633: Narco Rubio Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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On this week's episode: The Trump administration starts their hunt for anti-Christian heffalumps ... A Christian pastor avoids the TSA sexuality trap by demanding a cavity search ... And Don Ford will be here to dig into the post-sassy-gay-Jesus portion of the Bible.
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Headlines:
See something, snitch something - State Department’s "anti-Christian bias" witch hunt begins:
https://apnews.com/article/state-department-religion-doge-rubio-trump-christian-biden-4fdb73a0cbf5651789b1aced667c2aba
‘Thousands like us’ - couples to take UK government to court over humanist marriages: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr/11/thousands-like-us-couples-take-uk-government-to-court-over-humanist-marriages
American Atheists file briefs in two SCOTUS cases about American education: https://www.atheists.org/2025/04/american-atheists-files-briefs-in-two-supreme-court-cases-to-defend-secular-public-education/
Aiming to limit damages, Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn't the same as a person: https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/09/aiming-to-limit-damages-catholic-hospital-argues-a-fetus-isnt-the-same-as-a-person/
James Lankford introduces a bill to gut the Johnson Amendment: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/sen-james-lankford-knows-the-irs
Christian pastor prefers frisks from male airport security agents because scanners ‘turn you gay’:
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/11/andrew-isker-tsa-full-body-scanners/

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0:00.0	warning the following podcast contains language appropriate to describe the current state of affairs
0:04.4	this week's episode of the skating atheist is brought to you by mint mobile and by way more
0:10.4	technology that should probably be dedicated to fart jokes and now the skating atheist i don't
0:16.4	have anything to promote but i do have a short story years Years ago, I worked for this D-Bag Trust Fund
0:20.9	Baby who inherited his father's business and bankrupted all but one. One day, D-Bag Trust Fund
0:25.4	Baby decided to cut costs on that one by removing toilet paper from the bathrooms. The employees
0:29.9	responded by throwing their shit all over the walls. Based on the behavior of that D-Bag
0:33.8	Trust Fund baby, I can assure you that we did in fact evolve from Filthy Monkey Man. It's Thursday.
1:00.9	It's April 17th.
1:02.5	And it's national Ask an Atheist Day.
1:05.3	Yes, no, and absolutely not.
1:08.0	There you go.
1:08.5	I'm No Illusions.
1:10.1	I'm Eli Bosnick.
1:11.1	I'm Heath-N-Rite.
1:12.2	And from Aaron Burr's, New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Waycross, Georgia.
1:16.1	This is the skating atheist.
1:18.2	On this week's episode, the Trump administration starts their hunt for anti-Christian heflums.
1:23.8	A Christian pastor avoids the TSA sexuality trap by demanding a cavity search.
1:30.1	And Don Ford will be here to dig into the post-sassy gay Jesus portions of the Bible.
1:35.3	But first, the diatribe.
1:56.9	Yeah. So I'm on a hiking trail when these two filthy hippies walk by variations on a theme.
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