The Scathing Atheist - ScathingAtheist 178: Batman and Jesus Edition

Episode Date: July 14, 2016

In this week’s episode, the amusement park about a flood opens with zero water rides, Westboro Baptist Church pretends they just got their first gay trainer, and Jozef K Richards will be here to discuss his upcoming film, Batman and Jesus. Click Here to make a per episode donation at Patreon.com Click Here to buy our book. Click Here to check out The Skepticrat. Click Here to check out God Awful Movies. Guest Links: Click Here to see the Batman and Jesus trailer in all its glory. Click Here to check out Jozef’s website. You can also follow Batman and Jesus on Facebook. Click Here to check out Jozef’s series Holy Shit. Click Here for more info on the upcoming Price/Ehrman debate at the Mythinformation Conference Click Here to hear Heath and Noah on Mythicist Milwaukee. Click Here to learn more about Recovering From Religion. Headlines: Ark Park Opening: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/06/noahs-ark-encounter-kentucky-replica-unveiled and http://religionnews.com/2016/07/07/a-flood-of-guests-expected-as-noahs-ark-theme-park-opens-in-kentucky/ Gay couple denied birthday cakehttp://www.13abc.com/content/news/Same-sex-couple-denied-a-birthday-cake-by-local-bakery-385783221.html WBC gets trolled by gay Pokemon: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/07/10/westboro-baptist-church-recruits-jigglypuff-pokemon-against-lgbt-community-pokemon-go/86928150/ Guy dresses up as gay zombie pot heads to hand out gospel pamphletshttp://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/07/christians-pose-gay-pothead-zombies-spread-hate-toronto-pride/#.V3w7RcFi6fI.facebook Priest will get maximum 2 years for raping preteen boy with a crucifix http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/07/08/for-raping-a-pre-teen-boy-with-a-crucifix-irish-priest-will-get-at-most-two-years-in-jail/ Straight pride shirt by steven anderson: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/07/03/christian-pastors-new-straight-pride-shirt-cites-bible-verse-calling-for-death-of-gay-people/ This Week in Misogyny: 13 year olds can’t get married anymore https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/why-13-year-olds-can-no-longer-marry-in-virginia/2016/07/03/03849e46-3ef9-11e6-a66f-aa6c1883b6b1_story.html 46 year old pastor gets 10 year old girl pregnant http://www.local10.com/news/crime/46-year-old-pastor-gets-10-year-old-girl-pregnant-police-say In wake of SCOTUS decision, TX Gov wants to mandate funerals for fetal tissue: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/07/09/after-loss-in-supreme-court-abortion-case-tx-governor-wants-to-mandate-funerals-for-fetal-tissue/

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We're co-hosts on the Recovering From Religion podcast. Recovering From Religion offers the Secular Therapy Project, local support groups, and the Hotline Project, which you can reach at 1-8-4-I-DOUBT-IT. Wow, that was fast. I'll get it. Thanks for calling the Hotline Project. This is Scott. How can I help you? What's that? Yes, we did in fact evolve from filthy monkey men. I'm a man of my word No, no, no. I mean, it's Thursday. Wait, what? You're supposed to do that. It's Thursday. You're supposed to do this. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, sorry.

No, hold on. One second. One second. Fuck! I cannot catch this Butterfree. Just give me a second. Oh, dude, you found a Butterfree? Yeah, man.

They're by Central Park. Fuck! Yeah. What the fuck are you guys talking about? Pokemon Go. Yeah, don't even get into it. It's not worth... What? It's Pokemon Go. Okay, what is Pokemon Go?

It's a waste of time. Damn it! I will catch you. Okay. Well, it's this game where you walk around and catch Pokemon. I thought that game was just Pokemon. No, okay, so this, it's

like Pokemon, but you walk around and you actually I thought that game was just Pokemon. No, okay. So this, it's fair. It's like Pokemon, but you walk around and you actually walk around and you find the Pokemon. It's cool. And there's like buildings you go in to get stuff. Wait, what? Well, like people's homes? You go into people's homes? I mean, sometimes, but you don't like, you don't go inside.

You spin them. You spin them. You remember how this started off with you trying to clarify something? Got it! Got it! Dude, dude, show me. Show me. Turn on your Skype.

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And I don't care. I'm voting for Bernie anyway. No illusions. I'm Eli Bosnick. I'm Heath Enright. And from New York, New York and Valdosta, Georgia, this is The Skating Atheist. On this week's episode, the amusement park about a flood has zero water rides. What the fuck?

Westboro Baptist Church pretends they just got their first gay trainer. And Joseph K. Richards will be here to discuss his upcoming film, Batman and Jesus. But first, the diatribe. With all due apologies to Voltaire, if Ken Ham didn't exist, we'd have to invent him. I mean, I know we give him a lot of shit for the desperate effort to hide his pockmarked visage behind Mennonite mutton chops and all, but when I think about how much easier he makes my job, I feel like I should give him a big sloppy kiss. Or at least an eyeball lick. I mean, he's like an all-you-can-eat buffet of institutionalized

stupid. He allows me to answer virtually all of the what's-the-harm-type questions I get from apathetic non-believers in six simple letters, two syllables, one name, Ken motherfucking Ham. Of course, as I'm sure you're aware, Ken Ham's proud testament to credulity finally had its grand opening last week. The city of Williamstown is now the proud owner of a 500-foot-long, 85-foot-wide, seven-story landlocked boat with all the buoyancy of the Greek economy. And for our international listeners, by the way, 500 feet is about 300 cubits. Now, we're going to talk more about the grand opening in the headline segment, but as I was researching this story, I kept being struck by the nesting doll of debate ammunition that he's handed us here. I mean, I constantly hear moderate voices on both sides of the theistic divide

trying to deflate atheist arguments by pretending that the bad types of religion are some ignorable minority. I mean, the most common religious criticism of the Four Horsemen was that they were attacking some bygone notion of religion that nobody in the 21st century really believed anymore. No one in the United States, anyway. They'd laugh off atheist arguments with hand-waving dismissals that modern Christians aren't worshiping a bearded man on a throne. They don't believe in a literal Satan. They don't take the Noah's Ark story seriously. And how the fuck can we now be expected to take that argument seriously when Ken Ham's magic boat has taken up a football field in the half-worth of our country?

