Ep. 343 - The Catholic Church May Have Broken For The Dumbest Reason

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 75 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! — A priest was caught filming sex with two women in a church. (1:08) — Catholicism is officially broken because of a tiny mistake a few decades ago. (10:30) — Don’t bury fetal remains without the consent of the mother. Just don’t. (19:59) — Where are Donald Trump‘s evangelical supporters now that we know his COVID treatment was derived from the cells of an aborted fetus? (27:55) — Trump said catching COVID was a “blessing from God.” (35:11) — Eric Trump believes daddy “literally saved Christianity” from godless Democrats. (37:10) — Don’t forget that the Republicans who defended the child separation policy justified it with Bible verses. (41:22) — At least two Supreme Court justices want to overturn marriage equality. (50:30) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hammond. And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist podcast. If you like what you're listening to please go to friendly
0:07.7	Go to Patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast and we will do some thank yous next week but for now
0:15.1	hello how are you? Hi are you alive this week? I appear to be but I could be a
0:21.6	ghost in a beetle juice situation so unclear I don't want to commit.
0:24.9	How are you? I'm okay. I'm excited that the election is almost here.
0:30.7	Oh my god, I'm so stressful.
0:33.4	I'm so fucking free.
0:35.0	I kept thinking of myself, like I remember hearing like a hundred days left,
0:37.8	100 days left, and it's like, oh, it's down to like the 20s.
0:40.7	Cool.
0:41.7	Yeah, yeah, it's truly wild. It's submitted my ballot. I'm in. I'm good. Are you Mike
0:47.2	and I are doing early voting in person next week or whenever. You want a
0:52.1	happy story? Do you want a funny story? Do you want just
0:55.2	sadness? What do you want? I got so many. Let's kick off with funny because it is
1:01.1	Ted I am and I've been up for around an hour and not feeling especially funny or clever or charismatic.
1:07.6	Let me start you off with this then. A Catholic priest in Louisiana was arrested this week.
1:15.2	Actually, it may have, he got arrested a couple weeks ago.
1:18.4	The story is out now.
1:20.3	Okay. And he was arrested for sexual crimes.
1:25.0	That is not funny.
1:27.0	But I saw that I'm like, well, that's not surprising at all.
1:32.0	What else is new at the Catholic Church, right?
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