Guest: Brian Leiter
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2013
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
"Why Tolerate Religion?"
Guest Brian Leiter
What is the afterlife to a fish? To answer that question, we play the debut of Dan Barker's new song, "Heaven," setting to music the poetry of Rupert Brooke. State/church entanglements in Alabama and Texas are in the news. Then we talk with University of Chicago Law Professor Brian Leiter, author of the new book, Why Tolerate Religion?
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Guest Brian Leiter
What is the afterlife to a fish? To answer that question, we play the debut of Dan Barker's new song, "Heaven," setting to music the poetry of Rupert Brooke. State/church entanglements in Alabama and Texas are in the news. Then we talk with University of Chicago Law Professor Brian Leiter, author of the new book, Why Tolerate Religion?
- See more at: http://direct.ffrf.org/news/radio#sthash.lR5x7Uh9.dpuf"Why Tolerate Religion?"
Guest Brian Leiter
What is the afterlife to a fish? To answer that question, we play the debut of Dan Barker's new song, "Heaven," setting to music the poetry of Rupert Brooke. State/church entanglements in Alabama and Texas are in the news. Then we talk with University of Chicago Law Professor Brian Leiter, author of the new book, Why Tolerate Religion?
- See more at: http://direct.ffrf.org/news/radio#sthash.lR5x7Uh9.dpuf"Why Tolerate Religion?"
Guest Brian Leiter
What is the afterlife to a fish? To answer that question, we play the debut of Dan Barker's new song, "Heaven," setting to music the poetry of Rupert Brooke. State/church entanglements in Alabama and Texas are in the news. Then we talk with University of Chicago Law Professor Brian Leiter, author of the new book, Why Tolerate Religion?
- See more at: http://direct.ffrf.org/news/radio#sthash.lR5x7Uh9.dpuf"Why Tolerate Religion?"
Guest Brian Leiter
What is the afterlife to a fish? To answer that question, we play the debut of Dan Barker's new song, "Heaven," setting to music the poetry of Rupert Brooke. State/church entanglements in Alabama and Texas are in the news. Then we talk with University of Chicago Law Professor Brian Leiter, author of the new book, Why Tolerate Religion?
- See more at: http://direct.ffrf.org/news/radio#sthash.lR5x7Uh9.dpuf"Why Tolerate Religion?"
Guest Brian Leiter
What is the afterlife to a fish? To answer that question, we play the debut of Dan Barker's new song, "Heaven," setting to music the poetry of Rupert Brooke. State/church entanglements in Alabama and Texas are in the news. Then we talk with University of Chicago Law Professor Brian Leiter, author of the new book, Why Tolerate Religion?
- See more at: http://direct.ffrf.org/news/radio#sthash.lR5x7Uh9.dpuf"Why Tolerate Religion?"
Guest Brian Leiter
What is the afterlife to a fish? To answer that question, we play the debut of Dan Barker's new song, "Heaven," setting to music the poetry of Rupert Brooke. State/church entanglements in Alabama and Texas are in the news. Then we talk with University of Chicago Law Professor Brian Leiter, author of the new book, Why Tolerate Religion?
- See more at: http://direct.ffrf.org/news/radio#sthash.lR5x7Uh9.dpuf"Why Tolerate Religion?"
Guest Brian Leiter
What is the afterlife to a fish? To answer that question, we play the debut of Dan Barker's new song, "Heaven," setting to music the poetry of Rupert Brooke. State/church entanglements in Alabama and Texas are in the news. Then we talk with University of Chicago Law Professor Brian Leiter, author of the new book, Why Tolerate Religion?
- See more at: http://direct.ffrf.org/news/radio#sthash.lR5x7Uh9.dpufTranscript
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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 living for today. |
| 1:00.0 | Happy August to all our August listeners. |
| 1:01.3 | I like to say that once a year. |
| 1:02.9 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:07.1 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and this is Radio for the rest of us, |
| 1:13.8 | us infidels and heathens and non-believers and atheist agnosticists, secularists, |
| 1:19.5 | disestablishmentarians, and Dan, you suggested contra anti-disestablishmentarians, for a really long appellation. |
| 1:20.9 | Make up a new word there. And I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist, Dan Barker. |
| 1:25.9 | Today is August 3rd, 2013. |
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