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  2. EndUnknown says

    9am? drat. I’ll be in church(being an atheist, I go for the people, as they are my only social interaction these days. also, my buddy rob is the only reason im not failing my c++ class)

  3. Robin says

    Oh, great…now I have to be an ADVANCED atheist?

    Seriously, though…David Eller’s two books, NATURAL ATHIESM and ATHEISM ADVANCED are really terrific. I actually preferred them to the Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens books.

  4. JohnnieCanuck says

    @#2 Wow, I refrain from going to her church with my wife, though I know quite a few people there.

    I just don’t trust myself to nod my head and ignore all the well meaning prompts to become one with their flock. MYOB is not their motto, being Baptists.

  5. EndUnknown says

    @4 when they get in my face, i just have a theological discussion with them. they either huff off in rage, or scratching their head confused(save one 15 year old, he actually presents a fun challenge at times. although it does annoy me when he uses the bible as evidence)

  6. says

    Yet it says April 19th on their web page. Their error, I presume?

    No, you took a very long nap, Johnnie.

    It’s been fixed and the perpetrator of the egregious error has been docked one day’s pay.

  9. says

    Today in The Grauniad (actually, being Sunday, this would be The Observer), Barack Obama brings truce in culture war:

    Republicans are discovering that ‘god, guns and gays’ no longer fire up voters worried about keeping their homes and jobs

    For decades, the “three Gs” have been a defining feature of the American political landscape. Guns, God and gays have been reliable hot-button issues constantly used to fire up Republicans and lambast Democrats.

    But there are signs of a fundamental shift away from the so-called “culture wars” that have raged across American public life since at least the 1970s. …

    The president has taken a stand against anti-abortion rules in clinics and legalised funding for stem cell research. He has praised Islam and Iran on his recent overseas trip and held a Passover ceremony in the White House. Meanwhile, a series of states, including Iowa, deep in the American heartland, have legalised gay marriage and more are expected to follow suit.

    Yet, for all the sound and fury this has prompted on the extreme right, Obama remains a popular president. That has led some to wonder if the culture wars are finally losing some of their power. “People are tired of this. A lot of them are thinking: let’s move on,” said Professor Shaun Bowler, a political scientist at the University of California, Riverside.

    …

    There other things going on, too, beyond the simple fact of the worst recession since the Great Depression. Many believe there is a generational shift going on in America, as young voters come of age having grown up more tolerant of issues such as homosexuality and gay marriage. For these voters the culture wars seem a relic of the past. There is also a slight slip in the number of Americans identifying themselves as Christian, down 10 points over the past 20 years. …

    Even in many religious circles — and these include the powerful evangelical movement — there is a growing engagement with other issues such as the environment, aid to the developing world and combating HIV. …

    Yet a powerful wing of the Republican party refuses to let go of the culture wars. Led by right-wing media figures such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, they have sought to portray Obama as a socialist-in-waiting and a threat to US democracy. They have painted him as pro-gay, anti-religious and anti-American.

    One Republican congresswoman, Michele Bachmann from Minnesota, even claimed last week that Obama planned to set up “re-education camps” for young Americans to be brainwashed in political correctness. But the impact of such extreme talk appears to have had little effect on ordinary Americans and served only to inflame conservatives who were already anti-Obama. Indeed, much of it has become fodder for jokes on late-night TV chat shows rather than serious political debate.

    …

  10. Teleprompter says

    I think this will be great. I have heard many good things about Eller’s books. If I am up at 9 AM, I will probably tune in. If.

  11. Shamar says

    I’m in College Station, TX….I went to the website, and it said that I have to be in Minnesota to stream it live.

    Is there any way that I can listen to it?

  13. eddie says

    “guns, god and gays”…

    They worship guns, play around with gays and hate god.

    Hold, on…

    They worship gays, play around with god and hate guns.

    Hmmmm.

  14. eddie says

    Also, I keep hearing it being reported “they’ve legalised gay marriage”…

    Let’s be clear, gay marriage has always been OK. The judgements have been that banning it is unconstitutional and hence illegal.

    *sheesh*

  15. eddie says

    And I got a reply from sympatico;

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  16. eddie says

    Very strange. I used the drop-down blog selector on the top right of the page, and suddenly everything was brazilian! (and not in a nice way)

    I couldn’t read the entries but the one named Carbono14 looked promising. I went there and saw that even that was getting markuze spam!

    The horror. The horror.

  19. says

    Is there any way that I can listen to it?

    What Bjorn said, or you can pretend you are listening in Minnesota with a random zip code that starts with “55 or 56.”

    Our advertisers don’t mind, and the station doesn’t share revenue from their ads with us.

  20. Carl says

    Enjoyed both of David Ellers books Natural Atheism and Advanced Atheism he was a very good speaker at the American Atheist convention last year and It will be good to hear him on the radio.

  21. Carlie says

    I almost went to church this morning, but ended up watching Planet of the Dead instead, with time to spare for the radio show.

  22. Sili says

    Ah, too late to make the “he is risen” jokes.

    Well, I’m risen, too. At 3 pm. I think I need to adjust my ADs.

  24. says

    Adam, we like to think that we are an island of rationality on Sunday morning’s Sea of Woo. The only reason that we were able to get this time slot is that their alternatives were “Infomercials.”

  26. Adam C. says

    Sorry, that was a little vague, but I missed most of it to having muted to avoid te woo and missing the start. It sounded great as far as I heard, but it was only the last 15 minutes.

  27. says

    Lovely broadcast. I enjoyed it immensely, once I entered my (ahem) zipcode for my hometown here in (ahem) Minnesota after accidentally entering a false (ahem) postcode for some far-away international city where I, of course, do not (ahem) live. Because that would be silly. And probably illegal.

  28. Barklikeadog says

    Damn I missed it. Woke too late. Stayed up until 2 AM finishing a paper (thank dog I’m finished with that) Only my Thesis to finish now.

    Is there a saved copy somewhere that I can download & listen to?