623: Fact Checked Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Washington and Montana break god’s super best friend promise, a new bill in Mississippi aims to teach people that erections have consequences, and the answer to “who dat?” turns out to be way worse than we thought.
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Headlines:
WA and Montana Lawmaker want to make priests mandatory reporters: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/wa-lawmaker-defends-bill-making-priests and https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/montana-democrats-want-to-require
Wyoming anti-abortion bill would make chemo illegal cause they’re idiots: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/wyoming-republicans-anti-abortion-bill
Christian investment group takes credit for pressuring Meta into ending fact-checking: https://www.christianpost.com/voices/meta-facebook-christian-investing-fact-checking-censorship.html
NO Saints helped Catholics cover up child rape: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/business/new-orleans-saints-catholic-church-abuse.html
Mississippi lawmaker introduces 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act': https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mississippi-lawmaker-introduces-contraception-begins-erection-act-rcna188938
https://www.newsweek.com/democrat-proposing-masturbation-fines-receives-death-threats-2023404

Transcript

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0:00.0	warning were in one of those historical moments that kind of demands a new level of cuss words.
0:05.7	This week's episode of The Skathing Atheist is brought to you by BetterHelp, Adam and Eve, and by
0:11.7	the fact that they're not done coming for the socialists and the trade unionists yet.
0:16.5	And now, the scathing atheist.
0:19.4	My name is Enigua Montoya, and the five-fingered man did in fact evolve from filthy monkey men.
0:28.7	Inconceivable.
0:30.4	I don't think that word means what you think it means.
0:34.0	Felity Menach.
0:58.8	Thank you. Let meenach. It's Thursday.
1:00.6	It's February 6th.
1:02.7	And it's lame duct day.
1:03.4	All right.
1:06.2	Only 1,44 left to go.
1:06.7	There you go.
1:07.8	We could do a countdown.
1:09.1	I'm no illusions.
1:10.6	I'm Milibosnik. I'm Heathenright. And from Grover, Cleveland's, New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Waycross, Georgia, this is The Scaping Atheist.
1:17.9	On this week's episode, Washington and Montana break God's super best friend promise.
1:23.1	A new bill in Mississippi aims to teach people that rewrections have consequences.
1:28.0	And the answer to who dat turns out to be way worse than we thought.
1:32.0	But first, the diatribe.
1:43.2	As a skeptic who spends a lot of time on social media, I'd like to think I have a pretty good bullshit detector.
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