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On today’s show I talk about Rev. Charles Ellis of Detroit’s Greater Grace Temple who had a service with three vehicles representing the Big Three automakers, asking for God’s help to turn the companies fortunes around. I also talk about the results of the sit-in strike by laid-off workers in the shuttered factory of Chicago’s Republic Windows and Doors, which resulted in the loans by Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, allowing the workers sixty days of severance pay and give them their accrued vacations.

I play a rap song by Elohim Marino - “Money is God” from the album Truth.

Next I talk about the vote on the Big Three automakers’ request for a $14 billion short-term bailout and how the Republicans are admitting to using it as a way of devastating the United Auto Workers labor union. Breaking news that didn’t make it on the podcast–the bailout failed. It’s more important to bust a union than prevent a depression, apparently.

Next I play Josh Charles song “Love, Work and Money” from the album Josh Charles.

Music from this podcast came from Podshow Podsafe Music Network.

Flyswatter Show

Liberal. Atheist. Vegan. Different.

Apparently a 22-year-old man committed suicide after reading Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion according to his dad. We discuss if it is possible that the young man’s sudden lack of religion in the face of his father’s strong faith could have been the reason for this tragedy, or the lack of social support, or even some other reason.

Is it dangerous to become an atheist? Is life worth living without a belief in God? And is Dawkins the best first introduction to atheism to young vulnerable people of faith (We don’t know as we haven’t read The God Delusion yet.)?

Pardon the sound. I don’t know what is going on–I think my settings are all messed up and was running out of time trying to fix them. Maybe it’s Satan. I just went back into Garageband, reworked all the sound settings, re-rendered it, and re-sent it back to the server, and it still sounds like caca. I give up (though it’s a little better than it was!).

Flyswatter Show

Liberal. Atheist. Vegan. Different.

Bonus on blogsite only! Here is the YouTube video I mentioned in the podcast where the mother is going batshit insane because her teenaged son expressed his atheism.