The Scathing Atheist - ScathingAtheist208: Johnson Shrinkage Edition
Episode Date: February 9, 2017In this week’s episode, the trump administration declares that all lies matter, the alt-right runs out of stuff to buy now that every consumer product is Muslim and gay, and Andrew Torrez from Openi...ng Arguments will be here to teach me all about my Johnson. To make a per episode donation at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist To buy our book, click there: http://www.amazon.com/Diatribes-Godless-Misanthrope-Scathing-Presents-ebook/dp/B00J53FZFI/ref=sr11?ie=UTF8&qid=1396141562&sr=8-1 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 Guest Links: To check out the Opening Arguments Podcast, click here: http://openargs.com/ To check out the Science Enthusiast Podcast, click here: http://scienceenthusiastpodcast.com/ Headlines: Johnson Amendment: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/02/02/republicans-have-filed-a-bill-that-would-allow-pastors-to-endorse-political-candidates-in-church/ http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/02/02/donald-trump-at-national-prayer-breakfast-i-will-totally-destroy-the-johnson-amendment/ and https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/politics/trump-johnson-amendment-political-activity-churches.html?_r=0 Jerry Falwell will lead task force on higher ed policy http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/02/01/at-donald-trumps-request-jerry-falwell-jr-will-lead-a-federal-task-force-on-higher-ed-policy/ Donald wants to legalize LGBT discrimination: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/02/02/leaked-executive-order-shows-donald-trump-wants-to-legalize-anti-lgbt-discrimination/ Todd Starnes wants churches to pull out of Boy Scouts over trans acceptance: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/01/31/its-time-for-churches-to-sever-ties-with-boy-scouts.html 0% of Germans think Christianity is part of their national identity http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/02/03/literally-0-of-young-germans-think-christianity-is-an-important-part-of-their-national-identity/ Hate speech law may put christian preacher in jail: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/02/02/in-south-africa-a-proposed-law-to-ban-hate-speech-may-end-up-putting-christian-preachers-in-jail/ Australian Royal Commission: 7% of Catholic priests accused of child sex abuse: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/06/4444-victims-extent-of-abuse-in-catholic-church-in-australia-revealed Boycott Budweiser: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/02/04/a-boycott-budweiser-movement-begins-over-super-bowl-immigration-ad/ http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/trump-supporters-boycott-budweiser-over-immigration-super-bowl-ad-w465061 This Week in Misogyny: New Arkansas abortion law lets rapists sue their victims http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/arkansas-abortion-law-that-will-let-rapists-sue-victims-husbands-second-trimester-a7561066.html North Dakota lawmaker justifies Sunday “blue laws”: Women need Sunday morning to make their husbands breakfast in bed. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lawmaker-wants-women-to-spend-sundays-making-husbands-breakfast-in-bedus5898816ce4b040613137c57c
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On this week's episode, the Trump administration declares that all lies matter.
The alt-right runs out of stuff to buy now that every consumer product is Muslim and gay. And Andrew Torres from Opening Arguments will be here to teach me all about my Johnson.
But first, the diatribe.
The first apocalypse I remember surviving was in 1988.
I'm sure there were a couple before that, but that's the first one I actually knew about going into it.
So my best friend growing up had some weird pot smoking post hippie religious nut parents, and they were relatively convinced that the world was going to end in 1988.
You're not convinced enough to quit their jobs and spend their life savings, but convinced enough to try to scare some 12-year-old kid over it.
Now, if you're one of those whippersnappers that gets all of Eli's pop culture references, you might not know about this one, but it was a really big deal at the time.
It came from Hal Lindsey's book, The Late Great Planet Earth, and it is hard to overstate how big this book was.
It came out in 1970, sold over 25 million copies.
They made a documentary about it, and Orson Welles narrated the motherfucker.
In fact, it was the second best-selling English-language book of the decade behind only the Bible itself. So in this book, Lindsay does some deep-dive cherry-picking bullshit with the New Testament and lands on 1988 as the starting gun for the end times.
He reads the bit in Matthew where Jesus talks about learning a lesson from the fig tree.
The disciples ask him when the end times are coming
and he says, you see this tree over here?
When it sprouts, summer is near and then you got
one generation at most.
And since fig trees are
kind of like the nation of Israel
and since reading this passage
even remotely literally proves Jesus was full of shit,
Lindsay reasoned that what Jesus
meant was that one generation after Israel reemerged as a nation,
the apocalypse would begin.
And a generation, as we all apparently know, is 40 years.
Israel reemerged as a nation in 1948,
therefore seals and trumpets and bowls of wrath in 1988.
And with steel-reinforced logic like that,
you can hardly blame the entire 70s for buying into
this bullshit right so a disturbing number of people apparently forgot about the relentless
line of suspected antichrist candidates stretching back to paul's shifty neighbor lady and geared up
for the 1970s season of jerusalem idol and i'm sure there were plenty of antichrist candidates
at the time but my friend's parents felt like they'd narrow it down to two either it was the president whose first
middle and last names donald wilson and reagan just so happened to each have six letters
or it was henry kissinger because he was a jew now now try to put yourself in my shoes here right
12 years old no real knowledge of religion two stone adults are trying to explain a convoluted biblical theory
that they probably don't quite get themselves
confidently predicting the end of the world
and not particularly upset about it
I had no fucking idea how to take this and I still don't
in fact I still feel the same way
I wasn't scared because nothing they were saying made any sense
and they didn't seem too worried.
