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Welcome to American Freethought, an atheist podcast hosted by John C. Snider. If you'd like to support the podcast, you can send funds via PayPal to sniderishere@gmail.com.

May 31, 2020

I interview Christopher Cameron, author of Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism. For more about Chris visit his UNCC faculty page. To buy his book click here.

Plus:

Trump issues a bogus declaration defining places of worship as "essential." This is an unenforceable attempt to paint governors as...


May 17, 2020

I interview Nathan G. Alexander, author of Race in a Godless World, which explores the various and changing views of American and British freethinkers toward race and other cultures during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For more about Nathan visit www.nathangalexander.com. To buy his book visit NYU Press.

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May 3, 2020

I interview Sikivu Hutchinson, author of Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical. For more about Sikivu and her work visit SikivuHutchinson.com.

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Apr 19, 2020

He's back! I have a special 300th episode celebratory conversation with podcast co-host emeritus David Driscoll. What's he been up to the last 3 1/2 years? How's he holding up in this time of pandemic? And what does the future hold for America?

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I have a number of books (some of them signed by the likes of Salman...


Apr 5, 2020

I interview New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman about his new book Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife. For more about Bart and his work visit ehrmanblog.org or bartdehrman.com.

Bart's previous appearances on this podcast include:

Podcast 51 - Bart Ehrman (Jesus Interrupted)

Podcast 200 - Bart Ehrman (How Jesus...