From Preacher to Atheist

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

After listening to the "Moment of Bedlam" at FFRF's annual Non-prayer breakfast, we hear the Newseum Institute's shout-out to the Freedom From Religion Foundation as a "well-organized" and "very effective" force fighting for the "nones" in today's society. We play the new song, "Life After You," then talk with the songwriter, Carter Warden, a former evangelical Church of Christ minister and founding member of The Clergy Project who came out as an atheist at FFRF's convention in Pittsburgh this month. Carter describes why he left the ministry and how difficult it was to find employment outside the church.

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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.
0:14.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:17.0	It's easy if you try
0:23.6	No hell below us
0:33.6	Above us only sky
0:36.6	Imagine all the feet Above us only sky.
0:48.3	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:54.7	Welcome to Feed That Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylord. And I'm Dan Barker. This is the October 22nd, 2016 edition of Free Thought Radio, which is produced in the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio in Free Thought Hall, which are the national offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:13.9	Our engineer today is Steve Gotcher.
1:17.3	The show first broadcasts and streams on the Mike 92.1.
1:22.9	It's also known as Progressive Talk here in Madison, Saturdays at 11 a.m. Central and rebroadcast at midnight.
1:31.6	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:35.8	and we're a national association of those of us who are like-minded non-believers.
1:41.0	And we also work very assiduously to keep government out of religion. So FFRF has
1:46.8	two purposes. And we like to educate. This is part of our radio show. This week is the
1:54.4	birthday of the French composer George Bisse. He was born October the 25th, 1838. Bézé was a non-believer. Religion is a means of
2:06.8	exploitation employed by the strong against the weak, Bézai said. Soon it will fall. In good time,
2:16.2	we shall only have to deal with reason. We will be hearing some of
2:21.2	Bazet's opera Carmen during the breaks in today's show. In the second half of the show, we're
2:26.5	going to talk with a conservative minister from Tennessee who has seen the light.
2:31.8	Hallelujah. And he's now an atheist.
2:39.2	And while he was still in the pulpit as a secret non-believer, Carter Warden was interviewed by Dan Harris on ABC Nightly News about his struggle to find a way out.
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