A Sense of Style
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2014
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Nativity scenes, county grants to churches, praying high-school coaches, and Winter Solstice displays top the news this week. Then we speak with evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker about his newest book, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:53.3 | imagine living for today. |
| 0:57.0 | Imagine living for today. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:00.0 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:04.0 | This is the December 13th, 2014 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:10.0 | And we're in December now and of course this time of year, |
| 1:13.7 | it's that most wonderful time of year, and that time when we celebrate the birth of a very |
| 1:18.3 | influential person in the history of the world. And of course, that's the December 16th birthday |
| 1:23.5 | of Ludwig Beethoven. Beethoven was non-Christian, unorthodox, more like a deist. |
| 1:30.7 | I don't know if he called himself an atheist, but he laughed at the religion of his upbringing. |
| 1:36.5 | And if you want to know more about Beethoven, go to our webpage, Freethought of the Day. |
| 1:41.2 | And you'll talk more about it in the second segment. |
| 1:44.0 | Well, not really. I don't think so. I think we'll just play some of this song. Listen for'll talk more about it in the second segment. Well, not really. |
| 1:44.7 | I don't think so. |
| 1:45.9 | I think we'll just play some of this song. |
| 1:51.0 | Listen for some of Beethoven's music as we go in and out of the segments on today's show. |
| 1:57.3 | This show, Free Thought Radio, is produced and broadcast originally from the Mike 92.1, |
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