Ep. 468 - What exactly did Asbury revive?

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

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. — Why was New York City Mayor Eric Adams repeating Christian Nationalist rhetoric? (0:40) — Christians who went to the Asbury "revival" may have been exposed to measles. (15:14) — Defrocked priest Frank Pavone has been accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct. (23:15) — Banning "After School Satan" clubs after anonymous threats makes things worse. (37:30) — A writer who once called out conservative Christianity has now adopted conservative Christianity. (44:20) — Attendance in religious education classes fell 99% in Victoria, Australia after the classes stopped being mandatory. (54:15) — A Montana Republican has filed a bill to stick Christian prayer in public schools. (1:00:29) — West Virginia lawmakers are still trying to push “Intelligent Design” into classrooms. (1:07:55) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.
0:06.3	This is Hammond.
0:07.2	And Jessica.
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0:36.1	Sorry, it took me a thousand years.
0:39.4	All right, so I thought we would start this one
0:42.6	with something that just happened yesterday.
0:47.0	And that involves New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
0:51.8	He was speaking at an interfaith breakfast
0:55.6	at the Manhattan Branch of the New York Public Library.
0:58.7	And for the most part, these are the sort of things
1:00.5	where it's not weird that an elected official
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