Firing God
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Happy Blasphemy Day! Religion & abortion, religion & capital punishment, and religion & Covid-19 are among our topics today. FFRF attorney Ryan Jayne joins us to talk about the friend-of-the-court brief we recently filed with the Supreme Court dealing with the death penalty. Then we speak with Cheryl Abram, author of the book Firing God, about how she took a "leap of doubt" to escape the oppressiveness of religion.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.3 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.9 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:50.3 | Hello, I'm living for today, and I'm Annie Laurie Galore. |
| 0:54.4 | Hello, all you blasphemers, heretics, and infidels. |
| 0:58.7 | Today is your day, September 30th, the National Day of Blasphemy, |
| 1:03.9 | which coincides with the anniversary of the publication of satiric drawings of Muhammad |
| 1:08.8 | in the Danish paper, Yelands Posten, which set off a Muslim fervor. |
| 1:14.9 | We encourage you to do something blasphemous today, and remember, blasphemy is a victimless crime. |
| 1:22.3 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:26.8 | And if it isn't blasphemous to say that you're an atheist, |
| 1:30.6 | that Yahweh or Allah or Shiva or Zeus or Ketsatathe do not exist, |
| 1:38.4 | then I don't know what blasphemy is. |
| 1:41.0 | Our engineer today is Grant Blashka. |
| 1:44.1 | That almost sounds like blasphemy, doesn't it? I'll have to ask |
| 1:47.4 | Grant Blashfeyer. Grant Blashka is producing this show today in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist |
| 1:55.0 | studio in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:02.7 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Freedom From Religion Foundation, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Freedom From Religion Foundation and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.