Ep. 479 - The Mormon Church's Fiasco on 60 Minutes
Friendly Atheist Podcast
Friendly Atheist Podcast
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
— A 60 Minutes segment on the Mormon Church allegedly hoarding cash only made the religion look worse. (0:45)
— Southern Baptists had the biggest drop in membership in over 100 years... AGAIN! (26:26)
— A Christian "prophet" says climate change is God's way of pointing us to Bible verses. (38:56)
— A church in Norwich, Ontario pressured businesses to close on Sundays... or else. (44:19)
— An atheist heard his kids' bus driver was proselytizing on the way to school‚Ķ so he had them capture it on video. (50:10)
— Christian Nationalists are now adopting and embracing the label. (57:30)
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Glassbox Media Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | This is Hemman. |
| 0:07.0 | And Jessica. |
| 0:08.0 | And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | Please stop everything you're doing. |
| 0:12.5 | And go to patreon.com slash Friendly Atheist Podcast to support this show. |
| 0:17.0 | Five bucks a month you'll get ad for the episodes and the exclusive bonus episode. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello. |
| 0:23.0 | Hey friend. |
| 0:24.0 | Hi, we're recording this early because for reasons I will explain in the bonus episode, |
| 0:28.0 | I'm going to disappear for several days and then go off the grid and it'll be wonderful. |
| 0:33.0 | So we're recording early and I just saw you like three days ago. |
| 0:37.0 | I know and you were. |
| 0:38.0 | No, I hate seeing you this often. |
| 0:39.0 | I know and I know you thought you will have nothing to discuss. |
| 0:42.0 | Oh boy. |
| 0:43.0 | And yet I have everything to discuss. |
| 0:45.0 | And we've had some inflated episodes lately. |
| 0:47.0 | So I'm very interested to see what else you can come up with. |
| 0:50.0 | Oh, there's stuff. |
| 0:52.0 | Let's start with 60 minutes this weekend. |
| 0:55.0 | Because the new show ran a segment about the Mormon church that was welcoming. |
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