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Guest: John Allen Paulos
Freethought Radio talks with Temple University professor John Allen Paulos,author of the bestseller "Innumeracy," about his new and amusing bookdebunking belief in a god, "Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Whythe Arguments for God
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Guest: Matthew LaClair, High School State/Church Activist
18-year-old high school senior Matthew LaClair, who receivedthe Thomas Jefferson Student Activist Award last year from the FreedomFrom Religion Foundation, talks about his latest headline-grabbingcomplaint about religion in public schools, this one
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Special Guest: Scott Dikkers, editor of The Onion
In addition to speaking with the intrepid editor in chief of theirreverent Onion weekly newspaper, this weekend's show will thoroughlydissect what's wrong with the Ten Commandments (listen for cameos fromThe Ten Commandments), in response to a Senate reso
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When Prayer Fails: Child Homicide via Prayer
The unnecessary, tragic deaths of two children last month whoserespective parents let them die of preventable diseases in the name offaith will be discussed with Shawn Francis Peters,author of When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children and the Law.
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Guest: Author Susan Jacoby
Journalist and freethinker Susan Jacoby, author of the newbook, The Age of American Unreason, who also wrote Freethinkers: AHistory of American Secularism, is interviewed on this weekend's show.
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Guest: Harvard Prof. Steven Pinker
Evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker, the Johnstone FamilyProfessor of Psychology at Harvard, is the featured guest, discussingboth his nontheistic views, and his concerns about the currentadministration's attacks against science in order to pla
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Being Good Without God
Freethought Radio's Theocracy Alert discusses the unseemly mix ofreligion and politics in presidential actions and the presidentialrace. The former reverend Dan Barker's Pagan Pulpit examines thebiblical role in sanctifying torture here on earth, and Dan,
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Special Guest: Richard Dawkins
Freethought Radio devotes its entire program to an interview with evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, author of the bestselling blockbuster, The God Delusion.
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Religiously Unaffiliated Grow to 16%!
Freethought Radio discusses exciting new statistics from a major studyreleased this week showing that the nonreligious are the 4th largestsector by religious (or nonreligious) identification in the UnitedStates today. Guest is Greg Smith,Pew Forumo
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Saudis Plan to Execute Illiterate Woman as a "Witch"
- Freethought Radio reports on a state/church violation involving acity with a mission to "strive to serve God," plays a fun TVinterview of Julia Sweeney ("Letting Go of God") and interviews Christoph Wilcke,a researcher w
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War of the Billboards
A "war of the billboards" brewing in rural Pennsylvania over theFoundation's "Imagine No Religion" billboard will be discussed, and areligious billboard defaming atheists as "hating America" will bedebunked. The special guest
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Champion of the First Amendment
After dissecting Pres. Bush's call upon Congress this week to make the"faith-based initiative" permanent, Freethought Radio speaks with Ellery Schempp,whose protest as a 16-year-old high school student yielded an enduringSupreme Court dec
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