531: Higher Power Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Headlines:
SCOTUS set to create even more bonus rights for Christians: https://friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/the-supreme-court-could-let-religious
TN passes bill that allows students to report professors who teach 'divisive concepts':
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/education/new-bill-would-strengthen-rules-over-what-can-be-taught-in-classrooms/51-ddd267e4-3d98-4de0-bb2e-3284740b4cb7
Arizona court upholds clergy privilege in child abuse case: https://journalrecord.com/2023/04/12/arizona-court-upholds-clergy-privilege-in-child-abuse-case/
150-Year-Old Comstock Act Could Ban Abortion Nationwide: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/abortion-pill-ban-comstock-act-history-mifepristone-kacsmaryk.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/15/matthew-kacsmaryk-law-review/
CA Judge fines COVID-restriction defying church over a million bucks: https://friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/judge-orders-ca-church-that-ignored
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, the following podcast contains all the offensive words that aren't actually offensive. |
| 0:05.0 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by |
| 0:08.0 | My Sheets Rock, Adam and Eve, Zippercritter, and by |
| 0:13.0 | The fact that we recorded it day early, because it's 420. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm gonna be fucking useless today. |
| 0:18.0 | And now The Skating Atheist. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello, my name is Mary Grace, and I became an evolutionary biologist in the deep salp |
| 0:26.0 | solely so I could assure you that we did in fact evolve from Filthy Monkey Men. |
| 0:49.0 | I... |
| 0:50.0 | It's Thursday. |
| 0:53.0 | It's April 20th, and it's National Asking Atheist Day. |
| 0:58.0 | Right, but this is the podcast where the answer can be, go fuck yourself. |
| 1:02.0 | Right, everyone. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm No Illusions. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Heath N. Wright, and from Anthony Comstock's New Jersey, |
| 1:09.0 | Ann Arbor Michigan, and Waycross Georgia, this is The Skating Atheist. |
| 1:13.0 | On this week's episode, Tennessee silences teachers in the name of Unity. |
| 1:19.0 | Mithapristan might become illegal nationwide thanks to one simple trick from 1873. |
| 1:25.0 | And David Ikel tells us how racist he isn't. |
| 1:28.0 | Racist rape. |
| 1:29.0 | At first, the die try. |
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