573: Swifty Boat Edition
The Scathing Atheist
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Headlines:
The headlines Noah mentioned in the diatribe: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/religious-people-coped-better-with-covid-19-pandemic-research-suggests and
https://religionnews.com/2024/02/02/study-spirituality-boosts-mental-health-during-isolation-and-despair/
Threat of Satanic school halts repeal of Idaho’s Blaine Amendment: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-proposed-satanic-school-helped
Conservatives lose their minds over Jesus as a scantily clad white twink on a poster:
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/02/conservatives-lose-their-minds-over-jesus-as-a-scantily-clad-white-twink-on-a-poster/
Abortion protestors convicted of doing what they were doing
The Catholic version:
Six Pro-Life Activists Convicted of Federal FACE Act Charges, Face Over a Decade in Prison| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com)
The DOJ version:
Office of Public Affairs | Six Defendants Convicted of Federal Civil Rights Conspiracy and Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act Offenses for Obstructing Access to Reproductive Health Services in Tennessee | United States Department of Justice
Arizona bill would ban Satanic displays on public property: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/arizona-bill-would-ban-satanic-displays
Mom banned from christian school parking lot because of onlyfans decal: https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/central-florida-mom-banned-from-dropping-off-kids-at-school-because-of-onlyfans-decal/
Christian Right conspiracy theories about Taylor Swift reach new heights ahead of Super Bowl:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/31/taylor-swift-conspiracy-theories-gop-00138817
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/taylor-swift-far-right-maga-relationship-timeline-1234957784/
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This Week in Misogyny:
Misogyny ensues on Orthodox radio show: https://religionnews.com/2024/02/05/orthodox-christian-radio-hosted-a-broadcast-on-deaconesses-then-misogyny-poured-in/
Glitter Unicorns: https://www.facebook.com/sowalball/posts/pfbid02x8Rbha6tXxJgzEQm3DBEYYEewMdNQyA3Eg9WV1eS7EfDeVH7c8msYRSyGwJ1BBFRl
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this shit's got fuck in it. |
| 0:03.0 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by Adam and Eve, |
| 0:07.0 | and by the new VR headset for Christians, The Chapel Vision Pro. |
| 0:11.0 | When you wear it, all the worldly evidence that your religion is wrong is |
| 0:14.6 | automatically scrubbed from view allowing you to move freely and confidently through the world without |
| 0:18.5 | losing your faith. Chapel Vision Pro. It's just a blindfold. |
| 0:24.0 | And now, the Skating Atheist. |
| 0:26.0 | Hey everybody, it's RJ. |
| 0:28.0 | You last heard from me when I was working full-time as a paramedic pre-Covid |
| 0:32.0 | and said that we evolved from filthy monkey people. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, I now work in business development and I can confirm that some of us at least |
| 0:41.0 | did in fact evolve from filthy monkey men. Oh. It's Thursday. |
| 1:05.0 | Thursday. |
| 1:07.0 | It's February 8th. |
| 1:09.0 | And it's Propose Day. |
| 1:11.0 | Okay, weird way to get out of Valentine's Day, but respect the game. Okay. |
| 1:15.0 | Sure, yeah. I'm no illusions. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm Heath Henwright and from Snookies, New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan and Waycross Georgia, this is the Skating atheist. |
| 1:25.4 | On this week's episode, reaping what you sew is anti-Catholic persecution. |
| 1:30.4 | Huh. |
| 1:31.4 | The NFL sets up a really dumb script with a small market team as the protagonist. |
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