Over $100 million went into this delusional effort, which promises on its website to teach visitors what Noah's family must have really felt like during the flood. And meanwhile, I don't even see anybody raising money for the It's Just a Book of Allegories theme park. Well, that's only one of the many locks I can jiggle this skeleton key of stupidity into. When you see tens of millions of dollars invested in a park that primarily exists to convince children that young earth creationism

is legitimate science, who the fuck can even formulate the words, what's the harm? He's got animatronic dinosaurs and zip lines and plush animals for all the little kitties all serving no purpose but to enrich his ministry at the cost of these children's intellects everything ham does is directed at de-educating children so he won't have to work as hard when they're adults i mean look this is no less insane than an entire theme park dedicated to teaching kids their multiplication tables incorrectly or convincing

them that adverbs don't exist. But institutions dedicated to confusing children about verifiable facts are so commonplace in this country, we rarely stop to recognize how fucked up it is until, of course, somebody draws attention to it with a $100 million boat that can't swim. I mean, how much would you pay for these kind of ready examples in a debate? But don't answer yet, because with Ken Am,

you also get verification of all the slippery slope shit we've been warning about. Just look at the fucking hiring practices here. Because he waved a magic wand and called this for-profit business a ministry, he gets to refuse employment to anybody that won't agree with him that the earth is younger than the oldest house in England. There's literally a maximum allowable intelligence to work for him, and in an area as impoverished as Williamstown, Kentucky, you can bet your ass a few educated atheists are Winston Zeddemoring their way into a job. So yeah, there was a time when we had to point to the future's near horizon and say, if we keep going like this, you'll have to promise to agree with your employer's religion to get a job. But thanks to Ken Ham, we only need to point to

Williamstown, Kentucky. I mean, that should be more than enough to terrify atheists, Jews, Muslims, and any of the hundreds of theological slices of Christianity that don't fit into answers in Genesis's literalism. And as if that's not enough, Ken Ham has also provided us with a treasure trove of evidence to dissuade the members of his own little franchise of Christianity. I mean, look at the fucking boat. You're telling me that human beings with fully fireable neurons are going to look at that behemoth and go, yeah, 900 year old guy with his kids could have done that. You're telling me that the years it took Ken Ham to build this thing with modern construction equipment is going to convince people that this story is more likely

to be true. They're looking at this thing and they're thinking about that wave from San Andreas and believe me, they've seen San Andreas. And they're thinking, yeah, I can see how an unsteerable wooden vessel could ride out a few of those. But it even goes one layer deeper than that. Because let's face it, if Ken Ham's acolytes had a thought like, doesn't look like something that big can float, they'd go to their pastor to exorcise the devil from their thinking lung the next day. So even if not one single person looks at that thing and says, okay, yeah, that story's definitely bullshit, we still win because the biblical just-so story they've elected to aggrandize with this park is a story, as the tri-state freethinkers put it, of genocide and incest. I mean, if you do take the story seriously, it's the single greatest act of murder and evil committed by any conscious being in the 6,000-year history of the universe. Unless, of course, you count the existence of hell. It's a story of depravity, unjustified rage, and cousin fucking.

And here I thought the state of Kentucky was trying to move away from that image. So for just a second, I want to set aside the animosity and the insults and tell Ken Ham that we owe him a heartfelt debt of gratitude. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you for all the work that you do ken when your religion dies you'll have done more to kill it than i could ever hope to joining me for headlines tonight are the beauty and the beast of blasphemy heath enright and eli bosnick fellas are you ready to kidnap a girl's father until she falls in love with you? Well, I feel like we'll end up owing the dad

and the grandfather 50 shekels. It's just like bad business. Oh, right. My engagement is going just fine, thank you. In our lead story tonight, as per our discussion in the diatribe, Amish Wolverine snicked it out as home-crafted adamantium claws this week to cut the ribbon on the Ark Encounter theme park. The centerpiece of the park, of course, is a life-size replica of Noah's fabled Ark, a construction project that cost over $100 million and at least a century's worth of Kentucky's dignity.

The park also features zip lines, a pathetically underpopulated zoo, a two-story in-arc restaurant. The inbreeding rainbow room is the restaurant. There you go. And, of course, hand-sharpied white T-shirts that link Obama to the end times prophecies. In the coming years, Answers in Genesis hopes to add additional attractions, such as an ancient city, a mobility scooter, go-kart track, and merit. You had me at zip lines. You lost me at Kentucky's Dignity.

Kentucky, we're America's ex-girlfriend who still hangs out with all your friends. I should put that on the license plates. Holy shit. So the park opened to an enthusiastic but underwhelming crowd. So while no official attendance numbers have been released, news reports estimate the crowd of between 4,000 and 8,000 customers. Even without a sexual harassment policy? Wow. Sounds like a lecture on mythicism. Nice. I know. And of course, according to the research team

whose numbers were used to justify the unconstitutional tax incentives the parks received, the Ark Encounter should see about 2.2 million visitors this year. So in order to justify the tax benefits they've already received they just need to make sure that every day this year is a little over twice as successful as the grand opening was ham assured investors and the city that there's nothing to worry about of course since scientifically speaking 6 000 is nearly indistinguishable from 4 billion yeah Yeah, it is if you ask the Jews. Am I right?

Hitler didn't have the gasoline. Wake up, sheeple. Six coin flips in a row. Who's with me? Come on. Water doesn't burn that hot. So I guess we don't have to Ocean's 13 Ken Ham anymore, but I feel like we should still do it anyway for fun.

