Friendly Atheist Podcast

Note from Hemant: I'm out of the country right now, but Jessica and her friend Anne got together to record this episode! They talked about a weird school policy regarding smiling, the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem (and why Robert Jeffress and John Hagee were there), and how I (Hemant) got called out by Ken Ham during his news show. (Timestamps will return when I get back home!) See Privacy Policy...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Franklin Graham says Donald Trump's affair with Stormy Daniels is "nobody's business." That's not what he said when Bill Clinton was in office. (3:14) -- The Natural History Museum in Jerusalem is covering up an evolution exhibit so they don't offend ultra-Orthodox Jews. (12:47) -- The 13-ye...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Paige Patterson, a leader of the Southern Baptists, has horrible advice for abused wives. (0:42) -- The problem with Incels. (17:52) -- A Michigan Catholic school told girls they'd have to wear "Modesty Ponchos" at Prom if they were dressed too sluttily, but they caved after backlash. (31:09...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- The Ten Commandments monument outside the Arkansas Capitol... again. (3:12) -- The Congressional Freethought Caucus has finally formed! (13:13) -- Why did the House chaplain resign? Maybe he deserved to. (24:15) -- There's an open atheist in the NFL once again: The Arizona Cardinals' Josh Ro...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Kent Hovind is advertising his new Creationist theme park using a meme mocking Creationists. (1:41) -- White evangelical Christian support for Donald Trump is at an all-time high. (7:37) -- The frighteningly conservative White House Bible studies being run by Capitol Ministries' Ralph Drolli...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Why was David Silverman fired from American Atheists? Because of this. (1:05) -- Attendance at Catholic churches is going down. (33:16) -- Evangelical Christians can't save their "brand" from Donald Trump since it was a problem to begin with. (35:22) -- Liberty University doesn't want studen...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Whether atheists are indeed "veering dangerously" toward the alt-right. (0:15) -- Why Creationist Ken Ham has a lot of job openings, but no takers. (30:20) -- Some incredibly manipulative faith-based backstabbing in Victoria, Australia. (34:57) -- Why Christians must disavow Donald Trump, ac...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Gwyneth Paltrow's pseudoscience repository Goop is now worth a quarter-billion dollars because America is an embarrassment. (0:50) -- One of the most liberal federal judges in the nation has died. He was so liberal, he agreed "Under God" in the Pledge was unconstitutional. (7:17) -- Evangeli...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- The Johnson Amendment is (temporarily) safe again! (0:41) -- The Navy has rejected the application of a Humanist chaplain after pushback from Republicans. (6:08) -- The new director of the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services overcame discrimination in...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- The people who think Stephen Hawking is burning in Hell. (0:18) -- PA Republican House candidate Rick Saccone claimed his critics "have a hatred for God." Nope. He's confusing God with Donald Trump. (13:55) -- Trump supporters who continue to support him. (17:05) -- Christian author claims t...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis wrote a memoir. I read it. I hate myself. (1:02) -- A gay escort was right to expose dozens of Catholic priests who were clients. (17:53) -- Mississippi now bans abortion after 15 weeks. (26:30) -- The dominoes are still falling for Lawrence Krauss. (32:05) --...

Welcome to the first episode of the Friendly Atheist Bonus Listeners Entertainment Show (or FABLES). We're releasing this one on the public feed; all future episodes will only go to Patreon subscribers. For this debut episode, Jess sits down with her bestie from college and they discuss Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. Along the way they also discuss their friendship origin story, their Cool Girl (TM)...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Tennessee's Lt. Gov. is telling voters to reject an atheist candidate because she's "dangerous." (1:07) -- Even country music stars want nothing to do with Mike Huckabee. (10:40) -- Rep. Blake Farenthold hasn't paid an $84,000 harassment settlement, leaving the bill for taxpayers. (18:25) --...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Lawrence Krauss faces sexual misconduct allegations from multiple women. (1:00) -- The death of Billy Graham and his sad legacy. (20:54) -- GMOs are good for you, says a new study. (28:47) -- The phrase "In God We Trust" will not stop bullets. (31:30) -- South Carolina's education chief said...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Republicans should just admit their prayers to stop school shootings aren't helping. (1:09) -- A pastor was found with a naked, tied-up man in his car. He swears "on a stack of bibles" that nothing happened. (11:45) -- This racist cartoonist published a cartoon attacking DREAMers. (14:55) --...

Sarah Levin is the Director of Grassroots and Community Programs at the Secular Coalition for America. She has served in various roles at the Secular Coalition since 2013, including as the organization's chief lobbyist on Capitol Hill and as the State Chapter Coordinator, managing and growing the organization's state chapter program and implementing various grassroots campaigns on the national and...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Eric Trump is mad Democrats didn't stand up for God during the State of the Union. An atheist lawyer schooled him on why that happened. (0:32) -- Wait for it. Donald Trump says he's not a feminist. (8:15) -- Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered powerful remarks against religious...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- A GOP House member got called out on CNN for not knowing what the "Immaculate Conception" was. (4:14) -- The Christian Right is giving Donald Trump a "mulligan" on everything immoral he did before his presidency. (9:44) -- Generation Z, born after 1999, is less religious than any other age g...

Jessica and I celebrated our 200th episode... and discussed the past week in politics and atheism. -- Your letters, questions, and emails! (2:38) -- Hawaii's false alarm and the lack of atheist conversions. (45:05) -- Rick Saccone, a GOP House candidate in PA for an upcoming special election, doesn't care about church/state separation. (48:40) -- Televangelist Kenneth Copeland just got a private p...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- All the action in local governments: A secular affirmation, the end of one city's invocations, how one politician compared atheist invocations to baby murder, a delightful atheist invocation in Florida, and two officials in California who aren't standing for the Pledge. (4:46) -- Feminine hy...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- A Mississippi legislator wants to make the Bible the official state book. For the third time. (1:38) -- The head of the Mormon Church, Thomas S. Monson, is dead. What should he be remembered for? (7:21) -- South Carolina Republicans wanted to honor black people who fought for the Confederacy...

On this 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 .

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Did the CDC really ban words like "science-based" and "transgender"? (1:21) -- An Oregon atheist threatened to sue over a religious street banner, but he has no case. (5:42) -- An Australian politician plans to defend Christianity against mockery. (9:49) -- Ivanka Trump wishes everyone "Happ...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Doug Jones won the Senate race in Alabama! That means Roy Moore can ride Sassy horribly into the sunset. (1:47) -- Roy Moore's spokesman doesn't understand we're not a theocracy. (11:30) -- Kentucky pastor and State Rep. Dan Johnson killed himself after his lies were exposed by investigative...

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- The Supreme Court heard the case of an anti-gay Christian baker. (1:13) -- Roy Moore only has one issue on his platform: Abortion. Should Democrats have run an anti-abortion candidate? (10:40) -- Pat Robertson told a woman collecting unemployment checks that she needs to keep tithing if she...