Guest: African Atheist Activst Leo Igwe
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2012
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Hasa Diga Eeebowai! After reporting news on our own continent--including an FFRF victory in Virginia stopping prayers at a county board meeting, a JFK billboard in Lubbock, press coverage of our full-page ad in the New York Times, and a clip of FFRF's "freethought poet laureate" Philip Appleman being interviewed by Bill Moyers--we talk with Leo Igwe, the leader of Humanists in Nigeria, about his heroic attempts to combat superstition, witchcraft, Christianity, and Islam in Africa with reason and skepticism--efforts which got him unjustly thrown in jail.
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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. |
| 0:25.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:56.4 | there isn't enough food to eat. |
| 0:59.0 | Hasadiga Ivoi. |
| 1:01.1 | People are starving in their street. |
| 1:03.6 | Hasadiga evil wife. |
| 1:09.8 | Ha'a'iara. |
| 1:15.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Galar. Hasadiga Ibuoy. |
| 1:16.6 | Hasadiga Ibuoy. |
| 1:17.6 | Ha'sadiga Iboi. |
| 1:18.6 | We haven't played that song for a while from the musical, the Book of Mormon. |
| 1:22.6 | And no, Hasadiga Iboi does not mean, bless you God, what it actually means we can't say on the air. |
| 1:31.6 | I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves, and this is the weekend of July the 14th, 2012. |
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