Austin Dacey

Published: Sept. 29, 2014, 7:43 p.m.

Josh Zepps is off, and since this week is the 5th\xa0International Blasphemy Rights Day, we're rebroadcasting this interview by Chris Mooney with Austin Dacey, CFI's former UN representative and an expert on the subject of blasphemy laws.

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This week, our guest is a return one:\xa0Austin Dacey. He's a philosopher, a writer, a human rights activist, and the creator of the\xa0Impossible Music Sessions, which we featured in\xa0a past show.

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Austin's books include\xa0The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life\xa0and, just out,\xa0The Future of Blasphemy: Speaking of the Sacred in an Age of Human Rights.

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This show focused on Austin's new book on blasphemy. But he helped enhance the discussion with a few pieces of music that have been called blasphemous\u2014which is why we wanted to distribute them as widely as possible.