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Guest Hector Avalos, who went from Mexican child evangelist to\nan atheist and leading bible scholar, talks about his book, Fighting\nWords: The Origins of Religious Violence, as well as his academic\nactivism at Iowa State University to counter creationism and a sports\nchaplaincy. For fun, a clip of Bill Maher as "meteroevangelist" plays.\nA dividend: an excerpt of Kingdom Coming author Michelle Goldberg's\nexcellent speech to the 2007 FFRF convention, "The Rise of Christian\nNationalism." The timely song: Philip Appleman's poignant "In a Dark\nTime," set to music by Dan Barker. The weekly show is hosted by Dan\nBarker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents of the Freedom From\nReligion Foundation. (MP3, 53 min, 24.5 MB)