One Nation: Divisible

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 6 December 2016

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

The original U.S. Pledge of Allegiance calls the USA, "one nation...indivisible." Yet it remains a nation splintered and divided, with many of those divisions fueled by religious ideas. This broadcast welcomes several special guests to talk about America, the rise of secularism, the influence of the Religious Right, and the future of a country that seems unable to agree about anything.

Our guests appearing throughout the broadcast:
Amanda Knief: National Legal and Public Policy Director for American Atheists, and author of "The Citizen Lobbyist: A How-to Manual for Making Your Voice Heard in Government."
Matthew De Dora: Director of Office of Public Policy for the Center For Inquiry
Matthew Bulger: American Humanist Association
Justin Scott: Director of Eastern Iowa Atheists
Rebecca Markert: Managing Staff Attorney for the Freedom From Religion Foundation
Larry Decker: Executive Director for the Secular Coalition for America
Herb Silverman: President of the Secular Coalition for America
Sarah Levin: Senior Legislative Representative for the Secular Coalition for America

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go. Stand by.
0:01.6	Three, two, one. Action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.2	Brash ball-faced blasphemy.
0:10.4	Question. Everything.
0:12.3	I find it extremely hard to imagine.
0:14.2	Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.5	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.0	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.4	or who are atheists.
0:24.8	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.8	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:45.0	Here's an article that was released
0:46.7	well before the election.
0:48.4	In June of this year by the Pew Research Center,
0:51.6	titled, Partisanship and Political Enemostity in 2016,
0:55.0	it was speaking about the process and the candidates
0:57.5	as the campaigns were underway.
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