Oh, yeah. Offer Billy Martin. Which one of us looks the most like Julia Roberts? I don't think there's really a question there. I wish that there was. Don't even talk about it. Included among the meager trickle of guests was a veritable who's who of atheist activism, of course, including friends of the show

David Silverman. World's most Jewish atheist. Dan Arrow. Big day for him. Oh yeah. And Aaron Ra. Loved him in Last Ounce of Courage. Also, Debbie Does Dallas again. Redoes Dallas, yes. Orgasmo.

And, of course, their presence attracted the layer of protest protesters that we discussed previously, led by professional toilet seat pack animal Eric Hovind, who apparently took time off of being the spawn of a felon to get his ass handed to him in debates with every atheist willing to humor him. Hey, to be fair, you're not being polite enough about this beating as a real zinger in the Hovind house. Oh, God.

And apparently taxonomy is not a word they learned there. So, what are you going to do? Clearly, yeah. And in no-cake-stupid news tonight, the owners of Take the Cake Bakery in Toledo, Ohio, took a stand for their sincerely held beliefs this week that gay people don't have birthdays. Well, yeah, they have a hatch day, but that's not really exactly. Yeah, same.

Similar. Fair. But according to ABC 13, Candace and Amanda Lowe were on their honeymoon when they received a surprising text message from the owner of the bakery that was supposed to prepare a surprise cake for Amanda's birthday, saying, quote, Candace, I'm sorry. I just realized you're in a same-sex relationship, and we do not do cakes for same-sex weddings or parties. I'm so sorry. I wasn't aware of this exactly until I saw your page.

Take care. Smiley face emoji. Smiley face emoticon. Yes. And I feel like the lesbian little person being baked inside should have tipped them off in the first place. They eventually caught the error, but I'm just saying, you know. Too soon, Heath. That little person died. She died. So weird half apology and emoji aside, apparently the owner of Take the Cake

sped read their how to be a better bigot packet from Focus on the Family and thought that the thing they're not allowed to do anyway, they were allowed to do for just general parties of any kind. Well, but see, this goes back to my diatribe from last week. So if we're supposed to accept that gay weddings and straight weddings are two different types of things, then why not gay birthday parties and straight birthday parties, right?

The problem isn't so much that this woman's particular expression of bigotry isn't legally sanctioned, and more that you have to kind of parse out which ones are, right? Hey, sorry, but I didn't realize you were black. You have light skin and smell the same as us, but I saw a tweet that your life matters, so yeah, I can't do it.

I can't tell you, sorry. Smiley face. Winky face. Hands up, hands up, hands up. I have no idea what that people send that to mouse eating cheese pokemon smile i know what eggplant means it means she's disappointed or about to be means black people in italian it's a slur oh i'm so sorry uh however i want to point out i do think i see the logic here you see people are born gay right they celebrate that on their birthday therefore a birthday cake for a gay person is against someone's deeply held

beliefs hey birthdays are a choice yeah it's about how you're raised uh as of right now the owner of the bakery has yet to comment but i assume that's because they're currently attempting to build a time machine out of modeling chocolate so they can go back to last week and not be an asshole. Right. And in God hates Clefairy's news tonight, thanks to last week's release of the new augmented reality game Pokemon Go, the Westboro Baptist Church's virtual location has been taken over by what they believe to be a homosexual cartoon character. Hades from Hercules? No, but Clefairy should clearly evolve into that guy if you, like, get him wet or feed him after midnight or whatever. Works out. All I'm saying is as soon as you said homosexual cartoon character, Kevin Swanson had his dick out.

It's nice to know that we finally have something in common, him and I. Go on. Go on. Excellent. Limp Bizkit over Skype. I am in. Here's a little background on the game we're talking about. Pokemon Go connects its digital universe to real-life locations and encourages people to visit these real places as part of the gameplay.

and encourages people to visit these real places as part of the gameplay. And during this process, one user in Topeka, Kansas, noticed that Westboro Baptist was on the map as a Pokémon Gym, which means it's a place that could be claimed in the game universe as a battle venue. And in a wonderful act of spite towards the bigots at the WBC, this person took over the location with a pink Pokemon named Clefairy, as we mentioned before, and used the nickname Love is Love, and they're not happy at the church. Yeah, you gotta remember, these people take their pretend characters very seriously.

Right. They might think Clefairy's real, who knows? Yeah, so, in response to the adorable pink imaginary sodomite that's laid claim to their building, somebody at Westboro Baptist, who knows way too much about Pokemon Go to be working there, sent out several messages on Twitter that show a different adorable pink imaginary sodomite named Jigglypuff, admonishing gay people and complaining about the use of gay characters to deliver political statements. Except for that. Except for Jigglypuff. Except for the one they used, right. And like, here's my thing. Why Jigglypuff? It's

the gayest of all the Pokemon names. It's the gayest Pokemon. Why not like Machamp or Crucifixio? There'd be better choices. You don't know Crucifixio is not a real Pokemon. There's a fucking million of them. You don't know.ifixio is not a real pokemon there's a fucking million of them you don't know probably be easy to kind of pin down there anyway just one last thing um the church would like everyone to know that they are not the place to call if you're looking for technical support about pokemon battles and or information about

turkey safety no so if you have any long involved questions about either of those topics you should not call 785-273-0325 one more time that's not 785-273-0325 exactly don't don't call them and in 28 days later news tonight in an effort to make the 30 seconds list so transparent that we had to deny it to them, a group of Christians donned surreptitious gay apparel to infiltrate the Toronto Pride Parade, where they handed out pamphletized hate speech whilst disguised as, in their words, gay zombie potheads. right when the question of the christian hate group round table was what a fags dress like the answer they settled on not started on but settled on was zombies with rainbow accessories that smoke weed seems legit yeah well a lot of them are vaping now but yeah close enough close fuck them then well and okay so what's more though when you see the picture it's clear that the follow-up question was, what do zombies dress like?

