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ScathingAtheist 403: Electile Dysfunction Edition (Patreon)

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2020-11-05 06:16:17
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2026-06

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In this week’s episode, you’ll take a deep breath, stop clicking refresh for a minute, and laugh at something for a bit. Because you desperately need and deserve that.

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Headlines:

Jerry Falwell Jr. is Suing Liberty University for Ruining His Reputation

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/10/29/jerry-falwell-jr-is-suing-liberty-university-for-ruining-his-reputation/

Pissing pastor resigns, gets sued: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/11/02/peeing-pastor-resigns-shuts-down-ministry-and-gets-hit-with-2-million-lawsuit/

Angry Christian Mom Condemns Uber Eats for Ads With “Queer Eye” Star in Leotard: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/10/29/angry-christian-mom-condemns-uber-eats-for-ads-with-queer-eye-star-in-leotard/

The Christian Broadcasting Network is Worried That Witches Cast a Spell on Trump

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/10/26/the-christian-broadcasting-network-is-worried-that-witches-cast-a-spell-on-trump/

Kenneth Copeland: Christians are now immune to COVID: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2020/10/televangelist-kenneth-copeland-claims-christians-are-now-immune-to-covid-19/

Atheists Warn Chicago Cops: Don’t Get Your Horses Blessed at Church Services: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/11/01/atheists-warn-chicago-cops-dont-get-your-horses-blessed-at-church-services/

Preacher: 60 Million Aborted Fetuses Would Totally Vote for Trump if They Could

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/10/29/preacher-60-million-aborted-fetuses-would-totally-vote-for-trump-if-they-could/

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This Week in Misogyny:

Poland’s women kick much ass: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/31/europe/poland-abortion-protests-scli-intl/index.html

Lindsey Graham: Women can go anywhere … if they’re anti-abortion: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/11/01/gop-senator-women-can-do-anything-if-theyre-anti-abortion-and-traditional/

Christian Leader: Men responsible for how their wives vote: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/10/30/conservative-christian-leader-a-man-is-responsible-for-how-his-wife-votes/

Comments

I’mNotSayingThat

Just finished listening to your diatribe, Noah, and you’re not wrong... at all. I ended up listening to my mother on the phone for forty minutes today lamenting the potential election of Joe Biden. Among other things, she claimed that AOC wants to abolish private property and shut down churches (because expecting them to abide by the same gathering size, masking, and social distancing guidelines everyone else should be adhering to is apparently a form of persecution), that God must be abandoning us for “murdering children,” and that the Biden administration will actively persecute Christians. Her exact goddamned quote was that “the nazis came for the Jews,” suggesting that conservative Christians will be rounded up in the socialist dystopia to come. She’s long been obsessed with the holocaust, and the potential for it to happen again, but always, ALWAYS in the context of being the VICTIM instead of the silent ENABLER. She doesn’t seem to give the slightest hint of a shit that there actually ARE concentration camps in this country right now, where children are torn from their families with no mechanism or intent of ever reuniting them again, where women are sterilized without consent — and that the goddamned Attorney General of the United States went on national television and QUOTED FROM THE F*CKING BIBLE TO JUSTIFY IT. Not that she’d ever admit it. This administration gave half the country permission to dismiss anything they don’t want to hear as fake news with no investigation or contemplation whatsoever, and gave them enemies on whom to blame all of their problems in the form of those who are not like them. How the hell do we come back from that? I don’t know how to deprogram a cultist in denial that they’re in a cult. Try talking to my father about anything, and one week and no less than ten hours of Rush Limbaugh later, he’s reset to factory defaults. I don’t know how the hell I’m even supposed to have a conversation with that. These people are so obsessed with their own POTENTIAL victimization that they think pre-emptively victimizing others around them is a justified deterrent.

Mark H

Thank you. Reading that just made me cry. Hard.

Mark H

Preemptively victimizing others is the whole game isn’t it?

Brendan H.

Crap. They've broken Noah. Take care man...

JCS

My ear buds melted during that diatribe.

Alextomcool

This might be the first time I've heard the term "sciencism." I usually just hear the term "evolutionism" and that means everything in science that apologists don't like.

Robert Fischer

Can we get the text of that diatribe?

Robert Fischer

That's the first time you've heard "sciencism"/"scientism"? I want to live under the rock where you've been living... (But I bet it's not in North Carolina...)

DJA

Upside is that Biden gained 5 million votes over Clinton, downside is that Trump gained 6 million hate filled votes over 2016. No Blue Wave, its reddish. Again, show title writes itself!

