(2010/09/21) Do it yourself universe, God not required (Religion)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 21 September 2010
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Edition #409
Do it yourself universe, God not required
Act 1: Evangelical Christian Terrorists - Young Turks
Song 1: Early in the morning - Peter, Paul And Mary
Act 2: Interview with the Pope (Matt Besser) - Citizen Radio
Song 2: Livin' on a prayer - Bon Jovi
Act 3: Blair and the Pope assail atheism and secularism - The Progressive
Song 3: Like a prayer - Madonna
Act 4: God loses his decision-making coin - The Onion
Song 4: Free to decide - The Cranberries
Act 5: "Child witches" abused in Africa - Young Turks
Song 5: We're in heaven - Dj sammy
Act 6: Steven Hawking hates God - Colbert Report
Song 6: My wife left me for a guy named Jesus - Exit 57
Act 7: The non-existence of God - Countdown
Song 7: Shattered faith - Bad Religion
Act 8: Jews covenant with God up for renewal - The Onion
Song 8: Ebudae - Enya
Act 9: Religious, anti-gay, gay man interviewed - Young Turks
Song 9: Whenever God shines his light - Van Morrison
Act 10: Rally to Restore Sanity - Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Happy Ramadan - Colbert Report
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible entirely by the support of listeners just like you for |
| 0:04.2 | details on becoming a member or making a one-time donation, please visit BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.2 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from the young Turks, |
| 0:13.3 | Citizen Radio, The Progressive, The Onion Radio News, The Colbert Report, Countdown |
| 0:17.8 | with Keith Olderman, and The Daily Show, with a bonus video clip for our iPhone app |
| 0:21.8 | users from The Colbert Report. |
| 0:29.8 | There's this Evangelical Christian hate group called Repent Amarola, and there's no other |
| 0:37.2 | word to describe it other than a hate group. |
| 0:39.5 | They target gays, liberal Christians, Muslims, environmentalists, breast cancer events that |
| 0:46.5 | do not highlight abortion, Halloween, spring break events, and pornography shops. |
| 0:54.1 | Targeting breast cancer events, that's classy. |
| 0:58.2 | Targeting Halloween, that's sane, yeah, spring break, yeah, that's disastrous for America, |
| 1:04.9 | that'll work in targeting those guys. |
| 1:06.5 | So these guys are cuckoo for cocoa puffs, but that's kind of almost the funny side of |
| 1:11.7 | it because it's so ridiculous. |
| 1:14.0 | But there's a very, very serious side to it. |
| 1:16.8 | First, they've known for a couple of things they've done before. |
| 1:19.8 | They boycotted Houston for electing a gay mayor, and Houston hasn't been the same man. |
| 1:25.3 | Since Repent Amarola hasn't been in there, Houston's a disaster. |
| 1:29.2 | That boycott was probably the single worst boycott in the recorded history. |
| 1:34.2 | So that's not too serious, but then they were going to open up a play in a community theater |
| 1:39.4 | about persecution of homosexuals during Nazi German. |
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