625: Bursting at the Seams Edition

In this week’s extended-edition episode, we’ll search Amazon for theocracy stopping backpacks, JD Vance goes to Germany and says what he will about the tenets of national socialism, and we’ll watch a Christian grift video that Oral Roberts would say is a little much.
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Headlines:
Trio of terrifying stories about religion in schools: friendlyatheist.com/p/alabama-schools-could-lo… and friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahoma-lawmaker-i-dont… and friendlyatheist.com/p/north-dakota-republicans…
Christian post loses their minds over “Trans Sanctuary City” Meeting: christianpost.com/news/lesbian-pastor-blasphem…
Ted Cruz's list of "woke" science includes self-driving cars and solar eclipses: npr.org/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5295043/sen-ted-cruzs…
National Science Foundation has to deal with giant list of absurd "banned words":
washingtonpost.com/science/2025/02/04/national…
Australia refuses to fix the religion question on their census: friendlyatheist.com/p/australia-will-keep-scre…
Ken Ham give us his tips for Valentine's Day: answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2025/02/14/…
JD Vance rebukes anti-free speech, anti-Christian discrimination in Munich speech:
christianpost.com/news/jd-vance-rebukes-anti-f…
Trump Officials Attack a German Consensus on Nazis and Speech: nytimes.com/2025/02/15/world/europe/vance-musk…
The video from this week’s Mini:
youtu.be/zfWJifqSM6E?si=iwe42fbDktc5ZTbf