And I was pretty sure that if the world was coming to end, my parents would have given me a heads up or something.
So from my earliest awareness right up to the present moment, apocalypticism seemed pretty fucking stupid.
Of course, as you've probably noticed, the world didn't end in 1988.
And it didn't end again in 1991 when the golf war was supposed to
trigger armageddon or in 1994 when harold camping said it would or in 1995 when harold camping said
it would or in 2000 with jerry falwell edgar casey sun myung moon ed dobson jonathan edwards
and isaac newton said it would or in 2007 when pat Pat Robertson said it would. Or in 2011 when
Harold Camping said it would again. Or in 2011 but a little later when Harold Camping also said it
would. And I'm sure we have plenty of apocalypses yet to survive because despite its 100% failure
rate, predicting the Christian apocalypse is still good money. Now, think for a second about
the methodology behind these
things, because they're all doing the same shit, right? They're all a case of digging through
Revelation with a fine tooth comb, trying to sort out the symbolism of all the weird prophecies.
And if you've ever read the book, that's going to strike you as odd since there's an angel standing
next to John the whole time telling him what all this shit represents. The book is self-interpreting.
What's more, there's no real
mystery to what it's talking about, and it isn't a future apocalypse. It's a present day one,
back in like the year 90. See, apocalyptic books were a whole genre back then. There's only one in
the Bible, but we have others in the ancient sources, and we have references to a lot more
that no longer exist. It was a genre back then in the same way that gospels and histories were the same way science fiction and dark comedy are now, right? If you
know the genre, it's patently obvious what the book is trying to say. All the crazy, mysterious
shit becomes a series of familiar tropes. But if you don't know the genre, you could get trapped
in pointless questions for 1900 years and counting, apparently. I mean, try to imagine it like this,
right? Think about like you're studying a limerick that's translated from English into your way in the future language, but you don't know what a limerick was and you don't have the original English to look at, right?
You could spend years obsessing over why the author felt the need to specify the man's origins.
You could write a whole treatises on the reason they chose to use the word grin instead of smile.
You could write whole treatises on the reason they chose to use the word grin instead of smile. But until you learned what the fuck a limerick was, you probably never land on the fact that smile just doesn't rhyme with chin.
And looking at the book of Revelation without understanding what an apocalyptic book is, is at least as stupid as this.
As soon as you know what the rules of the genre are, it's patently obvious what's going on, what the author is seeking to do, and what the various characters are meant to represent.
obvious what's going on, what the author is seeking to do, and what the various characters are meant to represent. Every reputable scholar I can find seems to agree that he was identifying
Rome as the whore of Babylon and Nero as the Antichrist. So the whole point of the book was,
don't worry, guys, we're living in the end time, so Jesus will be here any second, which means,
when you think about it, Revelation is itself a failed apocalypse prediction. They're using a
failed apocalypse prediction to predict the apocalypse.
I mean, if you think about it, the entire Christian religion is just one big failed apocalypse prediction.
Right.
When Paul heard that Jesus had risen from the dead, he's like, oh, folks rising from the dead.
That means the apocalypse is starting.
And from what we have of his writings, that's obviously what he thought was going on.
obviously what he thought was going on. The line that Lindsay butchered to predict the 1988 apocalypse is actually a line where Jesus assures the people standing around him that the apocalypse
is going to come during their generation. So the people cribbing conspiracy theories from
revelations are actually making failed apocalypse predictions to the third power. Consider the
stupidity of this. Look, I know this stuff, stuff right if i know a thing about religion it's
not a hard thing to know it doesn't take decades of studious scholarship to miss the point of
revelation you have to actively misinform yourself and actively avoid correction and pondering the
mysteries of revelation would be like spending a lifetime trying to figure out who really did frame roger rabbit just watch the fucking movie they tell you at the end you know of course we've
been through this plenty and we're pretty chill about it at this point people generally don't
burn all their possessions over it or anything anymore so the good news is that we've gotten
really good at the world not ending but the bad news and we can never take our eyes off of it for
a moment is that we're sharing the world with a lot of people who seem disappointed by that fact.
Joining me for headlines tonight are two fellas guaranteed to be called fake news by the president, Heath Enright and Eli Bosnick.
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In our lead story tonight, in a transparent effort to reinforce his movie bad guy motif,
President Trump threatened to cut off our Johnson last week at the National Prayer Breakfast.
In an address that can best be described stylistically as stream of semi-consciousness,
Schmeckle Orange reminisced about firing his agent once,
shit-talked Arnold Schwarzenegger's TV ratings.
And asked people to pray for him.
That really happened too.
Then he mourned for the loss of a Navy SEAL like Gary King describing his mom's funeral,
presented American religious history in the style of a third-grade book report,
and then promised to repeal the law that doesn't allow tax exempt churches to directly endorse
candidates.
I guess there are worse laws he could have promised to repeal for that crowd.
I mean, if she's asking for it, she's asking for it.
Let's bow our heads in prayer.
Mr. President, Mr. President, you could call it the one out, two in policy.
That's amazing.
I told you this praying stuff works fantastic every day.
Of course, in a typically overzealous and under-equipped effort to add emphasis,
he promised not only to get rid of the provision,
but also to, quote, completely destroy it, end quote.
