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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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— The 3 lies that convinced two conservative Christians to stop home-schooling their kids. (2:20)
— Catholics are flocking to Missouri to catch a glimpse of a dead nun’s corpse. (32:42)
— A pastor charged with four counts of child cruelty has announced his bid for the Louisiana House. (46:05)
— A Church diocese dismissed sex abuse allegations against a priest. Now there are six more victims. (1:00:06)
— A GOP bill would force Michigan schools to teach the "Christian foundations" of the U.S. (1:08:25)
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Jessica and I sat down to talk 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 sat down to talk 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 sat down to talk 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 sat down to talk 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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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
— A Kenyan cult is allegedly responsible for the starvation deaths of dozens of people. (2:25)
— An Arizona lawmaker moved bibles out of a “members-only” lounge in the Capitol. She was right to do it. (17:31)
— A Christian student was banned from prom for wearing a suit instead of a dress. (28:19)
— A federal judge says Mississippi must allow religious exemptions for vaccines. (38:05)
— Minneapolis will let Muslims amplify calls to prayer 24/7… which is a mistake. (46:19)
— Most Americans agree: You don’t need God to be good. (59:00)
— Christian missionaries will no longer be able to preach to kids in Oklahoma public schools. (1:07:28)  
— The beliefs of an exorcism-obsessed church caused a deadly accident in Australia. (1:12:25)
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