The Scathing Atheist

• 633: Narco Rubio Edition

  On this week's episode: The Trump administration starts their hunt for anti-Christian heffalumps ... A Christian pastor avoids the TSA sexuality trap by demanding a cavity search ... And Don Ford will be here to dig into the post-sassy-gay-Jesus portion of the Bible. --- To make a per episode donation at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist To buy our book, click here: https://www.amazon.com/Outbreak-Crisis-Religion-Ruined-Pandemic/dp/B08L2HSVS8/ If you see a news story you think we might be interested in, you can send it here: [email protected] To check out our sister show, The Skepticrat, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-skepticrat To check out our sister show’s hot friend, God Awful Movies, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/god-awful-movies To check out our half-sister show, Citation Needed, click here: http://citationpod.com/ To check out our sister show’s sister show, D and D minus, click here: https://danddminus.libsyn.com/ To hear more from our intrepid audio engineer Morgan Clarke, click here: https://www.morganclarkemusic.com/ Help support the show by checking out our sponsors: mintmobile.com/scathing stamps.com  (code: SCATHING) betterhelp.com/scathing --- Headlines: See something, snitch something - State Department’s "anti-Christian bias" witch hunt begins: https://apnews.com/article/state-department-religion-doge-rubio-trump-christian-biden-4fdb73a0cbf5651789b1aced667c2aba ‘Thousands like us’ - couples to take UK government to court over humanist marriages: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr/11/thousands-like-us-couples-take-uk-government-to-court-over-humanist-marriages American Atheists file briefs in two SCOTUS cases about American education: https://www.atheists.org/2025/04/american-atheists-files-briefs-in-two-supreme-court-cases-to-defend-secular-public-education/ Aiming to limit damages, Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn't the same as a person: https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/09/aiming-to-limit-damages-catholic-hospital-argues-a-fetus-isnt-the-same-as-a-person/ James Lankford introduces a bill to gut the Johnson Amendment: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/sen-james-lankford-knows-the-irs Christian pastor prefers frisks from male airport security agents because scanners ‘turn you gay’: https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/11/andrew-isker-tsa-full-body-scanners/

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• 632: Mere Cleared Edition

  In this week’s episode, Christians find the only thing harder to apologize for than God, a church in England fires up Sunday Morning Raw, and we’ll finally close the book on CS Lewis. --- To make a per episode donation at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist To buy our book, click here: https://www.amazon.com/Outbreak-Crisis-Religion-Ruined-Pandemic/dp/B08L2HSVS8/ If you see a news story you think we might be interested in, you can send it here: [email protected] To check out our sister show, The Skepticrat, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-skepticrat To check out our sister show’s hot friend, God Awful Movies, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/god-awful-movies To check out our half-sister show, Citation Needed, click here: http://citationpod.com/ To check out our sister show’s sister show, D and D minus, click here: https://danddminus.libsyn.com/ Report instances of harassment or abuse connected to this show to the Creator Accountability Network here: https://creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org/ --- Headlines: Christian nationalists going crazy trying to justify Trump’s tariffs: https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/tim-barton-attempts-make-biblical-case-trumps-tariffs and https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/let-him-cook-glenn-beck-and-kevin-roberts-flack-trumps-tariff-policy and https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/tony-perkins-suggests-wall-street-intentionally-tanking-stock-market-spite-trump Minnesota lawmaker's bill to "advance critical thinking" actually pushes Christian mythology: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/minnesota-lawmakers-bill-to-advance Catholic Church denounces online sale of Carlo Acutis relics: https://apnews.com/article/carlo-acutis-millennial-saint-relics-sale-italy-catholic-f5a65136f90673ed038cc2e61dd76368 British tax loophole encourages pubs to be churches: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/23/ye-of-little-faith-the-tax-loophole-that-turns-old-pubs-into-places-of-worship A historic Black church took the Proud Boys to court and now it controls their trademark: https://apnews.com/article/black-church-lawsuit-proud-boys-trademark-75da1ea60ab17a324e0dedf7fe2b06c4 England’s Wrestling Church seeks converts with baptisms and body slams: https://apnews.com/article/wrestling-church-shipley-england-gareth-thompson-987bdb744b34aab059349a97fa783184

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• 631: Chasten the Dragon Edition