So not just repeal here, but full-blown damnatio memoria we're gonna have a lbj's face
chipped out of bass reliefs and shit so within hours of the announcement republicans in both
houses of congress introduced bills that sought repeal of the amendment even though there was
already one introduced in the house yeah it's like it's like the legislative equivalent of
hitting the elevator button again because it's taken
too long, I guess.
It's like when every asshole on the plane
has to get up and stand in the aisle the fucking
moment the airplane lands.
Idiots. And all y'all, I want to get off
too now. Yeah, you do. Everybody wants to get off.
Like a dog waiting for you to unlock the
fucking door. Or you can stay
seated the entire time like Heath.
Just Heath and four old ladies who are waiting for their wheelchairs so what does all this johnson amendment repeal
mean well for more on that we're joined by andrew torres of the opening arguments podcast
andrew welcome back to the scathing atheists yay Andrew! Andrew! Well, thank you very much for having me.
Do Heath and I get to be part of interviews now?
Yeah.
No.
What?
Well, sort of.
Why not?
Well, Heath, but I mean, you do a doodle of a dragon on your notes,
and then your first question for Andrew is,
do you want to share a boy at ReasonCon?
Does he want to share a boy at ReasonCon? Does he want to share a boy at ReasonCon?
You're a boy.
Question stands.
Rawr!
Dragon.
Yeah, you see?
Exactly.
Now, Andrew, given the present political climate, there are at least 900 things I'd love to ask you about.
But I'm going to keep my focus narrow here.
Tell us, what is the Johnson Amendment?
Okay, well, it is named after former Senator and then President Lyndon Johnson.
And what it did was amended the IRS code.
And specifically, like when you hear the provision that it affects is 501c3 entities.
And that number comes from the specific subsection in 26 U.S.C. so it amended 26 U.S.C. 501c3,
and the specific implication was to say that any entity that is tax-exempt under that provision,
501c3, may not, and here's the specific language, participate in or intervene in,
including the publishing or distribution of
statements, any political campaign on or behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public
office. And the idea was, since 501c3 entities are tax exempt, and since in fact you gain a
charitable contribution for contributing to them, if you weren't going to pay taxes, you've got to play by the rules and not try and influence
the political system.
Okay.
And when was this provision passed?
Yeah, 1954.
Okay.
So it's not like, you know, the country never managed without it.
Well, I mean, you know, when you think about, I mean, the IRS code itself was only in about
40 years old at that point.
So, you know, it was not a particularly controversial provision at the time.
And a large part of that was because the Protestant majority in this country was strongly in favor of separation of church and state at one time.
I know that seems kind of ridiculous now.
at one time. I know that seems kind of ridiculous now. But there was a fear that Catholic immigrants would achieve numerical majorities in certain areas. And so that sense of, well, we can't let
the Catholics get over 50% and start, you know, bringing that like crazy paper stuff and, you
know, submit our government to the government of Rome. So we're willing to say nobody gets to,
no religious institutions get to participate
in the political process
because we're that terrified of Catholics.
Sorry to interrupt you.
Is that why he killed Kennedy?
Yes, exactly.
Okay.
You're not careful.
You end up as Boston.
Smart thinking.
So why didn't they just ban all the Catholics?
It seems like there was an easy solution. Okay this comes up a lot on her shirt i just have to say i right i've been
practicing law for 21 years now and why didn't they just ban all the catlets the first time
anyone's ever asked me that question but please please go ahead that comes up a lot in our
conversation that's the first time someone's ever asked you that publicly.
But I appreciate you acting like it's never come up before with the attorney-client privilege and everything.
Okay, so, no, but I get that.
I mean, when you look at American history, there was kind of this agreement for a long time that this was a good thing.
So what changed?
You know, obviously Republicans are dead set against this amendment now. What changed and when did it change? The big thing that changed were the Supreme Court
decisions in the 1960s with the Warren Court that the most obvious were the decisions on school
prayer, right? That was kind of a rallying cry, but also the decisions on school desegregation and busing. And in the wake of those decisions, evangelicals organized as a political movement in the 1970s
and then slowly began their takeover of the Republican Party that has reached, I hope,
its conclusion now.
I mean, I don't know how much more there is to acquire. But no, I mean like Jimmy Carter, the Democratic president in 1976, won a substantial chunk of the evangelical vote.
I don't have the numbers in front of me.
But it was really not until 1980 that the moral majority and those forces really lined up behind the Republican Party.
So it's less – it's more, Noah, by your and my standards,
it's more recent than people would think.
Yeah, yeah, just before Ally McBeal.
Right.
You guys were in your early 40s at that point, right?
You've got to listen to opening arguments.
You've got to listen to the game.
You've got to listen to all the shows to get all the jokes.
Okay, but now this-
And be old.
It's a shared cinematic universe,
I like to think of it that way. Exactly. So, okay, Okay, but now this... And be old. It's a shared cinematic universe, I like to think of it that way.
So, okay, but now this provision
doesn't just affect churches, right?
501c3, that's charitable organizations
and several other entities, correct?
Yeah.
There are lots of independent,
non-religious public interest organizations
that are operated,
and the provision in the law is
for religious, charitable, scientific, public safety, literary, or educational purposes.
So it's the broadest provision in the tax code for a charity to seek exemption. And so, you know,
this amendment was, the political crisis that precipitated it was religious, but the principle was applied not just to religious institutions but to everybody.
And again, the theory was you're a 501c3.
You're tax-exempt.
