195: Politics + Religion

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Shane gets super deep talking about religion, atheism, and how religion is impacted by politics with Professor of Political Science and Author of “[Secular Faith: How Religion Has Trumped Culture In American Politics](https://www.amazon.com/Secular-Faith-Religion-American-Politics/dp/022627506X)” Mark Alan Smith. They get into questions like: Is atheism a religion or just the absence of a particular religion? Was religion created to explain the purpose of life and our origin? Charity Of The Week - The Center For Inquiry [https://centerforinquiry.org/](https://centerforinquiry.org/) Outro music by [The Long Hunt](http://thelonghunt.bandcamp.com/album/all-paths-lead-to-here) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the Here We Our Podcast. I am in Jamaica right now at the
0:07.6	Myco Meditations Retreat, getting a ton of work done and also relaxing and some nice weather meeting some
0:15.0	wonderful folks and guiding them through experiences. It's a terrific time
0:20.0	there's goats like mating in the background or something like that that are probably going to interrupt this
0:25.7	But I'm very excited about life right now. This tour is really coming along for stand-up science. It is so much work.
0:32.8	New is going to be a lot of work built in.
0:35.5	That would be way more work than I expected.
0:37.9	And it is still way more work than I over-expected it
0:41.2	to expect it to be.
0:42.6	Did I just say that right?
0:43.7	I don't think so.
0:44.8	Here's the dates coming up for it starting in January.
0:49.2	These are just the confirmed dates, by the way.
0:50.9	There are more dates in the work
0:52.6	Portland Oregon
0:53.7	San Diego California L. A. Indianapolis
0:57.0	Pittsburgh
0:58.1	Columbus Ohio Cleveland Ohio Chicago
1:01.6	Lansing Michigan Kalamazoo, Michigan, Royal Oak, Michigan, Des Moines, Iowa.
1:06.0	It looks like Milwaukee is going to be added real soon to that.
1:10.0	It's not confirmed though.
1:11.0	Iowa, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Is there an Iowa City other than in
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