As per usual with our potpourri episodes, we discuss a number of topics du jour…
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Shaun King, a noted activist, claims that whiteness protects against the terrorism label being applied. (Timothy McVeigh? Any one? Any one?) In London, UK, commuters panic upon hearing Bible verses in a train platform; Smuding ceremonies in Regina public schools; The US votes against a UN resolution which condemns the death penalty for blasphemy and homosexuality; A candidate for Calgry school trustee in the upcoming civic elections blames the Edmonton terror attack on the LGBT community; Anti-choice Conservative MP Rachel Harder fails to win her bid to chair the Status of Women House Committee; In “The Regressive Left Files”, Bruce Gilley’s controversial paper published in Third World Quarterly titled “The Case for Colonialism” has been withdrawn by publisher Taylor & Francis due to threats of violence.
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Two ex-Muslims join us for this episode. Iranian-born Armin Navabi is the founder of the Atheist Republic (http://www NULL.atheistrepublic NULL.com/), and author of “Why There Is No God”. Yasmine Mohammed has penned her own memoirs titled “From Al Qaeda to Atheism”, and writes the blog “Confessions of an Ex-Muslim (http://www NULL.confessionsofanexmuslim NULL.com/)“. Both are voices behind the Secular Jihadists podcast, along with Ali Rizvi and Faisal Saeed Al Mutar. Hopefully we can cover a few topics, including radicalization (and I have a hypothesis on who is most vulnerable that I’d like to run by our guests), Linda Sarsour and CAIR, the fetishization of tools of oppression (the hijab in particular) and the popularizing of so-called “modesty fashion”.
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We get together and talk about a bunch of stuff, including the fallout from CFI and its lack of support to the Calgary chapter; maybe talk about intersectional feminism and its postmodernist/Marxist roots…
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Helen Beach, head of the local chapter of the Centre for Inquiry, and our gay correspondent Shane Plesiuk join us to discuss the recent regrettable decision by Calgary Pride to ban members of the Calgary Police Services to participate in uniform. Note: I reached out to Calgary Pride to include a representative of their organization and received no response by on-air time.
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This episode’s topics include: Richard Dawkins has been deplatformed from speaking at UC Berkeley because of speech hurtful to Muslims; Dan Arel’s journey to demented delusion takes him beyond CJ Werleman in nuthattery in a new article claiming the so-called “new atheists” are “white nationalists”; death threats are the norm du jour for a new liberal mosque in Berlin; in Britain, the NHS makes plans to scrap coverage of useless homeopathic prescriptions; Women’s March wishes terrorist Assata Shakur a happy birthday; In Catholic Watch, a new report claims that 547 children were physically abused at the Catholic Regensburger Domspatzen choir school in Bavaria and a pair of officials at a children’s hospital in will be in a Vatican court as defendants on charges of embezzling donated funds to finance the renovation of a senior cardinal’s apartment; the new Doctor Who has changed genders, and not all fans are pleased.
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Christine joins me this week for another potpourri episode. Topics include the latest craze in woo athletic enhancement called cryotherapy (save your money and weight for winter and just run in and out of the house…); is Serena Williams the greatest tennis star of all time? We have reaction from tennis bad boy John McEnroe’s take; and my interviews with masked counterprotestors at an anti-Muslim rally.
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We are joined this week by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky (http://glebtsipursky NULL.com/). Gleb is a professor at Ohio State University, and serves as the President of Intentional Insights, a nonprofit devoted to popularizing truth-oriented behavior, rational thinking, and wise decision-making in public discourse. This is the focus of the Pro-Truth Pledge (https://www NULL.protruthpledge NULL.org/), a project that aims to reverse the tide of lies and promote truth in public discourse through combining behavioral science and crowd-sourcing. He is the author of Find Your Purpose Using Science, and has a new book forthcoming in 2018, The Alternative to Alternative Facts: Fighting Post-Truth Politics with Behavioral Science. He has also written pieces for Time, Scientific American, Psychology Today, The Conversation, Salon, Truthout, The Huffington Post and reason-oriented venues such as The Humanist, Skeptical Inquirer, Free Inquiry, American Atheist Magazine, Secular World, and Patheos.
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Join us as we bring you our take on a number of news stories we consider within our purview. In this edition for June 18, 2017 we find that over half of Canadians believe that religion is a force for harm and we wonder what the hell is wrong with the rest; a new creationist dinosaur museum opened this weekend in Innisfail, Alberta where no expense regarding historical accuracy was spared, including a laser tag facility themed with an ancient city being invaded by dinosaurs; in Ontario, a court rules that students no longer have to provide a reason for opting out of religion classes in Catholic schools; and in The Regressive Left Files… indigenous peoples of some 189 countries petition a United Nations committee to make cultural appropriation illegal. Lastly, we look at lawsuits from both pro and con sides of medical assistance in dying in Canada that can only be traced to crappy federal legislation. But first, welcome back Twyla!
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Long-time friend Shane Plesiuk joins us to talk about religion and atheism in Calgary’s gay community and share his thoughts on a number of stories in this episode of the Legion of Reason Diversion, including:
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