In the midst of an unsettling political time, FFRF’s television talk show will provide a calming respite with a look at the remarkable work of world-renowned painter Scott Burdick. Burdick, an atheist and Life Member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has also produced documentaries on major state/church issues, including a fascinating record of the fraught challenge removing a Christian flag and statue of a soldier kneeling before a cross in King City, N.C. After discussing his art, beautifully displayed during the interview, Burdick talks about that case, and the invasion of our public schools by evangelical outfits, the topic of another documentary of his. His novels include "Nihala" and "The Immortality Contract," which is currently optioned to become a Netflix series. Those who love art, cinema and books and our secular Constitution will find much to savor in this interview.
“'The Immortality Contract' has very much an atheist sort of a theme,” Burdick tells “Freethought Matters” co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. “Christians constantly would say to me that when you’re on your deathbed, you’re going to change your mind. And so I thought, what if a scientist offered the world a pill that would make them young again indefinitely. But what if he then said: ‘I’m only offering this to people who will agree not to support organized religion.’”
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