And they apparently landed on in full green body suits with a bed sheet sign that says gay zombies for people to see before the CGI is added, I guess. Just begging to have Charlie Day hit him in the face with a volleyball. I was watching the video, waiting for it. Nope. Now, this group, of course course was predictably led by one bill whatcott who's been an on again off again gimp for our verbal sadism for years in fact it was precisely 100 episodes ago that we covered his thwarted efforts to infiltrate the vancouver pride parade this time disguised as a gay pastafarian to give out faulty condoms and what

we can assume was a pinky in the brainthe-brain type effort to kill off the gays with the AIDS. I mean, look, what we have here in the end is a grown man who is not a cartoon character, I don't think I can emphasize that enough, whose secret plans generally involve clever disguises. Be very, very quiet. I'm hunting homosexuals. Right, yes. But very, very quiet. I'm hunting homosensuals. Right, yes.

But it's duck season. No, it's faggot season. Duck season. Faggot season. Duck season. Shoot him now. Wait till you get home. So when asked by the media what the fuck was wrong with him,

WhatCot pointed to his underdeveloped testicles and his mom's refusal to buy him a cabbage patch kid that caused them. According to a real life statement from what got quote, if you try to give out a gospel pamphlet, they'll swear at you and throw slushies on your forehead, but give them some whack a doddle. That's how he spelled it. That's how I'm going to say it. Anyway, give them some whack a doddle thing that looks like a condom and they really can't

grab it fast enough. Right. Whatcott is the living example of the kid who got taught to be nice to the bullies and it's like, not working. I like it in the toilet. Joke's on us, right friends? Look, I already started. Grab the waistband. Pull it over my head.

Pull it over my head. I eat lunch in the counselor's office. That one was just for you, WhatCot. And while we update our what Bill WhatCot will dress like next to infiltrate a gay pride parade betting board, we'll take a quick break and hand things over to my lovely wife, Lucinda. Come on, cowboy. Butterfree.

A man wrote the Bible. A whore is what's smart. If it's a legitimate rape. It's a slut, right? Cooking can be fun. Hey, I'm proud of a man. This Week in Misogyny. Okay, pop quiz.

When it comes to men policing women's bodies, how young is too young? Well, it turns out that's a difficult question to answer, but I've picked out three stories for you this week that should at least help inform our conclusion. First up, we have an all-too-rare piece of good news. Namely, last week a new state law replaced policies in the state of Virginia that allowed 13-year-old girls, and on occasion younger, to get married, provided they were pregnant and had parental consent. So the real news here is that for all the days leading up until last week, the Virginia legislature was doing something other than changing that fucking policy.

The new law, which raises marrying age to 18, was passed in response to the horrifying statistic that between 2004 and 2013, more than 200 children under the age of 15 were married in Virginia. And when your decade-long child marriage statistics make Muhammad jealous, you're definitely doing something wrong here. But the stories get creepier as we go, because our next story is about Raymond Vincent, a 46-year-old youth pastor from Florida, who apparently didn't get the memo when he raped and impregnated his 10-year-old congregant.

Vincent was tracked by U.S. Marshals to Haiti, where he was promptly dragged back to the United States, hopefully behind the plane, to face charges of sexual battery on a child and lewd and lascivious conduct. Of course, if he'd been in Virginia the week before last, he apparently could have cleared himself of these charges with 50 shekels to the parents. So maybe it's best that he fled to Haiti. And while we pretend that that's not the fault of the tax-substituted institution that made a youth pastor out of a guy who was accused of molestation already back in 2011, we'll turn to our final story of the night, which takes policing women's bodies all the way back to before their people.

takes policing women's bodies all the way back to before their people. After this month's crushing Supreme Court laws to people who think that the best way to stand in the way of baby murder is bureaucratic red tape, Texas Governor Greg Abbott had one more trick up his sleeve. Abbott, who always looks like he's trying to see the blackboard and won't admit he needs glasses, pushed forward legislation this week to force women to give their dead pre-babies a proper funeral. Quote, regardless of the period of gestation. Now, make no mistake, this, like every other bullshit requirement placed on clinics and women making health choices in Texas,

is just another attempt to associate shame and difficulty with the medical procedure. And like all others, all it will serve to do is to make abortion more expensive and more dangerous, not less common. But I'm guessing conspiratorial fears about Planned Parenthood harvesting all the unborn Texans for barbecue jerky played into the decision as well. So anti-woman and anti-advancement of human knowledge, two birds, one stone. Well played, Governor Abbott. Well played. So while I go pen a eulogy for the shit I took this afternoon, I'll toss things back over to Noah, Heath, and Eli. Thank you, Lucinda. And in two-for-flinching news tonight,

Father Tony Walsh, the singing priest and former Elvis impersonator, will have no more than two years added to his sentence that he's currently serving for other crimes for repeatedly raping a 10 year old child. What the fuck is happening? Is there like a wholesale discount? What are they doing? This wasn't BJ's. It might have been. Not according to the lawsuit.

No. While we don't know what Walsh's swim times were, so it's hard to be sure, we're told that the greatly reduced sentence is due to the fact that at the time of the full-grown adult raping this child multiple times and once with a crucifix, the criminal law rape amendment had not yet come into effect. Would the defending counsel like to present any mitigating circumstances? Yes, Your Honor, yes, Your Honor. My client was sincerely holding a crucifix at the time of the incident.

Oh, God. Sincerely. Gavel, gavel. What the fuck's happening? But this story actually gets worse. It turns out that Walsh's archbishop was aware of the problem as early as 1986 and, as a result, sent him for six whole months of counseling. And upon his return home, he was immediately made a hospital chaplain.

Oh my gosh, yeah. No doubt in hopes he'd have the sense to molest only the terminal kids, I guess. Which was, by the way, a plank on Eli's papal campaign platform from 2013, by the way. Yeah, I was going to say. And that's not where our similarity ends. In fact, from 1995 to 2015, Walsh had 17 previous convictions.

