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#149 – Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion, and the Nature of Belief

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Break?

I think that it's done routinely, especially there's nothing more powerful than religion to get people to act. There was a lot of anti-Catholic rhetoric here in the U.S., which is kind of strange because one of the most wealthy colonial family were the Carols in Maryland and they were Catholic. So when you look at the United States, our history and you see the separation of church and state, do you want to know where that came from? That came from those guys. They convinced George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Is that not a strange contradiction?

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