People get a tax deduction for donating to your organization.
So stay the hell out of politics, why don't you?
All right, but in a sense though, isn't it – aren't we in a situation where really only one side is playing by the rules?
Because, you know, we've talked a number of times on the show before about the Pulpit Freedom Sunday sponsored by the Alliance Defending Freedom, where they encourage churches to openly break this law, you know, and then send video of themselves doing it to the IRS and say, do something, bitch.
So, you know, in a sense, when I first saw this, I said, well, I mean, this is just a law that's not being
enforced. What's the real danger in it being repealed? So here's what I think of as the real
danger. And I don't know, right, if let me answer the implication of your question first and then
answer your question, right? I don't know from a political standpoint whether this will wind up being a unilateral benefit to Republicans or a mixed benefit to Republicans and some Democrats.
And I don't care and neither should anybody else, right?
Like the – what this will do is erase the line between 501c3 and 501c4 organizations. And let me tell you why that's
important. Because every church is a 501c3. No church is complying with the Johnson Amendment
provisions of 501c3. And I guess I shouldn't say no church, like there are, I'm sure there are,
but no church that wants to endorse candidates gives a second thought about the Johnson Amendment.
And liberal inner city, largely African-American churches are just as guilty as megachurches.
I have not done the research to determine which has more impact.
I have my suspicions, but I don't really care, right?
Like they're all flaunting the law and it's bad. But what the law is doing right now is restraining parachurch and evangelical political organizations like Focus on the Family, for example, that are 501c3 either religious or charitable organizations.
They are hard right-leaning.
They are active in politics.
We all know who James
Dobson is going to endorse. But nevertheless, like Focus on the Family maintains a separate
Focus on the Family action as a 501c4, right? Like they keep that separation. And if you think
that separation is valuable, then you should oppose this. And, you know, the kind of kicker
in terms of, you know, a law that's on the books that's
unenforced is better than trying to pass a new law from scratch, right?
So, you know, one of the things that is particularly dangerous about churches is that they're the
only 501c3 organization that doesn't have to comply with the rigorous reporting requirements of 501c3
funny how that is right well you know that was my other question right because they have reporting
requirements similar to fight club does this just mean that we've created like a super super pack
that's like darker dark money yes that's exactly right right A church has almost no oversight, and in versa, is that the way that the First
Amendment's Establishment Clause has been interpreted throughout the past 55 years of
American history is that excessive entanglement between government and religion is held to be an
Establishment Clause violation. And you can see the reason for that, right? Like you would not want,
you know, somebody to pass a law that says the government is going to vet Catholic bishops or something.
That would be crazy, right?
But it only works if you hold up the other end of the bargain, right?
Like if churches are free to get tax money, get tax benefits, and lobby for political causes with zero oversight,
for political causes with zero oversight, and then any efforts to rein that in are going to be unconstitutional under the Lemon test. I mean, it's just a potential looming disaster.
And there's no way, if this goes through, if that's repealed, the idea that you would have
the political will in at least the next generation to reinstate that for, you know, when there's the next
Democratic president in office is just, I mean, that strikes me as incredibly unlikely.
Wow. Okay. So you didn't talk me back from the ledge at all.
I consider putting both hands on your back and pushing firmly.
All right. So realistically, do you think there's a real threat of repeal here?
Yeah, I do.
I wish, I mean,
I'm searching for the like
nuanced, you know, hot take
answer, but almost
I mean, the religious
right is the interest group
in the Republican Party. They control
virtually all of the votes.
And to the extent that there's any potential drop-off, you know, you have the, you know, sort of defection from Democrats who are afraid of being on the wrong side of religion.
So, yeah, I think it's going to have no problems.
I would say add that to, you know, item number 8374, why you should engage in a vigorous argument with any of the, you know, Bernie bros and disaffected liberals who are like, well, Hillary is just as bad.
You know, well, you know, congratulations.
This is a one-way exit that, you know, I don't see coming back in a generation at minimum.
Wow.
Sorry.
Brightside, if it gets repealed,
can me and Heath start a church of Elizabeth Warren in 2020?
Sure.
I think I'm going to be in the front pew.
Good things happen jurisprudence-wise when we have people with the last name of warren in my
experience and do you
want to share a boy at reason con
i thought you said i thought you said
room
his name is
rune you saw the
movie all right well
andrew i can't thank you enough for helping
us sort all of this out.
What if I spill hot coffee on him first?
I said not again.
Question still stands.
I still want to know too.
If you'd like to hear more from Andrew, including possibly that as a listener question, you can check him out on the Opening Arguments podcast with Thomas Smith, which you'll find linked in the show notes for this episode.
And obviously, there's still a ton of news to talk about so we'll be back to
the headlines after this hi i'm ray camphor and i'm here to talk you out of your filthy atheism
with one question are you up to the challenge uh yeah ray we've we've seen this bit you do it in
all your movies yeah well you've never seen this if's no God, who would you say created this fantastic box of delicious ingredients?
That's the people at Blue Apron, the number one fresh ingredient and recipe delivery service in the country.
Nope.
Okay, well, I guess they probably outsourced the boxes, but the stuff in the box.
Yeah, they did.
Manna from heaven.
What?
Manna from heaven, like God did in the Bible.
No, no, Ray.
It's a company.
They deliver it in trucks.
It's Blue Apron.
They're on a mission to make incredible home cooking accessible to everyone.
