683: Rope a Pope Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Donald Trump gets THIS close to saying he won the papal election too, we meet a bigotry-based puppet act almost as obnoxious as Jeff Dunham, and Ross Douthat will devote six whole pages to the problem of evil.
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Headlines:
Trump feuds with Pope: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/13/us/trump-news and https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pope-leo-what-they-said-c9a721a132f1941eaebc139e1213937d
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/11/anthropic-christians-claude-morals/
Nuns caring for cancer patients challenge NY LGBT law forcing them to 'violate' beliefs on sex: https://www.christianpost.com/news/nuns-challenge-new-york-lgbt-law-they-say-violates-their-faith.html
Newsmax reports that aliens are too androgynous and never pee standing up: https://www.wonkette.com/p/newsmax-guy-why-do-we-never-see-aliens
Trump shares image of himself as Jesus: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/trump-social-media-jesus-image-deleted-00869061
National puppetry group faces backlash for platforming anti-LGBTQ Christian puppetry group
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/national-puppetry-group-faces-backlash
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Winning, this week's episode contains fuck. |
| 0:02.7 | This week's episode of The Skathing Atheist is brought to you by |
| 0:05.2 | The Relentless Nature of Resistance to Authoritarianism |
| 0:08.6 | and the relentless nature of dick jokes, but mostly the first one. |
| 0:13.5 | And now, The Skaithing Atheist. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello, I am a Midwestern school-based mental health therapist |
| 0:20.6 | with a name just unique enough to be easily identifiable. |
| 0:25.1 | Despite my inclination to refer to the world we live in as actual fucking hell, |
| 0:30.6 | I can assure you we did, in fact, evolve from filthy monkey people. |
| 0:52.9 | Yeah. from filthy monkey people. It's Thursday. |
| 0:58.4 | It's April 16th. |
| 0:59.8 | And it's national Ask an Atheist Day. |
| 1:02.6 | And I'm going to need a definition of chucking before I weigh in with an answer, I think. |
| 1:06.4 | I'm no illusions. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Eli Bosnick. |
| 1:09.1 | I'm Heath Henwright. |
| 1:10.3 | And from Rogers,'s, New Jersey, |
| 1:12.3 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Wakeross, Georgia. This is the skating east. On this week's episode, |
| 1:17.7 | Donald Trump gets this close to saying he won the papal election as well. We meet a bigotry-based |
| 1:24.1 | puppet act almost as obnoxious as Jeff Dunham. And Ross dealt that it'll devote six whole pages to the problem of evil. |
| 1:31.2 | But first, the diatribe. |
| 1:56.7 | Among the bog of cluster fucks that surrounds Donald Trump, the one that I've had the most fun watching in the perverse sense that we use the word fun this far into the apocalypse, has been his religious liberty commission. |
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