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		<title>Eddie Long crowned King of the Jews</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2012/02/04/eddie-long-crowned-king-of-the-jews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sort of. If you have time, watch the whole 15-minute fiasco and tell me that the people who follow &#8220;Bishop&#8221; Eddie Long (of the New Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta) are not certifiable. I can see why Long would want &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2012/02/04/eddie-long-crowned-king-of-the-jews/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #139 &#8211; War on Christmas Continued</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/12/10/podcast-139-war-on-christmas-continued/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/12/10/podcast-139-war-on-christmas-continued/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Perry plays the homophobia card in his latest TV ad. Holiday displays in Leesburg, Virginia stir free speech controversy. The co-discoverer of a new earth-like world wants to call it the Christmas Planet. Prosperity gospel preacher Eddie Long&#8217;s wife &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/12/10/podcast-139-war-on-christmas-continued/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #129 &#8211; Janet Reitman (Inside Scientology)</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/08/08/podcast-129-janet-reitman-inside-scientology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/08/08/podcast-129-janet-reitman-inside-scientology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We interview Janet Reitman, author of the new book Inside Scientology, an extensive and objective history of the movement launched by sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard. Inside Scientology is available in hardcover, unabridged audio, or for Kindle. For more about &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/08/08/podcast-129-janet-reitman-inside-scientology/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>We interview Janet Reitman, author of the new book Inside Scientology, an extensive and objective history of the movement launched by sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard. Inside Scientology is available in hardcover, unabridged audio, or for Kindle. For mo[...]</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>We interview Janet Reitman, author of the new book Inside Scientology, an extensive and objective history of the movement launched by sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard. Inside Scientology is available in hardcover, unabridged audio, or for Kindle. For more about Janet visit JanetReitman.com.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
David Driscoll&#8217;s Secular World podcast (formerly Secular Nation podcast) continues.
Tickets are now available for the Atlanta Skeptics Star Party, Thursday, September 1st at Emory University. Guests include Phil Plait (BadAstronomy.com), Pamela Gay (The Astronomy Cast) and Nicole Gugliucci (NoisyAstronomer.com). And, of course, the entire American Freethought quartet will be in attendance. Proceeds go to Light the Night – the Leukemia &#38; Lymphoma Society.
CONTACT
Visit us online at AmericanFreethought.com.
Email us at john@americanfreethought.com or david@americanfreethought.com. (John and David are available, either together or separately, to speak in person to your group.)
If you like what you hear, take a moment and leave feedback on our iTunes page.
Join our communities at Facebook, Atheist Nexus, Think Atheist or Yahoo Groups.
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If you&#8217;d like to donate to the operation of this podcast, you can contribute through PayPal to editor@scifidimensions.com. We promise not to spend it on beer.
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		<title>Hubbard&#8217;s great grandson speaks</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/07/26/hubbards-great-grandson-speaks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/07/26/hubbards-great-grandson-speaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[jamie dewolf]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=2970</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last book I finished reading was Janet Reitman&#8217;s fantastic book Inside Scientology, an objective but unflinching look at the legacy of L. Ron Hubbard. By coincidence, someone pointed me to this video on YouTube. It&#8217;s true that Hubbard, either &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/07/26/hubbards-great-grandson-speaks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Harold Camping is flabbergasted</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/05/23/harold-camping-is-flabbergasted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/05/23/harold-camping-is-flabbergasted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 23:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=2812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[He&#8217;s also nonplussed, poleaxed, befuddled, confused, stunned, staggered, flummoxed and gobsmacked.  Harold Camping, the 89-year-old nut-job/con-artist (pick one or both) is at a loss to explain why the Rapture didn&#8217;t occur on May 21st as &#8220;guaranteed.&#8221;  Camping always knew that &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/05/23/harold-camping-is-flabbergasted/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #123 &#8211; Study on US Catholic Child Abuse</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/05/21/podcast-123-study-on-us-catholic-child-abuse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/05/21/podcast-123-study-on-us-catholic-child-abuse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 16:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mitch daniels]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[so help me god]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/?p=2798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Assuming the world hasn&#8217;t come to an end or that you haven&#8217;t been Raptured away&#8230; The US Catholic Church reveals The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010, a study into the causes &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/05/21/podcast-123-study-on-us-catholic-child-abuse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Assuming the world hasn&#8217;t come to an end or that you haven&#8217;t been Raptured away&#8230;
The US Catholic Church reveals The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010, a study into the [...]</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Assuming the world hasn&#8217;t come to an end or that you haven&#8217;t been Raptured away&#8230;
The US Catholic Church reveals The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010, a study into the causes of priestly child abuse in the late 20th century.  It&#8217;s a mixed bag of things that should have been obvious, things the Church won&#8217;t want to hear, and some feeble hand-waving about the Sexual Revolution being sooo confusing.
