Guest: Jeff Sharlett
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2008
⏱️ 36 minutes
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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. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us. |
| 1:04.5 | Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today Happy June to Free Thought Radio's faithful, faithless listeners, all you wonderful nonconformists and godless infidels. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:10.5 | Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America. |
| 1:15.1 | And I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist, Dan Barker, co-host of the show and co-president with Annie Laurie of the National Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:18.9 | We're a group of atheists and agnostics that's working to keep stayed in church separate. |
| 1:24.5 | And like we say, in every show that John Lennon said, we hope someday you |
| 1:28.9 | will join us. There was a preacher up there ranting and raging against the evils of America. |
| 1:35.9 | And you said, if I could get all the beer in the world, I would just take it down to the river |
| 1:39.5 | and throw it into the river. Alcohol. If I could take all the whiskey in the country, we would take it in a |
| 1:45.1 | wheelbarrow and dump it down into the river. If we could have all the wine in the world, |
| 1:50.0 | we could just, I would roll it down to the river and dump it into the river. So then the song |
| 1:55.5 | leader got up and said, let's all turn to song number 365. Shall we gather at the river? |
| 2:04.2 | We're going to talk about several issues today. |
| 2:06.8 | Our interview later in the show will be with journalist Jeff Charlotte, who's |
| 2:10.7 | author of the new book called The Family, the Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of |
| 2:16.7 | American Power. This is an expose on the secretive, |
| 2:20.4 | wealthy, elite ministry that puts on the annual national prayer breakfast that you've all heard of, |
| 2:25.1 | but is infiltrating all levels of government with its authoritarian Christian faith. You're going to be |
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