Nov 01 2018
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This week we are joined by Valerie Wade and Deanna Adams who wrote essays, parts one and two, on “Black Women & Christianity in the United States: A Historical Perspective” for the book WOMEN v. RELIGION: The Case Against Faith… and for Freedom.
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Oct 25 2018
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We’re joined by Erin Riley and talk about the Adventist Church vs itself, evangelicals vs Civil Rights Act, US Attorney vs Catholic Church, Oklahoma vs abortion, pharmacist vs miscarriage drugs, exorcist vs witches.
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Oct 18 2018
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This week Merry is back and we talk about Quebec’s hypocritical plan to remove religious symbols from government, the Pope blaming the devil, Mormon’s blaming the LGBTQ community on Satan, the SDA church’s unity through division and more.
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Oct 11 2018
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Jason Ward is back for his second time and we talk about Kavanaugh’s confirmation, the Oath of Citizenship, atheist’s being blocked, Saga, and more! Remember, if you want to save the app, you need to act fast.
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Oct 04 2018
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We are joined by Josh Hansen. In the news we have Kavanaugh, a church responding to anti-gay vandalism, a faith healing documentary, crazy NM cult, US Senate resolution to repeal blasphemy laws, the Hayabusa 2 rover, and Iceland’s proposed ban on circumcision. We also discuss raising children without religion.
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Sep 27 2018
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Justin Murray is an atheist who has applied to be a chaplain with the Australian armed forces. Since only Christians and Jews are allowed to be chaplains, his application was rejected as was his application for an exemption to that requirement. He has since filed a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission and will have a hearing soon.
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Sep 20 2018
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It’s just Dustin and Lauren and we talk about what blowhards had to say about the Hurricane, Patreon weirdness, PayPal giving in to 8chan, YouTube radicalization, bad things happening to school curricula, and more.
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Sep 13 2018
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We’re joined by Mikey Pullman and talk about new clergy sex abuse investigations, the worst court ruling calling for a cross to be removed, Kavanaugh, gay sex being decriminalized in India, Goop’s settlement, the origin of sports, and more.
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Sep 06 2018
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This week we are joined by Gary Mitchel and talk about a court ruling against Boise’s homeless policy, Pence’s defense to being called a Christian Supremacist, conspiracies, and space duck tape.
NEWS
Boise can’t ban homeless sleeping in public, court rules
http://bit.ly/an267-homeless
Mike Pence responds to being called a “Christian supremacist”
http://bit.ly/an267-pence
How God Confirmed The Legitimacy Of QAnon Via A Prophetic Dream
http://bit.ly/an267-qanon
Mormon bishop facing excommunication for wanting to stop sexually explicit interviews of children
http://bit.ly/an267-mormon
French University Says It Will Stop Offering Diplomas in Homeopathic Medicine
http://bit.ly/an267-france
Data vandal changes name of New York City to “Jewtropolis” across multiple apps
http://bit.ly/an267-maps
Astronauts use gauze, high-tech tape to plug hole on ISS
http://bit.ly/an267-iss
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Aug 30 2018
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This week we’re joined by Erin Riley and Jason Ward and we talk about Christian privilege, dead kids, Russia, and other news. Trust me, it’s not all depressing and I will try lightening it up next time.
Dustin’ off the Degree – Catching up on some vaccine news
37 dead as measles cases spike in Europe
http://bit.ly/an266-measles_europe
In the first half of this year there were more than 41,000 measles cases in Europe, with 37 of those cases being fatal. In all of 2017 there were fewer than 24,000 and 2016 only saw 5273.
More than half of this years cases have been in Ukraine where there is an ongoing Russian backed civil war, but France, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Russia, and Serbia have each had more than 1000 cases.
It’s worth noting that after the eradication of smallpox, the WHO started the working on eradicating polio, which was almost successful before the Islamic antivax movement started and measles was supposed to be next. Polio was supposed to be gone in 1990 and measles in 2000.
Doctors are furious at Italy’s populist government for approving a dangerous anti-vax law
http://bit.ly/an266-italy
Last year Italy passed legislation that would make vaccination against measles and nine other pathogens after a particularly bad outbreak last year that resulted in more than 5000 cases of measles with four dead children. In June a new populist government took power that believes that the 10 vaccine requirement is unnecessary and dangerous and the Italian senate passed a bill to delay implementation by a year to give them time to craft a full repeal with the goal being to craft repeal that would find a quote “balance between the right to education and the right to health”.
Turkey mulls bill on jailing parents up to 2 years for refusing to vaccinate children
http://bit.ly/an266-turkey
Turkey has its own anti-vax movement and the deputy chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party has introduced what would be the strongest vaccination law to date. If it passes parents who refuse to vaccinate their children would face a minimum prison sentence of six months and a maximum of two years.
Russian trolls are using social media to turn people against vaccines
http://bit.ly/an266-russia-vax
Researchers at George Washington University conducted a study to find ways to improve communication about vaccines on social media. What they found was that Russian bots and trolls, largely driven by the Glavsat organization have been systematically working to polarize the debate, especially on the anti-vax side. They found that parents talked about parental rights, but the Russians politicized it with terms like freedom and constitutional rights.
NEWS
Online Jokes Are No Laughing Matter in Russia
http://bit.ly/an266-russia-meme
Daniil Markin is a 19 year old film student in Russia who has now been charged extremist crimes over saving memes that mock Christianity on a Russian social media platform. One of them portrays Game of Thrones actor Jon Snow as Jesus with “Jon Snow is risen! Truly he is risen!”. Another one had a sick figure with a halo and a line crossed through it that read “There Is No God”.
Bishop Morlino’s abuse response showcases the church’s true problem
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Bishop Robert Morlino of the Diocese of Madison in Wisconsin wrote to his church members:
“Until recently, the problems of the church have been painted purely as problems of pedophilia, this despite clear evidence to the contrary. There is a homosexual subculture within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church that is wreaking great devastation in the vineyard of the Lord.”
Irish PM: time to move Catholic church from center of society
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The Irish Prime Minister is calling for a change between the relationship between Ireland and the Catholic church. He’s not calling for a full separation of church and state, but he is wanting religion to no longer be at the center of society.
He suggested this while the pope was visiting.
National poll: 61 percent of Mormons approve of President Donald Trump
http://bit.ly/an266-mormons
Members of the church formerly known as Mormons, not to be confused with former Mormons, support Trump more than any other religious group in America. They give him a full 61% job approval rating which even beats out white, non-Hispanic Protestants which back him at 60%.
U.S. appeals court finds Alabama abortion ban unconstitutional
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The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the permanent injunction against Alabama’s law that would ban all dilation and evacuation abortions.
32-year-long Australian study reveals steep decline in student belief that God created humans
http://bit.ly/an266-australia
There has been a study going for 32 years in Australia about university student beliefs about God’s involvement in human evolution. They have found that belief that God was the creator or drove the evolution of humans has dropped from 60% to 29% and the belief that there was no god behind human evolution has risen from 25% to 62%
DISCUSSION – Christian Privilege
* Religious liberty
* Christians used to be 95% of the population
* Used to be unlimited freedom of belief, limited freedom of action
* Abortion
* Gay rights
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