That'd be silly.
How could they have sustainably sourced all this seafood while providing beef, chicken, and pork that come from responsibly raised animal?
I'll tell you here.
Divine intervention.
Uh, no, no.
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All right, but where does Spider-Man get his powers if there's no God, huh?
That's a video.
Check me.
Right in your face.
Thank you, Ray.
And in fall, well, now you've gone and done it news tonight.
In an ever-increasing effort to form a dream team known only as the White Power Rangers, this week, Donald Trump has tapped none other than Jerry Falwell Jr. to lead his task force on higher ed policy.
Trump's entire presidency thus far is an effort to make someone else in this country less qualified for their job than he is.
As listeners might be aware, Falwell is the current president of Liberty University,
in a supreme example of none of those words matching their meanings.
He also looks like the dad from Modern Family stuck his head out of a moving TARDIS.
He looks like the dad from Bronze Age Family.
He looks like he owns a hair salon for IRA bombers. Not just a
client. Yeah. According to an article in The Chronicle, the scope, size and mission of the
task force have yet to be announced. But according to Falwell himself, the task force is in response
to, quote, overreaching regulation and micromanagement by the department in areas like accreditation and
policies that affect college student recruiting behavior like the new borrower defense to
repayment regulations or in layman's terms we're going to make it legal to be a fake college and
defraud people out of their money with payday loan as policies again yeah yeah no or even worse
we're gonna accredit fake colleges such that college
degree itself will become a meaningless term take that millennials i guarantee you fall
well's plan for college loans has the word sharecropper somewhere in at least one of the
drafts yeah and look you gotta admit if you're looking for two people to once
again give fake universities the freedom to steal from people who are giving them fake education
with dubious finances trump and jerry falwell jr are the dream team you want to fuck stupid people
you can't do much better it's true and stupid people are the most fun to fuck however surprise them easily however this shakes out i think we can all agree with
devos in lower education and fall well in higher education we're bringing god back into the schools
i for one look forward to all those school shootings stopping. And the hurricanes. And the hurricanes, yeah.
And in one discrimination under God news tonight,
Donald Trump is currently finalizing an executive order intended to make sure Christian people can't get in trouble
for doing all the extremely illegal things that are called for in the Bible.
Yep.
You hear that, ladies?
Your UFC interference via junk-grabbing days are over.
Oh, shit.
That one for sure.
But most importantly, the right to live in a world without women's rights
and, of course, the right to dehumanize the LGBT community.
Of course.
And in fairness, both of those groups were getting extra human-y in recent years and uppity about it.
So the current draft of the executive order is called Government-Wide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom.
And I would love to see the evolution of that title.
I'm assuming it started as like, you're allowed to hate fags again.
No, no.
You're allowed to hate gay people again. Of course no. You're allowed to hate gay people again.
But yeah, of course, of course,
they realized that would be problematic,
obviously,
because it doesn't really say anything
about the women's rights they're taking away.
So they broadened it out a little bit.
Maybe they called it like,
bring down the dick suckers, lesbians.
Damn, damn.
Oh, for fuck's sake.
So close.
So basically what happened here
is that Pence didn't do the homework.
So he had to hand in like the sticky stack of fantasies he's been beaten off to since the late 80s.
Right.
I have done that.
I failed math a lot.
But in the most entertaining possible way.
Better for English.
Yeah.
So the general idea of the order is, well, it's just like it sounds.
Apparently, Christians are being persecuted by all the new equal rights people are getting so trump wanted to make sure they're
allowed to legally discriminate against whoever they please for whatever reason they please
for example any religious person or organization could refuse to hire gay people trans people or
women who've had an abortion that's going to be in the new language.
And as we learned from a different executive order last month, for every new regulation
created, Trump intends to remove two.
Oh, wait.
No word yet on which two he plans to get rid of to make room in the fucking regulations
closet for this double sized new one.
They're all double sized, but it seems like the best move, in my opinion,
would be getting rid of the
14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
because, you know, those are going to keep
getting in his way going forward.
Might as well just nip it in the bud.
And in Spread
Eagle Scouts news tonight, Todd Starnes
thinks it's time for him to pull out of the Boy Scouts.
Join the club.
That's only like 80% effective.
Now.
So, after a groundbreaking announcement last Monday
that the Boy Scouts of America would begin accepting trans boys into their ranks,
conservative columnist and crying-in-a-skin-mask Todd Starn
penned an angry editorial calling on churches around the country
to sever ties with the Scouts altogether.
Leading priests all over the country to say, what, for Lent?
Yeah, like Hermes.
Yeah, dubbing the move sexual anarchy,
Stearns went on to quote the utterly qualificationless chairman
of the homophobic Dimension Boy Scouts Trail Life USA,
who said that the BSA's move will, quote,
put boys in a state of confusion and does nothing to help
with normal psychological development.
But you know what does?
Trapping them in the woods to learn
Bronze Age skills from a grown-up without a
job. That was making that ladle
today. Yeah, while dressing
like a park ranger in a lavish Broadway
musical and tying specialty
knots. Yeah, wouldn't want to fuck with that perfect
hetero training program they've got going right now now so proving once more that he really just doesn't
know how all the l's g's b's t's and q's line up stearns asks in his column quote will transgender
children will be able to to sick share tents and bathrooms with heterosexual boys end quote
what the fuck is he talking about?
Like, all those signs you see at campsites,
everyone is welcome to piss behind the tree that matches their gender identity.
