Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence
Freethought Radio
English - June 02, 2007 14:54 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsReligion & Spirituality News atheist gaylor agnostic agnosticism annielaurie atheism danbarker ffrf freedomfromreligion freethinker Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Guest Hector Avalos, who went from Mexican child evangelist to
an atheist and leading bible scholar, talks about his book, Fighting
Words: The Origins of Religious Violence, as well as his academic
activism at Iowa State University to counter creationism and a sports
chaplaincy. For fun, a clip of Bill Maher as "meteroevangelist" plays.
A dividend: an excerpt of Kingdom Coming author Michelle Goldberg's
excellent speech to the 2007 FFRF convention, "The Rise of Christian
Nationalism." The timely song: Philip Appleman's poignant "In a Dark
Time," set to music by Dan Barker. The weekly show is hosted by Dan
Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents of the Freedom From
Religion Foundation. (MP3, 53 min, 24.5 MB)