Ep. 440 - The Attack on Salman Rushdie
Friendly Atheist Podcast
Friendly Atheist Podcast
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 66 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 attack on Salman Rushdie is an attack on free expression. (1:38) (Note: Read this for more background on Rushdie and why The Satanic Verses is controversial.)
— An evangelical pastor demonized "wokeism" after making up his own definition of the word. (14:52)
— The Fargo School Board in North Dakota nixed the Pledge of Allegiance at meetings‚Ķ then reversed course after threats. (22:28)
— A Missouri pastor apologized after a sermon clip of him demanding a luxury watch from his congregation went viral. (32:09)
— A Texas school district banned the Bible. Oops. (39:25)
— The Department of Justice is investigating the Southern Baptist Convention. (48:52)
— Evangelist Beth Moore's crush on Jesus infuriated Southern Baptist men. (54:30)
— Atheists won a settlement against Arkansas State Sen. Jason Rapert. (1:02:20)
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Glassbox Media Podcast. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Hammond. |
| 0:07.4 | And Jessica. |
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| 0:29.5 | Hello. Hi. |
| 0:31.0 | Hi, there's so much happening. |
| 0:33.2 | Yeah, we got a heart out today. |
| 0:34.5 | This is so much. |
| 0:35.6 | Let's just rip into it. |
| 0:37.1 | And really quick, before we start, |
| 0:39.5 | we're recording this on a Friday. |
| 0:41.1 | If any of you enjoy doing crossword puzzles |
| 0:43.6 | in the New York Times, Saturday's puzzle tomorrow |
| 0:47.8 | is written by myself. |
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