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The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
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🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Headlines:
Extreme heat turns Hajj into death march: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/world/middleeast/hajj-pilgrim-deaths-saudi-arabia.html
Breaking: UK Government plans for 100% religious discrimination in all state-funded faith schools
https://humanists.uk/2024/05/01/breaking-uk-government-plans-for-100-religious-discrimination-in-new-state-funded-faith-schools/
Louisiana sued over new law forcing Ten Commandments display in classrooms: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/louisiana-sued-over-new-law-forcing
Louisiana’s Ten Commandments Law Signals a Broader Christian Agenda: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/us/louisiana-ten-commandments-landry.html
Malicious compliance GoFundMe for Chaz Stevens: https://www.gofundme.com/f/messin-w-louisianas-10-commandments
Oklahoma Supreme Court blocks taxpayer-funded Catholic charter school: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahoma-supreme-court-blocks-taxpayer
Class Action Suit: Nation’s largest Christian college’s tuition fees are a racketeering scheme: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-university-faces-class
Vatican Library to Reward Supporters and Donors with NFTs in New Experimental Project
https://www.coinspeaker.com/vatican-library-nfts-project/
Vatican comms chief defends Rupnik art remaining on website
https://catholicherald.co.uk/vatican-comms-chief-defends-rupnik-art-remaining-on-website/
Michigan GOP lawmaker asks for prayers after arrest for assaulting exotic dancer with his gun: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/06/21/neil-friske-arrested-gun-michigan/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, most of the words in this podcast aren't fuck, but some of them are. |
| 0:05.0 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by Factor, and by The New Debate |
| 0:10.9 | Enhancing Drug Claritin drug Claritin. |
| 0:13.4 | Claritin, that is too what it does Donald, it clarifies what you're saying, that's why they call it that. |
| 0:18.8 | Nobody tell them, stop laughing, you're fucking it up. |
| 0:21.4 | And now, the scathing atheist. I am Megatron, leader of the |
| 0:27.0 | Decepticons and future Republican presidential nominee and you humans did in fact evolve from filthy monkey men. Oh, It's Thursday. |
| 1:00.0 | June 27th. |
| 1:01.6 | and it's Sunglasses Day. If you're wearing them backwards behind |
| 1:05.8 | your head just know everybody hates you and you might be prosecuted for |
| 1:10.0 | January 6th yes. I'm no illusions. I'm Michael Marshall. |
| 1:14.3 | I'm Heath and from Trent Alexander Arnold's Liverpool. |
| 1:18.3 | Annover, Michigan and Waycross, Georgia, this is the skating east. |
| 1:22.1 | On this week's episode, the British government will tell us the right amount to segregate children. |
| 1:27.0 | The swamp crotch of America, known as Louisiana, does another theocracy. |
| 1:32.0 | And Marsh will teach us about the worst kind of brand loyalty. |
| 1:35.6 | But first, the Dietron. I was talking the other day with our favorite listener April Pough about the recent |
| 1:49.6 | anti-I-V-F moves by the Southern Baptist Convention in the Alabama Supreme Court and she made a |
| 1:54.2 | comment that stuck with me. She said something about being tempted to unblock a bunch of |
| 1:59.1 | people just long enough to deliver and I told you so. And of course that led me to reflect on all the |
| 2:03.8 | fucking arguments that I've had over the years against people whose entire |
| 2:07.0 | point was well it's not like they're actually going to come after |
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