Ep. 455 - Club Q and the Christian aftermath

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 89 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 Discord server! — Christian hate-preacher Aaron Thompson celebrated the Club Q shooting, calling it a “good thing.” (3:00) — Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis says the victims of the shooting are probably in Hell. (9:45) — Focus on the Family’s sign was vandalized. Was it justified? (12:30) — Christians are now in the minority in England and Wales. (33:55) — SPONSOR: Check out Elle the Humanist, an introduction to Humanism for young readers! Using this link or the code “friendlyatheist” will get you 10% off anything on the website! https://labelfree.com/discount/FriendlyAtheist (41:53) — Christians in Tuscumbia, Alabama are furious that a Krampus-friendly Festival of Yule is taking place in their community. (43:17) — In Bangladesh, two men sentenced to die for murdering an atheist author and his publisher escaped police custody. (52:48) — At least two instructors at BYU-Idaho, an affiliate of Brigham Young University in Utah, have been fired for not receiving “ecclesiastical clearance.” (58:29) — Adnan Oktar, a Creationist preacher in Turkey, was sentenced to 8,658 years in prison for a variety of crimes including running a criminal organization, sexual abuse, torture, and abduction. (1:15:05) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.
0:06.4	This is Hammond.
0:07.3	And Jessica.
0:08.0	And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast.
0:10.6	If you like what you're listening to, please go to patreon.com slash Friendly Atheist Podcast
0:16.0	to support the show.
0:17.3	It was giving Tuesday and that carries over for like a month.
0:21.0	So, you know, support the show.
0:22.4	You get an ad-free episode, you get bonus episodes, all that good stuff.
0:27.8	My sweet mother has been a Patreon for like six months and just now on Thanksgiving,
0:33.8	I actually uploaded the bonus feed on to her phone.
0:36.8	She's just, she's supportive, you know, God bless her.
0:40.4	It's always nice when they realize the perks way after they become supporters.
0:46.2	No, listen, we have two weeks of stuff to catch up on.
0:50.6	I'm going to try to front load this with the newer stuff, but the stories I wrote down
0:57.0	that I want to talk about are insane.
1:00.8	Did you have a good Thanksgiving?
1:02.6	No, Thanksgiving's a fucking miserable holiday for me because I had a miscarriage two years
1:06.4	ago and now it's broken me inside.
1:08.8	So no, I had a shitty Thanksgiving.
1:10.6	How was yours?
1:11.6	Glad I asked.
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