606: Eli's Birthday Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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On this week’s episode: A blasphemy suspect in Pakistan gets a taste of American policing ... A Christian newspaper tries its hand at skepticism and physically injures itself ... And Cecil helps reenact the bible again because of ongoing blackmail.
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Headlines:
Christian posts tries to debunk negative claims about Trump and bunks them instead: https://www.christianpost.com/news/5-debunked-hoaxes-related-to-donald-trump.html
As Taliban starts restricting men, too, some regret not speaking up sooner: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/22/afghanistan-taliban-restrictions-men-beards/
In an Unprecedented Move, Ohio Is Funding the Construction of Private Religious Schools: https://www.propublica.org/article/ohio-taxpayer-money-funding-private-religious-schools
North Sumatra unveils world's tallest Christ statue: https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2024/09/22/north-sumatra-unveils-world039s-tallest-christ-statue
Mark Robinson, NC GOP nominee for governor, called himself a ‘black NAZI’ and supported slavery in past comments made on porn forum: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html
Pakistan police shoot dead blasphemy suspect: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9pg8d4245o

Transcript

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0:00.0	Warning, this podcast is as nice to religion as religion is to us.
0:05.0	This week's episode of The Scaving Atheist is brought to you by Better Help,
0:09.2	Hello Fresh, and by the new orange-colored breakfast drink for Republicans, the
0:15.2	Trumpkin-spice latte made with extra tang and frothy regret.
0:20.1	And now the scathingating Atheist.
0:23.0	I'm Jady Vance, and I assure you that we did in fact evolve from filthy monkey men who know how donuts work. Oh. Oh, it's Thursday. It's September 26th. And guess whose birthday it is?
0:58.8	And guess whose birthday it is?
1:02.1	Serena Williams? Oh, I love Serena Williams.
1:04.7	Happy birthday Serena!
1:06.7	I hate you guys. I'm Eli Bosnick.
1:08.8	I'm Cecil something Italian.
1:11.0	I'm Heath and Wright and from Jared Kushner's New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois.
1:16.8	This is the scathing atheist.
1:18.9	On this week's episode, a blasphemy suspect in Pakistan gets a taste of American policing.
1:24.0	Christian newspaper tries its hand at skepticism and physically injures itself.
1:29.0	And I helped reenact the Bible again because of ongoing blackmail.
1:33.8	But first, the Eli Try. So a buddy reached out to me this week because as a part of her master's degree, lucky her, she got to read some William Lane Craig.
1:56.4	A fantastic argument against higher education, if never I've heard one.
2:00.8	And look, if you haven't read any of William Lane Craig's books, they're pretty unbearably dishonest and obtuse, but she hit me up because all that stuff aside, there's one part that she had to admit was kind of
2:13.9	bumming her out right over and over throughout his books William Linc Craig
2:18.7	makes the claim that without God life is meaningless.
2:23.2	He admits that it can still be joyful, it can be fulfilling and praiseworthy, but without
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