Ep. 344 - Can the Supreme Court be Fixed?

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 65 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 whites-only church wants to set up shop in Minnesota. Locals aren’t having it. (2:00) — Donald Trump fell for an article on a satirical conservative website. (6:25) — Trump needs to work on his pandering. He’s now saying only Jesus is more famous than he is. (9:27) — Trump’s support among white evangelicals is slipping… (15:37) — Anti-gay groups are already celebrating the eventual overturning of marriage equality. (26:46) — Two congressmen say interracial marriages are also on the chopping block. (33:00) — This could be a way to save the Court… but it’s not pretty. (36:20) — Nashville authorities say they’re investigating a super-spreader event hosted by Christian preacher Sean Feucht. (42:25) — Someone called the cops after seeing a sleeping homeless man on a bench. It was actually a statue of Jesus. (51:10) — Anti-abortion groups are defending Trump’s use of a COVID treatment that wouldn’t have been possible without an aborted fetus. (58:18) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmant and Jessica and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast please go to patreon
0:07.1	dot com slash friendly atheist podcast and I want to give a shout out to some of our newer patrons, patrions that include Cynthia W, Raja K, Brian E, and the boy who cried
0:20.7	WTF. Thank you.
0:25.0	And hello, how are you?
0:27.0	Hi, I'm good.
0:28.0	Could you put your right earbud in so I can hear you?
0:31.0	Lies.
0:32.0	Oh, I can barely hear you.
0:34.0	I'm good.
0:35.0	Are you ready for some real white people bullshit?
0:37.6	I am so ready for everything. Which white thing do you want to start out with?
0:45.0	I wanted to start with a personal anecdote that I did.
0:48.0	I was going to put it on Twitter, but I thought you would want to hear it from me live.
0:53.0	Okay.
0:54.0	So my dog's vet thinks that my dog, Dottie, might have anxiety. They like suggested some pheromones for her and so I genuinely did not know dogs could get anxiety
1:18.0	there are dogs who are like on Prozac like wow yeah and I bought a pheromone color for her and guess what it fucking works.
1:29.0	Wow, I'm I'm glad.
1:32.0	Yay? Yeah, I mean hopefully she'll stop barking in the middle of our
1:36.7	recordings like that could be a good thing I don't know man. He's okay.
1:43.0	It's a rough time for everyone.
1:45.0	Honestly, I think my dog is suffering from lack of alone time.
1:48.0	Like, we're...
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