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The Scathing Atheist

325: Founding Myth Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Other

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Ken Ham will argue the age of the earth with somebody old enough to remember it’s formation, Donald Trump doesn't think Barack Obama is the only president who deserves reparations, and Andrew Seidel will join us from the Castle Black of the wall of separation.


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Guest Links:

Preorder (or order, depending on when you read this) Andrew L. Seidel’s “The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American” here: https://www.amazon.com/Founding-Myth-Christian-Nationalism-American/dp/1454933275/

See Andrew’s talk, “Sweat the Small Stuff” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbq05fhOFs

Listen to Jordan Norman and the Wisdom Teeth on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ZfuYxuFCAjRCt6D0Q2VlA


Headlines:

Trump retweets Jerry Falwell's suggestion that his terms should be extended by 2 years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/06/claiming-two-years-his-presidency-were-stolen-trump-suggests-hes-owed-overtime/?utm_term=.21de672b1546 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-retweets-jerry-falwell-suggesting-his-term-should-be-extended-by-two-years/ar-AAAWeOY?ocid=sf

Amish Wolverine v. P-Robes: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/05/06/ken-ham-is-desperately-trying-to-get-pat-robertson-to-visit-ark-encounter/

Kids in Philly Islamic center video say "We will chop off their heads" for Allah: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/05/06/kids-in-philly-islamic-center-video-say-we-will-chop-off-their-heads-for-allah/

The Satanic Temple is now officially an IRS-approved tax-exempt church: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/04/25/the-satanic-temple-is-now-officially-an-irs-approved-tax-exempt-church/

50% of American think Christians face discrimination: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/04/30/a-very-deluded-50-of-americans-think-evangelical-christians-face-discrimination/


This Week in Misogyny:

Brian Kemp signs “heartbeat” abortion bill: https://www.apnews.com/cab6dcbdb37341f39fb50f806aca0182

Kansas Supreme Court rules state constitution protects abortion: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/26/717449336/kansas-supreme-court-rules-state-constitution-protects-right-to-abortion

Transcript

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Warning, the following podcast contains those words that stupid people get more offended about than actual harmful stuff.

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This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by

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stamps.com, zip recruiter, wicks.com, and by $80 billion.

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The amount of revenue we give away every year in religious tax exemptions, $80 billion.

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They owe us that money.

0:29.0

Reparation of church and state.

0:32.0

And now The Skating Atheist.

0:34.0

Hey, this is Jordan Norman from everyone's favorite band, Jordan Norman and the Wisdom Teeth.

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My day job, however, is as a playground installer, and as a man who builds both monkey bars and jungle gyms,

0:45.0

I can confirm that we do in fact evolve from filthy monkey people.

0:59.0

I

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It's Thursday.

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It's May 9th.

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And it's Lost Sock Memorial Day.

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See, Dead Vaterants, you and smelly foot tubes that have been neglected.

1:23.0

You both get the same amount of day.

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I'm no illusions.

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He's been right.

1:29.0

And from the Equatorian Embassy in London.

1:34.0

Since the Aitwing State.

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And good husband George of this is The Skating Atheist.

1:40.0

On this week's episode, Ken Hamill argued the age of the earth was so many old enough to remember its formation.

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