255: Ether Or Edition

In this week’s episode, churches are bad and they should feel bad , we learn about how the gay jewish slave traders might affect our weekend, and we’ll be almost not reading the Book of Mormon anymore.

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Headlines:

Trump’s climate change denial tweet: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/12/29/donald-trumps-climate-tweet-is-a-reminder-that-the-gop-embraces-science-denial/

Survey of top 100 US churches: Churches are sexist, racist, and homophobic: http://religionnews.com/2017/12/29/sexuality-race-and-gender-3-explosive-insights-about-americas-100-largest-churches/

NJ town tries to enact park restrictions to keep out jews, rescinds: http://religionnews.com/2017/12/29/town-rescinds-parks-ban-alleged-to-target-orthodox-jews/

Michele Bachmann waiting for sign from God to run for Al Franken's senate seat:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/01/02/if-god-gives-her-a-sign-michele-bachmann-will-run-for-al-frankens-senate-seat/

Swedish Jesus comes out as nonbinary: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/church-of-sweden-gender-neutral-language-he-lord-god-evangelical-lutheran-church-a8073426.html

Atheist blogger in Bangladesh faces 14 years for hurting religion’s feelings: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/12/27/bangladeshi-atheist-blogger-faces-up-to-14-years-for-hurting-religious-feelings/

Steven Anderson blames jews for porn and human trafficking: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/12/29/christian-preacher-blames-jews-for-hollywood-adult-films-and-human-trafficking/