Comforting Thoughts
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We start the show talking about three recent movies with freethought connections. Then we ask, "How do atheists deal with death?” Greta Christina tells us about her new book, Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing To Do About God. Then we talk with Barbara Mancini, who was arrested and prosecuted for handing her terminally ill 93-yr-old father prescribed medicine that he requested, a charge of "assisted suicide" that was religiously and politically motivated, and ultimately dismissed.
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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. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:55.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Gail Living for today. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm Annie Larry Gaylor, wishing you a bright and secular New Year. |
| 1:01.8 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:06.6 | This is the first show of the year, first show of 2015. |
| 1:10.5 | And I guess we're starting the show on a low note, low as in temperature. |
| 1:15.2 | It's sub-zero temperatures outside here in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:18.9 | This is the January 3rd, 2015 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:24.6 | And as the free-thinking songwriter, Frank Lesser, would say, baby, it's cold outside. |
| 1:32.3 | Our show is produced and first broadcast from the Mike 92.1. That's the progressive talk, |
| 1:39.5 | as all you Madisonians know, right here in Madison. It's an I-Heart media radio station you can hear the |
| 1:45.3 | live stream of the show as it originally broadcast 11 a.m. Saturdays through I-Heart |
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| 1:57.3 | approximately 15,000 podcast listeners who listen to our show religiously. |
| 2:04.0 | And we'll list some of the other stations around the country at the end of the show. |
| 2:07.4 | That was a joke, anyway. |
| 2:08.5 | Yes. |
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