Bad Jesus
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In the News: The rise of the “nones” has reached 23%; FFRF reports victories in Florida and California. After celebrating the birthday of Bertrand Russell, we talk with Harvard educated atheist professor of religious studies Hector Avalos about his new scholarly book, The Bad Jesus: The Ethics of New Testament Ethics.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:14.8 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:18.8 | 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 |
| 1:03.3 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio, and this is radio for the rest of us, those of us who choose none of the above, as in deities. |
| 1:07.5 | Nuns, N-O-N-E-S are on the rise. |
| 1:11.7 | I'm not talking about those handmaidens of patriarchal religion. And you, NES, |
| 1:18.9 | welcome to Freethought Radio. And I'm Dan Barker. This is the May 16th, 2015 edition of Free Thought Radio, produced at the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. The broadcast of our show is on Saturdays |
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| 1:30.8 | We also broadcast in Michigan, in central Texas, Missouri, Milwaukee area in central New York State, like the Ithaca area, in Alberta, Canada, and on some internet stations such as Radio Monterey.com. |
| 1:46.6 | And, of course, we have many thousands of podcast listeners, almost 6 million downloads since we started our show. |
| 1:53.2 | Free That Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, a national state church watchdog that also is the nation's largest association |
| 2:02.5 | of free thinkers, those of us who form their opinions using religion. |
| 2:07.1 | Almost all of our members, 22,500, are nuns, N-O-N-E-S, and most of them probably consider |
| 2:15.0 | themselves atheists, and we hope that you will swell our ranks. |
| 2:20.3 | We're going to talk about how 23% of the U.S. population adult today is non-religious. |
| 2:26.4 | While we have 22,500 members, help us get to at least 23,000 members of FFRF. |
| 2:33.0 | So we can speak with a more powerful voice. |
| 2:35.6 | And you can look us up at FFRF.org. |
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