{"podcast":{"title":"Free Inquiry Audio Edition","slug":"free-inquiry-audio-edition-7055830","podcast_index_feed_id":7055830,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/535512/rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/535512","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/8/a/f/f/8affef21b8e5938616c3140a3186d450/FI_LIBSYN_ARTWORK_-_BLUE.png","author":"Center for Inquiry","episode_count":129,"summary":"The audio edition of Free Inquiry magazine, the Journal for Secular Humanist Ideas.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T06:19:34.319111+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-inquiry-audio-edition-7055830"},"episode":{"title":"We Need to Be Able to Criticize Religion—Including Islam by Ronald A. Lindsay","slug":"we-need-to-be-able-to-criticize-religion-including-islam-by-ronald-a-lindsay","published_at":"2026-03-04T17:21:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-inquiry-audio-edition-7055830/we-need-to-be-able-to-criticize-religion-including-islam-by-ronald-a-lindsay","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-inquiry-audio-edition-7055830","url":"https://646ef2be-1f48-43ae-b5f1-b4ac9bd4e95a.libsyn.com/we-need-to-be-able-to-criticize-religionincluding-islam-by-ronald-a-lindsay","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/646ef2be-1f48-43ae-b5f1-b4ac9bd4e95a/Ron_Lindsay_-_We_Need_to_Be_Able_to_Criticize_ReligionIncluding_Islam-_Read_by_AI_Oscar_en_v2.mp3?dest-id=4608757","summary":"Ronald A. Lindsay argues that just as we must defend the right to criticize government, we must also defend the right to criticize religion—including Islam. Lindsay maintains that protecting any religion from open criticism undermines free expression and, in cases where doctrines are used to justify human rights abuses, amounts to moral complicity. Read this article and find accompanying references at: https://secularhumanism.org/exclusive/we-need-to-be-able-to-criticize-religion-including-islam/ About the Author: Ronald A. Lindsay is the former president and CEO of the Center for Inquiry, recent interim general counsel for CFI, and editor of Free Inquiry magazine. Subscribe to Free Inquiry: https://secularhumanism.org/subscribe/","meta_description":"Ronald A. Lindsay argues that just as we must defend the right to criticize government, we must also defend the right to criticize religion—including Isla…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":313,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/free-inquiry-audio-edition-7055830/episodes/we-need-to-be-able-to-criticize-religion-including-islam-by-ronald-a-lindsay/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-inquiry-audio-edition-7055830/we-need-to-be-able-to-criticize-religion-including-islam-by-ronald-a-lindsay.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}