664: Cried Wolf Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Other, Comedy

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, we’re halfway through our atheist mission, you'll never guess what Jeffrey Epstein and the Catholic League have in common, and Michael Marshall will be here to sound chipper no matter how fucked up the stuff he’s talking about is.
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Headlines:
American drop in religiosity is among the largest ever recorded: https://news.gallup.com/poll/697676/drop-religiosity-among-largest-world.aspx
SCOTUS declines case involving prayers over loud speakers at public school games: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/supreme-court-declines-case-involving
Conservative radio host freaks out: 'Transgender crowd' will use magnets to suck God from your brain: https://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/conservative-radio-host-freaks-out-transgender-crowd-will-use-magnets-to-suck-god-from-your-brain/
Bill Donohue writes essay explaining that Epstein was technically not a pedophile: https://www.catholicleague.org/megyn-kelly-is-right-about-epstein/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Warning, we haven't gotten any less vulgar since last week.
0:04.2	This week's episode of The Skathing Atheist is brought to you by Aura Frames and by Vulgarity for Charity.
0:10.8	One more week to get those donations in, people.
0:13.3	And now, The Scaithing Atheist.
0:15.5	Hi, I'm professional whitehead and amateur video gamer eat meal.
0:19.3	When you spend 10 hours a day interacting with people on the internet, it becomes unequivocally
0:23.8	clear that we did, in fact, evolved from filthy monkey men.
0:51.4	Music It's Thursday.
0:53.2	It's November 20th.
1:11.4	And it's Hugger-Rutter day. Okay, but only if they come to me. I'm not chasing. Absolutely not. I'm no illusions. I'm Eli Bosn. I'm Heathen Wright. And from Bill Mars, New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Waycross, Georgia. This scathing atheist. Oh, this week's episode. We're halfway through our atheist mission.
1:15.8	You'll never guess what Jeffrey Epstein and the Catholic League have in common.
1:21.7	And Michael Marshall will be here to sound chipper no matter how fucked up the stuff he's talking about is.
1:23.6	But first, the diatripping. The Dietram. Trayman.
1:39.1	All right, folks, we are in the home stretch.
1:43.9	We've got seven more days of Vulgarity for Charity left, and we don't have any episodes coming out next week.
1:45.2	Sorry, it's American Thanksgiving. So this is going to be my last chance to sell you on making a
1:50.1	donation. So let's set aside the roasts for a second, because this was never really about the
1:55.4	roasts. There's always been this tacit understanding that we would be happy to insult your
1:59.7	shitty brother-in-law for free, and you'd be happy to donate to the charity without Tom ripping out anybody's soul and leaving it quivering and naked before them. We mostly just add the vulgarity because it rhymes. And let's set aside for a second all the great work that recovering from religion does. And it is great work. It's life-saving work in some instances.
2:18.5	They help ex-religious people find community. They help doubting religious people find
2:22.1	clarity. They help traumatized atheists, find therapy. Sorry, I'm supposed to be setting this
2:26.2	aside. It's really good shit. But I'm going to set it aside. We set all that aside.
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