679: Statue of Limitations Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Alabaman children make a much more depressing kind of wish, The Guardian is pretty sure AI witchcraft is on the rise thanks to Gemini of Newt, and Ross Douthat will hide little thoughts in big words again.
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See Noah’s Tarot talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRsYQFbOH3E
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Headlines:
Alabama House passes law requiring each school day start with student led prayer: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/alabama-house-passes-bill-forcing
Thiel brings his Antichrist lectures to the Vatican’s doorstep, and Catholic institutions back away: https://apnews.com/article/italy-peter-thiel-paypal-pope-vatican-c3a6c7d2daba501caf8152558ac2d743
https://ground.news/article/popes-ai-advisor-calls-thiels-rome-lectures-prolonged-act-of-heresy_a17f76
Muslim parents, private schools sue Texas over exclusion of Islamic institutions in voucher program: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2026/03/12/545932/texas-lawsuit-school-vouchers-muslim-parent/
Mike Johnson warns of encroaching Sharia law in US: 'Serious issue': https://www.christianpost.com/news/mike-johnson-warns-of-encroaching-sharia-law-in-us.html
House GOP leadership silent as more members post anti-Muslim statements: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/14/g-s1-113667/republicans-sharia-law-andy-ogles-mike-johnson
ChatGPT driving rise in reports of ‘satanic’ organised and ritual abuse, UK experts say: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/08/chatgpt-driving-rise-in-reports-of-satanic-organised-ritual-abuse-uk-experts-say
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This Week in Misogyny:
Judge decides how US women give birth: https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-court-ordered-c-sections
Judge dismisses divorce proceedings because “a few beatings won’t kill you.” https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/12/a-few-beatings-wont-kill-you-judge-rejects-divorce-request-of-woman-abused-by-husband-in-afghanistan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | wanting there's literally no way to talk about now without using the word fucked. |
| 0:05.1 | This week's episode of The Skathing Atheist is brought to you by Aura Frames and by Tony D's |
| 0:10.6 | House of Long Raged subsonic cruise missiles because apparently Tomahawks are pretty generic these days. |
| 0:15.9 | Who knew? And now the scathing atheist. |
| 0:19.4 | Hi, I'm Carrie Lynn Evans and I'm the host of New Books and Secularism, a podcast channel on the New Books Network, where we interview authors of academic books. |
| 0:28.5 | On the secularism channel, I talked to professors, researchers, and other experts to hear about the latest scholarly work demonstrating that we did, in fact, evolve from filthy monkey people. |
| 1:02.3 | Ah! It's Thursday. |
| 1:04.2 | It's March 19th. |
| 1:06.9 | And it's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Day. |
| 1:07.3 | Okay. |
| 1:09.5 | By the way, that's the whole shell. |
| 1:10.9 | It's a stupid song. |
| 1:12.1 | Isn't it? Thank you. |
| 1:12.8 | I'm no illusions. |
| 1:29.8 | I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Heathenwright. And from Michael B. Jordan's, New Jersey. Oh, Oscar winner. Oscar winner, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Waycross, Georgia. This is the skating east. Of this week's episode, Alabama and children make a much more depressing kind of wish. |
| 1:29.8 | The Guardian is... is the skating atheist. Of this week's episode, Alabama and children make a much more depressing kind of wish. |
| 1:34.1 | The Guardian is pretty sure AI witchcraft is on the rise thanks to Gemini of Newt. |
| 1:37.8 | And Ross Douth will hide little thoughts and big words again. |
| 1:42.3 | But first, the Diet Trior. |
| 1:49.8 | Music thoughts and big words again. But first, the diatriar. So the big news in my little town is that the local city council has voted to remove a big |
| 1:55.5 | ass Confederate statue that looms over a downtown park. |
| 1:59.4 | And I don't mind admitting that I've spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks, |
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