What a Richard! #609

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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"In God We Trust" foisted on school children, company settles religious discrimination lawsuit, court rules Connecticut can enforce vaccinations for school children, AI in the military, Muslims stab gay man to death in NYC, new song tops Christian music charts, and we've had it with Richard Dawkins.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody! Hi, friends. Well, from you are just Salt Lake City, Utah. It's the God-I-Mathias, the podcast. I'm Frank Feldman, and I'm Dan Beecher, and coming up on the show today,
0:29.9	we're going to do something that is bad form for podcasters, but we're going to shit on another podcast. We are! Let's try that in part of that. We're going to shit all over it. And this could be considered friendly fire.
0:46.9	Uh-oh. Yeah, that's true.
0:49.9	I'm not going to, we're not going to spill the beans, but we are going to tell you that it's going to be, there's controversy coming up, and this is why we can't have a nice thanks, Pete.
1:05.9	But first, before all of that, Dan, we should probably talk about some news of the week, the various news, things that happened.
1:15.9	One or two, a new or two.
1:20.9	Yeah, and I'm going to start down in Louisiana, where if you'll recall, Dan, they had already, we covered this on the show while back.
1:31.9	They had already passed a law back in 2018 that required our absolutely beautiful national motto in God we trust for those.
1:43.9	Oh, I was hoping you were going to say a pluribus unum.
1:46.9	That one actually is a nice motto, and it's too bad that's not still the official one.
1:53.9	But, um, yeah, this whole in God we trust stuff, they had passed a law requiring in God we trust to be displayed in public schools.
2:04.9	Yes.
2:05.9	And, uh, well, it just, it just, it just wasn't enough, Dan.
2:11.9	They, they, the good people of Louisiana, and their poor children, right, that were going to these schools where the, where the motto was only displayed once.
2:21.9	And so far away, right down, down at the entry hall to the school.
2:26.9	Uh, they just passed a law assigned into effect or just went into effect.
2:31.9	Uh, this last week that now requires all schools, all public schools in the state to display the motto in God we trust in every single classroom.
2:45.9	Great.
2:46.9	Isn't that just wonderful?
2:47.9	That's, uh, that's, that's what we need.
2:50.9	Uh, it, uh, it must be displayed on a poster or framed document that is at least 11 inches by 14 inches.
2:58.9	And the motto must be the central focus of the poster or framed document.
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