Ep. 455 - Club Q and the Christian aftermath

Published: Dec. 1, 2022, 5:34 a.m.

b'Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast. Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode.\\n\\nJessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.\\n\\n\\u2014 Please join our Discord server!\\n\\n\\u2014 Christian hate-preacher Aaron Thompson celebrated the Club Q shooting, calling it a \\u201cgood thing.\\u201d (3:00)\\n\\n\\u2014 Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis says the victims of the shooting are probably in Hell. (9:45)\\n\\n\\u2014 Focus on the Family\\u2019s sign was vandalized. Was it justified? (12:30)\\n\\n\\u2014 Christians are now in the minority in England and Wales. (33:55)\\n\\n\\u2014 SPONSOR: Check out Elle the Humanist, an introduction to Humanism for young readers! Using this link or the code \\u201cfriendlyatheist\\u201d will get you 10% off anything on the website! https://labelfree.com/discount/FriendlyAtheist (41:53)\\n\\n\\u2014 Christians in Tuscumbia, Alabama are furious that a Krampus-friendly Festival of Yule is taking place in their community. (43:17)\\n\\n\\u2014 In Bangladesh, two men sentenced to die for murdering an atheist author and his publisher escaped police custody. (52:48)\\n\\n\\u2014 At least two instructors at BYU-Idaho, an affiliate of Brigham Young University in Utah, have been fired for not receiving \\u201cecclesiastical clearance.\\u201d (58:29)\\n\\n\\u2014 Adnan Oktar, a Creationist preacher in Turkey, was sentenced to 8,658 years in prison for a variety of crimes including running a criminal organization, sexual abuse, torture, and abduction. (1:15:05)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'