658: Ad Mominem Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Headlines:
Nonreligious Americans might not be as spiritual as previously reported: https://religionnews.com/2025/10/02/nonreligious-americans-might-not-be-as-spiritual-as-we-thought/
Christian group deceived SCOTUS about LGBTQ research, cited scholars say: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/alliance-defending-freedom-supreme-court-conversion-therapy
SCOTUS term opens with docket full of theocracy building: https://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/10/supreme-court-term-opens-monday-with.html
Trump posts AI-generated video about "MedBeds For All":
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/politics/trump-ai-medbed-conspiracy-theory
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, the following podcast uses more foul language than Noah watching a Jaguars game. |
| 0:05.4 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by BetterHelp. Sometimes illness wins by Carrie Black. |
| 0:11.3 | And by the fact that I was able to convince Eli that that wasn't the kind of ice that pick was meant for. |
| 0:17.3 | And now, the scathing atheist. |
| 0:19.7 | Greetings all. Cass here. |
| 0:21.2 | So I'm reading an early modern medical text, as anyone might do, and suddenly it smacks me in the face with this gem. |
| 0:26.8 | Quote, superstition requires gullibility, just as true religion requires faith. |
| 0:32.0 | End quote. |
| 0:33.1 | 500 years on, and they are still no closer to hearing themselves. |
| 0:37.2 | All of this is to say that we are still in the process of evolving from filthy monkey men. It's Thursday. |
| 1:06.2 | It's October night. |
| 1:07.9 | And it's national pro-life cupcake day. |
| 1:10.7 | Well, I believe batter is already a cupcake, so grab a spoon. |
| 1:15.9 | I have no illusions. |
| 1:17.7 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:18.9 | I'm Heathenright. |
| 1:20.1 | And from Mitch Albums, New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Waycross, Georgia. |
| 1:23.8 | This is the skating atheist. |
| 1:25.9 | Oh, this week's episode, The nuns are emptier than we thought. |
| 1:29.6 | A Trump video about medbeds gets recognized as AI because of complete sentences. |
| 1:35.5 | And Ross Douth that'll ask how we explain all the alien abductions if Jesus isn't our Lord's Savior. |
| 1:40.3 | But first, the diatri. |
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