602: Hundredth Monkey Edition
The Scathing Atheist
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🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Headlines:
Hemant Mehta compiles another list of non-religious Americans running for state/federal office: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/here-are-the-openly-non-religious
Hemant’s spreadsheet of nonreligious candidates: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lqTy_GJ3-lRF_x29jNh2YqFZn4JYuNRUGfe8EdYiBIE/edit?gid=1535218144#gid=1535218144
Republicans are finally less popular than atheists: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/never-thought-id-see-it-theres-now-a-group-less-popular-than-atheists/
Kirk Cameron pushes for "great awakening" during story hour tour: https://www.christianpost.com/news/kirk-cameron-story-hour-pushes-for-great-awakening-in-america.html
Kirk Cameron goes on insane rant about godless public schools: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kirk-cameron-school-atheists-strippers_n_66bc55c0e4b0b1dc53035847
Irish bigots can have a gay mail van or fuck themselves: https://www.irishcentral.com/news/burke-family-an-post-lgbt
Ukraine bans Moscow-affiliated church: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/21/ukraine-adopts-historic-law-to-ban-moscow-linked-orthodox-church
Billionaire yacht sinks and leads to insane conspiracy theories: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/23/mike-lynch-superyacht-bayesian-conspiracies/
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This Week in Misogyny:
Court enjoins effort to enforce false advertising laws on crisis pregnancy centers: https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2024/08/ny-ag-enjoined-from-enforcing-false.html
Arkansas Supreme Court rejects abortion rights ballot measure: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/arkansas-supreme-court-upholds-rejection-abortion-rights-ballot-measur-rcna167819
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, we've got plenty of fucks left to give. |
| 0:04.0 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by Better Help, Factor, and by |
| 0:09.5 | J.D. Vance's Fried Sugar Bagels, the confections that make sense. |
| 0:15.4 | And now the skating atheist. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm the parent of a student in Oklahoma. |
| 0:20.7 | My child doesn't feel comfortable asking their teacher for an exemption from the Bible verse readings. |
| 0:27.0 | We did in fact evolve from filthy monkey men. |
| 0:32.0 | Fuck! filthy monkey men. Faa! Oh, it's Thursday. It's August 29th. And it's International Day Against Nuclear Tests. |
| 1:01.0 | You want a Godzilla? This is how you get a Godzilla. |
| 1:03.8 | That's a bad point. I do want Godzilla's. I'm no illusions. |
| 1:07.8 | I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Heath Enright. And from Carl the Pugapecagorns, New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan and Waycross, Georgia, |
| 1:14.2 | this is the Skating Atheist. |
| 1:16.3 | On this week's episode, we'll stuff some atheists in your ballot box. |
| 1:20.7 | The internet does some shitting on the dock of the Bayes in analysis. |
| 1:25.0 | Fantastic! |
| 1:27.0 | And it will turn out once again to be very bullshit. |
| 1:31.0 | But first, the diatrial. |
| 1:33.0 | I try not to build a child. I try not to build diatribes off of an I saw a stupid meme basis but sometimes the |
| 1:46.7 | meme is too stupid not to so the meme in question here has three panels it's pulled |
| 1:51.5 | from the movie Finding Neverland where the little kid is |
| 1:53.7 | talking to the spouse abuser on a park bench. In panel one the kid says they said I |
| 1:58.6 | needed empirical evidence for God and in the second panel the wife Peter says, do you have empirical evidence, that you need |
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