We can't let this happen.
What?
Yes.
So after spending an unhealthy additional amount of time
obsessing over the genitals of children,
he then challenges the Boy Scouts to stand firm in the face of what he calls
militant gender revolutionaries,
which means he is getting the erotic graphic novel
fan fiction Eli keeps sending him,
and that's good.
He needs a release.
I drew the pictures in blood and other stuff.
It's scratch and sniff is what I'm saying.
That's also the name of our drug and catapult party
at ReasonCon.
DJ, Velcro wall, let's blow.
Andrew has already advised me
that we have to make it clear that's a joke.
Scratch and sniff.
Be there or we square.
And in giving religion das boot news tonight,
in a continuing effort
to make me pinch myself
to make sure I'm not dreaming every four minutes
this week, I find myself as
a United States citizen
once again jealous of the politics
and beliefs of the
German people.
I also have sex
dreams about Angela Merkel.
I want to brush her a little
haircut, help her solve a mystery.
She looks
like someone melted Phyllis from the office.
Exactly.
Yes.
A mere 70 years after it was okay to punch them,
according to a new Pew report,
0% of Germans between 18 and 34
feel like Christianity is core to their national identity.
There you go.
0%.
I mean, look, that's great.
Glad to see secularism spreading.
But one does have to wonder
if this is because of the secular nature of Germany
or, slightly darker note,
because of the way the question was asked, right?
Because the question was,
how important is Christianity to you?
It was, how important is being Christian
to being truly German?
So maybe they just mean that's not what they're known for.
And that's true.
They're not known for their Christianity.
They're known for their schnitzel and oktoberfest.
Nice of you to pretend.
That was nice.
Shouldn't they really be known for being the location of Israel at this point?
I mean, that whole desert plan did not work out.
The Jews get Germany now.
I think that's fair.
By the way, somehow my racist spell check disagrees with that.
It underlined Germany.
I wrote the Jews get Germany now.
Germany, spelled correctly, got underlined.
I don't know what's going on there.
Here's the crazy thing.
When you try to correct it, it was nowhere.
Here's the crazy thing. When you try to correct it, it was nowhere. Here's the crazy thing.
Try to correct it.
It corrects it to gassed.
Joke.
Not my fault.
Look, I'm just laying out the bed work for an eventual
live show in Berlin. German women
fuck, but they do not like to be reminded
their grandpa was a Nazi. Oh, there you go.
Yeah. Well, I'm still dressing as Captain America though. That's already decided. Plus, I feel like, you know, some of them not like to be reminded their grandpa was a Nazi. Oh, there you go. Yeah, well, I'm still dressing as Captain America
though. That's already decided.
Plus, I feel like, you know, some of them are going to be into
role-playing stuff with the Captain
America thing. You never know.
Captain America. Either way. Yeah.
Still, this is good news,
and for the optimists in our audience,
I just want to point out that I, too,
am looking forward to when 0% of
Americans think being Christian is important to being American.
In 70 years.
Stuff in between, not so much.
But in the 70 years.
They'll have a great weight loss plan for you, though.
That's true.
I can see Eli now.
This Zyklon B wasn't animal tested, was it?
Was it?
You can only see it because you keep drawing it and putting it all over the studio.
Throw that up there.
And in pulpit freedom is slavery news tonight.
Religious leaders in South Africa are starting to panic a little bit
thanks to a proposed law that would ban a wide range of hate speech over there.
And that's not generally a great
sign for your group regardless of the details apparently the clergy community heard about
the potential new rules and realized that a big chunk of their job description is
giving a sunday morning hate speech and according to most dictionaries it is yeah and by most he means the english ones
do they have those in south africa vultures of horror would seem to be evidence that they don't
is what i'm saying or that's not in south africa but yeah the same to you agree dictionaries now uh
looks like the uh proposed law is at least somewhat of an overreach here allegedly the
bill was drafted by president jacob zuma in hopes of silencing a cartoonist who keeps making fun of
him and it would define the term hate speech way too broadly so as it turns out these religious
leaders are probably on the right side of the issue this time. Much like Nazis who don't want to get punched in the face for talking
are on the right side of the issue, technically.
Open face compliment sandwich.
But now, to be fair,
if you want a law that forbids making fun of Jacob Zuma,
it's going to have to be pretty fucking broad.
It looks like George Foreman figured out how to make meth with that grill.
He looks like a Shrinky Dink
of Ving Rhames. Oh my god,
he does! Except, like, that didn't
quite come out, but almost did.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Like, your mom was
like, I need to start dinner, and you were like, seriously?
This is the ten minutes a day I asked
to use the oven, and all of a sudden, you're in a hurry?
Liz, really?
We don't
compromise. That's the problem in this family
we're so drinky dink serious
as fuck
so obviously there's a decent argument to be made
for the good intentions behind
anti-hate speech
laws in South Africa
I get that but you kind of
still need to let the pastors and
Nazis talk you really do it's sad but you do
apartheid Nazis and pastors are in the same group is what I'm saying you kind of still need to let the pastors and Nazis talk. You really do. It's sad, but you do.
Apartheid Nazis and pastors are in the same group,
is what I'm saying.
I just want to say that one more time.
They're in the same group here.
Bottom line, it's always fun to watch people realize that the legal status of religious exercise
and the legal status of hate speech
kind of have to be the same.
