Ep. 389 - The Measurable Morality of Atheists

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 61 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. — Come to our in-person meetup in Chicago on August 28! — The new president of the chaplains at Harvard is an atheist. (4:07) — A Mormon apostle chastised Brigham Young University for not being sufficiently anti-gay. (10:49) — A “Catholic” anti-vaxxer said he didn’t care what Pope Francis said about the shots because “You have to be Catholic to be pope.” (20:42) — When it comes to morality you can measure, atheists do better on just about every mark. (28:00) — There’s been a rise in the acceptance of evolution in America. It’s still very low, though. (33:57) — Christian mommy-shamer Lori Alexander says mothers should work from home or else their kids will have sex. Who wants to tell her…? (42:53) — In Sydney, police fined churchgoers and their church for violating COVID lockdown orders. (47:10) — Most atheists believe in intelligent life on other planets. (51:24) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hammond and Jessica and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast.
0:04.4	Please go to patreon.com slash Friendly Atheist Podcast, $5 a month, you get
0:09.5	ad free episodes. Hello. Hi. We have a party tomorrow. Yeah, we do. On Saturday, I
0:16.1	should say whenever you're listening to this in Chicago at five o'clock at a
0:21.0	place called fat cat fat cat in Chicago. We just got word apparently in the
0:28.8	Lawrence red line stop is under construction. So if you're taking the train
0:33.2	there, be aware of that. Get off at Wilson and walk the two blocks or whatever.
0:37.8	We also wait. We have other announcements, right? We do. But yeah, if you're going to
0:43.0	come there, we hope to see you there. Yeah, I'm really I'm really excited. Fat
0:46.8	cats are really cool. Fun. Very chill bar. It's like a yeah. It's we've done we did
0:51.8	this a couple of years ago. It was fun. People seem to make fun, I think, and
0:55.4	we're kind and generous and chill. And I am very much looking forward to it. And
1:00.6	next thing was you were on a podcast. I sure was. Hemant. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah.
1:06.8	I was on God awful movies. This is my second time. What movie did you watch?
1:11.3	Well, movie is generous. It was a essentially a like a propaganda film from the
1:19.6	1960s. I think it's just like half hour black and white story of like a
1:25.5	leave it to be for family. And then a scientist is coming to visit and they
1:30.3	have to really figure out how their Christian values and science can live in
1:35.5	harmony. And who boy, there's like stranger danger, but with scientists.
1:39.0	Exactly. There is a twist ending. There is a mom who never gets named, but she
1:44.8	does have some sort of generic lady cancer, we believe. I just really
1:48.8	wasn't at the other day because we recorded it in like maybe May or April, and I
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