Ep. 336 - Was the DNC's Faith Outreach Too Much?

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 66 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. — Our thoughts on the Democratic National Convention. (0:22) — Evangelist Franklin Graham said there was an “absence of God” during the DNC. What was he watching?! (6:29) — Florida State Rep. Kim Daniels, one of the worst Democrats in the country, lost her primary. Thank goodness! (16:55) — Broadcaster Thom Brennaman said WHAT during a broadcast? (20:53) — A former LGBTQ-themed talk show host hurled anti-LGBTQ slurs at someone who told him to wear a mask. (27:41) — Should this Catholic mother have disconnected the internet to punish her atheist son? (30:14) — Rep. Rashida Tlaib has joined the Congressional Freethought Caucus! (38:00) — The likely QAnon congressional candidate from Georgia once tried to get two Muslim congresswomen to retake their oaths on the Bible. (42:13) — Can evangelicals convince other Christians to follow the science when it comes to COVID? (47:16) — Ark Encounter is planning a Christian music festival. Like everything they do, it’s underwhelming. (53:27) — Singer James Blunt once got scurvy from eating only meat to prove his manliness. Go vegetarian, everyone. (56:00) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmett 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. Hello to you. how are you?
0:13.0	Hey, I'm good, I'm not bad.
0:14.9	It's the afternoon, there's some, you know,
0:18.9	consider those a raging global pandemic, I'm not bad. Did you watch the DNC?
0:25.6	Did you watch it this week?
0:26.7	Were you obsessed with it or tuning in and out?
0:29.2	Yeah, no, I watched some highlights.
0:31.5	I just really didn't have it in me to sit and watch it and also I'm trying to
0:37.2	accept that like the DNC is not for me personally it's not for people who are already committed to voting for for
0:46.0	Biden it is for people who are on the fence and centrist Republicans and yada yada yada
0:52.4	so yeah I watched comelist centrist Republicans and Yada Dada yada.
0:52.6	So yeah, I watched Kamalist speech.
0:55.3	I watched Brock and Michelle's speeches and Joe Biden's.
1:00.6	They were all great.
1:01.9	You know, I didn't mind that there was no crowd.
1:05.0	Yeah, I liked, I liked the way they did it, so I've been obsessively watching all the conventions forever.
1:11.0	And so it was, I like the new format,
1:14.9	like they should just keep it without a crowd forever.
1:18.1	Yeah.
1:18.6	Like good speeches didn't drag on.
1:20.5	They had, like you said, they are aimed at not progressives in the Democratic Party and so part of that is like as
1:29.6	soon as you realize that's true then it's so like the fourth night all the Biden stuff
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