Ep. 438 - The Plight of Conservative Christian Furries
Friendly Atheist Podcast
Friendly Atheist Podcast
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 80 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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— The abortion referendum in Kansas was a rebuke to the Catholic Church. (2:10)
— Christian furries are worried about being outed... as Christians. (16:15)
— Do we really need a "new kind of atheism"? Not quite. (25:15)
— Democrats want the IRS to investigate non-profit groups that call themselves "churches" to avoid transparency. (43:15)
— The Mormon Church's "help line" is a weapon to bury allegations of sexual abuse. (50:45)
— Australia's new Senate leader Sue Lines wants to end the tradition of Christian invocations. (1:07:05)
— The number of atheists in federal prison is almost non-existent. (1:12:15)
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Glassbox Media Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | This is Owen Bennett Jones, host of The Future of and each week I interview leading authors on books that say something about the nature of the world we live in and where it's headed. |
| 0:18.0 | So I'm trying to look at relevant, topical, important issues such as the ideological thinking of the far right in the United States, |
| 0:26.0 | the latest research on the nature of delusions and consciousness, and the way big finance makes its money often through conflicts of interest. |
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| 1:02.0 | Or I guess hosted, if I have my theology right, God's basically tired of everyone taking cheap shots at him and he wants to set the record straight. |
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| 2:07.0 | And how are you? |
| 2:10.0 | I'm fine. Are you going to edit out the fact that you almost forgot the intro, or are you going to leave it in? |
| 2:16.0 | I don't do edits here. |
| 2:18.0 | I did want to plug a couple of places I will be very soon. |
| 2:22.0 | The last weekend of August, August 26th, 27th, that weekend, I will be in Southern Ontario for Baja Khan, that's B-A-H-A-Con. |
| 2:35.0 | That is in Sarnia, like right by Detroit. |
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