GUEST: CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2010
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Journalist Christopher Hitchens, author of "God Is Not Great" and an expose on Mother Teresa, "The Missionary Position," gives a sneak preview of his April Vanity Fair article about the Ten Commandments, and talks about the controversy over the Mother Teresa stamp, among other topical issues. The hosts also parse Pres. Obama's speech before the National Prayer Breakfast.
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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. |
| 0:13.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:18.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people Hello, Hello, Hello, friends, Hello, friends, neighbors and infidels. |
| 0:53.5 | This is Annie Laurie Gaylor for Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:55.6 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:00.9 | This is the weekend of February 13th and 14th, 2010, and happy Valentine's Day. |
| 1:08.4 | And Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming from the Progressive Talk, |
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| 1:23.6 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, FFRF, |
| 1:30.7 | the country's largest organizations of atheists and agnostic. |
| 1:35.9 | Is that like the internets or something? |
| 1:37.8 | Yeah, largest organizations of atheist and agnostic. |
| 1:41.7 | And we and other kinds of non-believers, we don't care what people call themselves. Our standing joke is that whatever we call ourselves, we all disbelieve in the same God. We work to make a difference, actually. We don't just want to sit around and hold hands and say, no, there's no God, there's no God, there's no God, as if that made any difference. But we work to do something very important. I have never seen anything like that. No, of course not. In 30 years, FFRA. But in church people hold hands and say, there is a God, there is a God, there is God, there is God. It tells you the difference. It tells you that they think they're insecure about their beliefs, or why would they have to get together weekly to tell each other there is a God? So what we do weekly and |
| 2:18.5 | monthly and yearly is we work to honor the Constitution by taking legal action to keep religion |
| 2:25.6 | and government separate and to educate the public about the views of those of us who are here. |
| 2:31.1 | We are here, you know, like we're here, we're queer, but some of us, |
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