Hemant Mehta and Jessica Greiff cover the latest news, politics, and pop culture with a focus on atheism and religion. This is the official podcast for FriendlyAtheist.com.
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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
— Hemant launched a Kickstarter to go through the Book of Revelation on YouTube. Please consider supporting him here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/friendlyatheist/everything-wrong-with-revelation-in-the-bible
— Citing the Bible, a Louisiana principal punished a student for dancing inappropriately… then came the backlash. (5:42)
— A new Arkansas voucher program gives millions of public dollars to private Christian schools. (29:40)
— When it comes to climate change, white evangelical Christians are least likely to accept reality. (39:22)
— A candidate for public office is suing New Jersey over the phrase "So help me God" in its oath. (55:10)
— Poland's census just revealed a massive drop in Catholicism. (1:03:10)
— Asian Americans are drifting away from organized religion. (1:11:20)
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