647: Circumcise Matters Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Ryan Walters finds the Lemon test a bit too sweet, a priest teaches the story of Abraham and Isaac from the perspective of Bigfoot, and Don Ford will get tricked by a box with “Don Ford Feed” written on it again.
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Headlines:
Ryan Walters enlists Prager U to help weed out “woke” teachers: https://www.fox23.com/news/osde-partners-with-prageru-for-teacher-assessment-from-woke-states/article_ed59089d-8e06-4dcf-b863-46693f1db1c4.html
Pope certifies his first miracle, calls Buzz Aldrin, accepts "DA POPE" t-shirt: https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-leo-moonwalk-space-observatory-astronaut-be7e93221a0f524782d137ccd291bd0a
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/07/20/pope-leo-declares-recovery-of-rhode-island-infant-first-miracle-of-his-papacy/
Hundreds of NASA employees sign letter of formal dissent against anti-science Trump policies:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/science/nasa-formal-dissent-letter-trump.html
Judge blocks WA requirement for priests to report child abuse disclosed in confession: https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/18/judge-blocks-wa-requirement-for-priests-to-report-child-abuse-disclosed-in-confession/
Anti-woke Texan who fled LGBTQ 'indoctrination' sent to Russia's front line: https://www.rawstory.com/lgbtq-2673371339/#
Baylor rejects $650,000 LGBTQ+ research grant because bigotry: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/baylor-university-rejects-643401
‘Yeti blood oath’ divides Denver seminary: https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/yeti-blood-oath-divides-denver-seminary
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This Week in Misogyny:
Pregnant TN woman denied care for being unmarried: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2025/07/23/tennessee-medical-ethics-defense-act-denied-prenatal-care-unmarried-woman/85308870007/
IN Lt. Gov supports rape exceptions to abortion laws, but has conditions: https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/micah-beckwith-supports-rape-exceptions-anti-choice-laws-one-condition
Chinese officials warn female comedians not to joke about men: (Thanks Nick) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/chinese-officials-warn-comedians-that-mocking-the-other-sex-is-no-laughing-matter

Transcript

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0:00.0	winning there aren't enough cuss words in the world, but we're still going to try.
0:04.0	This week's episode of The Skathing Atheist is brought to you by Hello Fresh and by the new brand of Christian headphones that provide constant updates in the event of the rapture.
0:13.5	Pray cons.
0:14.9	Pray cons.
0:16.0	We just sharpied a pee in front of our racons and disabled them.
0:18.9	And now the scathing atheist. Religious tracks
0:22.4	the keys to when we packed ourselves into pens. We packed a guarantee that when we disagreed,
0:28.9	contrasted. At 10, my spree did enact degrees of queer must end, retract, contact cries to flee the den so identity compacts again.
0:41.5	Bigotry and friends dissolve, society intent on tact, when with time we could absolve.
0:47.0	Instead, we send an autocrat, revealing impact, proving guilty, exposing trend.
0:52.7	We did, in fact, evolve from filthy monkey men.
1:18.1	And... It's Thursday.
1:22.6	It's July 24th, and it's Mormon Pioneer Day. Yeah, because kicked out of yet another state day, didn't have quite the same ring to it.
1:28.1	That's it, yeah. I'm no illusions. I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Heathenwright. And from Taylor, Ham's, New Jersey. You know it, baby? Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Waycross, Georgia. This is the scathingest. Oh, this week's episode, Ryan Walters finds the lemon test a bit too sweet. A priest teaches the story of Abraham and Isaac from respective of Bigfoot.
1:48.9	And Don Ford will get tricked by a box with Don Ford Feed written on it a gap.
1:53.7	But first, the diatriat.
1:59.7	One of the difficulties of talking about white supremacy is that you kind of have to play along with the fiction that white is white is a meaningful category.
2:11.5	But it's not. I mean, we're culturally conditioned to see it. So it seems really weird the first time you hear somebody say that there's nothing to it at all. But there kind of isn't. And if you ever need a
2:20.8	quick and easy way to prove that to somebody, just point to the various ways that the definition of
2:24.8	white has shifted over time. And of course, we know exactly how white was defined over time because
2:30.2	it's burned into the judicial record. Until 1965, America still had racial quotas on immigration.
2:36.6	I'm sorry, America still admitted to having racial quotas on immigration.
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