Guest: Gregory Paul, Universal Healthcare Promotes Freethought
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2009
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Freethought Radio will discuss new billboards in Indianapolis, bus signs in San Francisco, and the furor Foundation complaints over government prayer is creating in Tehachapi, Calif. (a TV news clip will play on the controversy there). A teaser trailer for the new film, Creation, concentrating on Darwin's loss of faith and starring major actors, will play, with discussion about how the film so far has been rejected by film distributions in the United States, while it is being praised worldwide. The guest, Gregory S. Paul, a researcher, will talk about the correlation between lack of social safety nets (such as the timely topic of America's lack of health care for all) and religiosity. He will advance the notion that no "culture wars" were necessary in Europe in order for belief in religion to fade; "pie in the sky" is not necessary when needs are taken care of here on earth.
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| 0:00.0 | This is free thought radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:19.9 | Imagine there's no heaven |
| 0:22.4 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:28.7 | No hell below us |
| 0:35.6 | Above us only sky. I'm Annie Lerike. Living for today. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:06.1 | Is universal health coverage in America the way to finally liberate our country from the sway of religious dogma? |
| 1:07.6 | Stay tuned to find out. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:17.1 | Free Thought Radio is broadcasting over many Air America stations, streaming from AirAmerica.com weekends, |
| 1:21.6 | and is devoted to the views of America's undevotional population. |
| 1:28.0 | And by the way, that population of the country is the fastest growing segment by religious identification. |
| 1:34.2 | At least 15% of adult Americans identify themselves as non-religious. |
| 1:39.1 | And that percentage is even much higher in the teenage to the 20s bracket. |
| 1:43.0 | Free Thought Radio is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:47.7 | which I helped to co-found back in the States Me, 1976, when I was a college student. |
| 1:53.3 | We've grown from three initial members to 14,000 members nationwide in every state. |
| 1:56.2 | And we work to promote non-theism. |
| 1:58.8 | Our members are atheist, agnostic, skeptics, and so on. And we work to keep religion free, government free from religion as is required by our Constitution. |
| 2:05.7 | Coming up in today's show, we will interview a very interesting guy, Gregory S. Paul. |
| 2:11.2 | He's an independent researcher who has looked at the difference between largely non-religious European nations and the devoutly |
| 2:19.4 | religious United States, and he points the finger at income inequality. Our country, |
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