And while we let that one sink in, we'll pause for a quick break and hand things
over to my lovely wife, Lucid. A man wrote the Bible. A whore is what she wants. If it's a
legitimate race. A dangerous slut, right? Cooking can be fun. Hey, I'm proud of a man. This week in
Masajid. You know what I love about Trump's America? Job security. Let's jump right the fuck in, shall we?
First up this week come two lawmakers from North Dakota who are trying to defend North Dakota's
archaic blue laws, laws that require some businesses to open later on Sundays and others
to stay closed entirely. Bernie Satrum and Verning Lanning, who look like you can answer their riddle
if you can tell left from right, want blue laws to stay in place so that their wives can stay home and serve them breakfast in bed.
Seriously, that was their argument.
Speaking in defense of the law, Satram said that Sunday should be devoted to, and I quote,
spending time with your wife, your husband, making him breakfast, bringing it to him
in bed, and then after that, go take your kids for a walk, end quote. I'm not even gonna lie,
the taking the kids for the walk thing is the part that really weirds me out the most.
Your kids aren't fucking dogs, asshole. Everybody likes breakfast in bed, but that's some march the kids around the
block while I visit the teenager I bought from Larry King bullshit right there. But like I said,
Satram wasn't along. Lest his buddy be the only one in the corner wearing a Lucinda May dunce cap,
Lanning jumped right in, adding, quote, I don't know about you, but my wife has no problem spending
everything I earn in six and a half days, and I don't think it hurts at all to have a half day off.
I guess we're just lucky this wasn't the lead-in to his women be shopping bit.
Obviously, this dismissive passive sexism caused quite a bit of outrage,
and we can expect the usual half-assed apology puffery with no real consequences shortly.
But hey, we've got listeners in North Dakota. So hey,
listeners in North Dakota, don't vote these assholes in when they come back up, okay?
Yeah, nailed it. And from the absurd to the horrific, I'll leave you tonight with the U.S.
capital of anti-woman garbage, Arkansas, which passed Act 45 this week. That would be the Unborn
Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act,
a law so stupid they put their ignorance of how abortion works
and what it is in the fucking title.
A truly magical case of stupidity.
The law not only prohibits all dilations and evacuation procedures,
the safest ways to have an abortion,
but also allows the baby's father
to stop her from getting an abortion, even if he's her rapist. I'm not shitting you. They even
made an exception that if you rape a baby into someone and they try to abort it, you can stop
them, but you can't send them to jail. They wrote that into law. And it passed this year.
Seriously.
And what's worse, who the fuck knows how this shit will play out in the courts if Gorsuch is confirmed.
Now, while we all try to figure out a way to smuggle accurate drawings of uteruses into Arkansas, I'll hand things back over to Noah, Heath, and Eli.
Thank you, Lucinda.
And thanks back over to Noah, Heath, and Eli.
Thank you, Lucinda.
And in bitter pell to swallow news tonight,
thanks to new data from Australia's Royal Commission on Priests' Fucking Kids,
we came a little closer to putting a real number on the extent of the Catholic Church pedophilia scandal.
And that number is fucking horrific.
Something like one kid fucking priest out of every 14 priests.
Yeah, just want to put this in perspective real quick.
If a kid in Australia went to a new priest each day for two weeks, that kid probably met a rapist.
Yeah.
It's safer to go to a crack house for two weeks.
Some crackhead probably brings the kid to a police station.
Oh, it's a good thing I found this kid.
Could end up in a church.
Well, statistically speaking, yes.
That's right.
A whopping 7% of Catholic priests employed by the church in Australia in the six decades following 1950 have been accused of child sexual abuse.
In some individual churches and schools, by the way, that number was as high as 40%.
Again, this is not the number of people involved
in the cover-up this is the number of people formally accused of directly abusing children
yeah and it's ridiculous i mean can you imagine if seven percent of prominent atheists were getting
a bad example sorry you were doing a story about but we hate but in our defense that's only if we
average yours out among everybody and that that's all I'm asking.
I'm asking everyone take one for the team.
Dude, you got to learn to plan your shit out better.
I'm not saying that.
I don't like your thing.
It's got X's and O's and you use lots of sports terminology.
I hope you listen to Gam.
Otherwise, this is very disturbing.
That related to something else.
It's not face value.
No, we just plan rapes.
Don't listen to him.
Making excuses.
I want to emphasize anything other than where that joke is going so what i'm going to emphasize is the number
this is the number of people accused right not convicted 4444 is that number that's the number
of people who have been accused of sexually abusing kids in the custody of the catholic
church in australia so the number of them who actually did it is almost certainly way fucking higher than
that.
Planning.
Yeah, because sure.
No, because an accusation isn't a conviction.
Sure.
But something tells me the number of sexually abused children who don't come forward as
at least an order of magnitude higher than the number who come forward with false allegations.
Twitter would disagree, but only if you're talking about women and not children.
Maybe children. I don't know anymore.
What about women and children?
In fairness to
rape apologists on Twitter,
no, I'm not doing it.
I had something good, but I am not
giving it to them. I had a good
apology for the apologists. Good planning. Once again,
good rape apologist planning.
Now, the guy whose job it is
to defend the church called these numbers indefensible and yet continued collecting a
check from him nonetheless chief executive of the church's truth justice and healing council
francis sullivan said quote as catholics we hang our heads in shame and quote giving in my mind
insufficient rhetorical consideration to the fact that hanging their heads is what got them in trouble in the first place.
