Ep. 400 - A Cash Prize Still Doesn't Prove the Afterlife Exists

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast. Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our new Discord server! — Conservatives are furious over a Twix ad that isn’t by Twix and isn’t an ad. (7:20) — A hate-preacher insisted that boys who grow up in a church like his will “100%” grow up to be straight. (18:47) — There was a $1.8 million essay contest for anyone with evidence of the afterlife. The money will be handed out, but the evidence? Still doesn’t exist. (25:07) — Should Republicans pander to gay voters? (36:24) — A Virginia school board wants to get rid of all “sexually explicit” books… and burn them. (46:49) — A Christian “segregation academy” held an anti-LGBTQ seminar for parents. (53:39) — A North Carolina restaurant turned a one-star “Satanic” review into a keepsake T-shirt. (59:41) — Pastor Greg Locke really wants to get subpoenaed. (1:01:40) — An anti-LGBTQ pastor was nominated to the Anchorage Equal Rights Commission… until public pressure caused him to step away. (1:07:32) — The Biden administration is undoing a rule allowing taxpayer-funded groups to discriminate on the basis of religion. (1:11:12) 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 if you like what you're listening to
0:06.3	Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast and we're happy to say this is episode 400
0:15.5	That's about the extent of everything we're doing to celebrate you believe it 400 episodes
0:22.8	Yes, that was a ham one. I got that kids do that. Yeah, I think
0:27.7	400 episodes. Can you be I think I said I don't remember if I said this last week
0:33.4	But there are projects I've tried and sometimes they just fail and that's fine
0:37.0	Like I tried to book club once it just didn't go anywhere online
0:39.8	I tried to participate, but then I didn't there you go. That's why I failed and this is one of the ones where it's I feel
0:48.0	It's gotten more fun for us. It's been awesome feedback by and large
0:53.0	And it's it's been an exciting thing to see progress and we can keep doing it
0:57.7	It's really fun. That's thanks to everyone listening and we do have an announcement that we hope is interesting to some of you
1:04.4	Yeah, we're gonna try something we wanted to celebrate 400
1:08.7	Because you know round numbers. So here's here's what we're doing
1:13.7	We are going to start putting out a bonus episode along with our regular podcast
1:20.6	The a lot of people have sometimes said we wish you would talk about other issues
1:26.2	A lot of people sometimes say that yes. Yes
1:29.5	We try to focus on this podcast on things that are affected by religion if not atheism specifically
1:36.2	So obviously politics feminism
1:39.5	Racism a lot of this stuff. Yeah, it factors in because it's affected by religion and while we don't have a hard ironclad rule about it
1:47.3	We try to stick to those topics on the show
1:50.1	So there are other things we are interested in every time we share one of those stories
1:53.9	We there's other things I'm interested in you have no other interest whenever Jessica talks about other things
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