Sam and Becky chat with guest Heina Dadabhoy and her book A Skeptic’s Guide to Islam. Heina is busy writing her manuscript after a very successful Kickstarter funding campaign.
After that, Libbie joins us to talk about the R74 and the elections in general. We also discuss the lack of atheism representation in government and the obvious solution to it as enacted by James in Nebraska.
Sam, Mike and Becky look at the responses to our official candidate questionnaire, and then talk to author Loren Collins about his new book, Bullspotting: Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation ask him why “Birther” conspiracy theories just won’t go away.
Sam and Mike are rejoined by the familiar Libbie Grant to discuss emails, a moment of science, and pop singer Ke$ha’s other-wordly intimate relations.
Join us as we chat with Herb Silverman, founder and president of the Secular Coalition for America, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the College of Charleston. He ran for governor of South Carolina in the 1990s as an atheist and entered into a multi-year battle to have the South Carolina Supreme Court strike down this religious requirement for holding public office. He joins us today to chat about his recently published memoir, Candidate Without A Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt.
While the world is focused on Benghazi, Libya and the religiously-motivated murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens, the Ask an Atheist gang zooms out and discovers that blasphemy as a tool of statecraft is not limited to Arab Spring nations.
