May 2023

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— A new damning report examined sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Illinois. (0:55)

— Even the most dedicated Catholics are walking away from Church services. (21:23)

— A new Florida law allows four minutes of loudspeaker prayers at high school playoff games. (32:13)

— The Jehovah’s Witnesses are trying to pretend they didn’t create two videos promoting disfellowshipping/shunning. (41:32)

— A Christian school fired two staffers for including their pronouns in emails. (1:00:08)

— A Satanist is suing Chicago for ignoring his “Hail Satan” invocation request. (1:14:50)

— Why did a Florida county honor conspiracy theorist and preacher Rodney Howard-Browne? (1:22:00)

— Why did the Texas Ten Commandments bill fail? Not because Republicans opposed it… (1:29:45)

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— A 60 Minutes segment on the Mormon Church allegedly hoarding cash only made the religion look worse. (0:45)

— Southern Baptists had the biggest drop in membership in over 100 years… AGAIN! (26:26)

— A Christian “prophet” says climate change is God’s way of pointing us to Bible verses. (38:56)

— A church in Norwich, Ontario pressured businesses to close on Sundays… or else. (44:19)

— An atheist heard his kids’ bus driver was proselytizing on the way to school… so he had them capture it on video. (50:10)

— Christian Nationalists are now adopting and embracing the label. (57:30)

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— Texas State Rep. Bryan Slaton confirmed the hypocrisy of Christian Nationalists. (0:59)

— Three Texas churches gave $800 to a city council candidate. (35:05)

— Mississippi’s new license plates get rid of “In God We Trust.” (43:33)

— Why are Utah public schools taking part in a pseudo-patriotic and overtly Christian event? (53:53)

— Conservative Christians took over a school board in Colorado. Now they’re destroying it. (1:03:50)

— A Portland (Oregon) school board candidate vowed to drop out of the race after his Christian Nationalist ties were exposed. (1:18:46)

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— A Kansas lawmaker told non-Christian constituents that he’d “try and convert” them rather than taking their concerns seriously. (0:52)

— A Texas Democrat dismantled the case for putting the Ten Commandments in every classroom… but Republicans don’t care. (20:08)

— A Baptist missionary was convicted of sexually abusing a four-year-old girl. The proof? He gave her gonorrhea. (41:04)

— What horrible ideas does a former atheist leader have now? Let’s check in. (52:00)

— If you’re attempting to test the Equal Access Act and counter a Christian program in a public school, don’t do it the way this atheist did. (59:15)

— A judge ordered a Pennsylvania school district to allow meetings of the After School Satan Club. (1:19:43)

— A Christian congressman said gun violence was the result of a lack of “revival,” but more Jesus would only make things worse. (1:25:35)

— A Christian minister told Ohio legislators that trans rights supporters were “possessed by demons.” (1:31:55)

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