Ep. 330 - It's Okay for CNN to Say Jesus Wasn't Perfect

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2020

⏱️ 71 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. — The one mom at One Million Moms is very angry at “Hamilton” for including an F-bomb. (0:44) — Conservative Christians are mad at CNN’s Don Lemon for saying Jesus wasn’t perfect. (8:05) — Dr. Nancy Goroff, a secular Jew and Ph.D. scientist, won her Democratic primary for Congress in New York. (14:50) — Will Smith used “godless” as a slur. Should we cancel him? (17:30) — The Supreme Court says religious schools are all-but-immune from anti-discrimination lawsuits and got in the way of women and contraception. (24:45) — Churches received billions of dollars in forgivable loans from the U.S. government. Should this have happened? (33:10) — A church threw an in-person event and a girl soon died. Who should be blamed for it? (40:58) — Donald Trump wants to build a National Garden… with a statue of Billy Graham. (59:48) — The FBI raided the headquarters of the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, a.k.a. The Bleach Church. (1:03:35) — Be sure to check out the Being Reasonable podcast if you enjoy street epistemology! 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 please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast and we want to give a huge shout out to some of our latest supporters. And we, so thank you to
0:13.0	some of our latest supporters.
0:15.0	So thank you to Martin P.
0:18.0	Amanda S. Rachel C. Victoria M. Bridget K.
0:22.0	And Saul G.
0:23.8	Thank you so much for your support.
0:26.2	We appreciate it.
0:27.2	Thank you, friends.
0:28.1	We really appreciate it.
0:29.0	What did you drop there, Bud?
0:30.5	Many things, but a pen. I, I was, we were going to record a bit ago, but then I got sidetracked because the story just popped up and I'm like,
0:39.2	forget the podcast, I'm doing this story.
0:41.3	Do you want to hear what this is? Did you say forget the
0:43.5	podcast because I'm right here? That is exactly what I said. Here's why we're
0:47.8	deli here's why it took us a second to start this thing. So you and me are both fans of Hamilton. We both enjoyed watching it
0:56.1	last week. Oh Jesus. And so you knew this was going to happen. The one mom at
1:00.9	1 million moms is very mad.
1:04.8	Why do you think she's mad about the musical?
1:08.1	OK, I have to, okay.
1:10.1	You knew she was going to time in.
1:11.7	Of course.
1:12.8	It's popular, so she has to like get her pause on that.
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