Ep. 435 - Condemning Bigotry Isn't Christian Persecution
Friendly Atheist Podcast
Friendly Atheist Podcast
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
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— Happy James Webb Telescope Images week for all who celebrate! (0:30)
— How seriously should we take the allegations against right-wing radio host Jesse Lee Peterson? (10:28)
— A Christian writer thinks she's being persecuted for her faith. Nope. It's just her bigotry. (27:02)
— A former Texas football star says he was definitely coerced into praying with his coaches despite what the Supreme Court now says. (45:35)
— The Christian hate-group Family Research Council is now technically a "church," a move that allows it to avoid being transparent about its finances. (55:16)
— A female pastor's progressive views on LGBTQ people were censored from a book celebrating female pastors. (1:03:52)
— A new bill in Congress would crack down on scammy Christian "health share" ministries. (1:14:38)
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| 1:15.6 | Hello. |
| 1:16.6 | Hi, how are you? |
| 1:17.6 | I'm doing excellent. |
| 1:18.6 | I thought we would actually start with some good news for at least like a minute and |
| 1:23.0 | a half, and then we can move on to real life. |
| 1:24.8 | I'm immediately suspicious of this, so proceed with caution, counselor. |
| 1:29.2 | What did you think about the James Webb telescope images? |
| 1:34.1 | It was so beautiful. |
| 1:37.8 | It was such an inspiring piece of humanity and a dryness from our division, which is real |
| 1:50.8 | and not to be downplayed. |
| 1:53.6 | But to lift our eyes up toward the ever expansive universe to me at helped, yeah, I'm not |
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