And for his crimes, which are more and more horrible the more reading you do, he will be released in 2021. That's right. He's back among us in five years. Go Ireland. And finally tonight, in wearing your hate on your sleeve news, Christian hate pastor

Steve Anderson is sexually attracted to women, and he's super proud about this accomplishment. Super proud. And that's why he posted a video on youtube last week letting everyone know about his new straight pride t-shirt which he got for this herculean effort i mean hades full circle by the way you actually make a good point it was herculean except the part where hercules might have been gay with other mythological characters. There's that, yeah. And except the part where Hercules does not look like he just got fired by Sam Adams for sending hate speech emails. He always looks like he's yelling an open letter to plentyoffish.com about his account suspension into YouTube. If she didn't want to say a picture of one.

if she didn't want to say a picture of one right but uh other than all that stuff we just mentioned he he is like the hercules of being hetero and he's got the lousy t-shirt to prove it so congrats to steve anderson to prove it like in a like in a monica lewinsky fashion i mean is he asking us to dna test his shirt to prove that that stain is lady squirt i volunteer as tribute if you're not picturing me sucking a t-shirt in a courtroom you're not the woman i married yeah so that guy was recently given a new t-shirt by some other homophobic asshole that shows bathroom icons of a man and a woman, or possibly a man and a man in a dress, with the words straight pride on the front and Leviticus 2013 on the sleeve. Oh, wow.

And just a refresher, that's the passage from the Bible about how gay people should all be killed. Yeah. And if you're having trouble finding it, just look for the one that equally condemns the polycotton blend he's wearing and go 31 verses further. Right. Or look in the same book for the rabbits chew their own cud or the smallest seed in the world is the mustard seed passages. There's a bunch of stuff in there. I equal to three. Search around.

So not only does Steve Anderson look like he should be pickling his own suspenders? He's also possibly the worst human being in the United States that hasn't literally murdered or raped someone himself. Okay, stole that right from my yearbook, but it's fine. I think I really did. I just remembered you told me that once. Yeah, this is absolutely absurd, though,

this t-shirt. He might as well be walking around with a not-Jewish pride shirt that has a footnote for a passage from Mein Kampf on the sleeve. What the fuck? I have one of those in case Trump gets elected. Never put me in too much trouble. No, guys, look at the shirt. Look at the shirt.

Dude, you adjusted the air conditioning four times. Fair. So, all that being said, there's clearly a marketing opportunity here and as usual we're here to help with that we need 30 seconds on the clock more ideas for the straight power t-shirt company go all right all right so the company is obviously going to need a name how about not that kind of fruit of the loom and i like I like it. I'm polonely straight pride shirt because if they'd let me, I totally would. I'm trying my damnedest

to be hetero. What about the Hanes tagless hetero t-shirt? Because God hates tags too. There you go. They itch you. How about America Family Association outfitters? The anti-LGBT shirt?

Oh, I like it. Just one banana republic. Casual wear for the well-to-do heterosexual. What about the husband and wife beater? Because domestic violence is between one man and one woman. It's important. All right, all right. If you don't listen to GAM, this might not make sense.

But how about Flyboy brand muscle shirts? Because it's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Sleeve. All wives matter. Oh, nice. A couple more. What about the P in the V-neck by Naked Co-Ed Hardy? Perfect for awful homophobic douchebags now more than ever. Make America straight again.

I'll put a P at his V-neck. Anyway, and now that Heath has officially revealed phase two of Trump's campaign slogan, I guess we can wind down the headlines for the night. Heath, Eli, thanks as always. Jumanji. And when we come back, Joseph K. Richards will be here to determine once and for all if Bruce Wayne was born of a virgin. Prank war!

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But this is the law now. So for ease of use, I'm going to call it Feedy from now on. Feedy was alive by only the strictest technical definition. But Governor Abbott assures us that it could have been a person, or like a second Hitler. So if we're going to play the maybe game, then yay, or we're not yay. I'm not here to make judgments. Anyway, moving on. Feedy enjoyed absorbing nutrients from a uterine wall until it didn't, and that is the end of that list. And Feedy wouldn't have been there if Brian hadn't thought it was funny

to poke a hole in the condom as a prank, so thanks to Brian. Sorry, sorry. In domine pacqui, you were basically a tumor. Amen. Hi, welcome to Piece of Cake. How can I help you today? Hi, thanks. Yeah, can I get two of the Eclairs, four sugar cookies?

And do you have those, the little, what are they called, the coconut things? Oh, macaroons? Yeah. We sure do. How many would you things? Oh, macaroons? Yeah. We sure do. How many would you like? You know what? Give me three. Wonderful.

That'll be $9.95. Would you like a bag for that? And do you fuck dudes? Yes and no. Okay, great. You fuck women? Yes, I do. Inside marriage. Really? Can, I do. Inside marriage?

Really? Can I just please have my cookies? I don't make the rules, sir. Long dead Jews who didn't know how to wipe dead. Okay, well, yes. Inside marriage. Great, great. And are you an Amalekite or a Canaanite? No, I'm not. Wonderful. Okay, you're all set. Ooh, I'm so sorry. We have a $10 minimum on credit cards.

Oh, you know what? Fuck that. I'm never coming back here again. Fucking Malachi's. Normally we save listener feedback for the end of the show, but after last week's diatribe, I received so many emails asking for clarification that I elected to take the unprecedented step

of offering up my response as a diatribe addendum. So if you'd like, you can consider this diatribe 177.1 or whatever. So last week we talked about the Christian mingle settlement in California, and I received a lot of feedback about various parts of the argument, and we'll probably address a few of those in next week's feedback segment, but I also made an error that elicited the bulk of the response, and that's what I want to talk about today. During the diatribe, I was talking about churches providing weddings to gay couples, and I said, quote, if churches provide a service, they need to provide that service to everybody, and if one of the services they provide is weddings, they should have to provide those services for anybody that's legally allowed to marry. So ultimately, yes, we're going to force

