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Guest: Daniel Everett, How Life in the Amazon Made Him an Atheist!

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Co-host Dan Barker will talk about recently experiencing the bizarre creationism museum in Kentucky. Brad Pitt's nonreligion and new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer's request for "divine guidance" will get some play. Interviewed will be linguist and Daniel Everett, author of Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (2008). In an amazing adventure, Everett--a missionary to the Pirahas dedicated to learning their language in order to proselytize them--left the Amazon free of religion.

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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.

0:26.1

It's easy if you try.

0:31.6

No hell below us.

0:41.3

Above us only sky imagine

0:45.3

all the people

0:47.3

living

0:51.3

for today.

1:02.5

I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization, and taxation on marijuana platform.

1:04.0

That was Brad Pitt, one of our secular celebrity heroes, by the way, in an interview on

1:09.2

August 13th on the Today Show, once again affirming

1:12.7

his lack of religious belief, joking he could never run for office because it would be on the

1:17.9

pro-gay, no-religion platform. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is Free Thought Radio. And I'm Dan Barker,

1:24.1

your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves. Free Thought Radio is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,

1:30.4

which is the nation's largest organization of non-believers, free thinkers,

1:35.4

people who are atheists, who are agnostics, who choose none of the above,

1:39.5

the religious skeptics, those of us who are part of the fastest growing segment of the religious identification

1:46.1

in this country, those who are called nuns.

1:49.8

We have a fascinating interview coming up on the second half of today's show. It's a man

1:54.1

who went into the far reaches of the Amazon in order to convert heathens into Christians

1:59.4

and ended up being deconverted himself.

2:02.2

Our guest will be Daniel Everett.

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