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Former Religious Right leader Frank Schaeffer on his new book Sex Mom and God

Tags: Frank Schaeffer, religious right, end times, apocalypse, gaza, Palestine, Dominionism, Reconstructionism, fundamentalism, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry

Coming up today we’ll talk with a former leader in the Religious Right movement in the U.S., Frank Schaeffer. We’ll get his views on the current crop of Republican presidential contenders.

But first some listener comments about yesterday’s program. Yesterday we talked about wealth distribution in the US. Here’s what three listeners had to say.

Frank Schaeffer grew up in Switzerland in the 1960's in a Christian community run by his parents- Evangelists...

Top prosecutor makes case for agnosticism

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Tags: Divinity of Doubt, Vincent Bugliosi, atheism, fundamentalism, agnosticism, wmnf, Rob Lorei

No subject has been argued about more vehemently than God and religion. On today's program veteran lawyer Vincent Bugliosi applies his legal reasoning skills to the question of God. Making a case for agnosticism has written Divinity of Doubt: The God Question an indictment of God, theism, and atheism. He joins us live.

Juan Cole on engaging the Muslim world

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Tags: radical Islam, fundamentalism, Palestinians

Good afternoon, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei.

Our guest is historian and blogger Juan Cole. He’s a professor at the University of Michigan and author of the blog Informed Comment, which has followed closely events in the Middle East and south Asia for most of the decade. He has lived in the region and speaks Arabic, Persian and Hindu.

In his latest book “Engaging the Muslim World” (Palgrave Press). Cole argues that western society is suffer...