Being Good Without God

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Freethought Radio's Theocracy Alert discusses the unseemly mix of religion and politics in presidential actions and the presidential race. The former reverend Dan Barker's Pagan Pulpit examines the biblical role in sanctifying torture here on earth, and Dan, with co-host Annie Laurie Gaylor, in a segment on "being good without god," addresses the tired old myth that nonbelievers are immoral. The rejection of dogma by Albert Einstein is featured in Freethinkers Almanac.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker, and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.9	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.1	It's easy if you try.
0:32.6	No hell below us.
0:41.3	Above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today Hello all you hellbound atheists and happy heathens.
1:01.4	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, welcoming you to Free Thought Radio,
1:06.1	inviting you to spend the next hour with us to learn about some irreverent things,
1:11.2	and we're broadcasting from Air America.
1:14.2	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:18.1	And today, beware the aides of March.
1:22.2	Or don't beware.
1:23.5	We'll be talking about being afraid, being very, very afraid on today's show, later in the show.
1:31.3	I'm a former minister.
1:33.4	I'm a preacher who saw the light.
1:35.9	I came to free thought through a long, torturous process of finally growing up.
1:40.2	Like many of you did the same thing.
1:42.0	You know, you were childishly committed to a faith, and you fought your way through it.
1:47.6	And congratulations, and you've joined the growing segment of the American population that has no religion, who are free from religion.
1:55.3	Our group, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, is comprised of atheists and agnostics and other types of non-believers.
2:02.8	And it was really fun earlier this week at the University of Wisconsin
2:06.3	to go to the lecture that Richard Dawkins gave.
2:10.0	In Madison.
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