681: Let Me Finnish Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Other, Comedy

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, The Washington Post puts the edit in editorialize, Republicans at CPAC plan to destroy the left with their girthy rizz, and Michael Marshall will be here to give you new people to hate.
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Headlines:
Finnish Religious Freedom Case isn’t what Bezos seems to think: https://yle.fi/a/74-20217856 and https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/27/finland-free-speech-religion-paivi-rasanen/
Church attendance report pulled after YouGov finds 'fraudulent' responses: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwjxx5eyn1o
JD Vance warns that extraterrestrials are demons: 'I'm going to get to the bottom of this'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jd-vance-warns-extraterrestrials-demons-030714971.html
Pope Leo hosts exorcist summit at the Vatican over fears of worldwide surge in Satanism: https://nypost.com/2026/03/24/world-news/pope-leo-hosts-exorcist-summit-at-the-vatican-over-fears-of-worldwide-surge-in-satanism/
Minnesota Priests claim charging them with sexual assault is a violation of religious freedom: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/catholic-priests-say-charging-them
Benny Johnson: MAGA Will “Outbreed Hideous Left”
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/benny-johnson-maga-will-outbreed-hideous-left/

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0:00.0	Warning, this podcast contains all the offensive language we could think up on the spot.
0:04.6	This week's episode of The Skathing Atheist is brought to you by the new petroleum delivery company, D.H. Oil.
0:10.7	D.H. Oil! Because you know he's asked why they can't just mail the oil by this point.
0:16.6	And now, the scathing atheist.
0:19.3	Chuck Norris can throw a turd so hard that filthy monkey men evolved from him.
0:45.7	Ah! It's Thursday.
0:47.0	It's April 2nd.
0:49.0	And it's Reconciliation Day.
0:50.4	Another prank.
0:50.9	Go wrong.
0:53.3	It's like the Hague has no sense of humor, man.
0:53.9	It's just... Yeah, I'm no illusions. Amilabasnik. I'm Heathenright. And from Clavicular's, New Jersey, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Waycross, Georgia. This is the skating atheist. On this week's episode, The Washington Post puts the edit in editorialize. Republicans at CPAC plan to destroy the left with their girthy wriths.
1:13.9	And Michael Marshall will be here to give you new people to hate.
1:17.6	But first, the diatriad.
1:19.2	Music We talk so much about what a fucked up Supreme Court Trump has wrought,
1:37.8	that sometimes we forget how bad it was even before he got his hands on it.
1:43.0	I mean, this effort to redefine religious freedom and undermine the secular nature of our government,
1:48.2	sure the fuck didn't start with Trump.
1:50.8	The Trinity Lutheran decision, right, the one that said taxpayers had to pay to pretty up church property.
1:55.6	That happened in 2017.
1:57.0	He had one nominee on the court at that point, and that decision was seven to two.
2:03.2	And look, there have been a lot of bad decisions that favor Christianity and way more egregious ways since then,
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