Rise of Christian Nationalism

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2006

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Features an interview with Michelle Goldberg, the lively contributing writer of Salon.com, whose new book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, covers the threat of the ascendancy of the religious right. The show also includes an audio excerpt from Dawkins' British TV documentary on religion, "The Root of All Evil?" (MP3, 52 min, 23.5 MB)

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0:48.3	Living for today
0:55.0	Hello, infidels and all you godless heathens and what are all those other compliments that we get from Anne Colter and Muslim jihadists?
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1:31.3	Calling somebody godless is a compliment.
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1:37.2	It's like saying they're healthy.
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1:50.2	The Freedom from Religion Foundation is the largest association of non-theists in the nation, and we work to defend the constitutional principle of the separation between
2:02.6	church and state.
2:04.6	And apropos of Free Thought Media, did you know that there was a new study by Purdue University
2:11.6	that found that 14 percent, women are 14 percent more likely to be obese if they watch or listen to religious media three
2:22.5	or more times per week. Obese, did you say obese? And in 1998, the same Purdue University team found
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