675: Lies of Commission Edition
The Scathing Atheist
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Trump’s religious liberty commission is not going awesome: https://apnews.com/article/trump-religious-liberty-commission-antisemtism-0cbdc1f1aa62286aa7688495555b0aa5 and https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/trumps-religious-liberty-commission
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell spent majority of campaign funds buying his own book: https://julieroys.com/mypillow-founder-mike-lindell-spent-majority-campaign-funds-buying-his-own-book/
GOP lawmaker asks God to cleanse government of non-believers at Christian Nationalist event: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/gop-lawmaker-asks-god-to-cleanse
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, by the time I finish this sentence, this podcast will already have started using words like fuck. |
| 0:06.2 | This week's episode of The Scathing Atheist is brought to you by AuraFraims, and by the new Concussion Emporium for Christians that want to chase those doubts out of their brain the hard way, Bonk of America. |
| 0:18.0 | And now, the Scathing Atheist. |
| 0:22.2 | It's Tah. Oh, the skating atheist. It's... |
| 0:23.0 | Oh, shit. Wait, this isn't the No Rogan experience. |
| 0:27.5 | This is, again, and I can assure you, we did in fact evolve from filthy monkey men. |
| 0:32.7 | Music It's Thursday. It's February 19th. And it's Thursday. |
| 0:55.6 | It's February 19th. |
| 0:57.6 | And it's Prevent Plagerism Day. |
| 1:00.4 | That's right, people. |
| 1:01.4 | Keep it bad and original, please. |
| 1:04.6 | I'm no illusions. |
| 1:06.3 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:07.4 | I'm Heathenright. |
| 1:08.5 | And from Isobo Levito's, New Jersey. |
| 1:28.3 | And our Michigan and Wake Cross, Georgia. This is the scathing atheist. On this week's episode, Trump's Religious Liberty Commission gets one out of three. Christian nationalists gather in D.C. to break the first and second rule of Smyte Club. And Michael Marshall will be here to hope you've forgotten that he was in the Epstein Piles. |
| 1:30.1 | At first, the diatribe. |
| 1:51.5 | You ever tell one of them random, inconsequential lies that you immediately get stuck in? |
| 1:57.5 | Somebody will ask you, have you ever seen such and such a movie, and your mouth will just go yes, even though you haven't? |
| 2:00.8 | And then you're like, why the fuck did I just lie about that? |
| 2:04.1 | But you're kind of stuck with a lie now because otherwise you have to say, I'm sorry, I was just now lying to you. And then they would be like, why the fuck would you lie to me about whether you've seen a movie? and more importantly, how can we ever repair this breach of trust in our relationship now that I know that you would lie to me about something as inconsequential as whether you've seen the shape of water. I'm convinced that that's like how |
| 2:24.2 | a lot of religion happens. So let me give you this from my own experience and see if you can |
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