(2011/09/11) To both mock and defend (Religion)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 11 September 2011
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Edition #527
To both mock and defend
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Act 1: Kentucky Gives Bible Theme Park 75% Tax Break - David Pakman Air Date: 8-16-11
Song 1: Genesis - VNV Nation
Act 2: Teachers Can Mock Creationism - Young Turks Air Date: 8-22-11
Song 2: Do you believe in magic? - The Lovin' Spoonful
Act 3: Paleontology Class Winces Whenever Fundamentalist Kid Raises Hand - The Onion
Song 3: I Am a Paleontologist - They Might Be Giants & Danny Weinkauf
Act 4: Atheists Have Best Sex Lives, Mormons Most Guilty About Sex: Dr Darrel Ray - David Pakman
Song 4: Early in the morning - Peter, Paul And Mary
Act 5: Christianity vs Atheism - Johann Hari
Song 5: Rejoice - Andrew Jackson Jihad
Act 6: Priest Will Prove He's Not Gay By - Young Turks
Song 6: Halo - Beyoncé
Act 7: Things Get Uglier At Fox News - Media Matters
Song 7: Attendite - Libera
Act 8: A Ramadan Story Of Two Faiths Bound In Friendship - NPR Air Date: 8-22-11
Song 8: Hello bonjour - Michael Franti And Spearhead
Act 9: Yet ANOTHER Isolated Domestic Terror Incident, GOP Obsessed with American Muslims - David Pakman Air Date: 3-15-11
Song 9: I ain't afraid - Robin Roberts
Act 10: Priest Will Prove He's Not Gay - Young Turks
Song 10: Different names for the same thing - Death Cab For Cutie
Act 11: God Recalls Tracheas Of Millions Of Indonesians - The Onion
Song 11: Ebudae - Enya
Act 12: Park51 Center Would "Train the Same Kind of Terrorists That Caused" 9/11 - Media Matters Air Date: 9-1-11
Song 12: Ebudae - Enya
Act 13: Is Christian Jihad Coming to US Around the World - David Pakman Air Date: 7-27-11
Song 13: Sometime around midnight - The Airborne Toxic Event
Act 14: $40 Million Spent To Spread Islamophobia - Young Turks Air Date: 8-29-11
Voicemails:
Thoughts on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 - Jake from NY Alt News
Call to action for Troy Davis on death row - Carlos From Chicagoland
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on how I address religion on the show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
I ain't afraid - Robin Roberts
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors of the show for details visit |
| 0:06.1 | the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com and welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft |
| 0:10.6 | podcast with clips today from the David Facken show, The Young Turks, The Onion Radio |
| 0:14.3 | News, The Johan Hari podcast, Media Matters and NPR. |
| 0:18.3 | The bonus clip for today for our iOS and Android app users is a full song featuring today's |
| 0:23.2 | show by Robin Roberts. |
| 0:30.2 | Kentucky is now there is a Kentucky city that is giving a Bible theme park a 75% tax |
| 0:36.6 | break and we talked about the initial inkling about this story a while back if you remember |
| 0:43.0 | Lewis the Noah's Ark replica I believe it was. |
| 0:46.9 | Now Williamstown Kentucky has agreed to a 75% property tax discount to a biblical theme |
| 0:53.5 | park which we'll have as we discussed a full size replica of Noah's Ark now how you |
| 0:58.4 | can have a replica of something that arguably never existed I thought a replica meant |
| 1:02.8 | it was something real yeah and I'm not too sure about how accurate the description |
| 1:09.9 | is in the Bible. |
| 1:10.9 | What are the dimensions in there what's going on the dimensions are in there the material |
| 1:15.2 | is in there and the Bible says that it was covered in pitch which I think pitch is |
| 1:19.6 | some kind of wood sealer right I don't know is it like a tar of some sort that's what |
| 1:25.5 | I have a mind yeah so and some a couple people pointed out to me hey the the wrong on |
| 1:30.4 | this the description of Noah's Ark is in there if I said to you Lewis you are to build |
| 1:35.1 | a 1957 Chevy it is 13 feet long six feet wide and it's made of metal does that count |
| 1:42.9 | as instructions to build a 57 Chevy no I'd have to I'd have to Google a picture of one |
| 1:49.1 | it wouldn't be sufficient to create a replica right so at the same time if we know the |
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