633: Narco Rubio Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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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/
Transcript
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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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