Sunday, March 31, 2019

Don’t Handle Chickenpox Like Gov. Matt Bevin (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podcast #262)

— Hemant is speaking at the Freethought Festival in Madison, Wisconsin next week! Come watch! (0:30)
— Hemant’s working on two new projects! Here’s what they are and how you can support him! (0:59)
— The Nones are #1… what does that mean? (5:21)
— A university in Calgary canceled a talk by an ex-Muslim atheist out of sensitivity to victims of the New Zealand terror attack. But when’s the right time to criticize religion? (10:55) — LifeWay, the largest Christian retailer, is shutting down all stores. You’ll have to buy your Christians elsewhere. (18:31)
— FOX News’ Todd Starnes thinks we need “heterosexual history classes.” (24:28)
— Chick-fil-A is back in the news for its anti-LGBTQ ways. (31:26)
— If you want to help your kids deal with chickenpox, don’t do what Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin did. (40:58)
— An Italian politician who fought against mandatory vaccination contracted chickenpox. (47:33)
— A kid is suing his local Department of Health in Kentucky after getting banned from his high school’s events for being unvaccinated. (49:12)
— Christian moms are furious over a new supposedly sexualized Kit Kat commercial. (51:15)
— Georgia is on the verge of banning abortions after six weeks. (57:00)
— A physicist got $1.4 million for saying science and religion might be compatible. (1:00:18)
— The Neil deGrasse Tyson investigation is over. What did we learn? (1:03:50)
— The Irish prime minister and his same-sex partner had some words for Mike Pence. (1:13:28)

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Interview:
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/03/23/podcast-ep-262-dont-handle-chickenpox-like-gov-matt-bevin/

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