Ep. 356 - Jesus and the Capitol Coup

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 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. — Order Elle the Humanist and get a 10% discount with the promo code “friendlyatheist”! https://ellethehumanist.com/discount/friendlyatheist — Former PA Christian Nationalist lawmaker Rick Saccone lost his job after taking part in the Capitol Coup. (10:42) — A Catholic news outlet called out anti-democratic MAGA Catholics by name in an epic smackdown. (25:20) — There are a few surprises when it comes to the religious makeup of the new Congress. (29:30) — The Georgia Senate elections were a bright spot in an otherwise awful week. (35:00) — Meghan McCain finally realized parental leave is a good idea because she had a baby and for no other reason. (40:27) — Republicans flipped out after a House chaplain said “A-woman” when ending a prayer. (46:22) — This short documentary about Ark Encounter is more of a free ad. (48:51) — A Pakistani court banned used of the awful “virginity test” for sexual assault cases. (56:08) — The CEO of Whole Foods doesn’t think you need affordable health care. (58:35) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemet and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast.
0:05.0	Please go to Patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast if you like what you're listening to and
0:10.9	before we start with anything I want to give a few shout-outs to some of our recent
0:14.8	supporters. I want to thank Hillary C. Barbara F. Howard, Connor, N. Kyle S.
0:21.3	Nancy K. Mighty Red, and Dean B.
0:24.4	Thank you for supporting us via Patreon.
0:27.0	I also want to give a shout out
0:29.5	to one of our longtime listeners, Ryan Miranda, who just had a baby Ryan I hope you have a comfortable
0:36.2	rocking chair and enough reading material to get you through the next few months
0:40.3	congratulations to you. Congratulations.
0:44.0	There's so much that have.
0:47.0	I was looking at the stuff we talked about last week and I feel like almost all of it is irrelevant now.
0:56.0	Olympus is fallen or whatever.
0:57.3	Yeah, pretty much.
1:00.1	I do want to talk about that in the context of a few specific stories, but I don't know if you have any
1:06.3	quick takes on it before you like get into it.
1:08.8	Oh yeah, yeah, like, okay, yes, I do actually have some quick takes.
1:13.4	So my first one is, I feel like on the...
1:17.2	Well, okay, I'll ask you, Hemet, what was your...
1:19.8	When it started happening, like, so...
1:22.0	I thought it was gonna be be a dumb mega rally, the likes of which we have seen many, many times
1:28.1	before, where you have a bunch of his supporters, just they want to go go they want to be around people they want to
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