Ep. 503 - The Problems with "Covenant Marriage"

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Patreon supporters who give $5 a month will get an ad-free version of the show! Join our private Facebook group and Discord server! Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Hemant launched a Kickstarter to go through the Book of Revelation on YouTube. Please consider supporting him here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/friendlyatheist/everything-wrong-with-revelation-in-the-bible — Speaker Mike Johnson's "covenant marriage" doesn't make it more meaningful. (0:50) — Grand Canyon University, the nation's largest Christian school, just got fined $38 million for lying about tuition costs. (25:22) — The Southern Baptist Convention is still fighting against survivors of sexual abuse. (41:09) — After forcing kids to attend religious revival, a West Virginia school district has settled the case for $175,000. (1:03:38) — Texas Supreme Court to decide if a judge can be punished for refusing to marry gay couples. (1:12:10) — SPONSOR: Sign up today at butcherbox.com/friendly and use code friendly to choose your free steak for a year and get $20 off. — SPONSOR: Paint Your Life. Text FRIENDLY to 87204 to get 20% off your painting! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is him in Jessica and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist podcast. Please go to patreon.com slash friendly
0:06.5	Atheist podcast to support the show. We have many things to discuss. Oh, yeah. Oh, it'll be fun
0:13.1	How are you feel? Everyone wants to everyone's very concerned about you. Are you doing better from last week? No, I mean no
0:19.4	I we lost another horse unfortunately
0:22.7	It's the pit. It was a border horse
0:24.9	It was somebody's personal horse, which is like a different flavor of terrible because she's had him for like
0:30.3	15 years and it was miserable. So anyway
0:33.7	Things still bad on the grife family front, but thank you for your hashtag thoughts and purse
0:41.0	Well, I hope things get better
0:43.6	I will cheer you up with with all sorts of things here
0:48.4	I'm gonna start this week by talking once again about our friend Mike Johnson the speaker of the house
0:55.2	Because of I've been very amused for the past week. I mean everything is awful
1:00.5	I've been very amused watching
1:02.8	mainstream media pundits commentators
1:06.4	They're very shocked by how openly Christian nationalist this guy is
1:11.3	But it means they're all hearing about David Barton the pseudo historian for like the first time
1:15.7	They're like this guy likes this dude named David Barton and did you all know he's really messed up and lies to everyone
1:22.4	It's like yes, I I have known this for a while. Oh, do you think we're gonna get into this situation like with Trump where he could have just like
1:29.2	stayed quiet and no, we would ever scrutinized him
1:31.8	But now he's about to shine a spotlight on his particular brand of kooka bananas. Yes. He and his wife had a podcast
1:38.8	69 episodes nice and they took it all down real fast not before it was saved by everybody
1:45.5	But like that's yes, it's the scrutiny doesn't make him look good. It's him and his wife discussing Jesus shit for
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