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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

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— Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany wrongly thinks science supports reopening schools. (1:16)

— Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is promoting Christian Nationalism in a new document. (8:07)

— The White House held secret phone calls with evangelical leaders urging them to apply for forgivable PPP loans they didn’t need. (13:04)

— Don’t use slurs when you’re the leader of an atheist organization. (15:05)

— These irresponsible parents are leading a “Million Unmasked March.” (35:01)

— Rush Limbaugh wants us to follow in the footsteps of cannibals. (40:58)

— Anti anti-Trump ad features evangelical Christians admitting Trump used them. (45:57)

— Sudan is taking big steps in the direction of human rights by overturning religious rules. (52:31)

— Louisiana’s governor wants everyone to fast for three days, during lunch, for… something. (55:23)

— Atheists aren’t hypocrites for taking PPP loans. (57:28)

— Does Laura Ingraham know where Toronto is? (1:01:23)

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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— The one mom at One Million Moms is very angry at “Hamilton” for including an F-bomb. (0:44)

— Conservative Christians are mad at CNN’s Don Lemon for saying Jesus wasn’t perfect. (8:05)

— Dr. Nancy Goroff, a secular Jew and Ph.D. scientist, won her Democratic primary for Congress in New York. (14:50)

— Will Smith used “godless” as a slur. Should we cancel him? (17:30)

— The Supreme Court says religious schools are all-but-immune from anti-discrimination lawsuits and got in the way of women and contraception. (24:45)

— Churches received billions of dollars in forgivable loans from the U.S. government. Should this have happened? (33:10)

— A church threw an in-person event and a girl soon died. Who should be blamed for it? (40:58)

— Donald Trump wants to build a National Garden… with a statue of Billy Graham. (59:48)

— The FBI raided the headquarters of the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, a.k.a. The Bleach Church. (1:03:35)

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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— An Idaho church held an indoor service. Masks optional. 1,000 people came. (0:55)

— Jehovah’s Witnesses are among the few groups not taking part in an Australian program meant to help sexual abuse survivors. (5:06)

— A pastor and his wife were arrested for taking part in an embezzling scheme. (11:33)

— The Supreme Court just made it possible for private religious schools to receive taxpayer money. (16:58)

— Sen. Rand Paul hates experts. (24:23)

— A powerful megachurch pastor let a potential predator work with kids. Now we know why. (41:18)

— A Catholic priest was suspended after comparing Black Lives Matter organizers to maggots. (50:23)

— The numbers are in! The Catholic Church spent more than $280 million on sex abuse cases in 2019. (54:20)

— “Cancel Culture” doesn’t need to get rid of Darwin. But it wouldn’t matter if he got canceled. (1:02:14)

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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— An Arizona church lied and claimed it had air filters that blocked out 99% of COVID. (2:30)

— The daughter of a Republican candidate for State House in Michigan says you should not vote for her dad. (10:44)

— Should statues of “white European” Jesus be taken down? (18:40)

— A Republican senator cited J.K. Rowling when voting against an LGBTQ rights bill. (33:38)

— Mississippi wants to replace its racist flag with a religious one. And here’s a Roman Mars video about flags! (36:30)

— A Catholic Church fired a married lesbian because it remembered how Catholicism works. (42:00)

— A couple of anti-maskers in Florida don’t want mandates that get in the way of God’s Wonderful Breathing System. (56:25)

— Five years after Obergefell, the Religious Right’s predictions never came true. (1:00:55)

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