"Gideons and Guantanamo"

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2006

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Timely commentary on the (bad) news of the week, a "Pagan Pulpit" on the biblical claims to Israel, and features as guest distinguished civil rights attorney George Daly, of North Carolina. Mr. Daly discusses state/church separation in the South and his work with the Foundation to halt a proposed violation in North Carolina schools. In the second half of the program, he talks about his recent humanitarian work as volunteer counsel to detainees at Guantanamo Bay, disclosing little-known information. (MP3, 47 min, 21.2 MB)

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1:37.9	and the unrest and the violence in the world and all that, sometimes we hear preachers tell us,
1:42.9	well, the answer to the problems in the world
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