289: Educated Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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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. --- Come see us live in London! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/god-awful-movies-live-in-london-tickets-47591873575 --- 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 hear Noah on the Phil Ferguson show, click here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/8084919/274-MUWAJb --- 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 http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/16/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 http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/27/preacher-blames-everyone-and-everything-except-guns-for-jacksonville-shooting/ 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/ http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/27/donald-trump-is-throwing-a-dinner-party-for-evangelical-christians-tonight/ 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/

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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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