the Profane Argument, atheist podcast

Follow-up:  Ten Commandments monument  guy found guilty of felony criminal mischief.   @1:51 News: Mysterious metal monolith found in the Utah desert has vanished.   @6:31 After the Utah monolith disappeared, another one showed up in Romania! YouTube suspends One America News   @11:31 TN - “tens of people” came to COVID-denial protest    @12:14 Jewish traditions   @16:02 NJ - Appellate court ruled...

Topic for discussion. What are you thankful for? 2020: There are more atheists in state and federal offices than ever before.  @7:19 And now they have one more to add to their ranks: Rep. Don Beyer Emily Murphy, administrator of the General Services Administration   @11:47 Biden announced “climate czar” John Kerry, the next president’s Climate Envoy.  @12:37 Biden losing Catholic support?  “an app...

Trump & Cronies: All the presidential lawsuits @1:58 Trump retreats in PA @3:47 LadyG asks Georgia to throw out votes @12:52 Fox cutting away He’s fueled by “name it and claim it” prosperity theology. @20:01 Kayleigh McEnany Breaks White House Record With Crowd Tally, only off by about 980,000. @24:00 Jared’s Chimp theory @26:33 Atlas idiot @29:09 Alito clearly doesn’t think much of “experts” or “...

Open discussion on SNL @0:00 Topic for discussion. Steve Bannon vs Kathy Griffin @4:51 2020 Election Follow-up: Cucker Tarlson “There’s not enough fraud” to make Trump win. @11:51 For those who voted in person, did you notice the aroma of Christ? @12:50 Paula White promising angels are being dispatched to save Trump’s electoral prospects. @14:02 Ken Copeland laughing @15:05 The President of the Un...

Follow-up: Sober Ian reads Jewish bedtime story @4:20 Election check-in @7:17 First Senate call @9:47 Keith Raniere, head of the NXIVM cult, is sentenced to 120 years in prison @11:27 Tensions are boiling between France and some Muslim-majority nations over free expression and “blasphemy.” @23:55 President Macron on Saturday: “I understand that one can be shocked by cartoons, but I will never acce...

Follow-up: At once elfin and Mephistophelian, the Amazing Randi @3:01 Paty was posthumously awarded the Légion d’honneur by President Macron @8:49 Reuters reports on the chilling effect this kind of terror has in France Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan accuses French President Emmanuel Macron of “attacking Islam,” Trump & Cronies: Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed @20:10 Barrett’s adherence to th...

The Comey Rule miniseries discussion @0:00 Show starts @4:20 Local news: Exec order to be ignored @5:31 ACE opposes order 2020: Comments from the GOP @8:22 GOP will not remove ballot boxes Trump & Cronies: Trump calls Dr. Fauci and other medical experts “idiots” and “attacks” Joe Biden with the claim that Biden will “listen to the scientists.” @17:03 Those women and their dishwashers @21:35 GA - D...

Follow-up: humanist weddings can now have 15 attendees @7:44 Facebook bans QAnon @10:13 2020: there was the part where Pence said @12:15 The New England Journal of Medicine doesn’t endorse Biden, but very much un-dorses the president. @18:48 GOP told to remove fake ballot boxes @22:57 Trump & Cronies: One of Trump’s COVID treatments—which he called “miracles coming down from God”—was developed wit...

Follow-up:    Kim Davis is back! And in the Supreme Court    @3:33 Racehorse theory    @9:36 Trump & Cronies:        Trumps have tested positive for COVID-19    @12:48 The official updates coming from Trump’s doctor Gold Star event Trump signing blank pieces of paper And then there was the drive-by “Conspiracy theorists on the extreme fringe     @35:14 Coronavirus:      “PSAs with C-list celebriti...

Announcement: Atheists United is running a fundraiser to help with the California wildfire crisis @1:33 YouTube super-algorithm is taking down videos that debunk conspiracy theories @1:55 2020: Fact check on debate followed by DEBATE TALK @5:24 Trump campaign discussing how to cheat @12:20 Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court is indeed Amy Coney Barrett @16:45 Trump & Cronies: Tax info @18:43 Add...

This week: Zombie Hurricanes @2:00 News: Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday night. @3:38 Quick question: How do you overturn a Supreme Court decision? Pastor’s prayer responsible? @5:30 Intercessors for America tells supporters the timing of Ginsburg’s death shows this is what God wanted @6:46 Let’s meet Judge Amy Coney Barrett @11:46 Or Allison Jones Rushing? Why does it have to be a woman? Pelos...

Religious Nonsense: This is what it was for some folks to work for Ken Ham’s Creation Museum.    @2:45 Jim Bakker’s buckets of food    @5:41 Sunk Cost Fallacy   @9:37 Coronavirus: Dashboard CFI: Coronavirus Resource Center      FDA is keeping a running list of phoney COVID-19 products “Army ants will sometimes walk in circles until they die.”    @15:16 AstraZeneca puts the brakes on a COVID-19 vac...

