Ep. 554 - Christmas Parade Chaos in Cookeville, TN

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 92 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. — Churches took over a Cookeville, TN Christmas parade. Then came the chaos. (0:44) — Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles settles sex abuse cases for $880 million. (14:00) — Florida Republican says opponent's Humanism "should disqualify her" from office. (23:48) — Pastor running for Missouri Senate blames mental illness on "demon possession." (38:09) — Right-wing Christian worship leader Zach Radcliff charged with child sex crimes. (49:05) — A bigot's graduation speech sparked a walkout at a Catholic university in Australia. (56:22) — Baptist church: Members and staff are forbidden from trashing us in public. (1:04:45) — Oklahoma's Ryan Walters sued over plan to spend $3 million on Trump bibles. (1:14:22) — NC school district rejects Christian display after debate over legality and legibility. (1:20:13) SPONSOR: Sign up at butcherbox.com/friendly and use code friendly to choose your Free for a Year offer, plus get $20 off your first order! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemet and Jessica and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast.
0:04.1	Please go to Patreon.com slash Friendly Atheist podcast who support this show and
0:09.0	get your ad-free episodes and bonus episodes. We are back after two weeks off which means I have 87 stories
0:16.3	to discuss. I'm a little sick. Well I'm on the tail end of being sick but I had the
0:21.4	most amazing weekend in Southern Illinois with my best friend Leslie
0:24.5	was amazing I'll talk about it on the bonus episode.
0:27.8	Uh-huh friends we did some hiking we did some heart-to-hearts we went horseback riding We went on a wine tour that went insane
0:36.3	It was wonderful and I can't wait to talk about it
0:40.5	Excellent, but my voice sounds like this now sorry I'll talk Yeah talk about the
0:49.8	the 20-24 cook. But my voice sounds like this now sorry I'll talk yeah it's all good let me start by telling you about the
0:49.8	2024 cookville Putnam County Christmas Parade in Tennessee because
0:55.2	Isn't Putnam County something spelling bee or something? Yeah there's a Broadway show
1:00.4	that involves that title. It has nothing to do with this.
1:04.0	My Broadway Bodiphenes are intact.
1:07.0	So this is one of those like local rural-ish kind of holiday things that it's nice for the community they've done it for many years
1:15.5	The local PBS affiliate has carried the parade live I watch video of like last year's parade
1:21.8	What Halloween or what holiday are we?
1:24.0	Christmas.
1:25.0	And last year when they did their parade, I was watching this on YouTube.
1:28.0	It's like, okay, this is cute.
1:29.0	It's clearly like a locally produced thing,
1:32.0	but it comes with the charm that comes
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