God Is Not Great
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Response to FFRF's national Ron Reagan ad has been great! We talk about born-again Alabama Governor Robert Bentley's scandalous resignation, FFRF's Times Square billboard, incredible contributions "in the name of Pence" to FFRF's legal efforts, and Nonbelief Relief's donation to the Somalia famine. After hearing Shelley Segal's "Apocalyptic Love Song" homage to Hitchens, we listen to part of our 2007 interview of Christopher Hitchens on Freethought Radio, the year his book God Is Not Great was released.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.5 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:23.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.7 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:58.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and tomorrow is Good Friday, kind of a misnomer. |
| 1:03.1 | Could there be a more dismal religious holy day than Good Friday? |
| 1:11.2 | And I'm proud that the Freedom from Religion Foundation overturned Good Friday as a state holiday many years ago here in the state of Wisconsin. |
| 1:18.7 | But let's make it a truly good Friday by doing good in this world and forgetting about some afterlife we know nothing about in some other world. Amen. If I can still say that as an atheist. |
| 1:25.2 | I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist, |
| 1:27.7 | and I say amen. Robert Ingersoll said, let's take it one world at a time and truly do good |
| 1:34.7 | in this one world that matters. Today, the day before, this is Good Friday Eve, I guess. |
| 1:40.7 | This is April the 13th, 2017. Free Thought Radio is produced and engineered by Buzz Kemper |
| 1:49.0 | in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:01.8 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 2:07.2 | And we are both broadcasting in about seven cities around the country and podcasting, of course. |
| 2:16.6 | And FFFRF has two purposes to keep religion out of government |
| 2:20.7 | to get religion and dogma doctrine off our backs and keep our government secular, as is required |
| 2:27.6 | under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the First Constitution in the world World not to claim a pipeline to a divinity. |
| 2:38.0 | There's another Amen. The founders of our nation did not pretend they knew what a deity wanted them to do, |
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