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The Scathing Atheist

Scathing Atheist 80: Parenting Without God Edition

The Scathing Atheist

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy, Other

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2014

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Mark Driscoll will be defeated by the crappy James Bond, we'll make poop jokes, and Dan Arel will join us to discuss a few of the non-pedophile reasons to keep your kids away from churches.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Warning, this podcast contains explicit language and should not be listened to by people who are offended by words.

0:07.0

Today's episode of the Skating Atheist is brought to you by the new castration service for pedophile clergy, FRIER TUCKS.

0:13.5

Do you have a diocese filled with child rapists? In other words, do you have a diocese?

0:18.0

Well, thanks to the widespread availability of impartial information, it's getting harder and harder to talk new recruits into dedicating their lives to the celibate contemplation of an imaginary superhero.

0:26.0

So why waste perfectly good priests by transferring them to other parishes right before they can be investigated for sexual misconduct when you can just cut their nuts off?

0:33.0

Snip it in the bud with FRIER TUCKS because they're not supposed to use those things anyway. And now the Skating Atheist.

0:40.0

I'm Dan Errol, author of Parenting Without God, and I can assure you that we did, in fact, evolve from filthy monkey men.

0:57.0

It's August 28th!

1:02.0

And I'm 0.3 bar away from 33.3 bar. I'm Noah Luzanz, I'm Ethan Wright, and from Ruthless Plunder, New York, New York.

1:11.0

And toothless wonder, po-dog Georgia, this is the Skating Atheist.

1:16.0

On this week's episode, Mark Dristle gets outwitted by Timothy Dolt, worst one.

1:21.0

He will make boot jokes, and no babies were harmed during Noah's ice bucket time.

1:27.0

No, no, they were all already aborted. But first, the Dietriker.

1:32.0

The freshman year at college. I'm an anthropology 101, and the professor is talking about different systems of magic that various cultures believed in.

1:53.0

Throughout history, when a girl behind me chimes in with a question, and she's baffled, and she strikes me as the easily baffled type.

1:59.0

But she just can't understand how these people could keep believing in magic if it didn't work.

2:04.0

She says, and I believe this is a quote, how could they keep believing in it if it didn't do nothing?

2:10.0

And the professor is stumbling a bit, no doubt keenly aware of the gaudy four-inch crucifix hanging around her neck, so I offered an answer in his stead.

2:17.0

I said, why don't you just pray to Jesus that he answers that question for you?

2:22.0

And nobody laughed except for the professor who was clearly trying not to.

2:27.0

A couple of the students give me little pissy looks and stuff, but honestly, I think a lot of them didn't even realize what I was saying.

2:33.0

Now, it wouldn't be surprising if you would mistook it for an honest suggestion. They're like, well, if anybody'd know, it'd be Jesus.

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