the Profane Argument, atheist podcast

Follow-up: The Jesuits to raise $100 million for descendants of the slaves their order once owned. @1:10 Sydney Powell update @2:40 State Estate tax @6:24 News: GA shooting (religion, race, and guns) - church says not their fault @8:14 But let’s take a look… Ammon Bundy was arrested again @25:13 Politics: Religious exemptions on steroids @28:40 KY voting @30:03 Religious Nonsense: 57 Black pastors...

News: Gary Paul Karr, of the Madalyn Murray O’Hair case, was just re-sentenced @1:13 Two charged in Capitol officer’s deaths @5:52 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) @11:51 Tucker’s racism bit on John Oliver @13:48 China Navy @22:40 Military expense China/Russia Moon Base Politics: Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) @28:04 But boy do we need relief from the estate tax Boebert’s lies @32:12 Greene Guam story @35:22...

News: Dr Suess @2:57 Follow-up: French teacher was killed; The person who first spread the news about Paty showing the cartoons was the father of a student who wasn’t even there. @12:33 Megyn Kelly school talk @14:12 Ian school story @15:27 Religious Nonsense: Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville complained on the Senate floor that the U.S. needs to get “God and prayer back into schools.” @19:54 Texas St...

News: Youtube story @1:14 ProfaneArgument Youtube CPAC @5:24 Q-folk harbor doubts about Donald Trump’s triumphant return to power on March 4. @14:23 Religious Nonsense: Fritz Berggren, Christian nationalist and white supremacist. @23:21 Group of evangelicals denounced “radicalized Christian nationalism” as “heretical”. @30:19 The Southern Baptists expel churches for not hating gay people enough @3...

News: What a Rush @2:13 Texas @7:44 AOC Cruz Russia @18:44 Qatar example @20:25 Taxes on the unemployed @22:38 AZ voting changes @23:28 Follow-up: Trump casino implosion @25:41 TN update: The legislation to allow a man who allegedly impregnated a woman to petition to prevent her from ending her pregnancy. @27:11 South Carolina’s “fetal heartbeat” law, was blocked by a federal judge. @27:59 Abortio...

Follow-up: In the madness of social media: conflicts, hostility, and conspiracy theories: NextDoor @2:12 News: Mavericks stop playing Anthem @5:32 Carano @7:29 Profiles in Sedition: Bracket: https://brackethq.com/b/jujl/ @19:44 Josh Hawley v Mike Lindell Greene v Powell Rudy Giuliani v Lin Wood Politics: Boebert lying on reimbursement @29:22 GOP attacking anyone who turns @31:28 Trump statement on...

Follow-up: Rittenhouse violates bond @1:07 News: Superspreader Sunday! @4:46 Supreme Court ruled that California can’t restrict indoor church services @10:53 Tyler Broker points out the silly comparisons Catholic Church in U.S. was sitting on more than $10B when it got a another $1.5B from the PPP @12:44 Stimulus details @14:12 Anchor on Newsmax walks off @15:19 Morgan Wallen @22:26 Canada declare...

Follow-up: WI Pharmacist update @1:26 Filibuster info @3:05 News: Reddit v Stock Market @7:41 Profiles in Sedition: Lauren Boebert v Zip tie guy @19:48 NRA also to blame @33:43 Christopher Miller, Defense Sec v Donald Trump @ Another Trump crazy @40:37 “The Capitol insurrection was as Christian nationalist as it gets.” @42:08 Didja hear? Biden reduced the age of consent to 8. @43:46 What else coul...

Follow-up: Rebekah Jones turned herself over to police on Saturday @2:31 Profiles in Sedition Bracket @7:00 News: Inauguration: Biden’s MASSIVE amount of god-talk @8:27 Profiles in Sedition: @29:34 “we were actually affecting the quantum realm” Spaz There was a lot of anger How big was the coup attempt? @40:57 QAnon cultists are reeling @41:46 Trump coming back Mar 4 Franklin Graham says no Christ...

Follow-up: Huffington Shit-Post @3:27 News: Still no Superman @5:36 Politics: Mystery unsolved @9:01 Jack Jenkins on the role of Christianity @13:01 Trump is God’s chosen candidate “QAnon … is just the Satanic Panic all over again…” How to live among those who see life as a cosmic war Republican senator Ben Sasse in The Atlantic, “QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within.” @22:55 MyPillow.com accep...

News: Sheldon Adelson is dead @1:51 Politics: Georgia: Dems win, holy shit! @4:59 Another call @6:23 Attempted Coup: Insurrectionists storm congress @10:25 Giuliani may be disbarred @11:57 One of the insurrectionists was former Pennsylvania State Rep. Rick Saccone One of the guys breaching the Capitol was West Virginia State Delegate Derrick Evans Police Chief says unable to call in Guard Capitol...

Follow-up: Mubarak Bala was supposed to have been released from prison @3:41 Coronavirus: Luke Letlow, announced right after recording last week @4:59 a COVID outbreak in Martha’s Vineyard 8:01 CA funeral homes out of space @9:07 At the current pace, “it would take almost 10 years to get the pandemic under control.” @10:20 A pharmacist in Wisconsin sabotaged more than 500 doses @12:01 Mandate Vacc...

News: Nashville   @1:18 Want to Blow up Trump Plaza?    @5:03 Politics: Another Powell witness     @8:01 Loeffler keeps posing with white supremacists     @14:20 Trump “Save America” slush fund has spent nothing on runoff    @18:58 Authoritarian Party suing Pence     @20:01 No legal way for Pence Trump overturning election results? Unlikely. Another 26 pardons (Stone, Kushner, Manafort)     @43:25...

News: Court in Nigeria has ruled that Mubarak Bala must be released after eight months of detention without charge. @2:42 Airmen, Sailors, Soldiers, Marines, and….Guardians!?! 3:33 Fact check: Kamala Harris has not called for Christmas having its status as a federal holiday revoked @5:30 Politics: Barr out @6:44 Trump pardons a bunch of people @9:59 And a Florida man @ GOP anti-abortion celeb anti...

Follow-up: Arizona Court says courts can’t determine whether Mormons are Christians @1:49 Politics: Presidential fit Another Giuliani witness is Jesse Richard Morgan…GHOST HUNTER. @8:50 Powell’s Intelligent witness @13:32 Christians hold “Jericho marches” to undo the election @17:41 Graham says Abrams tricked GOP into helping Biden win @21:04 More Trump grifting @23:15 Loeffler poses with KKK lead...

News: Service animals in flight @1:17 Holiday Suicide myth @4:27 1-800-273-8255 Nine more Catholic priests. There were 16 already discovered. @7:05 Supreme Court declined to take up a case against transgender kids @9:36 Crystal Mason @12:45 Brandon Bernard @14:28 Politics: Jewish group tries to stop Trump arms sale @23:56 Trump making Yemen worse “Save America” PAC is a bait and switch scam Sidney...

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...