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THIS DAY IN HISTORY January 8

* 1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time.
* 1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
* 1982 – The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
* 2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
* 2011 – The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

* Canadian woo doc treated suicidal teen with vitamins
* Australian court to penalize homeopaths for false claims
* Vaccination up in California

POLITICS AND RELIGION

* Update – Ryan Bell | Adventist response | Other Christian response
* Update – Educational website about child medical neglect in Idaho launched
* Transgender teen commits suicide due to parent’s religious treatment of her
* He’s not dead, just meditating
* Prohibiting discrimination is discrimination
* Alabama city want’s to declare God it’s owner
* Turning the other cheek: Christian MMA
* Zombie nativity defied take down order

ANNOUNCEMENT

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* @gwenexperience via Twitter on Christmas
* @gwenexperience via Twitter regarding Episode 75

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We are joined by Linda Martin, a survivor of the Followers of Christ Church, to discuss what it was like growing up in a “faith healing” cult, their hypocrisies, and their sacrifice of their children through medical neglect. We also discuss the work she is doing to raise awareness to this issue and her effort to get Idaho’s religious shield laws repealed.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – December 25

* Year 1 Anno Domini – Jesus is born and the first Christmas! History.com | Wikipedia | (and a bit about “Did Coke invent the modern St Nick?” Hint: no)
* 1996 – Jon Benet Ramsey murdered

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

* The roboworm
* Unexpected methane findings on Mars
* Double amputee gets two mind controlled prosthetics
* Calgary child tooth decay up since ending fluoridation

POLITICS AND RELIGION

* Update: Albany parents get 10 years for religious medical neglect
* Parents charged in infants death caused by strict Adventist diet
* Isis slaughters 150 women for refusing Jihad marriage | Guidelines for handling female captives
* Australian Catholics admit to link between celibacy and raping children
* Ohio requires churches to be involved in new school program

War on Christmas 2014
* Jesus is the reason for the season, even for Hanukkah
* Satanist display in Michigan Capitol
* Florida has a Festivus pole again this year
* Florida town sells city hall nativity display * Congressman trying to save Christmas from us

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Former Adventist Pastor Ryan Bell returns to give us an update on his year without God. We discuss what he’s seen from the atheist movement, both the good and his critiques, how his family has taken it, and the work he is doing with People Assisting the Homeless (PATH).

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NTRO

* Police brutality, racism, etc
* Cop breaks handcuffed woman’s eye, faces no local charges

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

* 1941 – Germany declares war on the United States
* 1969 – Soviets declare nudity a sign of “western decadence” | Oh! Calcutta! (NSFW)
* 2005 – Cronulla riots, New South Wales, Australia
* 2009 – Tiger Woods announced an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage
* 2013 – Pope Francis is named Time magazine’s person of the year

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

* Orion makes “by-the-book” test flight
* California’s drought may be the worst in 1200 years
* Congressman names climate change “theory” after himself
* Judge dismissed case claiming evolution promotes atheism

POLITICS AND RELIGION

* Update: 7th Circuit rules that the Catholic Church is not above the law
* Scott Lively still faces crimes against humanity case” target=”_blank”>
* Baptist pastor encourages gay author to commit suicide
* Toronto family expecting resurrection for six months
* Iran to execute man over Facebook posts
* Christian terrorism strikes in Texas
* Teacher resigns over student’s freakout over Jesus story
* Chicago CoR banner vandalized
* Satanists get their Florida temple display

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Stephanie Guttormson is the Operations Director for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science. She also works to educate people about transgendered people, the challenges they face and how cis people can be better allies. On her YouTube channel, Think Stephtically, she ttacklesall manners of woo.

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INTRO

* Furguson | NY Times | NBC

THIS DAY IN HISTORY November 27

* 1095 – Pope Urban II orders first Crusade
* 1942 – The French practice giving up
* 2005 – Aerosmith and 50 Cent headline a $10 million bat mitzvah | FBI Press Release

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

* Philae
* CERN finds two new subatomic particles
* El Nino stunted height of Peruvian children

POLITICS AND RELIGION

* Boise transwoman’s memory not honored at funeral
* Philippine children demon possessed | How collective hysteria works
* Nome considers taxing churches
* Ben Carson feels God’s fingers nudging him towards presidential run
* More of the same with Vatican’s new prosecutor
* Catholic diocese think’s it’s above the law
* Protester at Muslim prayer service at National Cathedral | Reuters | Rawstory | Friendly Atheist
* Update: Marine sues school over Islamic history lesson

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In this episode we are joined by Ali Rizvi, a writer, musician, and physician who is an ex-Muslim of Pakistani birth. We discuss his background and vision for the future of the Islamic world, among other things.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – November 13

* 1850 – Robert Louis Stevenson is born
* 1953 – Indiana Textbook Commission member charges that Robin Hood is communistic
* 1974 – Karen Silkwood dies in mysterious one-car crash

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

* USDA approves healthier GMO potato
* Blood pressure drug cures diabetes in mice
* New alternative to antibiotics

POLITICS AND RELIGION

* Update on Oregon faith healing case
* Humanism ruled to be a religion for establishment reasons
* US Sixth Circuit Court upholds same sex marriage bans
* Student punished for omitting “Under God”
* Mars Hill has dissolved
* Iran proposes lashes for having dogs

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Recorded for release on 2014-11-13

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Jen Chadbourne is an Iraq war veteran, military justice advocate, author, artist, ex-Wiccan, atheist, vegetarian, firearms enthusiast, and self-professed not an asshole. She blogs at Happy Heresy.

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She also recommends Kevin McGil an advocate to stop sexual assualt in the military