Before The Gospels
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
FFRF’s JFK ad is airing on Colbert’s Late Show this month. After talking with law student Seth Wrinkle about the amicus brief he drafted for FFRF about a 40-foot Maryland cross, we listen to Univision’s Jorge Ramos explain why he rejected his Mexican Catholic faith and is now an agnostic. Then we interview agnostic bible scholar Bart Ehrman about his new book, Jesus Before The Gospels: How the earliest Christians remembered, changed, and invented their stories of the savior.
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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. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:45.3 | living for today. |
| 0:59.6 | But not no, no. |
| 1:03.0 | No. |
| 1:03.7 | I don't believe in God either. |
| 1:05.7 | I'm Annie Laurie Gailor. |
| 1:06.7 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:07.8 | And that was Jorge Ramos of Univision, |
| 1:13.3 | being asked if he believes in God. |
| 1:21.2 | And in a few minutes, we'll hear him tell Terry Gross at NPR, why he abandoned his Catholic faith and became a non-believer. |
| 1:27.5 | You may have caught Jorge Ramos, moderating the Democratic debate in Miami this past week. |
| 1:32.6 | And I'm Dan Barker, another person who says no to do you believe in God. |
| 1:34.1 | I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:43.1 | This is the March 12th, 2016 edition of Free Thought Radio, produced in the Stephen Yule, friendly atheist studio in the headquarters of the Freedom from Religion Foundation |
| 1:46.5 | in Madison, Wisconsin. This show first broadcasts and streams on progressive talk, the Mike |
| 1:53.7 | 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin, Saturdays at 11 a.m. Central and rebroadcast at midnight. |
| 2:01.2 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:06.5 | a national state church watchdog with 23,500 non-religious members around North America, |
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