A little lower, a little lower, even more ashamed.
And now less ashamed, and now more ashamed, and now less ashamed.
Awful, awful people.
Were you wearing that necklace a moment ago?
So finally tonight, from the ideologer file in response to last sunday's
super bowl ad by budweiser which depicted their company's german founder adolphus bush coming to
the united states in 1857 a large group of xenophobic white christians decided it was time
to boycott the beer in protest given the the pro-immigration theme, I guess,
these people think Budweiser
is looking to market their alcoholic beverage
to Muslims now.
Well, yeah, right.
It works so well for their bacon and clit ring department,
so this is just the next logical step.
Oh, man.
Guys, if the first beer Muslims try is Budweiser, we're in trouble.
We could be creating jihadists.
Nope.
Nope. Blow them up. Yeah. No.
Give me that pamphlet.
Totally valid.
So, apparently the
protesters think the ad was meant to
undermine Donald Trump's
Muslim ban by telling the story
of an immigrant in a positive light.
But, here's the thing thing the executive order on immigration happened nine days before the super bowl and they released
it earlier the the ad companies don't generally slap together 35 million dollar commercials during
the final week before it airs like a goddamn term paper they forgot about shit do we have one of
those on that big game yeah what do they think this is?
A halftime show?
No, she was amazing,
beautiful, and strong, guys. She was great.
Let it go, gay dudes. Let it go.
But also,
they're pissed about white Christian
immigration in the 1800s?
I mean,
shouldn't they at least look at this and say,
well, that's how it's supposed to go
white folks in boats y'all i mean i feel like it really betrays your own tenuous grip on what
you're pissed about when you can so easily accidentally be pissed at yourself and uh
there's a couple details about this that i especially enjoyed first of all it's nice to
see that trump supporters are refusing to get behind the story of a German guy named Adolphus.
There was.
There was.
Finally.
Feels like a good thing somehow.
But here's my favorite part of the story.
Immediately following the Super Bowl, the hashtag Boycott Budweiser, spelled wrong, W-I-S-E-R, was trending nationwide.
Must be an alternative spelling i don't know about
oh oh well at least we know when warren wins in 2020 we can tell them their marches on january
32nd yeah that's so many wrong that was election day wasn't it all right so uh obviously this is
the uh this is only the beginning of budweiser's plan for marketing jihad on the United States.
And, of course, we're here to help.
Let's put 30 seconds on the clock.
We're looking for ideas for the Muslim-themed beer campaign to scare the Christians.
Go.
All right.
I got one they'd go a long ways for.
How about Mecca Lobe?
Ooh, the Ion Hersey Chablis or the Majid Shiraz?
Those aren't good.
Yeah, they could go into wine, sure.
How about Sleeper Stella?
I've been trying, but I just cannot make the O'Doul's O'Jews joke work,
and I'm ashamed of myself.
I think you just crushed it.
Moe's Jihad Lemonade, I guess.
Hymen Ken. I'm ashamed of myself. I think you just crushed it. Moe's Jihad Lemonade, I guess. Heimenken.
That sounds more like a Mormon beer, though.
Sister Wives.
You're damn right it does.
Maybe Rolling A Rock?
There you go.
Or Anheuser-Busch?
Too obvious.
Be like Muhammad.
Have a youngling.
Ooh.
How about Skull?
Official beer of jihadi executioners um
how about uh the opec oiler maker and i'm gonna need some some music for this one guys you ready
one turban one scotch and one beer
i know that we're all good and thirsty and rocked out, we'll wrap up the headlines for the night.
Heath, Eli, thanks as always.
You can't write these things in the thing.
I need to not assume.
It's a game.
It's a game.
And it's great because none of the listeners know what the joke is.
They just hear you laughing.
Chutes and ladders, nothing to do with Newtown.
And when we come back, you'll have missed us more than you're willing to admit.
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And the fan who can find it...
Dude, dude, what?
No.
What?
I'm just trying to get people excited for ReasonCon.
No, dude, there's somebody whose job...
They got great speakers.
We're doing a live show.
They get to hang out with us and Thomas and Andrew and Cogdis are all going to be there.
That's how we're going to get people to come, okay?
Okay, fine.
I'm going to go make myself some cookies.
You're going to what?
Make myself some cookies.
Don't you ever make yourself a batch of hot, fresh cookies?
No.
Man, how often do you make yourself cookies?
Like twice a day.
I like pretending someone wants me to be happy.
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Never.
Before we shut everything down
and figure out what new international crisis
our president instigated on Twitter while we were recording,
I wanted to apologize to Natalie and Dan of the Science Enthusiast podcast.
They did last week's Farnsworth quote, and I included the wrong link in the show notes.
So if you tried to find their show and failed, be sure to check out the new and improved link in this week's show notes.
Anyway, that's all the blasphemy we've got for you tonight.
We'll be back in 10,022 minutes with more.
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And in case you missed it, we dropped a new episode of The Skeptocrat on Monday,
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It is literally impossible.
You can't do that alright you need a second
to get your ray on
Amy's ready to do ray
Amy's ready to do ray
alright
ok Betsy Davos
I was watching some Betsy Davos videos today
so I could get some points down
working on Davos.
I'm so glad I'm not in this one.
I'm just going to hold me.
I'm going to leave.
All right,
here we go.
Here we go.
We can do this.
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