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Friendly Atheist Podcast

Ep. 298 - Andrew Seidel, Author Of The Founding Myth

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Andrew L. Seidel works as a constitutional attorney at the Freedom from Religion Foundation (ffrf.org), litigating cases involving religion and the Constitution. He has appeared on FOX News and MSNBC, speaks and writes extensively about religious freedom, and is the author of a new book called "The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American." We spoke at the recent FFRF convention about what he learned about Christian Nationalism while researching this book, how church/state separation legal strategy changes with a conservative Supreme Court, and the future of Project Blitz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Hemmint with the friendly atheistist Podcast. I am here with Andrew Sidal at the Freedom

1:06.0

from Religion Foundation Convention in Madison. Hello. Hello. How are you?

1:10.9

I'm doing quite well, my friend.

1:12.1

Excellent. I wanted to talk to you about your book, The Founding Myth, and what's your brief explanation of the book? What is The Founding Myth?

1:22.0

The Founding Myth is the idea that we are

1:23.9

a Christian nation but I wanted to go deeper in my book than that I wanted to really

1:28.1

rip into the idea that we are founded on Judeo-Christian principles. And that is an argument that the religious right constantly makes.

1:37.7

Politicians make it all the time.

1:40.2

And it's so pernicious because they use it as justification to allow Christianity

1:46.8

to get away with things that other religions or atheism would never be allowed to get away with.

1:51.9

Exactly. I mean all manner of things from things that are little,

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