Christians to marry gay couples in their churches, we're going to force any pastor or priest who performs marriages to do it for any couple regardless of their sexual orientation, and along the way, we're going to sue churches out of existence and turn them into coffee shops and sex toy emporiums. Either that, or we're going to give in to bigotry and stop short of equality. End self-quote. Now, that's technically incorrect and for an important reason. Many people wrote in to point out to me that churches do not, in fact, offer weddings as a service to the public. They offer it as a service to their members. And of course, it's this distinction that allows churches to refuse weddings to not only gay couples, but as we learned in Ohio a few years back, interracial

couples, or as we learned in Mississippi a few years back, black couples. Now, if you ask me, that's just a bullshit loophole, but not everybody is convinced. The argument that listeners presented to me tried using a club as an analogy. If, for example, there was a KKK chess club, should the law force them to allow black members? But even if we call churches clubs, that doesn't necessarily exempt them from discrimination laws, right? The laws vary from state to state, but plenty of like private golf clubs have been sued for discrimination and lost. I mean, I know in New York, if your club has over 100 members, it flips into a new classification and is then subjected to a bunch of public accommodation laws. So yeah, we're talking about a complicated legal gray area, but it's not exactly

a new one. But ultimately, club is just the wrong analogy because generally speaking, the KKK chess club isn't tax subsidized. You know, it probably doesn't own property or have employees or exist as a freestanding legal entity. No analogy would be perfect, but if we're trying to find the next closest legal entity to a church, I'd say that one should go with a charity. And I feel like we can all agree that a charity that has a decidedly prejudicial mission should and would be stripped of its tax exemption. They should, as I said in the diatribe, be sued out of existence. Look, there will always be a loophole or a linguistic magic trick they can pull, but that doesn't flip the switch from immoral to moral. And while I feel I probably owed you more detail in the diatribe last week,

I still stand behind what I said. I'm talking about taking a torch into whatever dark recess they want to hide their bigotry in, and I'm just being honest, the fire that illuminates that hiding place is also going to burn it down. Oi, now, how you going? How you going? Hey, my little hopping buddy. What's going on, man? Remind me of your name again.

Kangaroo, mate. I'm the kangaroo. Right, right, the rangeroo. I remember, of course. What's going on? How you doing? What are you up to? Well, I'm all right. But see, me and the missus, we were looking over this map

for where we all end up after the disparate. And it seems like us, the drop bear, and most of the spiders and snakes are supposed to end up all the way over here in Australia. But the drop-off point is here, on top of this mountain, and we were wondering if you might be able to save us a bit of time, if you understand, and drop us off a bit of hermit. Oh, man, yeah, no can do, little buddy, I'd love to, but everything is still covered in water, you can see, because, you know, God got mad at everyone.

I was like, guys, it's going to rain. And they were all like, shut up, Noah, you fuck your daughters. And I was like, you fuck your daughters. Right, right. Heard that story. You heard that story, yeah. Yeah, so we're on a boat here. Does anybody else on the planet have a boat right now?

Like, could we not have a smaller boat just spitballing? I feel like if one had a boat, they'd be totally fine. Uh, nah, nah, man, because, um, well, well, one, I only have this boat, and two, I feel like the other boats which were around,

God, like, punched holes in them before it rained, so... Sorry, God punched holes in all the boats in the world. Uh, Sorry, God punched holes in all the boats in the world. Yeah, except for this one that's floating. Right. Yep. Yeah, will.

Could we perhaps sail around a bit more and then maybe once there's a mountaintop or something, we could go there and then you could head over to the mountaintop we're originally supposed to go to, a little out of the way. Oh, man, sorry, man. I would love to. That's a great idea. God said

he was like, no pit stops. And you know how he can be. He just drown everyone. Yeah, I suppose so. That's true. Well, no harm in asking. Guess me and the missus have quite the commute ahead of us. Quite a walk and swim. Yeah, now I'm asking, guess me and the missus have quite the commute ahead of us.

Quite a walk and swim. Yeah, this is cardio for you. Right. Right. Cardio. Sure. Hey, Cameroon, can I ask you a question? Sure thing, mate.

Do people say stuff about me and my daughters? I feel like... Nay. Nay. Nay. Oh, okay. Good. You think they're hot, right?

You know, not really. Sure. In the halls of the great Gothic cathedrals, reverent voices speak of a savior. They speak of a man, humble despite possessing riches scarcely dreamt of by mortals, who set out to redeem a fallen race even at the cost of his own life. They speak of a man who communed with the beggars, the thieves, and the prostitutes, whose grace fell upon the rich and the meek alike, a man who was marked out by the authorities, who walked willingly into captivity, who loved his enemies. This man wrote no books, he had no empire, he led no armies,

and yet he changed the world forever. And of course, the man I'm talking about is Batman. But you may have also noticed a commonality or two with that Jesus fella. So to talk more about what these two superheroes have in common, we're joined by Joseph K. Richards, the director, writer, editor, producer et al. of the upcoming documentary film Batman and Jesus. Joseph, welcome to The Scathing Atheist. Hey, thanks for having me on. That was a beautiful description, by the way. Well, thank you. Thank you.

Before we talk about Batman and Jesus, I want to talk about you a bit. What got you interested in filmmaking? Well, I guess it was growing up with television in the 90s and wanting to imitate that and writing my own versions and comics. And then as soon as my friend had a video camera and I realized I could film my scripts and then we didn't have to perform them over and over. I could just keep showing that video. That was when I really went for the medium. Awesome. So is this a love you've had since childhood then? Yeah, it's love, obsession, somewhere in between there. All the great loves are, yeah.

Right. So what made you decide to turn your powers of filmmaking to the topics of atheism and skepticism? Well, I grew up going to a Catholic school until seventh grade. So I was early on totally on board with all that. When everybody in your life is telling you these things, you really don't need to question it when you're that age. And they give you a lot of scary reasons not to. But as I got older, I had so many questions. And I guess I was lucky enough to have people around me that said, yes, you should question it. That's part of your faith is to question it.

So I did. I was like, what's the deal with Satan? And what's going on with the Holy Spirit? And I don't understand this Trinity. And they really didn't have answers for me. So I opted to read the Bible for myself. And a lot of people say that's what births a lot of atheists. But yeah, I mean, I just couldn't resolve so many things about it that I just thought it didn't make sense to me whatsoever.

