535: Mormon Money Mormon Problems Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Headlines:
A Missouri agency tried to classify a fetus as an employee: https://www.kcur.org/health/2023-05-09/a-missouri-agency-tried-to-classify-a-fetus-as-an-employee-raising-concerns-about-personhood-laws
Florida teacher under investigation for showing a Disney film where a gay character...exists: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/florida-teacher-investigation-showing-disney-film-gay-character-rcna84446
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/15/desantis-defunds-dei-programs-florida-colleges/
The IRS just hiked taxes on private jet flights and pastors are not excluded: https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/05/11/irs-just-hiked-taxes-private-jet-flights-pastors-are-not-excluded/
Mormons are super sketch about their secret money on 60 Minutes: https://www.axios.com/2023/05/15/mormon-whistleblower-60-minutes-church-finances
Russia planning a village for conservative Americans who want to move to a 'Christian country':
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-is-floating-a-plan-to-build-a-village-for-conservative-americans-who-want-to-move-to-a-christian-country-and-are-tired-of-liberal-ideology-in-the-us/
The Pope’s Exorcist used video game symbol instead of the real one: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2023/05/russell-crowe-movie-mistakes-dragon-age-icon-for-spanish-inquisition-symbol/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, if you're offended by words and you want a podcast that's polite, keep listening |
| 0:05.6 | and let us know how it feels to want. |
| 0:09.7 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by My Sheets Rock and by |
| 0:15.0 | the Creepy Social Club for Paul Ryan and a bunch of other GOP Christian White guys, |
| 0:20.0 | Orion Brotherhood. |
| 0:21.8 | Orion Brotherhood. |
| 0:23.7 | Why do people keep vandalizing our sign? |
| 0:26.6 | And now The Skating Atheist. |
| 0:29.2 | This is the official press representative of Cara Santa Maria's new book, Sudo Science |
| 0:33.1 | and Therapy. |
| 0:34.1 | Here to say that the fact that every single review for her new book mentions that Cara |
| 0:38.0 | did 9-11 is fantastic evidence that we did in fact evolve from filthy, monkey men. |
| 0:59.2 | It's Thursday. |
| 1:06.8 | It's May 18th and it's I Love Reese's Day. |
| 1:11.1 | And more of a three musketeers guy. |
| 1:13.5 | Fuck you. |
| 1:15.3 | There it is. |
| 1:16.3 | I'm Eli Pogsberg. |
| 1:17.3 | I'm Ethan Wright. |
| 1:18.8 | And from Bruce Springsteen's New Jersey and Kid Rock's Michigan and this is The Skating |
| 1:24.8 | Atheist. |
| 1:25.8 | On this week's episode, The Disney Gay Agenda comes from Inside the Classroom. |
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