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It's on prime geographic restrictions and teas and sees apply 18 plus I'm Hemmint Meta and I'm Jessica Blumky and you're listening to the

podcast for Friendly Atheist.com. Our guest tonight is

is Fred Clark, a progressive evangelical Christian blogger better known as

Slackivist. He's one of those Christians who defies all the stereotypes atheists tend to have of Christians.

He's for gay marriage. He's critical of church leaders, and he's constantly frustrated with what his quote unquote tribe does in the name of Jesus.

Full disclosure, Fred writes for Patios, the same network on which you could find my friendly

atheist blog.

Fred, thanks for being here with us.

Thank you for having me. This is fun.

Good. Did I get all that right in the introduction there?

I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.. Yeah, I'd sign at the bottom of that, sure.

Great. So, Fred, let's talk about the name Slackivist. I really like it. What's the origin of that name?

The origin of that, back in the 90s, my friend Dwight and I were doing seminars at Cornerstone Music Festival, which was a really kind of cool hippie, weird music festival, Christian, evangelical music festival Christian evangelical music festival run by the Jesus People USA.

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