414: Exhalation Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode: We’ll be able to feel sorry for other countries again, James Dobson checks under our bed for antifas, and Michael Marshall will be here to help reveal the next book on our reading list.

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Headlines:

Video of ecstatic spontaneous prayer serves as potent reminder that Capitol riot was act of radical Christian terrorism: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/01/17/theres-video-of-christian-terrorists-praying-to-god-inside-the-u-s-capitol/ and https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/01/16/michael-brown-just-because-christians-rioted-doesnt-make-it-a-christian-riot/ and https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/how-white-evangelical-christians-fused-with-trump-extremism.html

The COVID Vaccine Will Make You Gay, Claims Conspiracy-Loving Orthodox Rabbi

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/01/17/the-covid-vaccine-will-make-you-gay-claims-conspiracy-loving-orthodox-rabbi/

Polish woman on trial for depicting Virgin Mary with rainbow halo: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/01/16/polish-women-begin-trial-for-depicting-the-virgin-mary-with-a-rainbow-halo/

Tony Perkins: Trump Could Prove Election Fraud in the Senate Impeachment Trial

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/01/14/tony-perkins-trump-could-prove-election-fraud-in-the-senate-impeachment-trial/

James Dobson Has Another Deranged Set of Predictions for a Democratic President

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/01/18/james-dobson-has-another-deranged-set-of-predictions-for-a-democratic-president/

My Pillow booted from Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl’s, Wayfair, others: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/19/my-pillow-ceo-lindell/

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This Week in Misogyny:

Catholics lose shit over Pope saying woman can serve in Mass: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/01/19/traditional-catholics-lose-it-after-pope-francis-says-women-can-serve-in-mass/

Argentina passes bill to legalize abortion: https://religionnews.com/2020/12/30/bill-legalizing-abortion-passed-in-popes-native-argentina/

Pakistani Court Bans Use of “Virginity Tests” in Cases Involving Sexual Violence

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/01/07/pakistani-court-bans-use-of-virginity-tests-in-cases-involving-sexual-violence/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Warning, the following podcast contains adult language, but don't worry, it's mostly happy
0:04.6	fucks this week.
0:06.1	This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by stamps.com, Zippercrooter,
0:12.2	and by Exhalation.
0:14.8	Exhalation, it's about goddamn time.
0:19.6	And now The Skating Atheist.
0:22.3	Alexa, where do we come from?
0:25.3	We created Man in his home in the summer of 16th.
0:32.3	Alexa, set language to British English.
0:34.0	Language set to British English.
0:36.5	Alexa, where do we come from?
0:39.0	I assure you that we did in fact evolve from filthy monkey men.
0:43.4	It's better.
1:02.1	I am not smarter than the President.
1:19.8	This is The Skating Atheist.
1:49.8	I'm tempted to start the first post-Trump diatribe with the words, we made it.
1:55.2	But then I'm reminded of how many of us didn't make it and it just seems braggie.
2:01.0	But don't get me wrong, by all means, raise your glasses, pop your corks, light your splice,
2:04.3	whatever it is you do to celebrate, you've earned it, the entire world is better off
2:08.0	today than it was on Tuesday.
2:10.4	It calls for the kind of celebration you'd normally reserve for an armistice.
2:14.2	But when we sober up from all our reverie, our well-earned reverie, let's not make the
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