Ep. 348 - Isn't President-Elect Joe Biden Part of God's Plan?

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 64 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. — A Republican atheist has been arrested for bribery… which is somehow not even close to surprising. (7:00) — One pastor congratulated Joe Biden… then quickly took it back… then quickly deleted his apology. (15:11) — Televangelist Kenneth Copeland just creepily laughed off a Biden presidency. (18:55) — Pastor Robert Jeffress can’t accept a new president… even though he had no problem with it in 2016. (20:40) — Justice Samuel Alito denounced marriage equality, church/state separation, and more in a speech to the Federalist Society. (28:55) — An Arkansas police chief threatened Democrats on Parler. He has now resigned. (36:00) — This is the only good lawsuit involving Donald Trump. (42:01) — Should Jehovah’s Witnesses be allowed to psychologically torture a little girl? That’s a question currently being decided. (45:57) — A preacher who blamed COVID on premarital sex has died of COVID. (53:40) — “So help me God” will remain in the U.S. citizenship oath. (56:50) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.0	This is Hemmant 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 let me give thanks to some of our newer Patreon donors, Cynthia W, Raja K, Brian E, Emory F, Jennifer S, Madeline H and Chris P. Thank you so much. Thanks everybody.
0:25.0	It's been a week since we found out who won the election, how you're holding up.
0:31.0	I'm so tired and at like one so Saturday we got the the word that but it was
0:39.7	called for Biden at about what 1030 central time and we were in the middle of making
0:45.6	my husband was the middle of making breakfast and we immediately popped a
0:48.5	bottle of champagne and then drank for 12 hours then yeah, I slept almost all of Sunday. What did you do for your victory?
0:58.8	What did I do? You didn't do anything, did it? I did it.
1:02.5	I don't think the kids were home, so I think it was just like
1:04.9	being home and watching from afar.
1:08.1	Yeah.
1:09.1	Because that's kind of all you can do at this point.
1:11.9	But I mean, minus the totally expected
1:16.8	obstacles of Republicans, like, all right,
1:20.2	so shift to Georgia for two more seats,
1:22.4	but, yeah, again, the bleeding will stop, which is it.
1:27.4	It's not the progressive everything you could hope for, and it probably wouldn't have been anyway but it's like look for people who haven't
1:36.3	followed politics for a long time like I think someone put it in a tweet that
1:42.1	just kind of summed up the whole thing for me.
1:43.9	It's like, I don't know where Biden is right now.
1:46.5	I don't know what he's watching on TV and I don't care and this is glorious.
1:51.3	Oh, it's so good. I'm so excited to be bored by politics again.
1:55.3	Yeah, yeah. For whoever wants to be bored you can be bored in the near future.
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