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The Scathing Atheist

492: Dear Old Dads Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Comedy, Other, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this week’s episode, we find watchmen that give Alan Moore the creeps, GOP lawmakers mansplain the myth of the clitoris during a congressional hearing, and Thomas Smith and Tom Curry will teach me how to properly roll an extension cord.
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Headlines:
New bill would crack down on Christian “health care sharing” ministries: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/new-bill-cracks-down-on-scammy-christian-health-care-sharing-ministries/
Here’s a list of all the nonreligious candidates running for office in 2022: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/nonreligious-candidates-2022/
The ‘Watchman Decree’ is a scary vision of Christian nationalism in action: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/the-watchman-decree-is-a-scary-vision-of-christian-nationalism-in-action/
Canadian Court clears the sale of 43 Catholic properties to pay sex abuse compensation: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/court-oks-sale-of-43-catholic-church-properties-to-settle-sex-abuse-claims/
GOP Congressman Jody Hice asks if women can give birth to turtles or a breakfast taco:
In the same hearing, GOP Congressman Andrew Clyde mansplains what a woman is:
And GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz doesn't understand what 'bisexual' means: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/07/republican-matt-gaetz-accuses-bisexual-woman-redefining-bisexuality/
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Warning, the rate of profanity rises with the temperature.

0:04.5

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

0:08.4

Hello, Fresh, My Sheets Rock, and by the new brand of frozen suppositories for those

0:14.1

hot summer days, Acycles.

0:16.6

Acycles, if you're not ready yet, just give climate change another couple years.

0:21.5

And now, The Skating Atheist.

0:23.5

Hello, I am Lisa M. Lilly, novelist and host of The Buffy and the Art of Story podcast.

0:29.9

And I'm here to tell you that we did, in fact, evolve from filthy monkey men and cave

0:36.5

slayers.

0:37.7

And don't make cave slayer angry.

1:01.2

There's the S July 21st, and it's National B someday.

1:15.3

Well, Bosnix, New Jersey and our Michigan and Wakecross, Georgia.

1:45.3

You know, it scares the shit out of me, dying.

1:51.4

Now, you would think that that'd be one of those things that kind of goes without saying,

1:56.6

dying scares everybody, even the people who purportedly believe that they're going to go to paradise

2:00.6

afterwards.

2:01.6

But if you follow as many atheists online as I do, you could be forgiven for thinking

2:05.4

that fearlessness in the face of death was an outright prerequisite for atheism.

2:11.4

I see this shit all the time.

2:12.7

People ask in all sincerity, how atheists cope with death only to be met by a profoundly

2:16.8

cavalier dismissal.

2:18.9

The one I most often see as attributed to Mark Twain, right, where he supposedly said,

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