289: Educated Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Adam Fannin blames not equal to x in the sum set for mass shootings, the Pope goes on tour with his lip sync rendition of "Oops!...I Did It Again", and Elmo will show us his dark side.
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Headlines:
Pope Francis says he feels shame over priest abuse, but that’s obviously not enough: http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/26/pope-francis-says-he-feels-shame-over-priest-abuse-but-thats-not-enough/
He also says that your gay kids need a shrink: http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/27/pope-francis-if-your-kids-are-gay-they-might-need-to-see-a-psychiatrist/
Mexican Cardinal says pedophile priests’ victims should think about their own flaws: http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/23/mexican-cardinal-pedophile-priests-victims-should-think-about-their-own-flaws/
Pope’s feeble crowd in Ireland: http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/26/pope-francis-couldnt-even-give-away-free-tickets-to-the-papal-mass-in-ireland/ (also) http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/24/irish-hospital-staff-furious-that-temp-ids-during-popes-visit-include-cross/
Argentinian church pretty sure retired footballer is god: http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/10/church-in-argentina-worships-pro-soccer-player-as-a-god/
Christian Baker: Making a Birthday Cake for a Trans Woman Violates My Faith
Lawsuit seeks government funding for religious schools in Maine: http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/24/lawsuit-demands-that-maine-taxpayers-fund-tuition-for-private-christian-schools/
Adam Fannin blames literally everything except guns for mass shootings
Trump forced to leave off half of John Adams quote during theocracy dinner: http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/28/during-evangelical-dinner-trump-left-crucial-part-out-of-john-adams-prayer/
Muslim leaders in Indonesia issued a fatwa against the measles vaccine: http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/23/muslim-leaders-in-indonesia-just-issued-a-fatwa-against-the-measles-vaccine/
21-Year-Old Mormon Woman Dumps Fiancé After Realizing He Watches Porn http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/22/21-year-old-mormon-woman-dumps-fiance-after-realizing-he-watches-porn/#wBCOtVHjHdi7KEeQ
This Week in Misogyny:
Christian blogger: Feminism almost ruined my marriage: http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/23/feminism-nearly-ruined-my-marriage-says-christian-who-doesnt-get-feminism/
Woman finds anti-abortion pamphlet in diaper box: http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/10/a-woman-found-an-anti-abortion-groups-graphic-pamphlet-inside-a-box-of-diapers/
School paper tries to censor article about institutional sexism: http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/25/a-catholic-school-censored-a-piece-in-the-student-newspaper-the-plan-backfired/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, I was all last week, so I've been storing up a lot of profanity. |
| 0:04.0 | This week's episode of the Skating Atheist is brought to you by Zippercrooter, |
| 0:08.9 | Dollar Shave Club, and by the Hail Mary, the purse so shitty that it's literally synonymous with |
| 0:15.5 | desperate last-ditch effort with little to no chance of success. The Hail Mary, |
| 0:20.1 | from the world leaders in bad behavior discouragement that brought you unpunished |
| 0:23.4 | octanegarian pedophiles by the hundreds. And now the Skating Atheist. |
| 0:29.1 | This is Jeanne Invermont, and we did in fact evolve from filthy monkey men. So, |
| 0:34.6 | practice, practice, practice. Say for sex, because face it, not all of us want to breed or should. |
| 0:53.4 | It's Thursday. It's August 30th. And it's the day of my closing. Spare some change, |
| 1:09.6 | didn't we go any? I have no illusions. I'm Eli Bosnick. He's Thundraid, |
| 1:15.5 | and from New York, New York, Cincinnati, Swing State, and Good Husband, Georgia, |
| 1:19.7 | this Skating Atheist. On this week's episode, Adam Fannenblames not equal to |
| 1:25.1 | X in the sum set for mass shootings, the Pope goes on tour with his lip-sync |
| 1:29.1 | rendition of Oops I Did It Again, and Elmo will show us his dark side. But first, the Diatrye. |
| 1:50.7 | So, I'm scrolling through the newsfeed on my phone the other day, and I see something |
| 1:53.5 | about Barack Obama's summer reading list. And I don't know, maybe I'm just feeling nostalgic about |
| 1:58.4 | a president who could read. So, I click on it and I take a look at his recommendations, |
| 2:01.7 | and one of them caught my eye more than the others. Now, I'm not normally a big fan of memoirs, |
| 2:07.1 | but one of the books on the list is A New York Times Best Seller called Educated by Terror West |
| 2:11.1 | Over, and it's a memoir by a PhD historian who studied at Cambridge, despite being |
| 2:15.7 | homeschooled by wacky apocalyptic conspiracy, not anti-medicine Mormon fundamentalist preppers. |
| 2:21.2 | She had never set foot in a classroom until she started her undergraduate work at BYU, |
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