Ep. 346 - Why Does Jerry Falwell, Jr. Want His Old Reputation Back?

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 55 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. — Husbands, do you know how your wives are voting? WHY NOT?! (0:35) — A conservative Christian candidate for the U.S. House from North Carolina is getting pushback from… conservative Christians. (10:33) — Jerry Falwell, Jr. is suing Liberty University for ruining a reputation he never had. (22:24) — A right-wing Christian group made a pro-Electoral College propaganda video for children. (26:16) — The babysitter in Borat 2, who was duped into participating in the film, says she had been praying for Borat’s “daughter” for a year. (32:00) — Christian Nationalism is coming to a church near you. (37:55) — A Republican Christian candidate for the WV State House has a restraining order against him for stalking and harassing women. (40:40) — Apparently, every aborted fetus is a Donald Trump voter in waiting. (45:19) — Poland has effectively banned legal abortions and women are protesting. (49:35) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmene and Jessica and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast.
0:04.4	Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast. Be sure to vote now.
0:10.2	It's too late. Just go drop it off go or leave. It's not too late. Just go drop it off. Go early.
0:12.6	Don't see it's not too late.
0:14.6	It's too late.
0:15.6	It's too late to drop your...
0:16.6	Fine. Don't put in the mail. Got you. Don't put it in the mail.
0:19.6	Don't put it in the mail.
0:20.8	Oh my God, I'm so stressed and I'm so tired and I'm so stressed. I know one
0:28.0	more week of crazy. There's a million things to talk about, but since this just popped up, I figured we would start with this. I want to read you a tweet, and I want to get your reaction to it. This is from a guy named Jesse Sumter who you haven't heard of he's a low-level
0:47.4	staffer but he's a staffer at a very conservative church that is run by Doug Wilson who happens to be one of those guys who said I don't care about COVID
0:56.3	Let's have a thousand people inside of our church in Idaho
0:59.7	That was like months and months ago. Jesse works there.
1:03.4	Here's what Jesse tweeted.
1:05.9	A friendly reminder, brothers, a friendly reminder for elections.
1:11.0	Make sure your wife votes exactly as you do.
1:14.7	He continues.
1:17.4	He continued after that got some responses.
1:19.9	I'm serious about this.
1:21.5	The husband is responsible for how his wife votes.
1:25.2	He should not be abusive or a jerk about this,
1:27.7	and he should seek counsel from his wife on elections.
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