three different churches

1:22.4

let's all come together in one

1:24.0

indoors inside of a field house like a gymnasium and masks me optional whatever so there are pictures of like a thousand people and a

1:37.9

pastor and no social distancing according to the couple pictures that exist.

1:44.0

And the church itself, this is just called Christ Church in Moscow.

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