Ep. 398 - What It Means to Be an Evangelical Today

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

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. — Please join our new Discord server! — A school district will no longer ban “Satanic” clothing after a Satanist complained. (1:32) — Liberty University’s “think tank” was just a cover to elect Republicans. (6:05) — A GOP official said society’s problems are all a result of not following God’s laws. (12:44) — Liberty U. still isn’t taking sexual assault seriously. (15:15) — Being an evangelical basically means worshiping Trump now. (23:12) — A U.S. Senate candidate (guess which party) says church/state separation doesn’t exist. (35:30) — Christian pseudo-historian Tim Barton says dads only need a “couple days” off after mom gives birth. (38:53) — Most Americans want church/state separation… but don’t know what it means. (49:44) — What is going on with the Chicago Blackhawks? (53:11) — These Sikh men took off their turbans to save two hikers, putting decency over dogma. (1:08:36) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Hemant and Jessica and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast.
0:04.0	Please go to patreon.com slash Friendly Atheist Podcast if you like what you're listening to.
0:09.7	If you get five bucks a month, you get ad free episodes and we appreciate it.
0:14.7	And Jessica's back and it's not just me again.
0:17.3	Spooky Halloween everybody.
0:22.1	How about my five dollars back?
0:24.0	Um, Hemant has the privilege to sit in my house as it's almost all the way decorated for a
0:30.1	Halloween because I'm having a party this weekend that Hemant is coming to remind me again.
0:34.8	Remind me again?
0:35.7	Yes.
0:36.7	You're fucking liar.
0:37.9	I am not coming because I have kids and they have issues.
0:41.6	Worst.
0:42.3	I know.
0:43.7	But yeah, I'm back.
0:44.8	Hey, it was thank you to everybody who came out in Portland to our meetup.
0:49.6	It was such a fun night.
0:51.9	We had a really, really nice time.
0:54.5	Got to get to know a bunch of great people and I really appreciate it.
0:58.7	Also, Hemant almost everybody was like 15 minutes early.
1:03.2	Whoa.
1:03.9	Like everybody had the exact same idea like okay,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Friendly Atheist Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Friendly Atheist Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.