Ep. 544 - Richard Dawkins Lies About the Algerian Boxer and Censorship

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 96 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 got into a beef with 80s TV-star-turned-evangelist Kirk Cameron. (0:35) — Richard Dawkins lied about the Algerian boxer, then lied about Facebook censoring him. (16:10) SPONSOR: This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/atheist and get 10% off your first month. — Ignoring racism won’t fix racism: A response to Robyn Blumner's misguided essay. (36:53) — Texas Governor Greg Abbott censored atheists' display. He just paid out $358,000+ in legal fees. (1:13:06) — Christian "prophet": Tim Walz fits in with the "wicked overlord lizard mafia." (1:22:04) — Oklahoma (finally) rescinds contract with taxpayer-funded Catholic charter school. (1:29:32) SPONSOR: Sign up for ButcherBox today by going to Butcherbox.com/friendly and use code friendly at checkout to get $30 off your first box! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmett and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast.
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0:14.1	And listen, there are weeks when I'm like,
0:16.6	all right, we got one story that's kind of insane
0:19.1	and a few other smaller ones.
0:20.3	This time, oh my God, they're all like big giant crazy and I'm so
0:26.6	excited to talk to you about all of them yeah this was a a week this was quite a week. quite a week.
0:33.1	OK, I'm going to start by talking about my beef
0:36.4	with an 80s TV star.
0:38.0	And my step into the National Spotlight. And your step into the National Spotlight.
0:43.2	And your step into the National Spotlight.
0:45.2	So, you know, I'm watching my videos of Christians
0:49.0	that make me go slowly insane.
0:51.6	And this week, there was an interesting one. This isn't for work this is just what you do in your
0:54.9	Yeah, this is my idea fun one of the videos came from the activist mommy who
1:02.3	became infamous I guess several years ago when she started
1:05.0	burning magazines that she said were like LGBTQ friendly. She was the
1:11.0	she was like Elizabeth Johnston is her name. She started like burning stuff. You know what the way all those mom's groups have been calling for book banning?
1:21.0	Yeah, all those types of things.
1:23.8	She was doing it before a lot of them were.
1:26.7	And you know, she went viral for a while.
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