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Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast\n\nJessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.\n\u2014 In New Zealand, evangelicals have a \u201ctrust\u201d problem. (0:36)\n\u2014 Neil deGrasse Tyson\u2018s thoughtless tweet after last week\u2019s mass shootings. (6:30)\n\u2014 Donald Trump hammed it up for a picture with the baby who\u2019s now an orphan because of Trump\u2019s anti-immigration rhetoric. (21:45)\n\u2014 This Ohio lawmaker blamed the Dayton mass shooting on everything and everyone except guns. (26:59)\n\u2014 Mike Huckabee thinks more Jesus will prevent mass shootings. (29:29)\n\u2014 A Christian Cross in a Pennsylvania county\u2019s logo isn\u2019t promoting Christianity, a court says. (34:11)\n\u2014 A Christian sheriff says he was fired for his faith. It\u2019s actually because he wouldn\u2019t train a woman. (39:35)\n\u2014 Mike Pence has some horribly worded post-shooting advice. (46:00)\n\u2014 Does the Mormon Church deserve to be sued for lying to people? (48:15)\n\u2014 Most Catholics don\u2019t believe in Eucharist, so why are they Catholic? (54:55)\n\u2014 Conservatives always offer \u201cthoughts and prayers\u201d in response to guns but never abortion. (1:02:26)\n\u2014 Joe Biden made a Bidenlike gaffe. (1:04:40)\n\u2014 The Boy Scouts have been sued for acting like the Catholic Church. (1:06:02)\n\u2014 Wanna do battle in the Times mini-crossword? Bring it.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices