593: Off Brand Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, the British government will tell us the right amount to segregate children, the swamp crotch of America known as Louisiana does another theocracy, and Marsh will teach us about the worst kind of Brand loyalty.
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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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