The Boston Atheists Report Archives

Due to space limitations, only six months of episodes are hosted on our server. Here are the records of past episodes: the guests, the topics discussed, and the reference links posted.

2009

Mid-January Report: 1/15/2009

Topics: the widespread failure of Christian abstinence pledges; the British atheist bus campaign inspiring Spanish freethinkers, irritating the Vatican; a Biblical scholar's announcement that Jesus is not God; and reactions to Rick Warren's role at the inauguration.

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End-of-January Report: 1/31/2009

Topics: the new definition of saddlebacking; Massachusetts among least religious states; more on the atheist bus campaigns; Christopher Hitchens debate.

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Mid-February Report: Recorded 2/10/2009

Topics: Religious hysteria about video games; Daniel Dennett's intentional systems theory; Unitarian-Universalist churches; upcoming Darwin Day.

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Mid-March Report: Recorded 3/8/2009

Topics: New buses and billboards; secular founding fathers; demographics of atheist groups; religious and secular reactions to loss; cultural aspects of institutions like churches.

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End-of-March Report: Recorded 3/28/2009

Topics: Religion and atheism in death; pilots and crashes and religion, oh my; integrating Islam and Western society; misguided Texas laws and education guidelines; fundamentalists' amusing uses for technology.

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Mid-April Report: Recorded 4/14/2009

Topics: American Atheists convention; quiverfulls; infant dead and mother jailed because of Baltimore cult; Iowa declares homobigotry unconstitutional; Joss Whedon receives Harvard Humanist lifetime achievement award.

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End-of-April Report: Recorded 4/26/2009

Topics: evolutionary origins of religion; some pastors' (immorally?) extravagant lifestyles; baseball and patriotism and piety; outtakes after the music!

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Mid-May Report: Recorded 5/16/2009

Topics: evangelizing American soldiers; homobigoted beauty queens; Bristol Palin breaks irony meter by promoting effectiveness of abstinence; Seth McFarlane champions public rise of atheism; Christian Scientists abuse children. Forum: education and homeschooling.

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End-of-May Report: Recorded 5/30/2009

Topics: Daniel Hauser update; God hates the Celtics!; atheists alleged to have daddy issues; antichrist alleged to be homosexua; secular pinky swear; Catholic demonstrators on the Common. Roundtable: the purpose of secular media like our podcast.

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End-of-June Report: Recorded 6/28/2009

Topics: New England Humanists Outing; Examiner.com providing atheist publicity in new instance of an old media model; Connecticut church attempts to exorcise teenager's homosexual spirits; France covers up burqas. Roundtable: acerbic advocates of atheism.

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Mid-July Report: Recorded 7/15/2009

Topics: Daniel Radcliffe's coming-out; BA Harry Potter viewing; Boston Skepchick Rebecca Watson gets married!; Amanda Donaldson fired for being an atheist; methods of atheist news-spreading and community mobilizing. Roundtable: friendly atheism is better atheism (part one).

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