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The Scathing Atheist

640: Doubt That Douthat Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Texas Presumes its students can count up to ten, we learn about a gold scam involving Donald Trump's bullion heir, and we’ll find yet another downside of literacy.
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Headlines:
Texas to pass 10 Commandments-in-classrooms law: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-democrat-exposes-gop-hypocrisy
Joni Ernst defends "we all are going to die" comment with pitch to embrace Jesus: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/sen-joni-ernst-defends-we-all-are
Vatican Library to Restore and Digitise Over 80,000 Manuscripts: https://catholicnews.in/vatican-library-to-restore-and-digitise-over-80000-manuscripts/#google_vignette
Trump thinks the gold is missing from Fort Knox: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/27/us/trump-fort-knox-gold.html

Transcript

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0:00.0

Warning, this podcast contains profanity because discussing modern America without using profanity is borderline dishonest at this point.

0:08.0

This week's episode of The Scathing Atheist is brought to you by BetterHelp and by the new leader in diseased meats, Omaha Steaks.

0:16.8

If you want your beef from sources that aren't encumbered by big science, show your commitment to RFK's agenda with some Omaha stakes.

0:24.2

Trust us.

0:25.0

All that shit growing and writhing around on it is fully organic.

0:28.4

And now, the scathing atheist.

0:31.3

This is Jason W. Brooks of Your Valley.net.

0:36.0

As someone who covers Arizona politics for a living,

0:40.6

I can assure you that we did, in fact,

0:44.0

evolved from filthy monkey people.

0:46.9

Music It's Thursday. It's Thursday.

1:09.0

It's June 5th.

1:10.7

And it's Festival of Popular Delusions Day.

1:14.0

Okay.

1:14.3

We're doing a show about religion.

1:15.8

Every day is Festival of Popular Delusions Day.

1:18.9

Fair. White history.

1:20.1

I'm No Illusions.

1:21.5

I'm Eli Bosnick.

1:22.6

I'm Heath Enright.

1:23.7

And from Zach Braffs, New Jersey,

1:26.1

Ann Over, Michigan, and Wake Cross, Georgia,

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