Ep. 441 - A Texas-sized Loophole in a Christian Law
Friendly Atheist Podcast
Friendly Atheist Podcast
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2022
⏱️ 78 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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— A conservative Christian influencer wants women to stop touching themselves. (1:00)
— A Texas law requiring donated "In God We Trust" signs in schools has a loophole, and one atheist is taking advantage of it. (13:27)
— The Door McAllen, which staged a Christianized "Hamilton," has apologized. (23:45)
— South Carolina stuck a $1.5 million gift for a Christian school in its budget. (34:29)
— The Big Bang Theory is not a hoax, no matter how much Creationists try to lie about it. (38:23)
— An article in Science recently connected a non-binary gender identity with a thirst for curiosity. And yet one professional science communicator is FURIOUS about it. (45:38)
— A leaked investigation into New Zealand's ARISE Church reveals widespread abuse. (53:21)
— Scott Esk once said sexually active gay people should be executed by the government. He was nearly the GOP's candidate for a State House seat in Oklahoma. (1:03:35)
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| 0:30.0 | This is Hemingh and Jessica and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast. |
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| 0:58.0 | I will be at Baja Khan in like Southwestern Ontario this weekend, BAH Khan for anyone interested. |
| 1:08.0 | I will also be at the Kentucky Free Thought Convention the following weekend and promo code Friendly if you want cheaper tickets to that. |
| 1:18.0 | I also do public speaking sometimes if anyone wants to bring me to Canada or Kentucky or whatever, it's no big deal. |
| 1:27.0 | I mean it's pretty good talk, they like it in Texas. |
| 1:30.0 | So I have a present for you which is an audio clip that I don't think you've heard but I really want you to hear it. |
| 1:37.0 | Oh boy. |
| 1:38.0 | And I'm going to play the one minute clip for you and I'll set it up for you. |
| 1:45.0 | Feel free to react as you're listening but I want to get your take after. |
| 1:50.0 | Here's the setup, there is a and then we'll get to the real stuff. |
| 1:54.0 | There is a girls ministry, a Christian ministry called Girl Defined. |
| 1:59.0 | Some of you are already rolling your eyes. |
| 2:01.0 | It's basically two women, sisters who basically promote purity culture. |
| 2:06.0 | We talked about that around for a bit. |
| 2:08.0 | Yes. |
| 2:09.0 | We've talked about them in the past. |
| 2:11.0 | In this case last week one of the sisters Kristen was in her car where they filmed some of their videos. |
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