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The Scathing Atheist

563: Welcome Matt Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Other, Comedy

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Britain considers separating church and state, we're excited to learn that gay people are heading to Heaven in a (quote) "coming revival", and Don Ford will be here because once he heard “coming revival”, we couldn’t keep him away.
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Guest Links:
Learn more about the New York Society for Ethical Culture here: 
https://ethical.nyc/about/
https://ethical.nyc/events/humanist-happy-hour-2023-03-24/2023-09-22/
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Headlines:
UK considered separating church and state: https://www.christianpost.com/news/parliament-to-consider-bill-severing-church-of-england-from-govt.html
WV prisoner given parole despite being atheist: https://www.atheists.org/2023/11/atheists-settle-west-virginia-religious-substance-use-treatment-prison/
Christian prophetess made up the wackiest theory about why some people are LGBTQ: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/11/christian-prophetess-made-up-the-wackiest-theory-about-why-some-people-are-lgbtq/
School is mad they’re banned for being transphobic: https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3239022609660-christian-high-school-sues-after-it-s-banned-from-all-athletic-tournaments-for-forfeiting-game-over-transgender-player
Priest apologizes for letting guy with long hair present at creationist seminar: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-college-president-sorry
Catholic hospital group removes crucifixes to stop them being used to attack staff: https://www.rawstory.com/hospital-sisters-health-system/
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This Week in Misogyny:
Florida church refused to rent space to women who conceived with IVF: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-florida-church-refused-to-rent
French police arrest Yoga leader for sexual exploitation: https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/29/french-police-arrest-yoga-guru
Dad proudly disowns trans daughter: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/this-anonymous-christian-dad-proudly

Transcript

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0:00.0

Warning, this episode might just cause a worldwide shortage in available profanity.

0:05.0

This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by Factor and by The New Genre of Christmas-themed

0:11.2

Toy Porn, Elf on herself.

0:14.0

Elf on herself.

0:15.0

Nope, already a thing.

0:17.0

Obviously, it would already be a thing, never mind.

0:19.0

And now, the scathing atheist.

0:22.0

I'm Merrill Fetterman, and I work on outreach for the New York Society for Ethical Culture,

0:27.0

a non-theistic, humanist community dedicated to ethical relationships, social justice, and democracy.

0:32.0

We hope to see you soon on the Upper

0:33.9

West Side or online. And while our Sunday platforms and fourth Friday happy hours are a

0:38.6

particularly good introduction to what we do, we also have a weekly say yes to science Zoom gathering, where we know that biology

0:45.8

does not work unless you accept that we did in fact evolve from filthy monkey people. It's Thursday.

1:03.2

November. It's Thursday.

1:13.6

November 30th and it's National Meth Awareness Day.

1:17.8

You got to burn off that turkey somehow.

1:20.4

No illusions.

1:21.6

I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Heath and Wright and from David

1:24.5

Copperfields, New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan and Waycross, Georgia. This is

1:28.6

the scathing atheist. On this week's episode, Britain considers going

1:32.9

sprawling between church and state.

1:35.9

We're excited to learn that gay people are heading to heaven

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