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The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Other, Comedy

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, a Texas judge protects the right to abort…AAAND it's gone, a Christian Right leader tells us which religion started all the wars on Christmas, and we’ll explore child labor as a last minute Christmas gift.
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Headlines:
Texas court allows first abortion since ban
(UPDATE: Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks pregnant woman from emergency abortion)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-08/texas-court-allows-first-abortion-since-ban/103204800
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/08/us/texas-abortion-ruling-attorney-general-petition/index.html
Street preacher sucks fun out of Christmas for kids: https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/grinch-street-preacher-delivers-upsetting-message-in-front-of-elementary-school/
Speaker Mike Johnson says God told him, in late-night hallucinations, that he was Moses: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/speaker-mike-johnson-says-god-told?r=2uh8q4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/12/mike-johnson-christian-nationalist-lawmakers-moses.html
Christian Right commentator (and founder of Gab) thinks he found the Jewish conspiracy in the War on Christmas: https://churchleaders.com/news/463883-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeers-plot-to-ruin-christmas-and-america-rns.html

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0:39.0	Ora Frames, and by the new inappropriate Christmas doll to scar your children with
0:44.7	Elf on himself. Elf on himself because if any tradition can go fuck itself and
0:50.7	now the scathing atheist.
0:54.0	Hi, this Bill B.
0:55.0	How did nobody make fun of South Jersey?
0:58.0	His Jersey Shore meets Duck Dynasty.
1:00.0	This Confederate flags and Let's Go Branded Signs Everywhere.
1:03.2	Kind of shows that we did in fact evolve from Bill Zee Monkey Men.
1:07.6	And it's porkroll.
1:09.6	What the heck is tailored hand B.S? It's Thursday.
1:24.0	Thursday. It's Thursday.
1:34.0	December 14th.
1:36.0	And it's National Screwdriver Day.
1:39.0	Yeah, because sometimes you need to start drinking at the very thought of Christmas.
1:43.2	I get.
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