Ep. 342 - Alabama Won't Let Atheists Vote

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 63 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 my new Substack newsletter! — Alabama won’t allow atheists to vote. (6:11) — Amy Coney Barrett has said abortion is “barbaric.” Will it matter? (10:48) — One conservative opposes Barrett’s confirmation to the Court… but for all the wrong reasons. (18:21) — Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias is being accused of sexual misconduct months after his death. (19:09) — This Illinois Republican says his opponent is attacking his “Christian values”… by quoting his platform. (26:00) — “Humanists for Biden,” a first of its kind group, had its launch! (32:53) — Behind closed doors, Donald Trump mocks religious people. (35:16) — Senate Republicans won’t pass a COVID relief bill, but they did pass a resolution defending the Pledge of Allegiance. (39:00) — Satanists want to put up pro-abortion billboards but they’ll have to win a legal battle first. (40:57) — Conservative Matt Walsh says Real Men don’t use emojis. (48:40) — A COVID-denying pastor forces his staff to sign COVID waivers. (51:38) — A First Amendment case has church/state opponents working together. (54:00) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.7	This is Hemant 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 let me give special thanks to some of our newer patrons, Gunter B, Ashley B, Christina G, Jasmine, D, and Rachel B.
0:20.5	I'm sorry, did I say Christina G?
0:22.0	I meant Christina G. But yes, thank you so much for your support we really appreciate it and as Jessica and I were just saying the news is changing rapidly in both of us before we went to bed last night, got the news
0:35.3	about Trump getting COVID, which clearly proves atheists were wrong this whole time.
0:41.5	Yep. God.
0:43.4	There's a loving God and he's looking at rest.
0:45.7	I know.
0:46.7	Oh boy.
0:47.7	Like it's real, like I feel, here's a couple of quick thoughts that came to my head is,
0:51.6	one is like, I'm not evil, so I hope he gets better,
0:55.7	but also what did he expect would happen?
0:58.2	Like, I think I just read somewhere like in Europe,
1:01.3	the biggest Google search this morning has been
1:03.6	Schadenfreude like what did you think was going to happen and also if
1:08.9	Biden got it instead of Trump what do you think he would be saying right now?
1:14.0	Like, can you imagine?
1:17.0	I am not as good a person as you.
1:22.0	I hope that he suffers like he I I think Trump has just broken my ability
1:30.6	to empathize or something because he has put so many people in danger trying to
1:38.0	underplay this thing and turns out he was like at least practicing what he preached because he wasn't you know getting precautions himself
1:46.4	And he got in fucking marine one when they knew somebody like tested positive for COVID. It's just
1:54.4	Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is what this is the consequences of of your actions. And I think as we are recording right now
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