Michael Newdow has lost.  Again.  The US Supreme Court has turned down his appeal in a lawsuit to prevent the president from saying &#8220;so help me God&#8221; after taking the oath of office.  While we can&#8217;t disagree with Newdow that &#8220;so help me God&#8221; is a bad idea, insulting to nonbelievers, and potentially blasphemous to believers, we also think this was a bad fight to pick&#8211;a losing battle that has now set bad precedent.
Holey Scripture!  What does the Bible have to say about Indiana governor Mitch Daniels?The answer may surprise you, and will surely flummox most Christians.  (And this already came up a while back during David Plotz&#8217;s &#8220;Blogging the Bible&#8221; series at Slate.com.)
Announcements
Atlanta Skepticamp is June 11-12th at the Doraville Community Center in north metro Atlanta.  If you&#8217;ll be in Atlanta that weekend, sign up to give a presentation and/or help with the organization.
John Snider will repeat his &#8220;20th Century Twain&#8221; presentation, July 3rd for the Fellowship of Reason, at Atlanta Freethought Hall.
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		<itunes:keywords>children, christianity, cults, ethics, history, politics, religion</itunes:keywords>
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		<title>Podcast #119 &#8211; Paul Haggis vs. the &#8220;Church&#8221; of Scientology</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/03/26/podcast-119-paul-haggis-vs-the-church-of-scientology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/03/26/podcast-119-paul-haggis-vs-the-church-of-scientology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We discuss &#8220;The Apostate,&#8221; the excellent expose written by Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker.  After more than 30 years in the organization, Haggis finally left the Church a) because of their policies toward homosexuals (his daughter among them) and &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2011/03/26/podcast-119-paul-haggis-vs-the-church-of-scientology/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<itunes:duration>0:37:00</itunes:duration>
		<itunes:subtitle>We discuss &#8220;The Apostate,&#8221; the excellent expose written by Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker.  After more than 30 years in the organization, Haggis finally left the Church a) because of their policies toward homosexuals (his daughter am[...]</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>We discuss &#8220;The Apostate,&#8221; the excellent expose written by Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker.  After more than 30 years in the organization, Haggis finally left the Church a) because of their policies toward homosexuals (his daughter among them) and b) when he became convinced that leaders of the Church lie to the press and to the public.
Also: Conservative Christians, including the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood are upset about the new gender-neutral translation of the New International Version of the Bible.

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Recorded March 24, 2011. Hosted by John C. Snider and David Driscoll.
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		<title>Podcast #106 &#8211; Listener Feedback</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/10/17/podcast-106-listener-feedback/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/10/17/podcast-106-listener-feedback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boy, do we get feedback!  We&#8217;re wrong about the Tea Party, the Great &#8220;Enlightenment,&#8221; bleeping out curse words, and the authorship/timing of both the Qur&#8217;an and the New Testament.  On the other hand, some listeners think we are &#8220;awesome&#8221; and &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/10/17/podcast-106-listener-feedback/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<itunes:duration>0:46:47</itunes:duration>
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Boy, do we get feedback!  We&#8217;re wrong about the Tea Party, the Great &#8220;Enlightenment,&#8221; bleeping out curse words, and the authorship/timing of both the Qur&#8217;an and the New Testament.  On the other hand, some listeners think we [...]</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>
Boy, do we get feedback!  We&#8217;re wrong about the Tea Party, the Great &#8220;Enlightenment,&#8221; bleeping out curse words, and the authorship/timing of both the Qur&#8217;an and the New Testament.  On the other hand, some listeners think we are &#8220;awesome&#8221; and their &#8220;very favorite.&#8221;  High praise indeed, considering the intelligence level and perspicacity of our listener base.
Plus: What it&#8217;s like inside a fundamentalist cult; churches and taxes Down Under; the intersection between porn and mainstream cinema; and a surprise email from someone we talked about in a recent podcast.
(Sound clips at the top and bottom of the show are from the animated not-for-kids movie Mary &#38; Max.  Definitely worth checking out!)
Announcements:
We&#8217;re going to Washington, DC for Jon Stewart&#8217;s Rally to Restore Sanity,   noon to 3pm, October 30th on the National Mall!  If you want to join  up  with us at the Rally, subscribe to our Twitter feed at   Twitter.com/AmerFreethought.Send us email!  For John Snider use john@americanfreethoughtcom; for David Driscoll use           david@americanfreethought.com.
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David continues to produce new installments of the Secular              Nation Podcast.
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Recorded October 6, 2010.  Hosted by John C. Snider and David             Driscoll.
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		<title>Podcast #105 &#8211; Jeff Sharlet (C Street)</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/10/13/podcast-105-jeff-sharlet-c-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 02:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We interview Jeff Sharlet, author of C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy, a follow-up to The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.  The Family, you may recall, is a secretive and radical Christian group &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/10/13/podcast-105-jeff-sharlet-c-street/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>We interview Jeff Sharlet, author of C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy, a follow-up to The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.  The Family, you may recall, is a secretive and radical Christian gr[...]</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>We interview Jeff Sharlet, author of C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy, a follow-up to The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.  The Family, you may recall, is a secretive and radical Christian group that counts Senators and Congressmen among its members, organizes the annual National Prayer Breakfast, and courts vicious Third World dictators&#8211;all in the name of Jesus.  C Street covers events that have occurred since the publication of The Family, including there political sex scandals, the so-called Kill the Gays bill proposed in Uganda, and the chilling evangelical infiltration of the US military.
For more about Jeff visit JeffSharlet.com.
C Street is available at Amazon.com in hardcover, audiobook, or Kindle editions.
Read John Snider&#8217;s review of The Family, or listen to our interview with Jeff in Podcast #67.
Plus:
We&#8217;re going to Washington, DC for Jon Stewart&#8217;s Rally to Restore Sanity, noon to 3pm, October 30th on the National Mall!  If you want to join up with us at the Rally, subscribe to our Twitter feed at Twitter.com/AmerFreethought.
Announcements:
Send us email!  For John Snider use john@americanfreethoughtcom; for David Driscoll use           david@americanfreethought.com.
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Recorded October 6, 2010.  Hosted by John C. Snider and David             Driscoll.
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		<title>Church of Body Modification</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/09/17/church-of-body-modification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when I thought I&#8217;d heard it all&#8230;a girl in North Carolina has been suspended from school for refusing to remove a small nose ring. Her reason: freedom of religion.  Turns out 14-year-old Ariana Iacono and her mother are members &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/09/17/church-of-body-modification/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #91 &#8211; IT&#8217;S ALIVE</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/06/13/podcast-91-its-alive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We talk with Christina L. Graves, a biology student (and prebiotic chemistry researcher) at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Christina walks us through the recent announcement by the J. Craig Venter Institute that they have created a self-replicating, synthetic cell.  &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/06/13/podcast-91-its-alive/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>We talk with Christina L. Graves, a biology student (and prebiotic chemistry researcher) at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Christina walks us through the recent announcement by the J. Craig Venter Institute that they have created a self-repli[...]</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>We talk with Christina L. Graves, a biology student (and prebiotic chemistry researcher) at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Christina walks us through the recent announcement by the J. Craig Venter Institute that they have created a self-replicating, synthetic cell.  We also discuss the reaction to Venter&#8217;s news from religious groups like the Catholic Church, Creation Ministries International, and even the Raelians.
Briefly mentioned: The new Adrien Brody/Sarah Polley film Splice, a sci-fi-horror shocker about genetic engineering gone very very wrong.
Glossary of terms:
Abiogenesis &#8211; the theory of how life on Earth could have arisen from inanimate matter.
Prebiotic Chemistry &#8211; the field of study involving the spontaneous chemical reactions which may have led to the formation of biomolecules and/or life on early Earth.
Stanley Miller (1930-2007) &#8211; an American chemist and biologist  who is known for his studies into the origin of life, particularly the Miller-Urey experiment which demonstrated that organic compounds can be created by fairly simple physical processes from inorganic substances.
Atheopath &#8211; A neologism, coined by Creation Ministries International&#8217;s Jonathan Sarfati and used (as far as we can tell) by no one else, which combines the word &#8220;atheist&#8221; and the suffix &#8220;-path&#8221; (&#8220;one afflicted by a specified disorder&#8221;) to create a word meaning something like &#8220;one afflicted by atheism.&#8221;  Apparently it&#8217;s intended to echo scary words like sociopath and psychopath.  Perhaps we should coin the counter-term &#8220;theopath.&#8221;
The Usual    Announcements
Look for David Driscoll at  &#8220;Gods and Politics,&#8221; the Atheist Alliance International Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 18-20.
Live in metro Atlanta?  Look for John Snider (and wifey Allison!) in attendance at Christopher Hitchens&#8217; appearance (boosting his new memoir Hitch-22) at the Barnes &#38; Noble in Buckhead, 7PM, Friday June 18th.  Also, look for John and Allison in attendance at Michael Largo&#8217;s reading from his encyclopedic God&#8217;s Lunatics, 6:30 PM, Tuesday, June 22nd at Ivy Hall.
Send us email at contact@americanfreethought.com.  For John Snider         only use john@americanfreethoughtcom; for David Driscoll only use         david@americanfreethought.com.
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Recorded June 8, 2010.  Hosted by John C. Snider and David        Driscoll.
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		<title>The Last Cargo Cult</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/03/28/the-last-cargo-cult/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even if you&#8217;ve never heard of monologist Mike Daisey, you owe it to yourself to see him perform at the first opportunity.  Daisey (who hails from the same county in Maine as AF&#8217;s David Driscoll), is a one-man-show whose storytelling &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/03/28/the-last-cargo-cult/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast #78 &#8211; Pat Robertson Is an Evil Moron</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/01/26/podcast-78-pat-robertson-is-an-evil-moron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or at least so says Christopher Hitchens, responding to Robertson&#8217;s claim that the devastating Haitian earthquake (which may have killed upwards of 200,000 innocent people) was the result of &#8220;a deal with the devil&#8221; made during the Haitian Revolution in &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2010/01/26/podcast-78-pat-robertson-is-an-evil-moron/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Or at least so says Christopher Hitchens, responding to Robertson&#8217;s claim that the devastating Haitian earthquake (which may have killed upwards of 200,000 innocent people) was the result of &#8220;a deal with the devil&#8221; made during the [...]</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Or at least so says Christopher Hitchens, responding to Robertson&#8217;s claim that the devastating Haitian earthquake (which may have killed upwards of 200,000 innocent people) was the result of &#8220;a deal with the devil&#8221; made during the Haitian Revolution in 1791.  White House press secretary Robert Gibbs called Robertson&#8217;s remarks &#8220;utterly stupid.&#8221;  Barry Lynn of Americans United said they were callous and grotesquely insensitive.  And Keith Olbermann says Robertson is full of &#8220;senile crap.&#8221;
So what the heck is Robertson talking about?  In a word: voodoo.  Specifically, the semi-legendary meeting at Bois Caiman, in which African slaves called upon spirits to help them overthrow their French masters.  (And for more on modern-day voodoo right here in America, check out this short film from photojournalist Stephanie Keith.
For those who want to help their fellow human beings instead of floating crack-brained religious theories, there&#8217;s CFI&#8217;s SHARE and Non-Believers Giving Aid.
Meanwhile&#8230;US defense contractor Trijicon is backpedaling furiously after the media reported that they&#8217;ve been encoding Bible verses into the serial numbers of their specialty gun-sights.  Crusade, what Crusade?  Trijicon is offering a half-assed apology and has pledged to &#8220;voluntarily&#8221; stop the practice for future military production.
Plus:
Holey Scripture! Remember Samuel L. Jackson&#8217;s brilliant recitation of Ezekiel 25:17 from the modern classic Pulp Fiction?  Turns out Jackson&#8217;s hitman Jules knows about as much of the Bible as most Christians.  It also turns out Quentin Tarantino ripped off payed homage to Sonny Chiba.
David reports on his ambassadorial trip to Charleston.
John reports on American Atheist president Ed Buckner&#8217;s recent debate with Charles Gernazian (director of the Catholic American Center on Law and Religion).  Two guesses as to who we think won.
The Usual Announcements
Send us email at contact@americanfreethought.com.  For John Snider only use john@americanfreethoughtcom; for David Driscoll only use david@americanfreethought.com.
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David continues to produce new installments of the Secular Nation Podcast.
Fans of science fiction can check out John&#8217;s other project on the web, SciFiDimensions.com.
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Recorded January 24, 2010.  Hosted by John C. Snider and David Driscoll.
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		<title>Podcast #75 &#8211; Can Atheists Hold Office in NC?</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/12/21/podcast-75-can-atheists-hold-office-in-nc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil Bothwell has just been elected to the city council of Asheville, North Carolina.  He happens to be an atheist.  The North Carolina state constitution bars atheists from holding elected office.  (For what it&#8217;s worth, seven other states still have &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/12/21/podcast-75-can-atheists-hold-office-in-nc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Cecil Bothwell has just been elected to the city council of Asheville, North Carolina.  He happens to be an atheist.  The North Carolina state constitution bars atheists from holding elected office.  (For what it&#8217;s worth, seven other states st[...]</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Cecil Bothwell has just been elected to the city council of Asheville, North Carolina.  He happens to be an atheist.  The North Carolina state constitution bars atheists from holding elected office.  (For what it&#8217;s worth, seven other states still have constitutional provisions that discriminate against non-believers.)  Is this a case of continuing institutionalized bigotry, or just an amusingly unenforceable &#8220;quirk&#8221; left over from the 19th century?  (For more on Mr. Bothwell visit cecilbothwell.wordpress.com)
Also discussed in this episode:
There&#8217;s a War on Christmas: haven&#8217;t you heard?  South Carolina Congressman Henry Brown has introduced (nonbinding) House Resolution 951, which &#8220;seeks to express the sense&#8230;that the symbols and traditions of Christmas should be protected.&#8221;  Dozens of Brown&#8217;s (mostly Southern, mostly Republican) peers have jumped on the Save-Christmas-from-the-Multicultural-Heathen bandwagon, but HR951 is destined to die in committee.  Is this really how our elected representatives spend their time?
The Washington, DC city council has okayed same-sex marriage.  But the District is under Congressional oversight: Congress has 30 days to reverse any actions of the council.  This puts Republicans (currently in the minority) in an interesting pickle.  They&#8217;re against gay marriage, but they crow all the time about the rights of state and local governments to run their own affairs.  So which way&#8217;s it gonna be, fellas?
Disturbing News Alert: Another case of a child endangered by kooky, dangerous religious beliefs.  In Brazil, a man has confessed to inserting 42 needles (and leaving them in place!) into his two-year-old stepson, as part of a series of black magic rituals directed by a trance-tripping woman.
Plus: It&#8217;s David&#8217;s turn to do jury duty, and he&#8217;s amazed to read a local journalist&#8217;s confession that you have to be irrational to be Christian.
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Theme music by Body Found.
Recorded December 17, 2009.  Hosted by John C. Snider and David Driscoll.
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		<title>Podcast #67 &#8211; Jeff Sharlet (The Family)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We interview Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.  The Family is both an investigation into the organization that has influenced presidents from Eisenhower to Obama, and a history of American fundamentalism &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/10/01/podcast-67-jeff-sharlet-the-family/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<itunes:subtitle>We interview Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.  The Family is both an investigation into the organization that has influenced presidents from Eisenhower to Obama, and a history of American [...]</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>We interview Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.  The Family is both an investigation into the organization that has influenced presidents from Eisenhower to Obama, and a history of American fundamentalism from colonial times to the present.  If you don&#8217;t read any other book this year about religion in America, read this one.  You can buy The Family at Amazon.com.
Sharlet is the co-creator of Killing the Buddha, a literary magazine about religion, and The Revealer, &#8220;a daily review of religion and the press.&#8221;  Sharlet is also a contributing editor to Harper&#8217;s and Rolling Stone.
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Theme music by Body Found.
Recorded September 28, 2009.  Hosted by John C. Snider and David Driscoll.
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		<title>The Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John C. Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review by John C. Snider © 2009 It is possibly the most influential organization you&#8217;ve never heard of.   They observe a fanatical devotion to the person of Jesus Christ, yet they are unrestrained by quaint notions of rule-based morality.  &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/09/18/the-family/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>God spoke to him through a box?</title>
		<link>http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/08/28/god-spoke-to-him-through-a-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now you may have read of the disturbing case of Phillip Garrido, a California man now in custody for the 1991 kidnapping of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard.  Jaycee&#8217;s mother and stepfather have long since assumed she was dead; indeed, &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/08/28/god-spoke-to-him-through-a-box/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye, Neumanns&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press reports that Dale Neumann, &#8220;a central Wisconsin man accused of killing his 11-year-old daughter by praying instead of seeking medical care was found guilty Saturday of second-degree reckless homicide.&#8221;  Hallelujah.  (Ahem.) Earlier this year, Neumann&#8217;s wife Leilani &#8230; <a href="http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2009/08/02/goodbye-neumanns/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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