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Divine Intervention

A BuzzFlash Interview. Posted February 17, 2005.


Susan Jacoby, the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, dissects the fundamentalist antipathy to free thought – and discusses how dangerous the 'God is on our side' philosophy is to government.

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