Radio Freethinker Episode 183 – Islamic Bomb Edition
Posted by Don McLenaghen on September 25, 2012
This week:
- Prayed to death,
- Religious intolerance on the rise,
- Iran and the Bomb, and
- The Black Death
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Prayed to death
Not funny but true!
Yet another couple who killed their child with prayer gets a slap on the wrist. We discuss the Oregon parents who received 5 yrs probation for allowing their child to suffer an extremely painful death from appendicitis because they believed prayer was a better healer than REAL medicine.
Find out more:
- Faith healer parents avoid jail after son, 16, dies in horrible pain after they tried to ‘pray away’ his burst appendix
- Parents charged after Edmonton twins, 2, found starved
- Religious intervention can hurt child health care
Religious intolerance on the rise
We have talked the new report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Affairs which shows greater intolerance as religion is used as a means of authoritarian control in nations across the world. The world is become a much more repressive place to live and religion is the shackles of its enforcement.
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Iran and the Bomb
There has been much talk about the looming threat of the Islamic Bomb. We cast our skeptical eye on the reality of Iran developing nuclear weapons. And for the record, we in NO way support nor endorse any nation attempting or achieving nuclear weapons status, just in case it seemed unclear in the show.
Find out more:
- 9 Big Myths We’re Being Peddled to Scare Us About Iran
- Iran’s Forbidden Nukes and the Taqiya Lie
- Nuclear program of Iran
- David E. Sanger, William J. Broad and Jodi Rudoren once again distort IAEA Report on Iran’s nuclear activities
- Imminent Canada-India nuclear pact heightens tensions
- Iranian-Canadians fume as TD closes accounts
- Highly enriched uranium
The Black Death
Reports have flooded the internet about the ‘discovery’ of the body of Richard the III in a parking lot in England…well, under the parking lot…and the only evidence its Richard is curved spine body badly beaten to death. We talk about how they plan to ‘firm up’ the identification and the ulterior motives of some to promote this ‘discovery’.
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Skeptical Highlights:
Beneath the Sands of Egypt
Archaeologist and Egyptologist Donald P. Ryan will share some of the discoveries from the Pacific Lutheran University Valley of the Kings Project. The Project has excavated several of the small, little-known, undecorated tombs in the Valley, some of which have revealed fascinating surprises and controversial mummies (Hatshepsut? Relatives of Tut? A mass grave?).
When: 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM, Thursday, September 27, 2012
Where: Alliance for Arts & Culture – 938 Howe St, Vancouver
Cost: FREE
