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The Scathing Atheist

264: Strobel Warming Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Kentucky vies for that “Toddlers and Tiaras”, “Say Yes to the Dress” crossover we’ve all been waiting for, Roy Moore tries to crowdsource money to silence a victim at GoFundMeToo, and we learn that the Vatican has more gay dudes than Eli’s browser history. --- To make a per episode donation at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist To buy our book, click there: http://www.amazon.com/Diatribes-Godless-Misanthrope-Scathing-Presents-ebook/dp/B00J53FZFI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396141562&sr=8-1 To check out our sister show, The Skepticrat, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-skepticrat To check out our sister show’s hot friend, God Awful Movies, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/god-awful-movies To check out out half-sister show, Citation Needed, click here: http://citationpod.com/ --- Guest Links: To sign the petition to not give Billy Graham a holiday, click here: https://www.change.org/p/donald-trump-billy-graham-counter-petition-no-holiday?recruiter=400389616&utm For more about the American Atheist convention in Oklahoma City, click here: https://www.atheists.org/convention2018/ --- Headlines: Thousands sign Petition for Billy Graham holiday: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article203498759.html Kentucky bill to outlaw child marriage gets stalled by Christian Right group: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/03/03/ky-bill-to-outlaw-child-marriage-stalled-after-conservative-groups-opposition/ Roy Moore begs for money to pay for his legal defense in child molestation case: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/03/03/roy-moore-says-hes-broke-pleads-for-money-to-fight-lawsuit-from-alleged-victim/ Male escort exposes 35 priests: http://www.newsweek.com/male-escort-exposes-36-gay-priests-file-sent-vatican-containing-explicit-829968 Kansas passes anti-trans resolution that was "motivated by love": http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/03/05/kansas-republicans-pass-anti-transgender-resolution-motivated-by-love/ Vatican blames rise of exorcism requests on fortune tellers: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/02/26/vatican-blames-fortune-tellers-for-300-increase-in-exorcism-demands-in-italy/ US Congressman says gun-owning Jewish people would've stopped the Holocaust: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/03/04/gop-congressman-jews-couldve-survived-the-holocaust-if-they-had-guns/ --- This Week in Misogyny: Vatican magazine admits they treat nuns like crap http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/03/04/vatican-magazine-exposes-economic-and-social-inequality-facing-nuns/ Mississippi senate passes 15 week abortion ban: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mississippi-senate-passes-15-week-abortion-ban-designed-to-launch-roe-challenge/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Warning, the following podcast contains fuck.

0:27.0

As a professor of science, I assure you that we did, in fact, evolve from filthy monkey

0:32.6

men.

1:26.8

Well, I guess it was inevitable that the Me Too movement would reach the atheist

1:51.4

world too.

1:53.3

Because I'm sure you've heard by now Buzzfeed published a lengthy exposé and Lawrence

1:57.2

Krause, the details of number of serious sexual harassment and misconduct allegations against

2:02.3

them.

2:03.3

And yes, they're only allegations and yes, he denies them, but they're damn credible

2:07.4

allegations from a damn credible reporter.

2:10.0

They're multiple women who don't know each other, describe in similar behavior over

2:13.5

a long period of time on multiple continents.

2:17.2

Two institutions restricting his access to their facilities and response to the complaints,

2:21.2

witnesses who the victims told contemporaneously confirmed harassment complaints from at least

2:25.2

one former student, like basically, we're assigned yearbook away from Roy Moore levels

2:29.5

of evidence.

2:30.5

Except with Krause, it was adults still, I'm better than Roy Moore as a long fucking

2:34.8

ways from ex-Sculpt.

2:35.8

So what does this mean for the atheist movement?

2:39.2

Well, it means we should assess this evidence with the same critical eye that we pride ourselves

2:43.9

on when we're looking at any other set of evidence.

2:46.3

We should see it's a goddamn mountain of fucking evidence and we should condemn both the behavior

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