David Niose is the past president of the American Humanist Association and legal director for the Appignani Humanist Legal Center. In 2012 and 2013 he argued in that a Massachusets law requiring teachers to lead the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional under the Massachusets constitution. In May 2014, the Massachusets Supreme Judicial Court finally ruled against the interests of atheist students in the matter, but Niose remains interested in the topic.
This Sunday, he joins Scott Lohman to talk about the case; his upcoming book, Fighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason; and the AHA 2015 National Conference.
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Last year, Faisal Saeed Al-Mutar received asylum in the United States after relatives were killed in sectarian violence in Iraq. The reaction from the U.S. secular community was swift and welcoming. Al-Mutar has been embraced by atheist and humanist organizations as a speaker, writer and editor.
This Sunday, Carl Hancock with talk with Al-Mutar about his journey and his successes.
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Listen to AM 950 KTNF on Sunday at 9 a.m. Central to hear Atheists Talk, produced by Minnesota Atheists. Stream live online. Call in to the studio: 952-946-6205, or send an e-mail to radio@mnatheists.orgduring the live show.
Dr. Michael Mann is a climatologist and geophysicist and was the lead author of the paper that introduced the "Hockey Stick Graph" that shows the accelerated trend of global mean temperatures since the late 19th century. He has been the subject of repeated personal attacks and lawsuits initiated by climate change deniers, but he has bravely kept on with his work. He was a key contributor to the "Observed Climate Variability and Change" chapter of the International Panel on Climate Change Third Scientific Assessment Report.
In 2012, Mann published a book detailing the efforts of the denialist machine to swing public opinion away from the science of climate research, delaying societal changes that could mitigate the effects of global warming. The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From the Front Lines will be the subject of our show this Sunday. Greg Laden will interview Michael Mann.
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Listen to AM 950 KTNF on Sunday at 9 a.m. Central to hear Atheists Talk, produced by Minnesota Atheists. Stream live online. Call in to the studio: 952-946-6205, or send an e-mail to radio@mnatheists.orgduring the live show.
CJ Werleman is a well-known atheist speaker and the author of several books dealing with the intersection of religion, belief, politics and money. As a past guest of the show (he appeared in 2010 to discuss his book Jesus Lied, and again in 2011 for his bookKoran Curious), Atheists Talk is pleased to welcome CJ back to speak with him about his most recently published book, Atheists Can't Be Republicans: If Facts and Evidence Matter. From Amazon:
Atheists Can't Be Republicans exposes the insane economic and social policies of today's Republican Party. Policies that have been proven abjectly false and dangerous, in much the same way religious belief is false and dangerous. Werleman contends that atheists who cling onto modern U.S. conservative ideology are hanging onto ideas that have either been proven mythical at worst or remain unproven at best. If atheists applied the same litmus test to their political ideology as they do to theology, then clearly an atheist cannot be a Republican.
We hope you can join us this Sunday for this thought-provoking topic.
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Listen to AM 950 KTNF on Sunday at 9 a.m. Central to hear Atheists Talk, produced by Minnesota Atheists. Stream live online. Call in to the studio: 952-946-6205, or send an e-mail to radio@mnatheists.orgduring the live show.
