634: De-Pope-ulated Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, The pope was dying to meet JD Vance, Donald Trump celebrates the resurrection of the messiah with a "grind my gears" segment, and Noah tries to make Heath, Eli, and the listeners jealous for not going to AACon.
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Headlines:
Pope RELUCTANTLY meets with JD Vance on Easter even though the Pope HATES him: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/pope-francis-meets-with-jd-vance.html
AND IT FUCKING KILLED HIM TO DEATH: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/world/europe/pope-francis-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/article/pope-francis-death-health-problems.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/world/europe/next-pope-francis-candidates.html
Oklahoma and Indiana hope to declare official statewide Christianity: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahoma-republicans-pass-controversial and https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/indiana-resolution-declares-unified
Hate pastor campaigned to stop lesbian from becoming school superintendent; he lost:
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/04/hate-pastor-campaigned-to-stop-lesbian-from-becoming-school-superintendent-he-lost/
Trump uses Easter message to disparage enemies, declare he will make America more religious than ever before: https://religionnews.com/2025/04/21/we-should-be-shocked-by-trumps-easter-message/ and https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-vows-make-america-more-religious-ever-before-2061904

Transcript

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0:00.0	Warning, this podcast contains warnings.
0:03.0	This week's episode of The Skathing Atheist is brought to you by Factor, Mint Mobile,
0:08.8	and by the new human-sized soundproof hamster ball for Christian children trying to avoid
0:14.1	learning secular stuff at public schools, the un-hell shell.
0:18.3	The un-hell shell, because this is about to be Supreme Court mandated, so we might as well get in on the action early. And now, the scathing atheist.
0:31.6	Hi, is this people builders?
0:35.4	Hi, this is God. So I'm creating this world with billions of people and I need a little help.
0:41.3	Oh no, no, no, no, no.
0:43.3	My people, they are in fact evolved from filthy monkeymen.
0:47.3	It's just that I have these three guys that I need to make for a podcast,
0:51.3	and all I have are left over junk pieces. So I thought maybe you guys could help.
0:56.0	No, just one thing, though. One of these guys needs to run on bourbon, another of them on weed,
1:01.3	and the last guy, well, I mean, he's not going to run at all, but let's face it, he needs to
1:05.1	operate on tofu dogs.
1:07.4	Don't ask.
1:26.9	Okay. Am I, man. Don't ask. It's Thursday.
1:31.8	It's April 24th.
1:33.3	And it's new kids on the block day.
1:36.2	Well, now it's more like divorced dads on the porch day.
1:39.6	How about his draft day?
1:41.5	I'm no illusions.
1:43.1	I'm Eli Bothnik. I'm Eli Bosnick.
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