Atheists Day and theocratic threats to Israel
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We announce the "Theocrat" & "Secularist" of the Week, play Bill Maher's very funny "Atheists Day" monologue, then interview University of San Francisco Professor and Middle East expert Stephen Zunes about the theocratic threats in Israel and what's at stake.
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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. |
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| 0:58.1 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:59.6 | co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:03.6 | My co-host, Dan Barker, |
| 1:06.2 | who's co-president with me, |
| 1:08.1 | is not here today because he's in Europe, the Lucky Duck. His trip includes two |
| 1:14.1 | panels and a piano vocal concert in Warsaw, Poland, visiting humanists and a former missionary |
| 1:20.9 | in Stockholm, Sweden, and talking at the conference of rationalists international in Helsinki, Finland, where he is today. |
| 1:29.9 | When he returns next week, he'll have a lot of exciting things to tell us. |
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