632: Mere Cleared Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
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🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Headlines:
Christian nationalists going crazy trying to justify Trump’s tariffs: https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/tim-barton-attempts-make-biblical-case-trumps-tariffs and https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/let-him-cook-glenn-beck-and-kevin-roberts-flack-trumps-tariff-policy and https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/tony-perkins-suggests-wall-street-intentionally-tanking-stock-market-spite-trump
Minnesota lawmaker's bill to "advance critical thinking" actually pushes Christian mythology: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/minnesota-lawmakers-bill-to-advance
Catholic Church denounces online sale of Carlo Acutis relics: https://apnews.com/article/carlo-acutis-millennial-saint-relics-sale-italy-catholic-f5a65136f90673ed038cc2e61dd76368
British tax loophole encourages pubs to be churches: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/23/ye-of-little-faith-the-tax-loophole-that-turns-old-pubs-into-places-of-worship
A historic Black church took the Proud Boys to court and now it controls their trademark:
https://apnews.com/article/black-church-lawsuit-proud-boys-trademark-75da1ea60ab17a324e0dedf7fe2b06c4
England’s Wrestling Church seeks converts with baptisms and body slams: https://apnews.com/article/wrestling-church-shipley-england-gareth-thompson-987bdb744b34aab059349a97fa783184
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, religion deserved to be cussed at again this week. |
| 0:03.8 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by BetterHelp, Stamps.com, |
| 0:09.4 | and by The Couch Co-op, Hayslight is afraid to make about a Muslim lady and a Christian lady getting trapped together in one another's holy book, |
| 0:17.0 | Split Crucifixion. |
| 0:19.1 | Split Crucifixion. |
| 0:20.6 | I went a long way for a joke that most of the audience won't get, but I'm okay with that. |
| 0:24.6 | And now, the scathing atheist. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Matthew Austin, and this weekend I ran a marathon in Brighton. |
| 0:31.6 | I lost the ability to walk downstairs, a little bit of skin, two toenails, |
| 0:36.6 | oh yeah, and 10,000 pounds from the value |
| 0:40.6 | of my pension, thanks to Donald Trump's Roll 66 for Tariff's plan, which is proof that both he and I |
| 0:48.0 | evolve from filthy monkey men. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah. Amen. It's Thursday. |
| 1:13.1 | It's April 10th. |
| 1:14.8 | And it's National Alcohol Screening Day. |
| 1:17.3 | Yep. |
| 1:17.6 | Got some right here. |
| 1:18.9 | There you go. |
| 1:20.0 | No illusions? |
| 1:21.5 | I'm Ilabosnik. |
| 1:22.6 | I'm Heathen Wright. |
| 1:23.7 | And from Corey Bookers, urine-soaked New Jersey Jersey and Arbor, Michigan, and Waycross, Georgia. |
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