Friendly Atheist Podcast

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — A Christian show's viral "persecution" marketing campaign backfired . (2:15) — The Supreme Court is about to fumble a simple church/stat...

In this solo episode (Jessica will be back next week), I spoke with Dr. Katie Gaddini, a sociologist at the Social Research Institute, University College London and a research associate at the University of Johannesburg, Department of Sociology. She recently released her debut book, The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church , which is based on over four years of in-...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Hemant will be giving a talk in Orlando on Sunday, April 24. Details here ! — Kandiss Taylor , a wannabe governor of Georgia, has no res...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Nebraska Sen. Megan Hunt helped defeat an anti-abortion bill with an incredible speech. (4:45) — A school prayer case from 1999 was cite...

In this solo episode (Jessica will be back next week), Hemant interviewed Thomas Smith, host of multiple podcasts that discuss science, atheism, philosophy, and the law. They include " Serious Inquiries Only ," a show that goes in-depth on topics concerned science and skepticism, " Opening Arguments ," with co-host Andrew Torrez, which takes complex legal issues in the news and breaks them down in...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Ketanji Brown Jackson was grilled about her religious beliefs by Lindsey Graham . (6:30) — A pastor claimed he could endorse candidates...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Senate candidate Herschel Walker proudly denied evolution . (1:38) — There's a $100 million ad campaign for Jesus. It will fail. (16:48)...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Why is a newspaper printing anti-atheist slander ? (1:15) — Creationist Ken Ham has a new list of societal ills. (4:08) — A woman who ki...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — After saying God already "appointed" her to a State Senate seat, Bianca Gracia lost her GOP primary . (1:29) — Pat Robertson came back t...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Hold your sympathy for the Alabama high school basketball team whose faith led to them forfeiting their playoff chances . (1:25) — Chris...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Greg Locke says he's going to expose six "witches" in his church. (1:09) — Why won't anyone give Kevin Sorbo the money he needs to make...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — A Catholic priest resigned for the dumbest (but strangely consequential) reason. (2:17) — LDS leader Brad Wilcox's racist comments have...

In this solo episode (Jessica will be back next week), Hemant interviewed Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of the New York Times bestseller "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation." The book attempts to explain why white evangelicals overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump, despite all the non-Trumpy values they claimed to hold dear before he came along, by...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — What will the Supreme Court look like after Stephen Breyer 's retirement? (2:36) — Jerry Falwell, Jr. opened up about his past in a leng...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — OnlySky , a new network for atheist bloggers, podcasters, and commentators, is now up and running! (0:49) — Pastor Mike Todd smeared spi...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — It's never good when a state's attorney general says we need a God-based justice system . (3:12) — A pastor who's been repeatedly accuse...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! -- Pope Francis says having pets instead of kids is selfish . (2:00) -- A proposed law in Oklahoma would put the KJV and fundamentalist pr...

On this (extra-long) podcast, Jessica and I discussed the past year in news! We covered a whole variety of topics, going month by month, so feel free to jump around and listen in at any point! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — A GOP lawmaker says she's tired of "godless" people running the government . (1:30) — Jeff Green , the richest man in Utah, just quit th...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — Hemant is moving his blog to OnlySky . (1:04) — Jim Bob Duggar lost his Arkansas State Senate primary . (7:00) — A record number of Amer...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — The future of the Friendly Atheist blog . (1:12) — Christian predator Josh Duggar is going to jail after being found guilty in his child...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! — The Supreme Court's abortion case . (1:30) — Marcus Lamb , the head of a major Christian TV network that spread COVID lies, died of COVI...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our Discord server ! (And vote for your preferred movie in an upcoming double feature!) — A Bronx pastor has resigned after telling men the "best person to rap...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our new Discord server ! — This Christian "maternity ranch" in Texas meant to help new mothers is horrifying for so many reasons . (0:41) — " We have to have o...

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast . Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our new Discord server ! — Conservatives are furious over a Twix ad that isn't by Twix and isn't an ad. (7:20) — A hate-preacher insisted that boys who grow up...