Is Religion Special?

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Guest: Adam B. Cohen. Former U.S. Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann falsely claims that America was based on the bible. A California prison chaplain was convicted of sexual assault against female inmates while claiming the bible justified his actions. After hearing the irreverent Yip Harburg song "Ain't It The Truth?" sung by Lena Horne, we speak with Professor Adam B. Cohen about the study he co-authored for Perspectives on Psychological Science called "Is Religion Special?"

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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.
0:14.0	Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky.
0:52.1	Welcome to Free Thought Radio.
0:55.1	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and happy September.
1:00.0	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:05.6	Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:13.1	This show is the September 1st, 2022 episode of Free Thought Radio.
1:17.5	Again, Grant Blaschka is engineering this show.
1:20.7	He's with the recording studio Audio for the Arts.
1:33.8	He's doing the engineering in the Stephen Ull-friendly atheist studio right here in Freethought Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:45.6	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and we have two very important purposes to represent the views of nuns.
1:54.2	The non-believers in the nation, 29% of Americans today are non-religious, N-O-NES.
1:54.8	Nunes.
1:58.0	Of course, we have members internationally in Canada as well. And we work in the United States to buttress the wall of separation that
2:03.8	the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is supposed to erect to keep a separation
2:10.3	between religion and government and religion and social policy. And that is a very uphill
2:16.0	battle right now. So if you're a member, one of our 38,000
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2:39.0	Is religion special?
2:42.3	Some people, even some non-religious people, think it is for various reasons and in different ways.
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