549: Dolphin Assisted Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Headlines:
The Op-Ed Noah was talking about in the diatribe (sorry, it’s behind a paywall) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/21/leaving-christianity-religion-church-community/
Kenya closes church over starvation massacre: https://religionnews.com/2023/08/21/kenya-closes-churches-over-starvation-massacre-that-has-killed-427/
Catholic Schools Sue Over Rules for Inclusion in Colorado's Universal Preschool Funding: http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2023/08/catholic-schools-sue-over-rules-for.html?lctg=195322114
Sweden raises terror threat due to Quran burnings: https://religionnews.com/2023/08/18/sweden-raises-its-terror-threat-level-to-high-for-fear-of-attacks-following-recent-quran-burnings/
Trump-Appointed Judge Cites Wildlife Cases As a Reason to Ban Abortion Pills:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/19/abortion-pill-ruling-environment-00111843
Judge pauses order to make Southwest’s lawyers attain bigotry classes: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-pauses-ruling-ordering-religious-liberty-training-southwest-lawyers-2023-08-17/
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This Week in Misogyny:
South Carolina Supreme Court uphold abortion ban they just struck down: https://apnews.com/article/south-carolina-abortion-ban-f4e0d8ef8187fdd1e8db54dd464011b9
Antiabortion groups spread disinformation about contraception: https://msmagazine.com/2023/08/17/anti-abortion-pro-life-over-the-counter-birth-control-women/
Catholic hospitals in Australia refuse contraceptive and reproductive care: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/22/do-australian-catholic-hospitals-perform-abortions-provide-contraception-reproductive-care
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this podcast contains such high-level profanity that there are probably cuss words |
| 0:04.8 | in it. |
| 0:05.8 | You don't even know, like a Biscumber. |
| 0:08.6 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by Hello Fresh and by the |
| 0:13.2 | new marker designed to clear your criminal history of the eyes of American voters in |
| 0:17.8 | diet out. |
| 0:19.0 | Just apply it to the headlines on newspapers or on your phone and the information won't |
| 0:22.8 | be there anymore in diet out. |
| 0:25.5 | The mother fucker thought we wouldn't notice when it took a sharpie to a weather forecast |
| 0:28.6 | I'm convinced this is a viable business model. |
| 0:31.8 | And now The Skating Atheist. |
| 0:34.7 | Hi, this is the skeptic Viking from Sweden. |
| 0:38.9 | While my country's far from perfect, our secular and publicly funded schools and universities |
| 0:44.3 | have ensured that I and all of my fellow Swedes know that we did in fact evolve from Phil |
| 0:50.7 | Monkman. |
| 1:13.7 | It's August 24th and it's Strange Music Day. |
| 1:19.1 | That's right, go off, you beautiful, tharmin-playing angels, go, I'm no illusions, I'm Eli Bosnick, |
| 1:27.9 | I'm Ethan Wright, and from Ezra Miller's New Jersey and our Ramish again away across |
| 1:32.9 | Georgia, this is The Skating Atheist. |
| 1:35.7 | On this week's episode, The Catholic Church sues for everybody to mean just Catholics. |
| 1:41.1 | A federal judge rules that a human fetus is an endangered species. |
| 1:45.7 | And Southwest Airlines is experiencing some delays. |
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