The Scathing Atheist

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: scathingnews@gmail.com 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

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: scathingnews@gmail.com 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/

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: scathingnews@gmail.com 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

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: scathingnews@gmail.com 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

On this week's episode: Even the outbreaks are bigger in Texas ... Moms For Liberty opens a narcing hotline for anyone who needs any stitches ... And we’ll say all the words Trump doesn’t want us to. --- 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: ScathingNews@gmail.com 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) https://betterhelp.com/scathing --- Headlines: Amid measles outbreak, Christian school brags about having the worst vax rates in Texas: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/amid-measles-outbreak-christian-school Do aborted babies go to Heaven or Hell?: https://www.christianpost.com/voices/do-aborted-babies-go-to-heaven-or-hell.html These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html FCC Boss Brendan Carr harasses Google for not carrying right wing religious programming: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/trump-fcc-boss-brendan-carr-harasses-google-for-not-carrying-right-wing-religious-programming/ Missouri bill would let residents donate to anti-abortion centers instead of paying any taxes: https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-pregnancy-resource-centers-anti-abortion-tax-credit-bill Moms for Liberty teams up with Trump to open snitch line against diversity in public schools: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-education-department-snitch-portal-against-diversity-1235282457/ James Lindsay's ridiculous oversized sword video: https://x.com/ConceptualJames/status/1261810420437876743

On this week’s episode: Beating kids in Oklahoma is all about inclusion ... Devout Catholics back that ash up to kick off Lent ... And Cecil helps us get to know someone who never gets to know. --- 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: ScathingNews@gmail.com 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/ To hear more from our intrepid audio engineer Morgan Clarke, click here: https://www.morganclarkemusic.com/ Help support the show by checking out our sponsor: https://betterhelp.com/scathing --- Guest Links: Cecil and Marsh's fantastic new show: https://www.knowrogan.com/ --- Headlines: First openly gay Imam murdered in Africa:  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05l33j7rq7o Speaker Mike Johnson is living in a DC house that's the center of a pastor’s secretive influence campaign: https://www.propublica.org/article/mike-johnson-evangelical-pastor-steve-berger-roommates JD Vance invokes medieval Catholic concept called "ordo amoris" to justify xenophobia: https://apnews.com/article/jd-vance-catholic-theology-migration-e868af574fb2e742c6ed3d756c569769 https://apnews.com/article/pope-trump-migration-09a89091f8e7dc3270099f0947d04e90 https://apnews.com/article/vice-president-jd-vance-pope-francis-immigration-4f05693320524f9976d3b9ebe31b3f97 Upcoming book by shitty atheists weaponize the war on science against trans people: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/prominent-atheists-are-weaponizing Christian lawmaker still wants teachers to be able to hit students with disabilities: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-lawmaker-still-wants-teachers Churches offering drive thru ashes for Ash Wednesday: https://www.christianpost.com/news/churches-offering-drive-thru-ashes-for-ash-wednesday.html

In this week’s episode, we’ll get good news about pews from Pew, British Bishops make an illegal move, and we’ll learn who’s succeeding Cardinal Pell as Australia’s worst living person. --- 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: scathingnews@gmail.com 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. Learn more about American Atheists’ annual convention here: https://convention.atheists.org/ Check out more from Gate Theory here: https://gatetheory.com/ --- Headlines: Survey mentioned in the diatribe: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/decline-of-christianity-in-the-us-has-slowed-may-have-leveled-off/ Pew survey shows low levels of Christian nationalism in America: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/01/28/comparing-levels-of-religious-nationalism-around-the-world/ Despite republican efforts, the gayness persists  https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/despite-republican-attacks-americans Bishop of Liverpool resigns after assault claims https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq6gze93mpno  Bishop comes forward as Bishop of Liverpool accuser https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj30ddrjm7o Nominee to be the next Bishop of Durham withdraws from appointment https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/21-february/news/uk/nominee-for-see-of-durham-withdraws-from-appointment  Church of England bishop calls for disestablishment https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2025/02/church-of-england-bishop-calls-for-disestablishment  Dusty Deevers insane laws fail https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahoma-lawmakers-shoot-down-slew Ryan Walters now wants “Bible based character lessons” for Oklahoma public school students: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahoma-wants-to-buy-bible-based Nigel Farage: Britons must have more children to save Judeo-Christian culture https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/nigel-farage-britons-must-have-more-children-to-save-judeo-christian-culture-nkq60pjwl   /  https://archive.is/atD2B  --- This Week in Misogyny: Anti-abortion Trump supporters freaking out over IVF order: https://religionnews.com/2025/02/21/trumps-ivf-executive-order-worries-abortion-foes/ SCOTUS declines to hear challenge to abortion clinic “bubble laws”: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/politics/abortion-clinics-protest-zones-supreme-court/index.html Christian efforts to disenfranchise women: https://newrepublic.com/article/191420/christian-nationalism-save-act-voter-suppression

