Guest: Janet Heimlich, author of Breaking Their Will

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2011

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Find out why Stephen Hawking and FFRF think the afterlife is a fairy tale. We talk with a brave high school student who wants to stop graduation prayers. Our guest is Janet Heimlich, author of Breaking Their Will, which looks at religious abuse and mistreatment of children.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:14.7	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:19.1	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:21.6	It's easy if you try.
0:27.6	No hell below us, above us only sky
0:41.3	imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today
0:57.0	there's no afterlife, but there sure is a lot to do making this world heavenly, don't you think?
1:02.0	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and welcome to Free Thought Radio.
1:05.0	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves.
1:10.0	This is the weekend of May the 21st, 2011, and Prethot
1:15.7	Radio broadcasts and tapes. We're here in the studio with our producer and engineer, Brian Tarani,
1:21.1	in the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. The show also streams from this station, and it airs in Atlanta, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Monterey, New York City, and podcasts all over the universe.
1:35.0	Petitad Radio is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which is a membership organization made up of atheists and agnosts and skeptics and whatever you like to call
1:45.4	yourself. We all disbelieve in the same God. Nonbelievers? We have about 16,500 members in every
1:51.8	state, I think every province in North America. And we work as a watchdog to keep religion out
1:58.4	of government. On today's show, we have two guests.
2:02.2	We'll be talking with an 18-year-old secular student activist from South Carolina
2:07.8	about how he has stopped graduation prayers with a little help from the Freedom
2:15.0	from Religion Foundation.
2:16.5	And then we'll talk with journalist Janet Heimlich, who has worked for NPR,
2:21.3	whose new book, Breaking Their Will, Shetting Light on Religious Child Maltreatment, debutsuies early in June.
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