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Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast\n\n\n\nJessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.\n\n\u2014 Come to our in-person meetup in Chicago on August 28!\n\n\u2014 The new president of the chaplains at Harvard is an atheist. (4:07)\n\n\n\n\u2014 A Mormon apostle chastised Brigham Young University for not being sufficiently anti-gay. (10:49)\n\n\n\n\u2014 A \u201cCatholic\u201d anti-vaxxer said he didn\u2019t care what Pope Francis said about the shots because \u201cYou have to be Catholic to be pope.\u201d (20:42)\n\n\n\n\u2014 When it comes to morality you can measure, atheists do better on just about every mark. (28:00)\n\n\n\n\u2014 There\u2019s been a rise in the acceptance of evolution in America. It\u2019s still very low, though. (33:57)\n\n\n\n\u2014 Christian mommy-shamer Lori Alexander says mothers should work from home or else their kids will have sex. Who wants to tell her\u2026? (42:53)\n\n\n\n\u2014 In Sydney, police fined churchgoers and their church for violating COVID lockdown orders. (47:10)\n\n\n\n\u2014 Most atheists believe in intelligent life on other planets. (51:24)\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices