Jun 2, 2007
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)