571: Nonbeliever Griever Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
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🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Headlines:
Pew report about nones: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2024/01/24/religious-nones-in-america-who-they-are-and-what-they-believe/
West Virginia Bill Would Mandate "Curing" Trans People Of Being Trans Under 21: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/west-virginia-bill-would-mandate
Republicans turn on Fox News as MyPillow owner Mike Lindell has commercials ‘cancelled’: https://www.indy100.com/politics/fox-news-mike-lindell-mypillow
https://ew.com/liberty-university-lil-nas-x-acceptance-letter-fake-j-christ-music-video-8426020
Michigan GOP lawmaker: My bill will revoke tax exemptions from "non-theistic churches": https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/michigan-gop-lawmaker-my-bill-will
Conservatives freak out about sexy calendar for conservatives: https://www.vox.com/politics/2024/1/10/24024341/calendargate-conservative-civil-war
Secret tunnels under NYC synagogue are stupid but not a globalist conspiracy: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/secret-chabad-tunnels-new-york-1234942995
And the tweet from "Richard Strocher" about hearing voices under his apartment is fake: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/richard-strocher-vindication-jewish-tunnels-post
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This Week in Misogyny:
Utah law risks genital exams for bathroom use: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/utah-bathroom-ban-goes-to-senate
Florida law may put sex-assigned-at-birth on driver’s license: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/01/23/florida-may-force-transgender-people-to-put-birth-sex-on-drivers-licenses/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, the following podcast contains intransitive verbs, which seems as relevant as |
| 0:04.8 | warning you that it has profanity. But what are you going to do? Anyway, we cuss on this show. |
| 0:09.9 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by Factor, Babbled, and by Weed. |
| 0:17.0 | Weed! |
| 0:18.0 | How the fuck else do you think I made it through David Ike's everything you need to know. |
| 0:23.0 | And now, the scathing atheist. |
| 0:25.6 | Hi, it's James from Australia. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm a union lawyer and proud atheist. |
| 0:30.0 | And if my experience negotiating with bosses has taught me anything, |
| 0:33.3 | it's that you should join your union, and that we did, in fact, evolve |
| 0:37.0 | from filthy monkey men. Oh, It's Thursday. January 25th. |
| 0:53.0 | And it's Thursday. |
| 1:01.0 | It's January 25th. it's National Opposite Day. |
| 1:05.0 | No, I'm no illusions. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Eli Bob's Mac. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm Ethan, right? I don't know what we're doing. |
| 1:11.0 | And from Janine Garofalos, New Jersey, |
| 1:14.2 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, and across Georgia, |
| 1:15.8 | this is the scathing atheist. |
| 1:18.2 | On this week's episode, you're not the boss of State Representative Josh Shriver. A very small tunnel in Brooklyn doesn't really help with the space lasers. |
| 1:27.0 | And Carrie Black will be here to talk about secular grief. |
| 1:30.0 | But first, the dye track. So I started getting emails and shit from people sharing stories that all basically had the same headlines, something along the lines of nuns are now the largest religious group in America. |
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