So I stopped going to church and, you know, became atheist. But I found that people in my life typically did not like to hear me talk about that or they didn't really like hearing me explain why Noah's Ark was impossible or stuff like that. And so I felt like I should just keep that separate. That's like my personal thing. But last year, a good family friend got in touch with me to come. These guys want to make a movie here in Milwaukee called Mythicist Milwaukee. They want to make a movie similar to Zeitgeist, and they need a filmmaker. Will you come hear them out? And I thought, what the hell is

mythicism? And I'm an atheist. I don't know what sort of weird thing you're talking about. But I guess I didn't realize it was such a simple term. And when I realized they were just talking about, you know, viewing religion more as mythology, it seemed pretty much in line with what I thought anyway. So looking into the research, I found it very compelling. And, you know, with their team support, I thought, hey, let's go for it. And I've been really surprised at the reaction so far.

Not as negative as I expected. Well, yeah, I think that the ground has been laid by several movies on this topic. But things like Zeitgeist, they do a very bad job in the scholarship. So I definitely think it's time for somebody who's a little more serious about this to step in. So let's talk a little bit more about this spectacularly titled upcoming film, Batman and Jesus. So give us the elevator pitch. What's the movie about?

Well, first of all, we want to grab your attention with Batman and Jesus. We don't often hear those names together. No, it does paint a really awesome fight scene in your mind. Right. So you immediately wonder, what is the connection between these? And I think that curiosity was the main reason I went for this association. And the association that I'm making is not so much the characters themselves,

but the way they've been written about, the history of these characters lies in mythology. And you can see all these parallels between all these things written about Jesus, all the references they make to pre-existing materials that were also fictional. And it's like Batman and and zoro or something it's you can see where they got these things from and it really makes you question why do we even make the assumption that this is reality in the first place yeah and i think it goes great the analogy works great uh in in both directions temporarily right So like pre-Jesus, pre-Batman, you can see the things that led to Batman, led to Jesus.

But also, if you imagine like a religion, right, that wanted to canonize the story of Batman right now, you'd have the same kind of thing that you have in the Gospels. Between the Book of Burton and the Book of Nolan and the Gospel according to Snyder, you know, there are those things that match up. Yes, you know, Jesus is always born in Nazareth. Yes, he always winds up, you know, there are those things that match up. Yes, you know, Jesus is always born in Nazareth. Yes, he always winds up, you know, walking into Jerusalem, et cetera, et cetera. But then all of the details, you know, who killed Batman's parents, et cetera, kind of change from gospel to gospel. And that's actually going to be a component of the movie is we're going to have a team that is attempting to canonize the Batman series.

Oh, awesome. have a team that is attempting to canonize the Batman series. Oh, awesome. Yeah, so it's a bit of an exercise in futility, but it's going to draw a lot of parallels. The problems they're going to run into are the same kind of problems you would run into with trying to do the same as they did in the Bible. And we're going to go through the history of each, and I think it really is going to go through the history of each and i think it really is going to illustrate very strongly that we're making a lot of assumptions here based on something that appears to have a lot more in common with batman oddly enough all right so i think the most important question to our movie

going audience here will ben affleck be playing Batman in your movie? I mean, he's yet to return my calls. Well, let me say, if the answer is no, you're way ahead of most of the Batman-related movies of late. Yeah, I mean, perhaps in the archive footage. I don't know exactly what clips we're going to be using, but it's possible. It's possible. All right. So let's talk about who has returned your calls.

Who is in the film? Well, on the academic side, we have some of the leading proponents of mythicism. Robert Price, Richard Carrier, David Fitzgerald, Aron Ra we have, David Fitzgerald, Aron Ra we have, and a few other known people such as Killer Priest. He did an interview with us. And we're talking to Paul Provenza about playing a part in the movie as sort of a narrator. And then, you know, just a lot of other ordinary people. Right on, man.

Is documentary the right term to use for this movie? Well, yes, but I don't know if it's exactly like a traditional documentary. I mean, it's maybe an educational film. There is a story component to it. There is a scripted element to it. there is a story component to it. There, there is a scripted element to it. And,

uh, and let, you know, like the scene in the trailer is, uh, is obviously scripted. So there's going to be some stuff like that to kind of hit, I guess, uh,

hit on different sensibilities. So, you know, you can listen to these guys, explain the facts, but you can get the idea from these skits or acted out scenes or scripted descriptions of things. And it's kind of a collage of a lot of different things. But I think documentary is the best way of putting it because it is investigating a subject and presenting evidence and stuff.

So I think in the largest capacity, it's a documentary, but it has a lot more to it than that. That's definitely true. Okay, awesome. Well, yeah, because I feel like a movie like this has to be in real danger of turning into a talking head film, and by wrapping it around the Batman mythology and everything, I can see how that's going to keep it a lot more interesting.

Now, of course, I first learned about your movie at movie at reason rally where you debuted the trailer for it and i've got to say the trailer was fucking hilarious um now obviously a lot of the humor is visual but you can get a lot just from the audio so if you don't mind i'd like to play the trailer for the audience now okay great all right so without further ado this is the trailer for bat and Jesus. Do you think that it's necessary with comic books for the author to deliberately state that it's fiction? No. No.

Why not? Because I think everybody knows that it's cartoon and that's it. So, what is it about these comic book characters because I think everybody knows that it's a cartoon in essence. So what is it about these comic book characters or superheroes that puts them in that category for you? Abilities that are way beyond what a normal, average human can realistically do. But in comic books, they just take that ability

and they just multiply it so many times. I think the vast majority of people already know that the characters aren't real. Just from the history they've been around for so long, I think people are aware that characters just are pretend. But what if everybody told you your whole life that they were real? Could you still tell the difference? A reading from the book of Nolans.

He was the hero Gotham deserved, but not the one it needed right then. And so he was hunted, because he could take it. He is not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A dark knight.

