Ep. 349 - A Creationist's Misguided Guide to Nasal Bones

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 67 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 Creationist says we have nasal bones because God knew we’d have glasses. (0:50) — Is it weird that a GOP congressman bragged to a Jewish publication about his attempts to convert Jews? (4:50) — “FOX News Republicans” says white Christians have it worse than everyone else. (12:42) — A pastor says a COVID vaccine would remove God from your DNA. (22:05) — Should a pastor who avoided talking about Donald Trump get credit for it now? (26:20) — The West Virginia Supreme Court says it’s okay for churches to lie about sexual predators. (34:51) — An anti-abortion activist wants people to defy lockdowns. Because irony is dead. (41:08) — Actress Melissa McCarthy gave a donation to a bigoted Christian group… then rescinded it after she learned better. (46:00) — A Tennessee mayor allegedly says he won’t support a mask mandate unless God tells him it’s okay. (51:30) — Hawaii eliminated Christian propaganda from its education curriculum. (1:01:46) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmett and Jessica and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast if you like what you're listening to go to friendly no go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast. I know my shick by now.
0:13.0	Hello, how are you?
0:15.0	Oh, you know, I'm fine.
0:17.0	Just fine, I'm fine.
0:20.0	Everything's fine.
0:21.0	It's fine.
0:22.0	There is a vaccine coming out soonish which I'm pretty excited about.
0:26.8	I'm presently arguing with much family about Thanksgiving so you know just the dream I was hoping to live.
0:37.0	Yeah yeah it was a nice dream while it lasted but yeah it was nice knowing you I will be
0:44.0	hosting alone from now on it's gonna be much less funny I wanted to start
0:50.0	with something lighthearted before we get to all the serious stuff and by light-hearted I mean
0:54.6	dumb but in a way that was dumb back like five years ago when the world wasn't on fire still
1:01.5	so the creation museum, Answers in Genesis people, that ministry. They do a show
1:07.5	kind of like ours where they talk about current events except theirs is ostensibly a pro-creationism show,
1:16.7	except they never talk about creationism
1:18.8	because there's nothing to talk about
1:21.0	because it never ups it.
1:22.3	Isn't something that you can like continuously. about because it never
1:25.0	it's something that you can like continuously discuss because it's really just like
1:28.0	it never comes up in the news unless it's them
1:31.1	sure and so but they're still doing it.
1:34.6	And so this week, here's a highlight of what they do.
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