To Protect and to Serve: Religion in Law Enforcement

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The Thinking Atheist

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🗓️ 5 December 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

When taxpayer-funded police departments put "In God We Trust" decals on their vehicles, is this illegal? And what are some other demonstrations of religiosity within law enforcement?

We speak to current and former police officers about this controversial topic.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go. The step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.3	Rash ball face blasphemy.
0:10.5	Question. Everything.
0:12.3	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right 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
0:23.4	or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on 100 fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:45.3	Related to the topic of discussion on the broadcast today,
0:48.4	you're definitely going to want to check out a lecture series
0:51.4	by Dr. Jeffrey Rosen at the Great Courses Plus.
0:54.2	It's called Privacy, Property, and Free Speech.
0:57.9	Law and the Constitution.
1:00.2	Jeffrey Rosen is Professor of Law at the George Washington
1:03.5	University School of Law.
1:05.4	And he gets into some really interesting and relevant stuff
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