Ep. 353 - Why Does Joel Osteen's Church Need PPP Loans?

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 62 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! — It’s absurd that anyone is complaining about Jill Biden‘s Ph.D. (2:00) — A Denny’s server quit after two Christians claimed religious exemptions to wearing face masks. (10:55) — Why does Pastor Joel Osteen‘s megachurch need millions in PPP loans? (14:48) — And why did this preacher buy a private jet after receiving PPP money? (20:23) — At least 75 people caught the virus after a church held a Christmas concert earlier this month. (22:57) — Christian financial “guru” Dave Ramsey is holding a maskless Christmas party for hundreds of people. (27:27) — Christian singer Lauren Daigle was dropped from a New Year’s Eve show because she appeared at a super-spreader event. (31:49) — A COVID-denying lawmaker caught COVID and is now on a ventilator. (39:37) — A very ignorant conservative writer says public schools are indoctrinating kids into atheism. (44:57) — There are dumb election conspiracy theories… and then there’s this. (48:00) — A GOP congressman-elect says Rev. Raphael Warnock doesn’t represent “real” Americans. So who does? (51:11) — The governors of Mississippi and Oklahoma are praying, instead of doing anything useful, in response to COVID. (57:24) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmence and Jessica and you're listening to the friendly
0:03.5	atheist podcast please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast if you like what you're
0:08.6	listening to we appreciate it I don't even know where to begin today because there's actually a huge variety of stories that all revolve around the usual suspects.
0:20.0	Usually you start by asking me how I am, Hemet.
0:22.6	How are you?
0:23.6	Hemet, I'm so fucking bad.
0:25.6	I wasn't sure if you wanted me to ask, so I was just gonna sidestep around it.
0:30.3	I mean, at this point, is there anything I haven't shared don't where everyone
0:34.1	yesterday I had a meeting before I was going to meet my parents at a park and they're
0:37.9	like hey surprise we're killing your entire department see and ever nerds so
0:45.0	This fucking year I swear to Christ
0:48.0	It's almost done
0:50.0	It's just unbelievable like I literally lost a pregnancy in a job within two weeks of each other who what have I done am I on the wrong track with the
1:01.0	atheism thing is my question anyway Anyway if... I mean God is against you. Yeah, that's abundantly clear. Hey, if y'all have been asking about custom work, guess who's starting her ETSI shot back up?
1:15.0	How do we order stuff from ETSI?
1:17.0	Bitches get stitched done.
1:19.0	I'll probably set some shit up today.
1:21.0	Excellent.
1:22.0	So actively annoyed.
1:22.6	I was working on this really beautiful photo realistic
1:25.3	cross stitch of my dog because I finally gave myself time
1:28.1	to do projects for me.
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