Horsemen there is a book called the god delusion and sam harris and daniel and they call them the four horsemen that they are aggressive and they are a greedy. The 20th century was live and let live if you want to believe that is your business but now they say i dont believe that i want to make sure nobody else leaves either so its a crusade. Part of that plays off on the apocalyptic of the atheist but the last days of talk you of the latter day saints so for instance you have a catholic tradition where they make a lot of philosophical arguments and a whole range of things. That a protestant tradition focusing on the text Martin Luther at this the bible is the ultimate authority. So those that want to go back and look at text themselves and then eyewitnesses to jesus. There are some traditions that are being left out of the conversation for instance quakers or even congregations where we focus on direct experience with god and revelations i dont mean a man with a long white beard going
They stand for coming out here on this lovely saturday evening. We are very pleased to have steve waldon to talk about his new book. Sacred liberty. It is about religious freedom and what steve calls in the subtitle, americas long, bloodied and ongoing struggle for that freedom. These days we tend to think of a religious freedom as a basic fundamental principle of our democracy and one we take very much for granted. But our countrys history as they recount in a fascinating history is filled with examples of religious prosecution. In just the opening pages of his book, he recall stories of ministers brutalizing baptist ministers around the time of the resolution, the American Revolution and later catholics and jews from holding office, the banning of native american spiritual practices, attempts to exterminate women and much more. All of which underscores and despite the First Amendment, the struggle to ensure religious freedom in the United States has indeed been challenging and compet
She interviews Richard Dawkins about his later book the memoirs an appetite for wonder. This program is about an hour. Host richard i cant help but notice and admire your tie which has paid went on it. Is there a significance to that a biological significance . Guest its handpainted by my wife as all of my ties are. She paints ties and this is a oneoff tie. Theres nothing else like it in the world. We went to antarctica last christmas on a cruise and we spent christmas on a boat together so this was my christmas present. We were seeing millions of penguins and this was a wonderful present from her. Host do you have a particular interest in penguins . Guest i love penguins. They are astonishing animals the way they fly underwater. They are so clumsy on land and then they get underwater and they are phenomenally fast. You wouldnt believe how quickly they can swim through the water. Streamlining is beautiful and so like dolphins they are astonishingly fast in the do the dolphin thing. The
All my ties are. This is a one off time. Theres nothing else like it in the world. Host is fabulous. Guest we would to an article last christmas on a cruise. Coal we spent christmas on the boat in an article. This was my christmas present. Host do have a particular interest in penguins tragic i love penguins to they are astonishing animals way they fly underwater. They look so clumsy on land like clumsy little humans waddling along. Syndicate in the water and their phenomenally fast. You wouldnt believe how quickly they can swim through the water. The streamlining is beautiful. And select opens their astonishingly fast and they do that all living on the water. They jump out of the water and back in again. Host your first big success was the selfish gene, and then you wrote the god delusion, which may get a rather controversial figure. But also along with Christopher Hitchens and sam harris and daniel dennis, really made the word atheist acceptable. And i think for the people were asham
Travelers reuniting with family members who thought they were going to be denied entry and a key question that could face Donald Trumps Supreme Court pick. Is he likely to be against any executive order that bans travel . We have new insight this hour for you, and then theres saturday night live lampooning the Trump Administrations daling briefing. Its not a ban im sorry . Its not a ban. The travel ban is not a ban which makes it not a ban. But you just called it a ban because im using your words. You said ban. You said ban. Now im saying it back to you. Well have more on that in a moment. But we begin with politics and the Trump Administration after an Appeals Court decided this morning to deny its request to immediately reinstate the travel ban. Vice president mike pence is confident the executive order will prevail and push back at critics in his own party during an interview with my colleague chuck todd this morning. Many believe theyve done it hastily and you have the opportunity