631: Chasten the Dragon Edition

In this week’s episode, Satan comes to Kansas, George Pell will get uncomfortably close to a child, one last time, and Marsh will tickle the dragon’s tale. --- Learn more about our Portland live show. To make a per episode donation at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist To buy our book, click here: https://www.amazon.com/Outbreak-Crisis-Religion-Ruined-Pandemic/dp/B08L2HSVS8/ If you see a news story you think we might be interested in, you can send it here: scathingnews@gmail.com 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 To check out our half-sister show, Citation Needed, click here: http://citationpod.com/ To check out our sister show’s sister show, D and D minus, click here: https://danddminus.libsyn.com/ Report instances of harassment or abuse connected to this show to the Creator Accountability Network here: https://creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org/ --- Guest Links: Check out more from Marsh on Skeptics with a K and the Know Rogan Experience. Check out Liz Rosenberg’s new book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1958325244 or https://marblepress.com/giant-baby/ --- Headlines: OK superintendent sues FFRF for pointing out he’s breaking the law: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahomas-ryan-walters-sues-atheists Black Mass at Kansas state capitol goes how you expected: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/chaos-at-the-kansas-capitol-satanists It's mold, not a miracle: The Catholic Church’s latest eucharistic blunder https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/its-mold-not-a-miracle-the-catholic Labour council tries to ban Christian street preachers https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/29/rushmoor-council-injunction-christian-street-preachers-ban/ CIA found the Ark of the Covenant by using psychics, declassified files claim https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ark-covenant-located-cia-documents-psychic-b2723264.html Paula White using position in White House Faith Office to promote grift… other than just Christianity, I mean: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/paula-whites-pay-to-pray-scam-trumps Family attributes toddler’s recovery after near-drowning to Cardinal Pell’s intercession https://thecatholicherald.com/family-attributes-toddlers-survival-after-near-drowning-to-cardinal-pell/