Michelle Goldberg interview

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2007

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Guest Michelle Goldberg, lively Salon.com journalist and author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, returns for an encoure interview to talk about the new creation museum and the status of the religious right assault against secularism in America today. The show includes a clip of Bill O'Reilly attacking "secular progressives," and an indepth analysis of the CNN-TV presidential "forum on faith and values" (June 4), and the broader implications of a de facto religious test for public office being imposed by media. (MP3, 46 min, 21.3 MB)

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0:00.0	It's time for Free Thought Radio, a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
0:11.0	featuring Foundation co-presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:16.3	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:20.0	Imagine there's no heaven. views, news, music, and interviews. Welcome us Above us Above us only sky
0:41.3	Imagine all the people Welcome secular progressives to Free Thought Radio.
0:58.4	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:00.2	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting from Madison's Progressive Talk, The Mike 92.1.
1:05.1	We're streaming live and we're podcasting.
1:07.7	And I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:09.5	I'm Dan Barker, another one of those
1:11.8	secular progressives. Free Thought Radio is the weekly broadcast of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:20.5	a non-faith-based initiative. The foundation is the nation's largest association of freeers in the atheists and agnostics in
1:30.4	the country. We work to keep church and state separate, and you can find out more about us at our
1:34.9	website, which is ffrf.org. Now, I'm a third generation free thinker. I was lucky to be born into
1:43.1	a non-religious family, but my co-host, Dan, was raised in a very religious home in Southern California.
1:49.5	Isn't that right, Dan?
1:50.8	Yeah, so am I a zero-generation freethinker?
1:53.8	Except that your parents became free thinkers, so actually you're now a second-generation free thinker.
1:58.8	That's right.
1:59.2	Yeah, we were extremely religious.
2:01.6	We talked about this before, but it was fundamentalist, evangelical Bible believing, church-going, the whole ball of wax.
2:07.9	And you wrote a whole book about it, losing faith in faith from preacher to atheists, so listeners who want to know more about your story can find out.
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