The word of Gordon. May it be the Batman. Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. Batman. Batman. Batman. Batman. And again, I urge you to check the show notes, find the link to the trailer, because you've really got to see the Batman church. If there's one thing that belongs on your bucket list,

it's to see a Batman church. So now, is humor going to be a big part of this film? Yeah, it definitely is. I think it can be sort of upsetting or harsh to somebody unlike ourselves that this is a more fresh idea to them. It can be fairly upsetting to watch something like Zeitgeist or even the end of Religious got pretty, really kind of hammers you. really kind of hammers you. And I'd like to take a different approach that isn't so doom and gloom, just more like, you know, let's relax and let's look at this information and have a sense of humor about it. Yeah, no, nothing disarms people like humor, and humor is where honesty has to hide when you're dealing with controversial subjects very often. That's certainly sort of

one of the guiding principles of this show. So what's the reaction been like from the atheist community since you debuted the trailer? Well, from what I, I mean, the direct feedback that I'm getting is all very positive. Like you're saying, they find it very funny. They're excited that somebody's touching on this topic that hasn't really been touched on much, especially lately. But on the other hand, there's also people that apparently don't like the idea of the mythicist perspective. And seeing those names to some people is like, oh, great. I don't know.

I mean, I'm not so entrenched in the community to really understand those infighting things or biases, but apparently some people that are atheists don't like the idea that there wasn't a historical Jesus. of times that I don't find the mythicist arguments fully convincing, mostly because they haven't convinced the academic world up until this point. And I'm sort of reserving that for when the historians, et cetera, start to come around a little bit more. But I think there has to be a sort of a two-pronged approach here that we have to take it to the academic field, and that's what a lot of the people of Robert Price and Richard Carrier are doing. But we also have to take it to the culture as well. And I don't think anyone in the atheist community or anyone that we really want in the atheist community would begrudge you putting the information out there.

Right. So, and now, have you gotten any reaction? Because obviously you debuted it fairly publicly at Reason Rally. There weren't just atheists at Reason Rally. Have you gotten any reaction from the religious folks yet? I mean, I don't hear much from them, honestly. I expected to hear more, but another thing I do is a YouTube series called Holy Shit, and I count down absurd things in the Bible. The title also catches your attention in the same sort of way. And with this series and with this trailer,

I just don't hear many people chiming in from that perspective. I just hear a lot of silence. Or some people that do talk to me, such as the owners of this church, they checked out Holy Shit before we did the Batman and Jesus shoot at their church, and they actually made a point to say they thought the information was good, and they find it annoying when people take the Bible so literally. So I'm sure they didn't like all the things I did or all of the jokes I made or cursing that I did. But I think it's probably annoying to a lot of religious people that so many people are out there taking it so literally when to them, to some people, it's like, how did you ever take this literally?

Right. And I think that the more progressive religious people have to look at it and realize that all the losses that they're taking culturally are because of these literalists. And we're taping this on the day that Ken Ham's Ark Park opens up, so there's sort of a glaring image of exactly what's wrong with this situation. Okay, so when should we be on the lookout for Batman and Jesus? Well, it's so much footage to go through, and there's still a lot to be done, so it's hard to say a firm date yet, but I'm thinking around Easter next year is when we're going to be looking to premiere it.

Awesome. Okay, so if our listeners want to keep up with your progress, keep up with the latest on when it is going to debut, where should they go? Okay, well, my website is spadeheartclub.com, like the suits of cards. And we have Batman and Jesus page on there that's consistently updated you can also find it on facebook twitter um and mythicist milwaukee they have a page for batman and jesus on there they're heavily involved helping me get this made make these connections yeah and i mean if people are interested in this uh are interested in this subject and they want to hear some more information before the film comes out next year, Robert Price is debating Bart Ehrman on the historicity of Jesus this October in Milwaukee.

Yes, very much looking forward to that. I'm going to be in the UK like the week before, but I'm still going to try to make it to Milwaukee to see that. That's going to be amazing. Awesome. Yeah, so you can get tickets for that on Mythicist Milwaukee's page. And yeah, I mean, check out our series, Holy Shit. Again, both of those pages, you can find that and hear more, I guess, blasphemy. Yeah. Our audience is a big fan of the blasphemy. Of course, we'll have all of those links that Joseph mentioned on the show notes for this episode.

Dude, thanks again for your time. And with a little luck, I'll see you on the red carpet. Awesome. Thanks for letting me know it. Before we abandon all our hope tonight, I wanted to thank Rob and Brian from the Milwaukee Mythicist Podcast for inviting Heath and me on to chat with them over the weekend. As you might have already guessed, I got grilled a bit for my stated opinions on mythicism, but it was a great interview, of course, and if you'd like to give it a listen,

you'll find it linked on the show notes for this episode. Anyway, that's all the blasphemy we've got for you tonight, but we'll be back in 10,022 minutes with more. If you can't wait that long, be on the lookout for a brand new episode of our sister show's hot friend, Godawful Movies, debuting on Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. Eastern Time. Got a juicy anti-gay marriage movie to break down this week.

Should be fun. And if even that is too long to wait, be sure to like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to us on YouTube for a few bonus nuggets of scatheism throughout the week. Obviously, the episode would lack closure if I didn't thank Heath Enright for being the best buddy a fella ever had. I need to thank the lovely Lucinda for being such a swell gal. And I need to thank Eli Bosnick for being such a smooth daddy-o.

Also want to thank Joseph K. Richards once more for offering us a little bit of his time this week. Very much looking forward to the film. But between now and then, be sure to check the show notes for all the links that we discussed in the interview. I also need to thank Emily and Scott from the Recovering from Religion podcast for providing this week's Farnsworth quote, representing truly one of my favorite organizations. I strongly encourage you to check them out.

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If you have questions, comments, or death threats, you'll find all the contact info on the contact page at skatingatheist.com. All the music used in this episode was written and performed by yours truly, and yes, I did have my permission. God said, he was like, no pit stops. And you know how he can be. He just drown everyone. Yeah.

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