273: Cultural A-Pope-Riation Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

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🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this week’s episode, Iowa redefines abortion to mean felching, Sarah Palin gets appointed to be National Secretary of All the Newspapers--wait, no, it's even dumber than that, and Bryce Blankenagel will be here and probably regret it. --- To see Citation Needed live in Chicago, clicker here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/citation-needed-live-in-chicago-tickets-45942658729 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 check out the Sunday Stoic podcast, click here: https://sundaystoic.wordpress.com/ To hear more from Bryce, click here: http://www.nakedmormonismpodcast.com/index.html --- Headlines: Iowa Heartbeat Bill: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/05/608738116/iowa-bans-most-abortions-as-governor-signs-heartbeat-bill https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/iowa-s-new-six-week-heartbeat-abortion-bill-blatant-attempt-ncna871561 Trump signs EO creating even more dangerous version of White House religious advisor panel: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/05/03/trumps-new-faith-based-office-is-another-chance-to-reward-the-religious-right/ Study finds link between religious fundamentalism and falling for fake news: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/05/04/researchers-find-link-between-religious-fundamentalism-and-falling-for-fake-news/ Woman Accused of Trying to Steal Babies Says She Was Just Giving Them Bibles http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/04/26/woman-accused-of-trying-to-steal-babies-says-she-was-just-giving-them-bibles/ Mass grave of kids found in Peru where they were sacrificed to make God stop all the raining: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/04/30/thanks-to-el-nino-it-rained-so-much-140-children-were-massacred-to-make-it-stop/ Anti-LGBTQ march gets sad little turnout of assholes: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/05/05/tens-of-people-show-up-at-christian-groups-anti-lgbtq-freedom-march/ Atheists are all coke-drinking video game addicts: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/05/07/this-angry-young-preacher-says-atheists-are-all-coke-drinking-video-game-addicts/ and the scientists are hiding the truth about the sun and the moon: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/05/08/angry-young-preacher-scientists-are-hiding-the-truth-about-the-sun-and-moon/ Liberty Counsel Lawyer says Satan is behind sex ed programs in public schools: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/04/20/liberty-counsel-lawyer-satan-is-behind-public-school-sex-ed-programs/ Trump appointing Dr. Oz to council on health and nutrition: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/05/04/trump-is-appointing-tv-quack-dr-oz-to-a-health-post-in-his-administration/ Edna skit story: https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/met-gala-catholic-cultural-appropriation-celebrity-12897708.php

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0:00.0	Warning! Lucinda's out of town this week, so no is even more profane than usual.
0:05.3	This week's episode of the Skating Atheist is brought to you by Prepal, the new online
0:10.2	money transfer service for people who just kinda hope the money gets there. It's like
0:15.3	Venmo, but it works almost as often.
0:19.1	And now Skating Atheist.
0:21.1	Hi, I'm Steve Carefit with the Sunday Stoic podcast, and though Marcus Aurelius didn't
0:26.2	know it, we did indeed evolve from filthy monkey men.
0:30.4	It's Thursday, it's May 10th, and the Met Gala has a lot of cultural appropriation to
0:57.0	answer for.
1:04.0	From New York, Secret Layer, Pennsylvania, this Skating Atheist.
1:09.2	On this week's episode, Iowa redefines abortion to mean felching, boom, Sarah Palin.
1:15.5	It's appointed to be National Secretary of all the newspapers, wait no it's even dumber
1:20.4	than that.
1:21.4	And Bryce Plankinig will be here and probably regret it.
1:25.1	The first, the diatribe.
1:32.1	I mean I'm not saying you aren't assholes, a lot of yard.
1:50.1	But that's not the reason people are leaving your religion.
1:57.1	They're leaving your religion because it's demonstrably incorrect on every factual assertion
2:02.8	and fails under even the most modest application of logical scrutiny.
2:07.0	There, I just saved you a dozen think pieces a day or so.
2:10.9	Now instead of spending the rest of your lives tinkering with messaging and biblical
2:14.8	pluralization, you can focus on the more important shit like finding something important
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