Friendly Atheist Podcast

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 Drollinger. (13:40) -- A Stanford study doesn't really show that the most religious kids do best in school. (17:56) -- Pope Francis lied to a kid about whether or not his dead atheist father was in Heaven. (26:18) -- This is a fairly accurate assessment of why people think Christians are "A**holes." (32:36) -- Liberty University makes bank through its online education program. Too bad it's not good for students. (34:50) -- Focus on the Family is legally a "church" now, and you should see how they pulled it off... (41:23) -- Students at “Christian Hogwarts” are doing something called "grave sucking" and trying to walk through walls. (52:06) -- Was Democratic National Committee vice chairman Keith Ellison right to say, "Women are dying" because his party loses elections? (57:34) -- We answer listener mail! (1:09:21)

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