Ep. 341 - The Supreme Court's Devastating Rightward Shift

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 69 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. — Please subscribe to Hemant's new Substack newsletter! — What does the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg mean for church/state separation? (0:54) — Democrats do not have an anti-Catholic bias. (23:41) — A Republican state representative from Illinois was caught on tape saying racist, homophobic things about her opponent. (28:03) — A Baptist preacher yelled “White Power!” after a Trump rally. (36:00) — This bizarre ad from a Wisconsin GOP group falsely claims Joe Biden‘s religious beliefs are unknown. (39:00) — How much praise should we give an evangelical who only ditched the label now? (42:44) — What is a “militant secularist,” Attorney General William Barr? (56:20) — Germany’s largest, richest archdiocese is planning on massive shrinkage. (59:33) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	This is Hemmints 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 while you are here may I suggest I have a new newsletter that I started it's
1:20.0	at friendly I know I'm fancy it's friendly atheist. I know I'm fancy. It's friendly atheist. substack.com and it's basically a round up of a lot of the news. It is a few times a week but if you're interested there's a link in the show
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1:47.0	I just signed up just, oops, as you should. As you should. That's it. So since we talked last time about a day after we found out
2:00.2	Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and I would love to hear what you have to say about that because I'm
2:06.0	sure there's nothing that's been pent up for like a week.
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