By JULIA SWEENEY
Added: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:00:00 UTC

Thanks to John Hartman for the mp3!

Reposted from:
http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/05/290.html

At a time when House Majority Leader Tom Delay calls for enacting a "Biblical world view" in government, when Christians are asserting their ideals in the selection of judges, in public school science classes and elsewhere, This American Life spends an hour trying to remember why anyone liked the separation of church and state in the first place.

Act Two. God Said, Huh? Julia Sweeney, a Catholic, tells the story of how her faith began to crack after reading a most alarming book ... called the Bible. Her story is excerpted from her play, "Letting Go of God," which ran in Los Angeles. Her other one-woman monologues are "God Said, "Ha!" and "In the Family Way." (29 minutes)

Song: "When the President Talks to God," Bright Eyes; also "God Bless America," Connie Francis

Visit JuliaSweeney.com

TAGGED: ATHEISM, COMMENTARY, RELIGION