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Austin Dacey
Point of Inquiry
English - September 29, 2014 19:43 - 41 minutes - 18.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 758 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality science atheism freethought humanism philosophy politics reason religion Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Josh Zepps is off, and since this week is the 5th International Blasphemy Rights Day, we're rebroadcasting this interview by Chris Mooney with Austin Dacey, CFI's former UN representative and an expert on the subject of blasphemy laws.
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This week, our guest is a return one: Austin Dacey. He's a philosopher, a writer, a human rights activist, and the creator of the Impossible Music Sessions, which we featured in a past show.
Austin's books include The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life and, just out, The Future of Blasphemy: Speaking of the Sacred in an Age of Human Rights.
This show focused on Austin's new book on blasphemy. But he helped enhance the discussion with a few pieces of music that have been called blasphemous—which is why we wanted to distribute them as widely as possible.