Sam Harris has committed to appearing on the Rational Response Squad in conjunction with the release of his new book "Letter to a Christian Nation." His appearance will air Friday September 22nd, the book is released on the 19th. As with all of our shows, it will be prerecorded. We'll allow you another behind the scenes look and listen during the recording session on September 9th, at 1pm est/10am pst. After the Sam Harris interview we'll record more shows, so plan on making a day out of it. Look for our homepage to have a stickam portal on September 9th. Keep in mind, the stickam audio can be choppy and is by no means intended to be a replacement for our Friday night show, this is just a "favor" to our friends/supporters/fans.

George Galloway stated that:

Sapient's response:

I'm sorry but I'm going to have to disagree with both of you on that.

Sapient, it appears you have been propagandized too.

What people do in religion's name is not a different argument. People make up the religion, not the other way around!

On the contrary, most religions (especially Judeo-Christian religions) not only honor violence but demands it. To not realize this indicates that you have no knowledge of the Torah, Bible or the Koran, much less the history of these religions.

http://cdbaby.com/cd/johnrbutler

This cd is a hoot! You can listen to it online. Be sure to play #5.

He has a call-in medical show, and is the author of a lot of books. He never really comes out and says he's athiest, but he pokes fun at the stupidity of theists (christian scientists not getting immunizations is causing an outbreak of measles, guy dies in lions den saying god will save him, etc.) on almost every show.

More to come in this thread. Here are the lyrics to the poem read on tonights show.

cell division (december 20th) Sean Berk

i blame you for catholicizing my childhood
and for ostracizing my father for how he stood
in the middle of your choir loft
-his Jewish voice giving new meaning to
your cathedral hymns

while my mother played the role of silent saint
in pastel hospital scrubs-
her stethoscope-her crucifix breathing life
into lungs of drug addicts and geriatric hypochondriacs
in a 20 year loop of emergency room drama they could

David Swanson runs www.afterdowningstreet.org. We recently recorded a segment with him to run in an upcoming episode. We spoke mostly about potential impending attacks on Iran, however we touched on his atheism. He recently wrote an excellent article, pointed out to me by one of the stations our show runs on www.progressiveblendradio.com.

Here is the article:
http://www.democrats.com/node/8846

I was checking out the Operation Clambake website and thought Scientology would make an interesting show. I'm not sure if the guy that runs that site, Andreas Heldal-Lund, would go on or not and he lives in Norway, but he seems well spoken and knows his stuff about it. Getting a Scientologist on could be fun, and maybe an ex-Scientologist. It's kind of a fringe cult, but it's getting a ton of press with Tom Cruise these days, and most people don't know much about it.

I sent an email to Sapient with a possible show guest, and never heard a peep from him for over a week. What email should I use? or just PM?

I suggest you attempt to get Richard Dawkins on the show. he's an excellent documentary maker, author, and speaker.

Oh, and I just registered as a bright.

"The Truth" will be appearing on the Rational Response Squad in show 12.

All three songs from his myspace page will be featured in Show 12. Also, "The Truth" has wrote a new theme song for our show that will shatter your brainz.

From the myspace page of "The Truth:"
http://www.myspace.com/thanonconformists