625: Bursting at the Seams Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Headlines:
Trio of terrifying stories about religion in schools: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/alabama-schools-could-lose-funding and https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahoma-lawmaker-i-dont-want-pink and https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/north-dakota-republicans-push-bill
Christian post loses their minds over “Trans Sanctuary City” Meeting: https://www.christianpost.com/news/lesbian-pastor-blasphemes-jesus-as-drag-queen-at-council-meeting.html
Ted Cruz's list of "woke" science includes self-driving cars and solar eclipses: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5295043/sen-ted-cruzs-list-of-woke-science-includes-self-driving-cars-solar-eclipses
National Science Foundation has to deal with giant list of absurd "banned words":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/02/04/national-science-foundation-trump-executive-orders-words/
Australia refuses to fix the religion question on their census: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/australia-will-keep-screwing-up-the
Ken Ham give us his tips for Valentine's Day: https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2025/02/14/ken-hams-dating-tips-valentines-day/
JD Vance rebukes anti-free speech, anti-Christian discrimination in Munich speech:
https://www.christianpost.com/news/jd-vance-rebukes-anti-free-speech-anti-christian-discrimination.html
Trump Officials Attack a German Consensus on Nazis and Speech: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/world/europe/vance-musk-nazis-afd-munich.html
The video from this week’s Mini:
https://youtu.be/zfWJifqSM6E?si=iwe42fbDktc5ZTbf
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, profanity ahead. Have your fainting couch ready. |
| 0:04.0 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by Hello Fresh and by the new sports sweeping the nation doge ball. |
| 0:13.1 | It's where you throw shit at Elon Musk. And now the scathing atheist. |
| 0:18.4 | Dad Prime from One Dozen Dads.com here. |
| 0:21.6 | One mom of a million proves we did in fact evolve from filthy monkey men and women. |
| 0:26.7 | Before she went right off a clip. It's Thursday. |
| 0:52.1 | It's February 20th. |
| 0:53.8 | And it's the great American spin out. Yeah, don't get too excited, though. It's February 20th. And it's the Great American Spinoff. |
| 0:56.2 | Yeah, don't get too excited, though. |
| 0:57.8 | It's about not chewing tobacco. |
| 1:00.3 | I feel betrayed. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm no illusions. |
| 1:03.3 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:04.6 | I'm Heath Enright. |
| 1:05.6 | And from Corey Bookers, New Jersey, |
| 1:07.7 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Waycross, Georgia. |
| 1:09.4 | This is the skating east. |
| 1:11.9 | Oh, this week's episode, we'll search Amazon for Theocracy-stopping backpacks. |
| 1:16.7 | J.D. Vance goes to Germany and says what he will about the tenets of national socialism. |
| 1:22.2 | Mm-hmm. And we'll watch a Christian grift video that Oral Roberts would say us a little much. |
| 1:28.5 | But first, the diatribe. |
| 1:38.0 | A couple of years before we started this show, I got it in my head that I wanted to learn to ride a unicycle. |
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