Ep. 352 - Christian Writer Lashes Out At Elliott Page's Success

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 70 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. — Be sure to check out the Being Reasonable podcast if you enjoy street epistemology! — Should pastors be blamed if their congregations are skeptical of the vaccine? (0:40) — A Christian hate-preacher doesn’t know what a pandemic is, but he insists there isn’t one right now. (12:35) — A Christian writer is furious that Hollywood embraces Elliot Page and not him. (17:45) — Conservative radio host Jesse Lee Peterson is angry that a lot of Republican women were elected to the House. (24:15) — Jerry Falwell, Jr. dropped his defamation lawsuit against Liberty University. (27:05) — Don’t send Bible balloons to North Korea. (30:35) — Michele Bachmann says her vote was stolen by Satan. (36:05) — The Falkirk Center says the existence of successful Black people means systemic racism is a hoax. (40:02) — Sen. Kelly Loeffler gave her salary to organizations that hurt Americans. (45:10) — A West Virginia teacher hosted a Homecoming dance by calling it a religious “vow renewal.” (53:50) — Ben Shapiro can’t handle Kristen Stewart‘s holiday rom-com movie Happiest Season. (57:50) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemant and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist
0:08.4	Podcast if you like the show we appreciate your support and I want to give a shout out to two of our
0:13.8	newer Patreon supporters Matthew W and Amber Kaye thank you so much thank you
0:19.9	you how are you doing this week just? Oh not terribly I guess. Thank you for the kind
0:26.8	notes everyone sent my way over the last week. That was very nice. But yeah, you know, life is still happening.
0:33.7	Vaccines coming soon.
0:35.7	Hopefully.
0:36.7	Yeah.
0:37.7	Yeah.
0:38.5	Speaking of which, then, let me start with this story right here which we know there are a lot of people let's assume
0:47.7	there's a good vaccine rollout and people who need one can get one people who want one can get one can get one. I mean people who want one can get one
0:54.0	which will take a few months.
0:55.0	But one of the things that we learned
0:57.0	I think last month is that only 60% of Americans
1:01.0	said they were planning on getting one.
1:03.7	A lot of those other people said they were probably not going to get it.
1:08.4	And this is based on anything from, they believe some conspiracy theories about it, they distrusted. from they
1:14.0	trusted the science behind it and they didn't understand it
1:18.1	or again it's easy to say no to a vaccine
1:22.1	before people actually start getting it and see that it works and then
1:25.5	yeah sure line up to get it. So okay I'm not that disturbed by the 60% number even
1:32.1	though it should be way way higher. But that said there was an
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