Guests: Mikey Weinstein, Military Religious Freedom Foundation and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 January 2010

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Saturday's program features interviews with Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation over "Jesus rifles" and with freethinking novelist and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, whose new book, Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, was just released (and was reviewed yesterday in The New York Times). Goldstein is married to evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker, who serves on the Foundation's new honorary board.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.9	Imagine there's no heaven
0:22.4	It's easy if you try
0:29.0	No hell below us
0:35.5	Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today Welcome Welcome, iconoclasts and all you irreverent thinkers.
1:01.2	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is Free Thought Radio.
1:04.2	And if salvation is the cure, atheism is the prevention.
1:09.1	I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves.
1:13.1	Free Thought Radio broadcasts over many Air America stations.
1:16.1	We're streaming from air America.com.
1:17.8	The show is the weekly production of the National Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:23.7	I almost said Free Thought Radio again.
1:25.5	Freedom from Religion Foundation is a national organization of atheists and agnostics,
1:30.3	free thinkers, non-believers, who work to keep government and religion separate,
1:35.3	and as an educational organization to let the country know what are the views of those of us who do not believe in a God.
1:43.3	We publish, we broadcast, and we litigate, and we're pleased to announce that later on today's
1:49.1	program, we'll be speaking with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, who has a new novel, taking a close
1:56.0	look at the claims of religion called 36 arguments for the existence of God, a work of fiction, published last week by Pantheon books.
2:05.6	For the first half of today's show, we're going to talk about the breaking state church scandal of the week.
2:12.9	ABC TV's expose of Rifles for Jesus. They uncovered a more than 20 year practice by a military
2:21.8	supplier, a practice of inscribing New Testament passages of Jesus on high-powered rifle sites, which
2:29.5	are being used in Iraq and Afghanistan, and these are also being used to train mid-eastern soldiers.
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