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Guest: Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority Foundation on Assassination of George Tiller, M.D.

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week's broadcast will look at the assassination of Kansas physician George Tiller by a religious fanatic and domestic terrorist. The hosts will speak with Dr. Tiller's colleague, Eleanor Smeal, executive director of the Feminist Majority Foundation, which has played a vital role in organizing defense of abortion clinics.

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0:00.0

This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.

0:19.8

Imagine there's no heaven.

0:26.1

It's easy if you try.

0:32.6

No hell below us.

0:39.3

Above us only sky

0:42.3

Imagine all the people

0:48.3

living for the day.

0:59.0

It is a common heresy, and its graves are to be found all over the earth.

1:03.8

It is the heresy that says,

1:05.7

You can kill an idea by killing a man.

1:09.1

Good day.

1:10.0

This is Free Thought Radio.

1:11.3

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor,

1:12.5

and today's show is dedicated to the memory of Dr. George Tiller,

1:16.7

executed last Sunday by a religious fanatic.

1:19.8

And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.

1:24.0

Free Thought Radio is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,

1:28.4

America's largest organization of non-believers, atheists, agnostic, skeptics, none of the

1:33.7

aboves who work to educate the public about this segment, the fastest growing religious segment

1:40.3

of the country.

1:41.2

Non-religious segment, you mean?

1:42.8

Yeah, fast-growing religion is non-religion

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