Christopher Hitchens remembered, Guest: Dawn Brittain
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2013
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This week we celebrate the April 13 birthdays of two great freethinkers: Christopher Hitchens and Thomas Jefferson. Listen to a hilarious excerpt of Hitchens' 2007 talk to the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Then hear Dawn Brittain talk about her efforts to defend Jefferson's wall of separation between church and state, by trying to remove a cross from a war memorial in Coos Bay, Oregon. Bonus music: "Thank You, God," by Tim Minchin.
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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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| 0:31.6 | No hell below us. |
| 0:41.3 | Above us only sky. |
| 0:56.4 | Imagine all the people living for today. Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and welcome friends, heathens, and I'm not going to say |
| 1:02.7 | countrymen and women, because, as Thomas Payne put it, the world is my country and to do good, |
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| 1:15.3 | And we have a lot of listeners in other countries as well. |
| 1:18.0 | This is the April 13, 2013 broadcast of Free Thought Radio. |
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| 1:33.4 | So hello to all you regular listeners in Madison who are hearing this show while you're doing your taxes at the last minute. |
| 1:40.6 | And maybe next year, after we win our parish exemption federal lawsuit, your taxes won't be |
| 1:47.3 | so high when members of the clergy will have to start paying their fair share. That's right. Right now, |
| 1:53.3 | clergy don't have to report their housing payments, their rent or housing expenses as income. And that includes, you know, their pools or their |
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| 2:09.1 | I mean, any of us would want to take a break like that when we're doing our taxes each year. |
| 2:13.2 | So our Freedom from Religion Foundation lawsuit is challenging that unfair religious favoritism. |
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| 2:24.3 | and our 13, well, 12 other FFRAF lawsuits. |
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