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Scathing Atheist 452: F--king Waste of Time Edition (Patreon)

Published:
2021-10-14 03:12:51
Edited:
2024-03-05 15:54:49
Imported:
2026-06

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In this week’s episode,

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Guest Links:

To hear more of Anna’s stuff, check her out here: https://open.spotify.com/album/72NZaCJQW4XTnbujSKUMBR

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Headlines:

Lady gets ordained, immediately hands out 150 religious mask exemptions: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/10/12/a-mom-got-ordained-and-signed-150-mask-mandate-religious-exemptions/

Joel Osteen’s Church Is Finally Paying Back the $4,436,224 It Got in PPP Loans: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/10/11/joel-osteens-church-is-finally-paying-back-the-4436224-it-got-in-ppp-loans/

"Mercury Retrograde" has nothing to do with Facebook going down: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/10/05/mercury-retrograde-has-nothing-to-do-with-facebook-going-down/

Rod of Iron Ministries Keeps Getting Scarier: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avkdw/rod-of-iron-ministries-purchases-property-in-tennessee

CA Man Sues Psychic Who Promised (and Failed) to Destroy a Curse for $5,100: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/10/08/ca-man-sues-psychic-who-promised-and-failed-to-destroy-a-curse-for-5100/

Prophetess says moms get to decide the age of their aborted fetuses in heaven: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/10/04/prophetess-moms-get-to-decide-the-age-of-their-aborted-fetuses-in-heaven/

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This Week in Misogyny:

Mississippi AG wants “outdated” Roe v Wade overturned: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/10/01/mississippi-ag-roe-v-wade-should-be-overturned-because-its-out-of-date/

Misogynist rapper Logan Dorn now complaining about cancel culture: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/10/04/the-christian-who-harassed-women-on-the-beach-is-rapping-about-cancel-culture/

Comments

Oxford Comma is Mandatory

I think the graffiti reference in the song is a reference to the finger of god writing on the wall in Daniel.

Cory Schoelzel

I hear Matt moved close to Kent Hovind.

Pandemics suck

In the UK we've gone with the approach that you don't need any evidence for an exemption, you just say "I'm Exempt" and if asked about it say "Data Protection" then throw a fit if any further questions are asked. There's no law to back that up, but people just seem to accept it.

Chris K

Or, as a tourist in our village shop did last week, just shout "The government said I don't need a mask anymore, there's no law on that." and then storm off shouting "This is ridiculous" and dragging out their (masked) wife. In true L'esprit de l'escalier, when he'd gone, I wished I'd said "The government are dangerous incompetents and so are you" instead of "Prick".

Religion *is* Politics

Re: the diatribe - 1) My best reason to oppose Christianity and other fictional narratives is that they tend toward fascism 2) When I see something bad happening to someone else, I definitely do not prefer to think it happened for a reason

Oke518

Is there another way to get Anna's music for some reason Spotify has decided my account is tied to some account but is not an email on an account

Oke518

Well I searched for her name Bandcamp and it didn't come up

Oke518

I'm a filthy Android User. I appreciate the attempt though <3! I guess I'm out of luck until I can figure out what's going on with Spotify though it's looking bleak.

Oke518

I'll try those thank you!

Jo

I love when you guys do reviews of Christian music. I loved that shit growing up. It's halrious to listen to it now. And Anna always does such great parodies.

Jonas Snäckmark Honeyburst

Hearing my last name was like a childhood dream..and it sounded like snake-mark which is kinda bitchin! Great show!!

Darren Shea

I love the show, and it always cracks me up, but I swear my biggest laughs have come during the two God-Awful Music segments with Anna! Please, more of these! Special request: any Christian rock from the early 80's - Resurrection Band, Servant, Petra, Fireworks, even (🤢) Stryper! Pretty please???

George Corbin

I would like to thank Anna for getting the parody stuck in my head. I've played it back like six times now.

Duff Dyer

Noah, Your diatribe this week, as they often do, gave me an insight I appreciate. You asked, "Is it a benefit to believe your life has meaning." I don't subscribe to the idea that our lives have "meaning." Philosophically, I can't see how in a universe as potentially infinite as we think the universe in which we live is, that the life of a single human, or even all the lives of all humans collectively, have some meaning or purpose. But I do think it's damn near impossible to live our daily lives as if they don't. I think believing our lives have a meaning/purpose is a fundamental emergent quality of human consciousness. Unless I focus my thoughts on the topic, at any moment in my life, I "feel" like my life has meaning/purpose. I think everyone does. In my case, and I assume it's the same for most SA fans, my innate "feeling" of the purpose of my life is to live as comfortable and happy a life as possible, which manifests as avoiding pain, seeking pleasure, and taking care of my loved ones to the best of my ability. We all fall for the siren call of greater purpose. Every morning as my family heads off to their day I say to them, "Do good work. Make the world a better place." I'm please that they take this seriously, or so they tell me. But what would doing good work and making the world a better place achieve in the big picture. The misanthropic humanist in me says that the answer is, "Nothing really." But we can't help ourselves. We innately want to do good work and make the world a better place. I have a long-time friend who's politics (based on the way he votes and the policies he supports) is well to the right of mine. We've had a number of conversations that have resulted in the agreement that while we disagree on the method (policies) of getting there, we both want basically the same outcome: a better world where people can be happy and successful. As your diatribe connected the human drive for meaning and purpose to the search for a more perfect narrative, and the dangers to which that drive exposes our poorly evolved brains, I reflected on how no matter how much I disagree with so many on the Right and the religious in particular, they are just like me in that we all have the emergent quality of human consciousness that makes us feel like our lives have meaning and purpose. And unless we stop to remind ourselves that they really don't, while we are implementing our individual efforts to do good work and make the world a better place, we can't help but feel righteous in the attempt. All of this is to say that I have to remind myself, as I'm seething about one or the other repugnant thing someone I disagree with is doing, that we are all (with some exceptions that your podcasts highlight regularly) human, doing our best with what we have to achieve good. (Evil doesn't think it's evil, if that's really even a thing.) Ok, ramble done. I have to go do good work and make my little corner of the world a better place. Keep doing what you do, you make my world a better place every Thursday morning. Duff

Matthew Laird

Yaaaaaas Stryper! Need parodies of that. Only way to redeme that "music"

Matthew Laird

Does anyone else have wonderful dreams of the Scathing Album? Specifically learning every one of Anna (and Noah)'s parodies, getting a band together, and then sneaking into a church as a Praise and Worship band? I have that dream a lot.

Brandi Mattison

Let me know when and where, I’ll show up to sit with the congregation!