547: Bureau of Atheism Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Headlines:
Republicans outing in-danger atheists to score political points: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/desperate-to-show-democrats-are-promoting
Appeals court upholds ban on religious vaccine exemptions in CT: https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2023/08/07/734130.htm
Employes fired for objecting to mandatory prayer meetings win 50K in court
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/07/atheist-worker-prayer-discrimination-settlement/
Sound of Freedom funder Fabian Marta arrested for child kidnapping: https://www.newsweek.com/sound-freedom-funder-fabian-marta-arrest-child-kidnapping-1817498?amp=1
Judge orders lawyers to attend ADF “Religious Freedom” class: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/southwests-lawyers-must-take-adf-religion-classes-judge-say
"Wisdom University" has to stop claiming to offer degrees: http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2023/08/court-upholds-accreditation-requirement.html?lctg=195322114
Fox Op-Ed: “Maybe the aliens are Jesus!” https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/the-bibles-explainer-on-ufos
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, if you're offended by vulgar language, you might want to lay back on your fainting |
| 0:04.2 | couch in advance. |
| 0:05.9 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by Hello Fresh and by the |
| 0:11.0 | fact that the boosters are keeping my latest case of COVID relatively mild COVID boosters |
| 0:16.3 | helping to bring you dick-jug variety since 2021. |
| 0:20.9 | And now The Skating Atheist. |
| 0:46.3 | It's Thursday, it's August 10th. |
| 1:05.3 | And it's Durand-Durand Appreciation Day. |
| 1:08.8 | Oh, right. |
| 1:09.8 | Cannot promise I'll save a prayer, but I am hungry like the wolf. |
| 1:15.1 | I figured you, maybe I'm the only one who did the hair. |
| 1:17.9 | I'm no illusions. |
| 1:19.3 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:20.3 | I did the same thing. |
| 1:21.3 | I'm Heathen Wright. |
| 1:22.3 | And from Thomas Edison's New Jersey and Arbor Michigan and Waycross Georgia, this is |
| 1:27.4 | The Skating Atheist. |
| 1:28.4 | On this week's episode, Connecticut rules on plank freedoms. |
| 1:33.0 | An airline gets sentenced to Christianity. |
| 1:36.6 | That's weird. |
| 1:37.6 | And Don Ford will be here just in case the COVID gets me before we reach the outro. |
| 1:41.6 | But first, the diet try. |
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