662: Roast of the Town Edition
The Scathing Atheist
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4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Headlines:
Our Vice President thinks UFOs could be fallen angels: https://www.christianpost.com/news/jd-vance-marjorie-taylor-greene-suggest-aliens-could-be-angels.html
Calls to suicide OK hotline decline sharply after Ryan Walters resigns as education head: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/calls-to-hotline-decline-sharply-after-christian-conservative-resigns-as-education-head/
Texas Supreme Court says faith-based bigotry by judges doesn't violate ethics rules: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-supreme-court-says-faith-based
Floridians realize that funding religious schools also means Muslims: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/florida-republicans-are-furious-that
Church puts Auschwitz gate on their Halloween parade float: https://nypost.com/2025/11/01/us-news/pa-church-apologizes-for-halloween-float-featuring-phrase-from-auschwitz-gates-profoundly-offensive/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/715414578632190/permalink/3110025155837775/
JD Vance says he hopes his wife Usha embraces Christianity:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/us/politics/usha-jd-vance-christianity-religion-hindu.html
https://substack.com/home/post/p-177493075
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this week's episode has all the profanity from last week, plus an extra fuck in the |
| 0:05.1 | warning. |
| 0:05.9 | This week's episode of The Skathing Atheist is brought to you by My Sheets Rock, BetterHelp, |
| 0:11.0 | and by Vulgarity for Charity, the annual fundraiser where we, quite literally, give a fuck. |
| 0:17.7 | And now, the scathing atheist. |
| 0:20.6 | Nothing to promote have I. Yet in need of a Farnsworth quote, you are. Evolved from filthy |
| 0:27.3 | monkey men you did. Well, he've done this before. No one has. I cannot. |
| 0:32.5 | I can't. It's Thursday. It's November 6th. And it's Thursday. |
| 0:55.9 | It's November 6th. |
| 0:57.7 | And it's the International Day for preventing the exploitation of the environment in war and armed conflict day. |
| 1:04.2 | You need the Lorax to focus up here. |
| 1:06.1 | Priorities, buddy. |
| 1:06.9 | Yeah? |
| 1:07.8 | I'm no illusions. |
| 1:09.4 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:10.6 | I'm Heath Enright. And from Merrill Streeps, New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Wake Cross, Georgia. This is the scathing atheist. On this week's episode, J.D. Vance has a theory d. Vance has a theory d. He worries about Hinduism and reincarnation as a couch. I bet he does. And Tom and Cecil will be here to do some bad for some good. |
| 1:29.8 | But first, the diatribe. |
| 1:40.0 | I've got a friend in Texas who's actually a pretty solid example of how humanism works when |
| 1:44.9 | humanism works. So at one point in her life, she fell on really hard times and found herself |
| 1:50.0 | without a home. She was a single mom at the time. So she scraped by for a while there exhausting |
| 1:55.1 | her friend's couches, sleeping in her car, staying in shelters, and just otherwise experiencing |
| 2:00.1 | the hell of American homelessness. |
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