Ep. 365 - The Church Expulsion Letter

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 75 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 anything from Stardust Science and get a 10% discount with the promo code “friendlyatheist”! https://stardustscience.com/discount/FriendlyAtheist — Atheists are more likely to get vaccinated, according to a new survey. (0:26) — A realtor arrested in a murder-for-hire plot assumed God would just forgive her. (6:40) — Christian apologist Sye Ten Bruggencate apparently took advantage of a “vulnerable woman.” (12:15) — A new study links evangelicals with a desire for bigger penises. (16:50) — A Republican lawmaker says we don’t need gun control because Cain killed Abel in the Bible. (23:31) — A Tennessee church sent a nasty letter to a member for her sinful lifestyle. (30:07) — An Arizona bill could give churches immunity even in abuse cases. (37:10) — Beth Moore quit the Southern Baptist Convention. Good for her. Bad for them. (42:33) — An Arkansas lawmaker wants Creationism back in the classroom. (49:10) — Pastor Robert Jeffress says we’ll be working in Heaven but with no government regulations. Yay…? (56:05) — Ravi Zacharias‘ former ministry will rebrand to get away from the predator’s name. (59:58) — Switzerland approved a burka ban. (1:04:31) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hammett and Jessica and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist podcast if you like what you're listening to please go to patreon dot com slash
0:08.5	Friendly Atheist podcast and we have so many different stories to get to today. How are you?
0:14.6	I'm fine. Let's do this. All right. Um, do you want to start with something positive for once?
0:22.4	I guess
0:23.8	We'll do that. That's not really our brand, but I suppose we could try it. It's really not we could try something different
0:29.4	There was a study that came out last week from the Pew Research Center and it found that when you break down
0:36.7	People by religious group and I'll include atheists and then mix just to make this easier
0:42.9	Atheists are more likely to get the COVID vaccine than any religious group that they surveyed
0:51.8	Athe 90% of atheists and I'm not talking nuns. I'm talking specifically atheists
0:59.2	Say they will definitely or probably get a vaccine for COVID or have at least gotten oh their first shot
1:07.5	So this is that yeah, so wait just to be clear this isn't
1:12.0	Who have gotten it or are qualified to get it is who is planning on getting it when their time comes okay?
1:19.0	That's right or they've already started that process 90% of atheists compare that to
1:24.5	50
1:25.5	54% of white evangelicals who said the same thing
1:30.6	whoa
1:32.6	54% that's it
1:34.6	That's it. It's that low. I mean that's a lot is that is the most anti-science of the real big religious
1:42.4	Demographics, so I mean, but I think that's that's kind of the thing when you treat science as your enemy and your entire faith
1:50.0	rests on rejecting
1:51.9	Science
1:53.3	All no matter how much some Christians would like to tell you no, no, we're very scientific
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