Guest: Bob Tiernan. Keep Religion OUT of Politics.

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 30 August 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Freethought Radio interviews Denver attorney Robert R. Tiernan about why religion should stay out of politics. Bob, who has taken many lawsuits on behalf of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and is a lifelong Democrat, got a lot of media attention for protesting the interfaith worship service at the Democratic National Convention. FFRF co-president Dan Barker's new book, Godless, is announced, with the Foreword by Richard Dawkins read by Brian Turany.

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0:00.0	This is free thought radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.8	Imagine there's no heaven
0:22.3	It's easy if you try
0:28.9	No hell below us
0:35.6	Above us
0:39.3	Above us only sky
0:42.3	Imagine all the people
0:48.3	living for today Hello, sisters and brothers in unbelief.
0:59.7	If you have those Freethinker Blues these days with all this religion and politics, you've come to the right place.
1:06.2	Free Thought Radio is your antidote to the religious right.
1:09.3	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:12.4	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.
1:18.0	And we do hope someday you will join us. We hope today you will join us. The Us is the national
1:24.7	organization called the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which produces
1:28.1	Free Thought Radio.
1:29.8	And we are on the air because of freethinkers like you, who are part of the fastest growing
1:35.6	segment of the American population, of non-believers, atheists, agnostic, skeptic, secular
1:40.3	humanists, and the unchurched.
1:42.5	We work to keep state and church separate and to educate the public about the views of those of us who pick none of the above.
1:49.9	And maybe we can meet you at our next convention in October.
1:53.0	October, Annie Laurie, what are the details of our convention?
1:56.1	The 31st annual national convention of the Freedom from Religion Foundation is meeting the weekend of October 10th and 11th and 12th in Chicago. It's the Hyatt Regency Chicago and downtown Chicago. Lots to do. And we have a lot of interesting speakers. A lot of them have been interviewed before on Free Thought Radio, including the atheist and Fox Hall awardee, Jeremy Hall, who is threatened
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