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The Scathing Atheist

474: Dowse of Ill Repute Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Other

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Idaho Republicans search desperately for the gay porn in their local library, the Streisand effect leads a bunch of Idaho students to find plenty of delightful gay porn, and Bullshit will finally take offense at the comparison.
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Headlines:
Ad campaign to spend $100 million to remind people Jesus is a thing: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/the-100m-he-gets-us-ad-campaign-for-jesus-ignores-an-obvious-problem/
Anti-abortion Idaho lawmakers accused a Satanist of supporting human sacrifice: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/anti-abortion-lawmakers-in-idaho-accused-a-satanist-of-supporting-murder/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Warning, this episode contains words that spell check often corrects to duck.

0:04.2

This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by Stamps.com, All Birds, and by GodawfulMoviesLiveInTronome7.

0:12.8

GodawfulMoviesLiveInTronome7, because we missed you just as much as you missed us.

0:18.0

And now The Skating Atheist.

0:20.8

Hi, this is Tim Russ. According to Logic, we did evolve from filthy monkey men.

0:44.8

It's March 17th.

0:51.8

And it's Porom! Drunken Jewish Halloween? Yes, please.

0:56.8

No illusions. I'll be a lil' Bosnick. I'm Heathen Wright. And from Martha Stewart's

1:01.4

New Jersey. And Arbor Michigan and Waycross, Georgia. This is The Skating Atheist.

1:06.5

On this week's episode, Idaho Republicans searched desperately for the gay porn in their

1:10.7

local library. The Strison Effect leads a whole bunch of Idaho students to find plenty

1:16.2

of delightful gay porn. And bullshit will finally take offense at the comparison.

1:21.8

But first, the Dietride.

1:25.8

It's hard to find the silver lining around the dark black cloud rising out of the dumpster

1:38.9

fire of current events. But it has been nice to see the larger culture slowly wake up

1:43.1

to the stupidity of assuming the middle ground has some merit simply from being in the middle.

1:48.0

It's a problem we've been talking about for quite a while in the Atheist and Skeptical

1:50.8

movements. The reason many of us myself included stalled out in agnostic territory on the

1:56.4

way here. And it's the reason the mainstream media platformed medical misinformation and

2:00.4

conspiracy theorists for so long. So from our vantage point, the problem has been obvious

2:04.4

for decades. But the broader culture needed a pandemic to see the problem with anti-vaxxers

2:09.5

and they needed a lyreous blatant as Donald Trump to see why the truth isn't always

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