Ep. 362 - Is The White House's Faith-Based Office a Problem?
Friendly Atheist Podcast
Friendly Atheist Podcast
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🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hammond and Jessica and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist podcast. If you like what you're listening to |
| 0:05.7 | Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast. Hello. Hi. How are you Hammond? |
| 0:13.1 | I am okay so many different things to talk about like a variety |
| 0:17.4 | I like it when it's not Trump because there's like 87 things to discuss |
| 0:21.8 | You know, it's funny Mikey and I were watching this past week's SNL yesterday |
| 0:25.6 | Yeah, and we're like, oh, I kind of miss this version of SNL when it's like really low stakes and |
| 0:33.5 | Doesn't feel like they're trying to like poke a bear |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah, everything still sucks, but it's like eight different versions of sucks instead of just one over arching awfulness |
| 0:44.2 | Well, and I would add to that that the root of the suckiness is now sort of |
| 0:50.9 | You know cast far and wide as opposed to before when we could really zoom in the shitting in as much as the one |
| 0:56.8 | Human being so I think it just makes our job as journalists much more difficult and rewarding |
| 1:03.6 | Let's so let's start with this one because I've gotten |
| 1:07.2 | Different responses to this story depending on who's hearing it, but this one's interesting |
| 1:13.2 | Um, there is a back in the George W. Bush time |
| 1:17.2 | There was he started a White House basically office of faith-based initiatives |
| 1:23.8 | When I started getting active in this movement |
| 1:28.0 | 20-ish years ago pushes in office if you asked a bunch of atheist activists like what are you worried about |
| 1:36.0 | in terms of |
| 1:38.4 | Issues beyond trying to get people to be atheist or something this would have been near or at the top of their list saying |
| 1:45.0 | Basically the government is giving money to religious groups to do |
| 1:50.7 | Social things like run a soup kitchen run a homeless shelter what have you |
| 1:56.2 | But they're just giving these churches money and it's that the government should not be using taxpayer dollars |
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