Guest: David Mills
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2008
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Author: Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism
Freethought Radio will discuss "atheist in a foxhole" Jeremy Hall's federal lawsuit against the military, charging that it is promoting Christianity and has discriminated against his rights as a nonbeliever, as covered by CNN this week with Anderson Cooper. Journalist and science writer David Mills, the author of the popular book, "Atheist Universe," will be interviewed about what's wrong with fundamentalism. The show will also highlight contributions by the many famous freethinkers born in July.
Hosts: Dan Barker & Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation
Produced by the Freedom From Religon Foundation
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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 |
| 0:35.6 | Above us |
| 0:39.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:42.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today. |
| 0:58.7 | Nothing wrong with praying here. |
| 1:01.4 | There are no atheists and foxholes. |
| 1:04.8 | Well, yes, there are two atheists and foxholes, |
| 1:07.0 | and that's what Free Thought Radio is here to say. |
| 1:10.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and hello to all you atheists and foxholes. I hope there aren't too many of you in foxholes. |
| 1:13.7 | Unabashed atheists, you in different agnostics and hellbound skeptics. Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America. |
| 1:22.5 | Or it would be atheists in Humvees these days, wouldn't it? I'm Dan Barker, your co-host of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:28.7 | The show is produced by the National Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:33.2 | the national organization, the largest organization of atheists and agnostics in America, |
| 1:38.3 | working hard to keep state and church separate and to educate the public about the views of us, |
| 1:43.7 | none of the above, those of us who have no religion. |
| 1:46.9 | And working for separation of church and state. |
| 1:49.6 | Our special guest later in the show will be David Mills, who's the author of Atheist Universe, the thinking person's answer to Christian fundamentalism. |
| 1:59.0 | And he makes the case against intelligent design among many other of those funny ideas by funny mentalists. |
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