Tuesday, June 07, 2005

This American Religion

Please listen to last weekend's episode of "This American Life" . For those who aren't familar with it, the radio show takes a theme and examines it through various different stories, documentaries, and monologues.
Last week was "Godless America" and it investigated the seperation of church and state in the US. The summary from the webpage:

At a time when House Majority Leader Tom Delay calls for enacting a "Biblical worldview" in government, when Christians are asserting their ideals in the selection of judges, in public school science classes and elsewhere, This American Life spends an hour trying to remember why anyone liked the separation of church and state in the first place. Julia Sweeney, among others, gives a full-throated defense of godlessness. Julia's faith began to crack after reading Biblical passages like the one pictured here, of Abraham about to cut the throat of his beloved son, Isaac.

It's riveting radio, and it will definitely make you think.

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