627: Ash is King Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Headlines:
First openly gay Imam murdered in Africa:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05l33j7rq7o
Speaker Mike Johnson is living in a DC house that's the center of a pastor’s secretive influence campaign: https://www.propublica.org/article/mike-johnson-evangelical-pastor-steve-berger-roommates
JD Vance invokes medieval Catholic concept called "ordo amoris" to justify xenophobia: https://apnews.com/article/jd-vance-catholic-theology-migration-e868af574fb2e742c6ed3d756c569769
https://apnews.com/article/pope-trump-migration-09a89091f8e7dc3270099f0947d04e90
https://apnews.com/article/vice-president-jd-vance-pope-francis-immigration-4f05693320524f9976d3b9ebe31b3f97
Upcoming book by shitty atheists weaponize the war on science against trans people: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/prominent-atheists-are-weaponizing
Christian lawmaker still wants teachers to be able to hit students with disabilities: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-lawmaker-still-wants-teachers
Churches offering drive thru ashes for Ash Wednesday: https://www.christianpost.com/news/churches-offering-drive-thru-ashes-for-ash-wednesday.html
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, the following podcast contains words that would make Winnie the poo faint. |
| 0:04.7 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by BetterHelp and by the new alternative medical practice of just using whatever's lying around and pretending that's a treatment, McGiver Mectin. |
| 0:16.1 | And now, the Skating Atheist. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Jady Vance, and I assure you that we did, in fact, evolve |
| 0:23.8 | from filthy monkey men |
| 0:26.3 | who know how donuts work. |
| 0:29.1 | Music It's Thursday. |
| 0:52.7 | It's March 6th. |
| 0:54.2 | And it's National Oreo Cookie Day. |
| 0:56.6 | Oh, great holiday pick. |
| 0:58.5 | Milk cheers, Cecil. |
| 0:59.5 | You're right? |
| 1:00.1 | Cheers. |
| 1:00.7 | Milk cheers. |
| 1:01.5 | I'm No Illusions. |
| 1:03.1 | I'm Cecil Cicero. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm Heath Enright. |
| 1:05.5 | And from Barack Obama's Chicago, |
| 1:08.1 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Waycross, Georgia. |
| 1:09.8 | This is the scathing atheist. On this week's episode, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Wakeross, Georgia. This is skating atheist. |
| 1:11.9 | On this week's episode, beating kids in Oklahoma is all about inclusion. |
| 1:18.3 | Devout Catholics, sack that ash up to kick off land. |
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