Follow-up: @1:30 Sweden’s COVID death rate per capita is *slightly* higher than US Obesity is 38-39%, overweight is 71% @2:06 Sturgis @2:42 Coronavirus: John MacArthur of Grace Community Church: “There is no pandemic.” @7:53 Why people believe false conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 death toll What is known about the CDC’s claim that states need to get ready for a vaccine @12:22 The timing, o...

Follow-up: Might we have found a ministerial exception exception? @1:04 Coronavirus: Dashboard CFI: Coronavirus Resource Center FDA is keeping a running list of phoney COVID-19 products “Immunity boosting” against COVID-19 is not. a. Thing. @3:14 More than 100 cases of COVID-19 are linked to the big motorcycle rally in South Dakota @5:49 A COVID-19 vaccine is threatened because of a monkey shortag...

Follow-up: The Center for Freethought Equality releases its congressional scorecard for the House @1:12 2020: Convention talk @2:20 Trump & Cronies: Trump says the quiet part out loud (again). @23:45 Bannon arrested @28:36 Jerry Falwell Jr. is now officially unemployed. @31:40 Kenneth Copeland has had his show on Trinity Broadcasting canned. @35:32 Trump boosts QAnon from the White House podium. “...

Follow-up: Neck gaiters are worse than no mask at all? That may not at all be true @1:36 Mark Grenon was arrested in Colombia and faces extradition @2:46 2020: Harris co-sponsored Do No Harm Act @6:42 DNC: @23:35 Michelle Obama said a president needs to have a “devotion to facts and history” and touted Biden’s trust in science. Bernie Sanders said of Trump, “by rejecting science, he has put our li...

Follow-up: TST announcement - set to challenge abortion restrictions as violations of their religious liberty @2:19 2020: Kamala @5:33 Sen. Tammy Duckworth calls herself a deist @13:58 Libertarian follow-up @22:00 Trump & Cronies: Friday Night Mass @37:34 Trump said Joe Biden will “Hurt the bible, hurt God.” @45:35 Jerry Falwell Jr. is taking an indefinite leave of absence @48:55 Coronavirus: No t...

Follow-up: TST announcement @4:04 Anti-abortion fake clinics got between $4 and 10 million in PPP @5:09 A court rules music teacher fired by a Catholic school has no legal recourse @6:14 Immanuel’s ravings. “That’s essentially Genesis Chapter 6.” @7:33 Rudy Giuliani calls Immanuel “my hero.” Trump & Cronies: SCOTUS allows Trump to move ahead with wall @13:47 Trump campaign advisor says there’s no...

Promo for American Atheists @1:56 https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEodu6hrz8pHNWhqwFsWyxoMls3SejZb1nw?emci=15764783-00d1-ea11-9b05-00155d03bda0&emdi=21c0d754-10d1-ea11-9b05-00155d03bda0&ceid=4489145 Coronavirus: Dashboard CFI: Coronavirus Resource Center FDA is keeping a running list of phoney COVID-19 products it is much more likely we are undercounting COVID-19 deaths than overcounting @2:44 T...

Follow-up: A federal court was not impressed    @3:18 Discussing the rise of Flat-Earthers    @4:28 Coin shortage conspiracy   @7:14 “I’m going to kill everybody on this plane. Die in the name of Jesus!”     @10:38 Coronavirus: CFI: Coronavirus Resource Center      FDA is keeping a running list of phoney COVID-19 products “The science should not stand in the way of this.”   @12:52 COVID has reveal...

Follow-up: The Satanic Temple is threatening Mississippi with a lawsuit @2:13 Redskins @3:04 It’s not just churches that got a ton of PPP money, but You know who. @4:57 Millions went to televangelist crooks like Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, and Peter Popoff @6:56 Kanye again… @7:56 Cucker Tarlson @10:32 Mark Grenon @13:32 Coronavirus: Immunity doesn’t make you immune.. @21:26 You can definitely get...

Follow-up: Profane Argument masks @1:16 Dustin: somebody tell Jared the “AK-47 is the preferred weapon of our enemy” @1:55 National News: SCOTUS: @4:24 Congress might get not one but two QAnon believers next year @10:58 Trump: Max Boot - Trump is running an openly racist campaign @18:31 America First KKK origins Trump’s new idea: that public schools are indoctrinating kids into the radical left @2...

Trump: a whiny little bitch

National News: SCOTUS Roberts helped strike down a restrictive Louisiana abortion law @3:58 Gave Trump more authority to neutralize the CFPB @5:48 One reason incomes for the affluent have risen so much faster @6:42 School choice @7:17 Surviving Trump’s first term @11:52 Coronavirus: Face masks do not keep you from getting oxygen @15:02 The coronavirus is mutating @17:40 Anthony Fauci says we’re pr...

Follow-up: CFI lawsuit against Walmart  dismissed   @2:46 Announcement from the FDA about…injectable homeopathy!   @4:23 Franklin Graham is the real victim here   @5:33 Danny Masterson    @13:31 National News:  Replacing “white privilege” with “white blessing,” because whites “miss the blessing of slavery.”    @16:23 House candidate and QAnon devotee Marjorie Taylor Greene    @22:48 Coronavirus: A...