635: Papal Dilation Edition
The Scathing Atheist
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Guest Links:
To check out The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD (mentioned in the Farnsworth Quote), click here: https://www.amazon.com/Cycle-Confronting-Pain-Periods-PMDD/dp/1250882893
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Headlines:
All the weird shit they did at the pope’s funeral:
https://religionnews.com/2025/04/26/at-pope-francis-funeral-a-call-to-heed-his-appeals-for-peace-and-mercy-for-the-vulnerable/
84-year-old man injured after falling from cross during crucifixion reenactment: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/west-virginia-crucifixion-fall-easter-b2737017.html
https://www.wsaz.com/2025/04/21/man-84-critically-injured-after-falling-cross-during-crucifixion-reenactment/#:~:text=WESTON%2C%20W.Va
https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/vandalia-community-christian-church-marks-20-years-of-good-friday-outdoor-drama-in-horner-w/article_30d6cd8d-9ef0-46fb-8f04-b3d34ea19248.html
York Minster hosts controversial metal concert as threatened protests fail to materialise: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/25/york-minster-hosts-controversial-metal-concert-as-threatened-protests-fail-to-materialise
COVID dot gov is batshit on stilts: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-replaces-covid-websites/
One Million Moms is mad that an ad says "daaaaaamp": https://onemillionmoms.com/current-campaigns/urge-damprid-to-cancel-its-inappropriate-ad/
t sold LSD on dark web and claims a religious exemption based on RFRA: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/04/24/army-pilot-lsd-religion-kyle-riester/
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This Week in Misogyny:
Judge blocks worker protections for Catholic employers: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-blocks-worker-protections-abortion-fertility-care-catholic-120884316
Paula White-Cain reminds Christian women to submit to their husbands: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paula-white-cain-wives-submit-husbands_n_680a6681e4b0d1cc4a5a80d8
Republican gubernatorial candidate proposes letting female immigrants stay if they marry incels: https://2paragraphs.com/2025/04/republican-governor-candidate-proposes-female-undocumented-immigrants-can-stay-if-they-marry-incels/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this podcast contains the words quantum and chimney, which seems as relevant to me as warning you that it contains shit and fuck. |
| 0:08.1 | But here we are. |
| 0:09.9 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by stamps.com, aura frames, and by the survival pack for anybody about to be locked in a church with 100 plus cardinals for an indeterminate amount of time, the pontificate. The pontificate. It's mostly just bear spray to |
| 0:26.9 | keep those rapy fucks at a distance. And now, the scathing atheist. Hi, this is Dorian. A talented |
| 0:33.6 | friend of mine wrote a trans-inclusive book about premenstrual dysphoric disorder called The Cycle. |
| 0:39.3 | If the transphobes and her DMs are any indication, we did, in fact, evolve from filthy monkey people. |
| 0:45.3 | Music It's Thursday. |
| 1:08.4 | It's May 1st. |
| 1:10.0 | And it's the National Day of Prayer and the National Day of Reason. |
| 1:14.0 | Undefeated, baby. |
| 1:15.3 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:16.1 | I'm no illusions. |
| 1:17.7 | Ah, Mila Bosnick. |
| 1:18.8 | On Heath Henwright. |
| 1:19.9 | And from Marjorie Terrell Bosnick's New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Waycross, Georgia. |
| 1:24.5 | This is the scathing atheist. On this week's episode, |
| 1:28.5 | the Pope is laid to solemn rest in a gold box full of coins. |
| 1:33.1 | A federal court considers the merits of sincerely held acid tabs. |
| 1:38.1 | And we'll show the conclave a bold way forward. |
| 1:41.5 | But first, the diatri. |
| 1:42.9 | But first, the diTrile. |
| 1:57.6 | Whenever you express your atheism outside of like the American atheist annual convention, |
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