Episode 17 – Atheist Music, Morality, and Post-Jewish Life with Shelley Segal

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0:00:25 INTRO

0:03:08 FEEDBACK

• Editing failure – Sorry
• Thumbs up from someone who would prefer to not be named
• Voice mail regarding Episode 14 and the discussion on ethics and “Do no harm”

0:17:33 THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1831 – Darwin and the HMS Beagle set out from Plymouth Harbor
• 1944 – FDR seizes control of Montgomery Ward’s factories for WW2
• 1968 – Apollo 8 returns to Earth
• 2004 – Peyton Manning breaks single season TD pass record

0:24:43 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

• The Robot-App Store
• A poisonous primate in Borneo
• We’re crashing two spacecraft into the moon
• A zebra fish caused to grow limbs in a lab

0:30:51 POLITICS/RELIGION/CULTURE

• The Pope blesses the Ugandan “Kill the Gays” parliamentarian (Via WWJTD)
• Judge allows FFRF’s Big Mountain lawsuit
• PA rules that “Freethought Today” and similar literature is as good as a church bulletin

0:40:57 INTERVIEW
Shelley Segal is an Australian ex-Jewess famous for “An Atheist Album”. We’ve already heard a few of her songs on the show, but this time we get to hear from her directly. She even plays “My Morality” live for us.

You can find Shelley on her website and buy her music on Bandcamp.