Ep. 462 - Can Idaho's "Faith-Healing" Laws Be Fixed?

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 81 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! — A Mississippi Democrat filed a “trigger” bill to bring Christian prayers back to public schools. (1:00) — Idaho’s “faith-healing” exemption has led to more children’s deaths, and one Republican told me he wants to fix that. (15:53) — If Iowa passes a controversial voucher bill to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to private religious schools, one atheist plans to open up a Satanic school. (28:58) — Judge Alfred T. Goodwin, a church/state separation hero, died at 99. (39:00) — Atheist activist Chaz Stevens wants Fort Lauderdale, Florida to respect religious freedom by honoring the Shinto “Festival of the Steel Phallus. (42:02) — The ARISE Church in New Zealand hired an investigator to look into allegations against it… and now they’re punishing the investigator. (57:52) — The Decatur County Sheriff’s Department in Greensburg, Indiana has been pushing Christianity on inmates in the county jail. (1:11:28) 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 him, and you're listening to the Friendly APS Podcast.
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0:17.0	We appreciate it.
0:17.8	You get bonus episodes, you get ed free episodes and all of that good stuff.
0:22.2	It's been a very frazzling week over here on the real life.
0:27.0	And so this is going to be a really good episode, I think.
0:32.0	Can I tell you some some feedback I got from somebody who I know, IRL.
0:38.2	That means in real life, boomers.
0:40.6	I've talked about a family who I'm very close with.
0:43.6	They volunteer at my barn.
0:46.2	And one of them, and they're all seven day Adventists, they're a family.
0:50.1	And there's like 17 or 18 year old twins.
0:52.9	And one of them looked me dead in the eyes and said, Oh my God, I listened to your podcast.
0:58.4	And it wasn't horrible at all.
1:00.4	That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said.
1:02.1	Really nicer than anything you've said to me.
1:04.1	Very.
1:05.1	Anyway, I was very excited because I had like, there were stories this week.
1:11.0	I didn't see anywhere else.
1:12.2	And I'm like, I'm going to get to break the bad news, which you know is my favorite thing to do.
1:17.0	Yeah.
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