683: Rope a Pope Edition

683: Rope a Pope Edition

From The Scathing Atheist by Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

April 16, 2026 · 1h 0m · Episode 683

About this episode

This episode discusses Donald Trump's near claim of winning the papal election, a bigotry-based puppet act, and Ross Douthat's take on the problem of evil.

In this week’s episode, Donald Trump gets THIS close to saying he won the papal election too, we meet a bigotry-based puppet act almost as obnoxious as Jeff Dunham, and Ross Douthat will devote six whole pages to the problem of evil. --- To make a per episode donation at Patreon.com , click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist Get your ticket to see Noah live in Cincinnati here: https://www.sethandrews.com/cincinnati 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…

People in this episode

Hosts: Heath Enright, Eli Bosnick

Topics covered

  • Donald Trump
  • Papal election
  • Bigotry
  • Problem of evil
  • Comedy
  • Religion

Keywords

  • Donald Trump
  • Pope
  • Ross Douthat
  • bigotry
  • puppet act
  • problem of evil
  • comedy
  • religion

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Organizations: Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

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