Japan's Holocaust
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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We announce plans to sue the state of Louisiana over their new law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms. We hear Congressman Jared Huffman and comedian John Oliver describe the Christian nationalist dangers of Project 2025. Then historian Bryan Mark Rigg tells us about the religious nationalism undergirding the atrocities of the Japanese military (30 million deaths) under the Shinto emperor Hirohito as described in his book Japan's Holocaust: History of Imperial Japan's Mass Murder and Rape During World War II.
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| 1:40.9 | And this is the June 20th, 2024 episode. |
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| 2:19.6 | We've talked a lot on this show about religious nationalism, |
| 2:24.0 | especially the threat of Christian nationalism in the U.S. |
| 2:27.9 | and the growing menace of Hindu nationalism in India. |
| 2:32.4 | But perhaps the most atrocious example was the Shinto nationalism |
| 2:38.5 | in Japan under Emperor Hirohito. Our guest in the second half of today's show will be the |
| 2:44.9 | distinguished historian Brian Mark Rigg, a leading authority on the military history of the Second World War, |
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