GUEST: DANIEL C. DENNETT TOPIC: RELIGON SHOULDN'T BE PROTECTED CLASS

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2010

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This weekend's show will comment on the Rev. Pat Robertson's remarks on Haiti and look other imprecatory prayer. The special guest: Philosophy's best and "Brightest": Daniel C. Dennett of Tuft University, author of the bestseller about religion, "Breaking the Spell."

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0:00.0	This is free thought radio on Air America with your host, 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
0:35.4	Above us
0:39.3	Above us only sky
0:42.3	Imagine all the people
0:48.3	living for today Greetings, oh, godless ones, and to the many listeners who place your faith in humanity instead of the supernatural.
1:06.2	I'm Annie Laurie Giller, and welcome to Freethought Radio.
1:08.4	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves.
1:12.8	Free Thought Radio broadcasts over many Air America stations and we're streaming from airamerica.com.
1:18.8	And the show is produced by the National Freedom from Religion Foundation, which works to keep
1:23.2	state and church separate and to educate the public about the views of non-theists. And thanks for
1:28.7	sending in those jokes. Here was a new one that came in this week. A Christian man was late for a job
1:34.5	interview and he was praying, oh, dear God, please help me find a parking space right near the front door.
1:38.9	I really, really need this job. Dear God, please, I will give up whiskey and I'll give up women and I'll give up
1:44.9	gambling if you'll just help me find a parking place. Well, this car backed out of a parking place
1:49.4	right by the front door and the guy said, never mind, I found one myself. And that does lead us to
1:55.8	the topic for the first half of today's show, which is going to be prayer. We'll be talking with
2:00.6	Tufts University philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Breaking the Spell.
2:07.0	We'll be talking on the second half of today's show.
2:09.5	He hasn't been on Free Thought Radio for a year or two, so we'll catch up with him, talk about the column he had this week about religion in the Washington Post. And that's going to be a lot of fun
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