In this week’s extended-edition episode, we’ll search Amazon for theocracy stopping backpacks, JD Vance goes to Germany and says what he will about the tenets of national socialism, and we’ll watch a Christian grift video that Oral Roberts would say is a little much. --- 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: scathingnews@gmail.com 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: Trio of terrifying stories about religion in schools: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/alabama-schools-could-lose-funding and https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahoma-lawmaker-i-dont-want-pink and https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/north-dakota-republicans-push-bill Christian post loses their minds over “Trans Sanctuary City” Meeting: https://www.christianpost.com/news/lesbian-pastor-blasphemes-jesus-as-drag-queen-at-council-meeting.html Ted Cruz's list of "woke" science includes self-driving cars and solar eclipses: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5295043/sen-ted-cruzs-list-of-woke-science-includes-self-driving-cars-solar-eclipses National Science Foundation has to deal with giant list of absurd "banned words": https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/02/04/national-science-foundation-trump-executive-orders-words/ Australia refuses to fix the religion question on their census: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/australia-will-keep-screwing-up-the Ken Ham give us his tips for Valentine's Day: https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2025/02/14/ken-hams-dating-tips-valentines-day/ JD Vance rebukes anti-free speech, anti-Christian discrimination in Munich speech: https://www.christianpost.com/news/jd-vance-rebukes-anti-free-speech-anti-christian-discrimination.html Trump Officials Attack a German Consensus on Nazis and Speech: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/world/europe/vance-musk-nazis-afd-munich.html The video from this week’s Mini:  https://youtu.be/zfWJifqSM6E?si=iwe42fbDktc5ZTbf

In this week’s episode, Donald Trump checks under Christianity's bed for monsters, the decor at Mar-a-Lago is getting pretty goatse, and Jesus will get downright parabular. Which is apparently a real word. --- 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: scathingnews@gmail.com 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/ --- Headlines: Trump signs order to fight “anti-Christian bigotry”: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/trumps-task-force-to-eradicate-anti and https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/eradicating-anti-christian-bias/ Christian Group Rages Over “Soft Porn” Carl’s Jr. Ad: https://www.joemygod.com/2025/02/christian-group-rages-over-soft-porn-carls-jr-ad/ Dr. Phil joins immigration raid in Chicago - ICE gets sued on religious grounds: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/27/trump-immigration-dr-phil-chicago-raids https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/quaker-groups-file-suit-end-policy-restricting-ice-arrests-houses-wors-rcna189471 Trump re-establishes WH faith-based initiative bullshit, puts Paula White in charge: https://religionnews.com/2025/02/10/with-new-faith-office/ Gamer priest defrocked and the staff of his God is a Geek website quits after he imitates Elon Musk's salute: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/calvin-robinson-defrocked-god-is-a-geek-staff-resigns/ Trump has literal golden goat idol at Mar-a-Lago covered in $100 Trump bills: https://meidasnews.com/news/internet-reacts-to-golden-hoofed-trump-cash-covered-goat-idol-at-mar-a-lago

In this week’s episode, Washington and Montana break god’s super best friend promise, a new bill in Mississippi aims to teach people that erections have consequences, and the answer to “who dat?” turns out to be way worse than we 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: scathingnews@gmail.com 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/ --- Headlines: WA and Montana Lawmaker want to make priests mandatory reporters: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/wa-lawmaker-defends-bill-making-priests and https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/montana-democrats-want-to-require Wyoming anti-abortion bill would make chemo illegal cause they’re idiots: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/wyoming-republicans-anti-abortion-bill Christian investment group takes credit for pressuring Meta into ending fact-checking: https://www.christianpost.com/voices/meta-facebook-christian-investing-fact-checking-censorship.html NO Saints helped Catholics cover up child rape: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/business/new-orleans-saints-catholic-church-abuse.html Mississippi lawmaker introduces 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act': https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mississippi-lawmaker-introduces-contraception-begins-erection-act-rcna188938 https://www.newsweek.com/democrat-proposing-masturbation-fines-receives-death-threats-2023404