ScathingAtheist 207: Originalist Gangsta Edition
The Scathing Atheist
Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, we prove that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to retweet it, being a douchebag finally pays off for Texas Governor Greg Abbott, and we revisit the Book of Mormon long enough to determine that it really is that crazy.
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Headlines: Short list of Trump SCOTUS nominees is terrifyingly religious: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/01/26/the-nominees-on-donald-trumps-supreme-court-shortlist-are-a-threat-to-churchstate-separation/ Trump vows priority immigration for Christians: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-approves-extreme-vetting-of-refugees-promises-priority-for-christians/2017/01/27/007021a2-e4c7-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html Mosque shooting in Quebec: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/world/americas/quebec-city-mosque-shooting-canada.html David Barton and Glenn Beck are gonna make a pseudo-history museum: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/glenn-beck-and-david-barton-are-seeking-donations-to-build-their-own-history-museum/ http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/01/27/glenn-beck-and-david-barton-want-to-build-a-history-museum-like-things-werent-bad-enough-already/ Kristin Hawkins: "Birth control and IUDs should be illegal." http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/01/29/anti-abortion-leader-to-msnbcs-joy-reid-birth-control-pills-and-iuds-should-be-illegal/ Scientists March on Washington (plus stories about gagging scientists, etc.): http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/scientists-plan-a-march-on-dc-to-speak-up-for-science-and-facts and https://www.marchforscience.com/ Reporter asks rep about “radical Christianity”, gets called a son of a bitch: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/01/27/after-reporter-asks-about-radical-christianity-former-tx-state-rep-calls-him-a-son-of-a-bitch Greg Abbott gets feminine hygiene products sent to his office after signing fetus burial act: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/bury-this-used-menstrual-products-pelted-at-texas-governor-after-he-signs-fetal-burial-order/
This Week in Misogyny: Pastor: Women’s marchers on the godless side of a spiritual war: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/01/26/christian-right-pastor-womens-march-participants-are-on-the-godless-side-of-a-spiritual-war/ MS State Senator on women’s march: Almost all liberal women are unhappy: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/01/26/mississippi-state-senator-reacts-to-womens-march-almost-all-liberal-women-are-unhappy/ Glenn Beck claims Women’s March was created by Soros/ISIS: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/glenn-beck-thinks-the-womens-march-was-george-sorosradical-islam-astroturf/
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this podcast was going to contain profanity even before current events gave it so many good reasons too. |
| 0:06.0 | This week's episode of The Skating Atheist is brought to you by |
| 0:11.0 | loomvat.com, lootcrate.com, and by Wall State Mexican Insurance Company. |
| 0:19.0 | They're in tiny little good hands with Wall State. |
| 0:23.0 | And now, The Skating Atheist. |
| 0:27.0 | This is Natalie and Dan of The Science Enthusiest Podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | Despite what you may have heard, we don't really think there was much intelligence put into our design as humans. |
| 0:36.0 | I mean, if we were intelligently designed, then why is it necessary to cut the end of babies' dicks off? |
| 0:43.0 | And then proceed to have a rabbi perform oral sex on the child? I mean, what is this? A Catholic church or something? |
| 0:49.0 | Which is why we assure you that we did, in fact, evolve from filthy monkey men. |
| 0:57.0 | The Skating Atheist. |
| 1:12.0 | Eh, it's Thursday. It's February 2nd. |
| 1:17.0 | And Sally Yates is a motherfucking bannet. |
| 1:20.0 | And she, though, I'm no illusions. |
| 1:23.0 | Ami Lai Bosnick, on Heathenright. |
| 1:25.0 | And for New York, New York, Secret Layer, Pennsylvania. |
| 1:29.0 | This is The Skating Atheist. |
| 1:31.0 | On this week's episode, we prove that those who don't learn from history are doomed to retweet it. |
| 1:37.0 | Being a douchebag finally pays off for Texas Governor Greg Attenham. |
| 1:41.0 | And we revisit the Book of Mormon long enough to determine that it really is that fucking crazy. |
| 1:46.0 | But first, the Diet Tram. |
| 1:52.0 | When I set out to write an essay, though, the problems with religion every week for 207 weeks in a row, |
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