548: Synthetic Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Guest Links:
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Headlines:
Christianity Today editor to NPR: “MAGA Christians reject Jesus’s teachings as ‘too liberal’”: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192663920/southern-baptist-convention-donald-trump-christianity
People are mad that you can text with chatgpt jesus
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/08/12/text-with-jesus-chatgpt-ai/
Massachusetts couple denied foster care application over homophobic views is suing the state over it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/massachusetts-couple-denied-foster-care-application-lgbtq-views-compla-rcna99339
Ohio finally gets around to revoking Sherri Tenpenny’s medical license: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-ohio-state-medical-board-has-finally-suspended-the-medical-license-of-antivax-quack-sherri-tenpenny/
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This Week in Misogyny:
Feminists in Israel raise alarms: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/12/world/middleeast/israel-women-rights.html
Fake video used to drum up sexism and anti-Muslim animus in India: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66432198
Texas argues fetus isn’t person when it suits them financially: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-argues-fetus-doesn-t-right-life-new-18292079.php
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this episode contains the F word by which I mean fuck. |
| 0:04.4 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by My Sheets Rock |
| 0:08.6 | and by their lesser known sister company My Sheets Roll. |
| 0:12.4 | My Sheets Roll, because it feels like Roll got fucked out of its own musical genre at some point, doesn't it? |
| 0:18.0 | And now, The Skating Atheist. |
| 0:20.8 | Hello everyone and welcome to The Skating Atheist. |
| 0:24.2 | This is Morgan. No, not that Morgan. |
| 0:27.0 | From the YouTube channel Humanist React. |
| 0:29.2 | And as someone who keeps being told that I'm just not open-minded enough to get all the subtle intellectual social commentary |
| 0:35.0 | in Tom McDonald's songs, I can assure you that we are in fact still evolving from filthy monkey creatures. |
| 0:57.8 | It's Thursday. |
| 1:01.8 | It's August 7th. |
| 1:03.8 | And it's Baby Boomer Appreciation Day. Love you Noah. |
| 1:07.8 | I'm on the young side of Gen X. Damn it, I have no illusions. |
| 1:12.8 | I'm Elder Millennial Eli Posnik. |
| 1:14.8 | And from the State The Game Us Bubble Wrap and the State The Game Us Rico charges, this is The Skating Atheist. |
| 1:22.8 | Oh, this week's episode, Christianity Today, finally separates itself from that Christfella. |
| 1:27.8 | We'll chat with Artificial Jesus. |
| 1:30.8 | And Lucinda will be here to help us finish off David Eich. |
| 1:33.8 | I don't like it when you say it that way, but first, the Diatry. |
| 1:37.8 | A hundred and six dead and counting over twenty two hundred structures destroyed at least two hundred and twenty two families displaced over five billion dollars in damage. |
| 1:58.8 | But don't worry, a church is fine. So God's doing his part. |
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