American Infidel

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🗓️ 6 June 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Psychologist, author and songwriter Elliott Ingersoll, descendant of the family of the great 19-century agnostic orator Robert G. Ingersoll, tells us about his TED talk challenging the notion of "chemical imbalances" in the brain, which, he says, can be better treated with talk therapy than with drugs. After hearing his performance of his song "American Infidel," we introduce a drawing for free downloads of the audiobook of Dan's book GOD: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction by listening to Richard Dawkins reading his Foreword. We also are treated to an in-studio reading from the book by Dan Barker and Buzz Kemper, who pays the role of "God."

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1:00.0	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and Free Thought Radio is where we take it, as Robert Ingersoll advised, one world at a time. And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. This is the June 4th, 2016 edition of Free Thought Radio, produced in the Stephen Yule, friendly atheist studio,
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2:11.6	During the second half of today's show, we will have the final drawing for Annie Laurie's book,
2:19.6	Women Without Superstition. And then we will have the final drawing for Annie Laurie's book, Women Without Superstition.
2:26.6	And then we will announce a new drawing for the audiobook of God, the most unpleasant character in all fiction.
2:28.2	Where we'll hear Richard Dawkins himself, reading his forward to the book that he requested
2:33.8	and inspired.
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