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Freethought Radio

Clergy Project

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6578 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

After reporting on an FFRF state/church victory removing Christian crosses from a Texas county building, we hear “Blood Brothers,” the song Dan Barker wrote right after leaving the ministry. What happens when a minister no longer believes? Catherine Dunphy, a Catholic seminarian and chaplain who abandoned her faith and author of the new book, From Apostle to Apostate: The Story of the Clergy Project, tells us about how this new group is helping to “Save a Preacher."

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,

0:14.7

Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.

0:18.7

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 I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.

0:57.7

Welcome to Free Thought Radio and welcome you Plutonians.

1:02.7

Pluto was originally the underworld, but since we know there is no hell above us, no...

1:09.3

No hell below us.

1:11.1

Above us only sky and stars and planets.

1:15.2

Let's celebrate the real world, including the newly revisited world, 3 billion miles away

1:21.4

from us.

1:22.4

And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.

1:25.6

This is the July 18, 2015 edition of Free Thought Radio, produced at the Mike 92.1.

1:33.3

It's called Progressive Talk in Madison, Wisconsin.

1:37.3

Free Thought Radio has been airing since 2006, and this is our 481st show. Can you believe that?

1:46.0

All nine and a half years. If we were broadcasting from the surface of Pluto, it would take four and a half hours to reach your radio.

1:56.0

The broadcast of the show was on Saturdays at 11 a.m. Central, but you wouldn't get it until

2:02.4

3.30 if we were broadcasting from Pluto. And the live stream is through IHeart Radio.

2:09.0

Free Thought Radio also broadcasts in Grand Rapids, in Central Texas, Central Missouri, the Milwaukee

2:14.8

area, central New York State, in southern Alberta, Canada, and on internet

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