The Most Hated Woman in America

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The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 18 April 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Netflix has a new film profiling Madalyn Murray O'Hair, founder of American Atheists and once called "The Most Hated Woman in America." But is the film fair and factual, and does the dramatized story of O'Hair bear any resemblance to the real-life story?

In this podcast, we profile this atheist icon, and we discuss the film with Frank Zindler, former interim president of AA and someone who knew Madalyn Murray O'Hair personally.

This broadcast will discuss specific plot points, so understand that there might be some spoilers. If that's a concern, we encourage you to see the film before listening to the show.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go, the standby!
0:01.6	3, 2, 1, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.3	Rash ball face blast from me.
0:10.5	Question. Everything.
0:12.4	Find it extremely hard to imagine.
0:14.2	Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite alright to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.0	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.5	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 100 fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:44.6	The subject of our broadcast today was no stranger to argument, right?
0:49.3	Madeline Murray O'Hare.
0:50.5	Well, the great courses plus today shows sponsor has a whole series
0:55.1	called argumentation, the study of effective reasoning.
0:58.4	It's taught by Dr. David Zarefsky, who's a professor of communication studies
1:02.5	at Northeastern University.
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