Guest: Brian Bolton
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2013
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This week we celebrate "Freethought Day," the anniversary of the October 12, 1692 end of the Salem Witch Trials, and the October 12, 1872 birthday of freethinking English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. After "FFRF in the News," we talk with professor Brian Bolton, who has endowed FFRF's graduate student essay contest, about the inefficacy of prayer and the myth that America is a "Christian nation."
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
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| 0:19.1 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:03.3 | and you heard that right, freedom from religion. |
| 1:06.4 | This is radio for the rest of us, and that means you, you godless infidel. |
| 1:11.9 | I'm Dan Barker, the friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. We're into our eighth year |
| 1:18.5 | of broadcasting free thought radio. I'm co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation |
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| 1:53.8 | Today is the October 12th, 2013 broadcast. |
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