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The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Comedy, Other, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Lindsey Graham fails his own pop quiz, we learn that health and happiness are antisemitic, and Don Ford will do enough voices for it to sound like we have a lot of friends.

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Headlines:

Lindsey Graham’s grilling of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s faith backfired: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/lindsey-grahams-grilling-of-ketanji-brown-jacksons-faith-backfired/

Orthodox Jewish groups rally against Daylight Saving legislation: https://onlysky.media/barryduke/jewish-leaders-vow-to-oppose-the-sunshine-protection-act-it-will-affect-our-religious-life/

https://religionnews.com/2022/03/24/jews-say-making-daylight-saving-time-permanent-threatens-morning-prayer/

Christians freaking out about potential hate crime convictions in Finland: https://onlysky.media/rsnedeker/faith-and-sexuality-collide-in-finland/ and the pamphlet at the heart of the trial: https://www.lhpk.fi/en/booklet-male-and-female-he-created-them-homosexual-relationships-challenge-the-christian-concept-of-humanity-paivi-rasanen/

Former MS lawmaker says supporters of trans rights should be executed: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/former-ms-lawmaker-says-supporters-of-trans-rights-should-be-executed/

Fox Nation host blames evolutionary theory on the Jews: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/conspiracist-lara-logan-darwins-theory-of-evolution-was-bankrolled-by-jews/

Jordan Peternson explains to Andy Ngo that Antifa kills people as revenge against God: https://boingboing.net/2022/03/29/jordan-peterson-explains-antifa-to-no-ones-satisfaction-least-of-all-his.html

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This Week in Misogyny:

AA releases report on secular women: https://www.secularsurvey.org/nonreligiouswomen

Antiabortion NC Lt. Gov. paid for an abortion in 1989: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/anti-abortion-nc-lt-gov-mark-robinson-paid-for-an-abortion-in-1989/

Hillsong board blames sexual harassment on founder’s meds: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/hillsong-church-our-founder-was-inappropriate-with-two-women/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Warning, the following word is fuck. See? I told you.
0:04.6	This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by Honey, Adam and Eve, and
0:08.9	by Puzzle and Othunder Storm brand Atheist Adulgances. With just one atheist indulgence, you get
0:14.8	to sin as much as you want without going to hell. No purchase necessary. And now The Skating
0:20.3	Atheist.
0:21.3	Hello, I am Quinn from the Discord and Ethan Storm, unofficial fan server. And if like
0:28.1	us, you do know that we did in fact evolve from filthy monkey men. Please join us.
0:34.7	It's March 31st and it's Terry's Day. Yeah, because Christians are literally only
1:02.6	pro-life when it means anti-choice. Right. I'm no illusions. I'm Eli Bosnick. He
1:08.8	thin right and from Snookies, New Jersey. And over Michigan and across Georgia, this is
1:13.6	The Skating Atheist. Oh, this week's episode, Lindsey Graham fails his own pop quiz. He
1:19.2	does. We learn that health and happiness are apparently anti-Semitic. And Don Ford will
1:24.8	do enough voices for it to sound like we have a bunch of friends. But first, the Diet
1:29.5	Tribe.
1:49.6	In a 1999 address at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington,
1:54.4	the American physicist and Nobel laureate Stephen Weinberg famously said, quote, religion
2:00.6	is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you would have good people doing good things
2:05.0	and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
2:10.7	End quote.
2:11.7	Now that's one of those quotes that atheists tend to love when they're new to atheism and
2:16.6	tend to kind of hate once they've been here for a while. I hate problematic, of course,
2:21.7	because it's so effortlessly refutable. It simply isn't true. Right? Religion is just
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