Ep. 357 - He Rioted Because God Didn't Tell Him Not To

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2021

⏱️ 73 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 — This Christian conspiracist thinks the College Football Championship was God’s way of saying Trump will stay in power. (1:38) — One of the arrested rioters includes an anti-gay, anti-abortion lawmaker from West Virginia. (6:04) — A man arrested in the Capitol siege said he prayed for guidance, but God never said no. (13:00) — We don’t need a National Hymn. (23:18) — Help me understand this atheist running an anti-abortion group for Democrats. (28:42) — The Irish government admitted its Catholic-run homes for unwed mothers led to 9,000 deaths. (42:38) — Christians who prophesied Trump’s victory are doing damage control. (48:15) — Evangelicals make up about half of Trump’s most vocal supporters. (53:28) — A Turkish Creationist was given a thousand-year jail sentence for… everything. (57:40) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmant and Jessica and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast if you like what you're listening to and support the show we appreciate it
0:12.8	uh... how are you jest
0:14.8	you know what i
0:16.5	all things considered i cannot
0:18.8	complain uh... this is another buck wild week of american history that we're living through and I'm very tired of it.
0:26.1	I was telling Jess I was doing some stuff for the past hour and I feel like I missed everything
0:32.0	So I got to play klach up now.
0:33.6	Yeah it almost feels like when we first started doing the
0:38.0	podcast like this and we would do like a week or you know how we do it now and by the time I'd get from your house back to my house
0:44.8	15 minutes away I was like oh well everything is outdated yeah he just did the I like I remember
0:50.1	specifically one day between me leaving your house and getting home, the Muslim ban
0:54.8	happened and I was like, do we have to do this daily? Like I would, I don't know if you remember
0:59.2	I would literally like time stay. I'd say, okay, it's it's January 15th it's 3.15 PM so that's the context
1:06.3	we're living because who knows in an hour.
1:09.3	I think I was watching Seth Meyer's show and they have a long segment where they discussed some news thing and they made a joke about it.
1:17.6	They kept it in and then as they're actually filming it that night yesterday night he says listen we wrote that
1:24.4	joke this morning and since then here's what's happened and we just thought that was
1:29.0	funny we wanted to bring that up like they couldn't even do that because the news changed in the afternoon.
1:34.1	Anyway, I wanted to start with something just totally hilarious and sad, but
1:39.7	hilarious because there's not enough hilarious news.
1:42.8	There is a right wing pastor named Johnny Enloe,
1:46.0	who is one of those QAnon conspiracy theorists
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