Tim, Yes that Tim - the social media guy

#ScathingAtheist 403 Diatribe by Noah Lugeons (11/5/20) ~ 🔊: https://audioboom.com/posts/7722800 So normally I try to record my diatribe before dinner on Wednesday so I can get the show out early for Patrons and get to be done working before midnight. But this week I didn’t even start writing the damn thing until almost midnight. I kept on staring at the election map, waiting for some clarity, eager to properly calibrate my anger for this one. Well, I didn’t get clarity. Maybe you have some by the time you hear this. Hopefully things continue the way they’re looking and Biden takes it in the squeaker. And if that’s the case, we only need to turn the anger up to 10.998. Because as idiotic as this outcome is, at least it doesn’t appear to be the stupidest thing imaginable - which, let’s face it, is what we’ve come to expect from this dumb-ass fucking country. All that being said, I’d say it’s dumber than 2016, even assuming a Biden victory. Knowing everything we now know about Donald Trump; after four years of corruption, lies, incompetence, fraud, negligence, vituperations, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, self-dealing, nepotism, divisiveness, and - binding all that shit together like the mortar - the relentless, frothing-at-the-mouth stupidity … after all that the best we as a nation can muster is a tepid “probably not, I guess.” I mean, I was wrong. I was so fucking wrong. I thought, because I had such a low opinion of the American populace I couldn’t possibly be overestimating them. I thought so little of us that it didn’t even seem mathematically possible for us to be worse that I gave us credit for. But we are. For there to be even the remotest chance of America rescuing some shred of it’s international dignity we needed a goddamn landslide. We needed a mandate of historic proportions. We needed to stand up and say “enough” in a single voice. And I genuinely thought that’s what we’d do. I genuinely believed that we never would have made this mistake in 2016 if we really knew what we were getting into. And I was wrong. Millions of us are just willing to march blindly in to some theocratic idiocracy even as the bodies drop by the thousands around us and for what!? What do they get out of it? It’s literally just that they get to win. It’s spite. There’s no agenda. Trump hasn’t accomplished anything. He hasn’t promised to accomplish anything. He literally ran with no platform other than to agree with himself. And that was enough for damn near half of American voters. And I honestly don’t know what to do with that. It seems to undercut the whole foundation of humanism to me. Is it naive to hope that these fucking idiots will ever be worth our trouble? Should we just look after ourselves, gather in a tight circle, and point our guns outward in all directions? As bad as that sounds it’s getting really hard to argue that anything else is more sensible. We’re surrounded by idiots that would send you to the gas chamber just to avoid losing a Twitter fight. In 2016 I was left wondering if we could be saved. In 2020 I’m left wondering whether we should be. And look, I don’t want to promote hate. I don’t want to say we should hate the other side. But … we should kinda hate the other side. We’re talking about people who have no particular qualms about kidnapping children as a deterrent to their parents. And if we insist on continuing to imbue people like that with some kind of basic humanity, we risk finding ourselves forever chained to this station: This position where we stand there gawking at the electoral map going “how the fuck can any of this be close!?” To ascribe some kind of moral foundation to the American people is to reject all the observable evidence at this point. I’m not saying that the people on the other side are evil, I’m saying that their actions are funtionally indistinguishable from evil. I mean, keep telling yourself that asshole with the Trump sign in his yard is the kind of person that would run into a burning building to save a neighbor. He won’t put on a fucking mask to save a neighbor. And whether that’s because he’s evil, stupid, or undereducated and misled doesn’t fucking matter much when you’re that neighbor. Our nation is rotten all the way through. It’s deeply, fundamentally, foundationally broken. And our tendency to see the good in the people around us - our combination of empathy and cultural blindness - leaves us in a terrible position if we wanna fix it. We refuse to recognize the problem because to truly grasp how evil and shitty America is, you have to admit how evil and shitty the people you care about are. You have to admit that Uncle Frank isn’t just an asshole, he’s evil. Aunt Cathy isn’t just stupid, she’s dangerous. And even after you just watched them spend four years pledging undying allegiance to someone as unapologetically malicious as Donald Trump, you still bristle when I apply terms like that to them. Even now, as you watch them leap to his defense and threaten to take up arms against democracy, you can’t help but think “Evil, Noah? Really?” We can’t afford that kind of naivety. This is a life and death struggle and the deaths are already well into the six figure range. We need to stare the ugliness of America right in the face without pretending that America is some immutable system that happens in Washington DC and state capital buildings. We need to see how evil and terrible this nation is even if we can only see some of its blemishes in the mirror. Because the story about the Emperor’s new clothes takes on a much darker tone when it’s twenty degrees below zero. And it’s never been colder than it is right now.

Jason Benell

Can we share the diatribe publically?

Stephanie Groth

Oh....my god...."Don't awww at ME, you bald Mick!" made me choke-laugh!

Tankard

nice diatribe Noah. took you long enough but you finally got on my level. lol

Cyn R Johnson

So far I’ve just finished the diatribe. Noah, you’ve said it with full throated clarity. Now we need to fight for our lives and our future. Time to stiffen our spines and resist!

Oxford Comma is Mandatory

I already had no hope of this country doing anything right in my lifetime, but with these results I still manage to be disappointed in the fact that half of our fellow citizens would rather back the worst humanity has to offer than admit they're wrong.

SafetyRabbit

I am not ready to live in a world where God Awful Books is over, hope the segment returns!

Ken Bonilla

I understand that you all don't want to pressure your listeners to donate to Modest Needs, and that you make a lot of extra work for yourself by raising money in the most amazing way possible. What about doing a limited vulgarity for charity with something like a $500-1000 minimum donation for an insult? I give to Modest Needs every month, but I've been saving for a very special Tom rant this year and man would that be the highlight of my decade. Something to consider, keep being awesome!

Rev. Random VanGogh

Thank and/or fuck you for saying, during the diatribe, exactly what I’ve been thinking for the past 4 years. Way to step on my remaining feel, guy.

I’mNotSayingThat

It’s a bit less focused on Christianity specifically, but I’d recommend “The Last Centurion” by John Ringo as the next one to eviscerate. It’s the story/right-wing polemic of a worldwide bird flu pandemic which is mismanaged by a hypothetical Hillary Clinton administration to a degree that Donald Trump somehow managed to surpass. Also apparently we managed to invade and conquer Iran with casual ease before the outbreak, and a captain in the US Army (the viewpoint character) who is the leader of a platoon left behind there to guard a logistics base forms a literal harem out of Iranian refugee women.

Andre Hebert

“Who put this chair next to my desk?!”