  In this week’s episode, Satan comes to Kansas, George Pell will get uncomfortably close to a child, one last time, and Marsh will tickle the dragon’s tale. --- Learn more about our Portland live show. To make a per episode donation at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist To buy our book, click here: https://www.amazon.com/Outbreak-Crisis-Religion-Ruined-Pandemic/dp/B08L2HSVS8/ If you see a news story you think we might be interested in, you can send it here: [email protected] To check out our sister show, The Skepticrat, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-skepticrat To check out our sister show’s hot friend, God Awful Movies, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/god-awful-movies To check out our half-sister show, Citation Needed, click here: http://citationpod.com/ To check out our sister show’s sister show, D and D minus, click here: https://danddminus.libsyn.com/ Report instances of harassment or abuse connected to this show to the Creator Accountability Network here: https://creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org/ --- Guest Links: Check out more from Marsh on Skeptics with a K and the Know Rogan Experience. Check out Liz Rosenberg’s new book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1958325244 or https://marblepress.com/giant-baby/ --- Headlines: OK superintendent sues FFRF for pointing out he’s breaking the law: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahomas-ryan-walters-sues-atheists Black Mass at Kansas state capitol goes how you expected: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/chaos-at-the-kansas-capitol-satanists It's mold, not a miracle: The Catholic Church’s latest eucharistic blunder https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/its-mold-not-a-miracle-the-catholic Labour council tries to ban Christian street preachers https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/29/rushmoor-council-injunction-christian-street-preachers-ban/  CIA found the Ark of the Covenant by using psychics, declassified files claim https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ark-covenant-located-cia-documents-psychic-b2723264.html Paula White using position in White House Faith Office to promote grift… other than just Christianity, I mean: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/paula-whites-pay-to-pray-scam-trumps Family attributes toddler’s recovery after near-drowning to Cardinal Pell’s intercession https://thecatholicherald.com/family-attributes-toddlers-survival-after-near-drowning-to-cardinal-pell/

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• 630: Mercola Tapes Edition

  In this week’s episode, Republicans solidify their position on HARM, Pete Hegseth teaches us about the butt dialing group chat section from The Art of War, and Jonathan Jarry will be here to convince you that Joseph Mercola actually is nuttier than you thought. --- To make a per episode donation at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist To buy our book, click here: https://www.amazon.com/Outbreak-Crisis-Religion-Ruined-Pandemic/dp/B08L2HSVS8/ If you see a news story you think we might be interested in, you can send it here: [email protected] To check out our sister show, The Skepticrat, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-skepticrat To check out our sister show’s hot friend, God Awful Movies, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/god-awful-movies To check out our half-sister show, Citation Needed, click here: http://citationpod.com/ To check out our sister show’s sister show, D and D minus, click here: https://danddminus.libsyn.com/ Report instances of harassment or abuse connected to this show to the Creator Accountability Network here: https://creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org/ --- Guest Links: Learn more about the Mercola Tapes here: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition-pseudoscience/exclusive-videos-show-dr-joe-mercolas-dangerous-ideas-whipped-alleged-medium Find more of Jonathan Jarry’s work here: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/articles-by-author/Jonathan%20Jarry%20M.Sc. --- Headlines: Dems reintroduce “Do No Harm” Bill to remind us that Republicans insist on doing harm: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/democrats-re-introduce-the-do-no BC Court of Appeal says privacy law does not infringe religious freedom: https://www.bchumanist.ca/bcca_privacy_release White House is selling corporate sponsorships for the Easter Egg Roll: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/us/politics/trump-easter-egg-roll-sponsors.html?smid=nytcore-android-share Religious leaders lose shit over Satanic Black Mass: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/lawmakers-and-catholic-leaders-flip Columbus school district bans candy bribes used to lure kids to Bible classes: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/columbus-school-district-bans-candy Pete Hegseth sent secret war plans for attacking Houthis to journalist by accident: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/ https://www.newsweek.com/trump-secret-houthi-war-plans-goldberg-hegseth-2049762

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• 629: John Musings Edition

  In this week’s episode, Robert Morris LEAPS ahead of Philip in last name assholery, we learn from a SECRET Vatican document that the future is actually now, and we’ll finally get to the first book of the Bible named after a toilet. --- To make a per episode donation at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist To buy our book, click here: https://www.amazon.com/Outbreak-Crisis-Religion-Ruined-Pandemic/dp/B08L2HSVS8/ If you see a news story you think we might be interested in, you can send it here: [email protected] To check out our sister show, The Skepticrat, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-skepticrat To check out our sister show’s hot friend, God Awful Movies, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/god-awful-movies To check out our half-sister show, Citation Needed, click here: http://citationpod.com/ To check out our sister show’s sister show, D and D minus, click here: https://danddminus.libsyn.com/ Report instances of harassment or abuse connected to this show to the Creator Accountability Network here: https://creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org/ --- Guest Links: Check Eli out on the “Bring Me The Axe!” podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/143VD2m2wUwWe90MA7j9NZ Learn more about Noah’s talk for Skeptics in the Pub Online here: https://sitp.online/show/god-awful-gaming-noah-lugeons/ --- Headlines: RFK Jr’s plan for bird flu (from the Diatribe): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/health/kennedy-bird-flu.html Megachurch founder and Trump “spiritual advisor” Robert Morris indicted for child sex abuse: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/megachurch-founder-robert-morris Peter Popoff’s "Miracle Spring Water" scam costs religious TV network £150,000: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/peter-popoffs-miracle-spring-water Crazy Christian Post article about the conclusion of the DOJ investigation of the SBC: https://www.christianpost.com/news/doj-ends-investigation-of-sbc.html 900-year-old Vatican doomsday prophecy resurfaces amid Pope Francis’ illness: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/03/14/900-year-old-vatican-doomsday-prophecy-resurfaces-amid-pope-francis-illness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes --- This Week in Misogyny: Texas arrests midwife for providing abortions: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74kr8vp4w0o Christian misogynists can’t get women to show up at their singles events: https://www.wonkette.com/p/ladies-now-is-your-chance-to-meet

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