Ep. 331 - The Science Is Not On Trump's Side

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2020

⏱️ 67 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. — Be sure to check out the Being Reasonable podcast if you enjoy street epistemology! — Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany wrongly thinks science supports reopening schools. (1:16) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is promoting Christian Nationalism in a new document. (8:07) — The White House held secret phone calls with evangelical leaders urging them to apply for forgivable PPP loans they didn’t need. (13:04) — Don’t use slurs when you’re the leader of an atheist organization. (15:05) — These irresponsible parents are leading a “Million Unmasked March.” (35:01) — Rush Limbaugh wants us to follow in the footsteps of cannibals. (40:58) — Anti anti-Trump ad features evangelical Christians admitting Trump used them. (45:57) — Sudan is taking big steps in the direction of human rights by overturning religious rules. (52:31) — Louisiana’s governor wants everyone to fast for three days, during lunch, for… something. (55:23) — Atheists aren’t hypocrites for taking PPP loans. (57:28) — Does Laura Ingraham know where Toronto is? (1:01:23) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmant and this is Jessica and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist
0:04.7	podcast if you like what you're listening to please go to Patreon.com slash
0:08.9	Friendly Atheist podcast leave reviews all that fun stuff how has your week been it's good why did I say this is
0:16.5	Jessica I didn't like it no one knows a whole rhythm off I think I would start over
0:21.5	but I'm not no no no, not important enough for that.
0:24.2	Oh, my week's going, okay.
0:26.2	Been to the park in the mornings before it gets blisteringly hot.
0:29.2	I had McDonald's for lunch day for the first time in like six months,
0:32.0	and boy, oh boy boy did I slam jam a
0:34.7	double cheeseburger and some chicken nugs and now I'm severely dehydrated.
0:38.9	How are you? I'm okay. It was a slow week other than, or it was a normal week other than all these stories that we're about to talk about.
0:49.0	Yeah, I, like just through the week when I'm on social media bookmark things for the show and the last
0:55.9	a couple months or so I haven't bringing it a ton and then this week it was just like every day I would find like five things.
1:02.8	Yeah, nope, there's definitely a lot to discuss.
1:06.3	Let's start with this one just because I saw a lot of misinterpretations about it,
1:11.9	so I don't do this often, might as well set the record straight about it.
1:16.0	So this has to do with the White House Press Secretary Kaye McInenny.
1:21.0	She was doing her regular briefing and someone asked her, you know, do you, how are you going to get schools back open?
1:31.0	Because she said schools should open back up. That's what the Trump administration wants and they're like
1:35.4	well how are you going to do that? You're not doing anything to help out schools and
1:39.1	the thing she said that's getting quoted everywhere is the science should not stand in the way of this.
1:47.0	Which a lot of people online took to be like,
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