Guest: Ryan Valentine, Texas Freedom Network: Dumbing Down, "Fundying Up" Texas Textbooks

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 March 2010

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Highlights from Dan Barker's historic debate on religion with Cardinal George Pell, archbishop of Sydney, Australia, will be featured. Dan, along with cohost Annie Laurie Gaylor, will talk a bit about freethought "Down Under" and then interview Ryan Valentine, deputy director of the Texas Freedom Network, about the latest fundamentalist incursions on textbooks in the State of Texas.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:13.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:18.0	It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people
0:41.3	living for the day
0:51.3	That's a warm Marty greeting from New Zealand to everyone, including the faithless Kiwis who faithfully listen to Free Thought Radio.
1:00.6	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome to our show.
1:04.3	And good day, mate.
1:06.4	And welcome to all you Aussies who are also listening to our show.
1:10.7	I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves. This show is airing on the weekend of March the 27th, 2010. Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming from Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1, Madison, Wisconsin, airing also in Atlanta, Anchorage, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Monterey, California.
1:31.2	And I think an Australian station is picking us up, maybe this weekend, but very soon.
1:35.9	Welcome to them.
1:36.7	This show, Free Thought Radio, is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:41.4	where the nation's largest organization of atheists and agnostics.
1:45.7	We work to educate the public about the views of non-believers and to keep state and church separate.
1:52.7	And as you may have guessed from our greetings, Dan and I have recently visited New Zealand,
1:57.8	and Dan also got to spend an additional week stumping for atheism in Australia.
2:02.2	And we'll talk more about that in a minute.
2:04.2	Coming up on the second half of Free Thought Radio will be our guest, Ryan Valentine,
2:09.2	deputy director of the Texas Freedom Network.
2:12.2	We're going to talk with Ryan about the fundamentalist fight there in Texas to rewrite history.
2:17.3	Literally, the history and social studies
2:19.3	textbooks in public schools. Since theocratic religionists have taken over the state school board
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