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The Scathing Atheist

472: Texas-stential Threat Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Other

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Greg Abbott declares war on trans kids and their parents, Ben Carson considers using our strategic grain reserves in the Washington Monument, and Don Ford will be here because the voice of Reality and Inaction wasn’t available.
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Headlines:
Supreme Court to hear hate group lawsuit that could overturn LGBTQ protections
Ben Carson says accepting church/state separation is a form of schizophrenia: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/dr-ben-carson-accepting-church-state-separation-is-a-form-of-schizophrenia/
Conservatives freak out because teachers won’t be able to look up students’ sexes anymore

Transcript

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0:00.0

Warning, the following podcast contains words that would make Winnie the Pooh think.

0:04.7

This week's episode of the Skating Atheist is brought to you by 3.5 billion years of evolution.

0:10.7

It was all leading to this, folks, if that doesn't convince you there was no divine intent,

0:14.3

I don't know what you're waiting for.

0:16.1

And now, the Skating Atheist.

0:18.9

Hello, this is Richard, one of the hosts of the Atheism UK Podcasts.

0:24.2

You know, I recently went back to university trying to improve myself and improve my knowledge,

0:29.9

and I ended up in one of the science reading rooms at the British Library.

0:34.6

And as I was walking down the corridor, I saw shelves and shelves of books, and of journal articles,

0:41.2

and of experimental reports, all of which provide incontrovertible evidence that we did

0:47.0

indeed evolve from filthy monkey men.

1:13.4

There's the Skating Atheist.

1:32.4

Well, this week's episode, Greg Abbott declares war on trans kids and their parents, Ben Carson considers using our strategic grain reserves in the Washington mind.

1:42.4

And Don Ford will be here because the voice of reality and inaction wasn't available.

1:46.8

But first, the Dietrat.

2:05.3

Don't get me wrong, I am excited as hell about Katachi Brown Jackson ascending to the Supreme Court.

2:10.2

She'll be just the sixth woman to sit on the nation's highest court, and only the third African American,

2:14.8

she'll bring the gender balance one justice away from reflecting the actual percentages of the population more or less.

2:21.3

She's apparently fantastically intelligent and pragmatic and qualified.

2:25.3

And it'll mark the first time I think in my entire fucking life, where a Supreme Court justice is going to be replaced by someone to their left politically.

2:34.6

It's an event so deserving of celebration that I feel like an asshole nitpicking the ceremonial end of it.

2:40.0

I should just be overjoyed at all the historic firsts that I get to witness here, but when Biden formally nominated her on Friday,

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