One Nation Under Trump? The Freedom 250 Jubilee
Thank God I'm Atheist
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
As America approaches its 250th anniversary, Donald Trump is launching a rival celebration—"Freedom 250"—complete with a national jubilee of prayer and a rededication of the country as "one nation under God." At the same time, the man linked to infidelity, sexual misconduct allegations, financial fraud, and relentless public dishonesty continues to enjoy overwhelming support from American Christians.
Elsewhere, a group of evangelicals hijack a long-haul flight with midair preaching (again!), an Arizona pastor calls for repealing women's right to vote, researchers flag evangelical bias in AI chatbots, a Utah city councilman says your rights are "God-given," not constitutional, and the "He Gets Us" campaign gets a makeover this year for the Super Bowl. Plus: a secular take on Lent and whether giving something up can have value for us non-believers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:19.1 | Well, from Salt Lake City, Utah, it's thank God I'm atheist, a podcast about surviving life in these United States in this horrible moment that we're going through. I'm Frank Feldman. |
| 0:31.3 | I'm Rachel. And coming up on today's show, we're going to be talking about since it's almost Marty Grau and Lent. |
| 0:40.3 | We thought we might talk about Lent as a concept, giving up something as a concept. |
| 0:45.5 | I just did dry January. |
| 0:47.6 | Grots, by the way. |
| 0:48.6 | Oh, thank you. |
| 0:49.8 | And it was sort of on my mind, like this thought of like the value of giving something up for a period of time and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, there are there are some other examples and other things that we can do and what's the value of the whole thing. But first, before we get to all of that, there is some thing, there are some things that |
| 1:14.5 | happened this week, some news, including Rachel. |
| 1:18.6 | What? |
| 1:19.4 | What happened? |
| 1:21.4 | According to the headline, a nightmare British Airways flight. |
| 1:27.0 | This is another one of these religious people taking |
| 1:29.8 | over the cabin during a flight. Highjacking. Not terrorists. Reliously hijacking the cabin. |
| 1:37.3 | Not literal terrorists, just emotional terrorists. This time it was a flight. |
| 1:45.7 | Did you hear about this last time? |
| 1:47.0 | No. |
| 1:47.2 | Okay. |
| 1:47.8 | So we reported on one not too long ago. |
| 1:51.9 | It's a trend. |
| 1:53.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:53.7 | That was somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. |
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