625: Bursting at the Seams Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s extended-edition episode, we’ll search Amazon for theocracy stopping backpacks, JD Vance goes to Germany and says what he will about the tenets of national socialism, and we’ll watch a Christian grift video that Oral Roberts would say is a little much.
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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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