Guest: Jerry Dewitt
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2013
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Independence From Religion!
On this July 4 weekend, we celebrate our nation's independence from religion. Then we talk with a former pentecostal preacher of 25 years from Louisiana, Jerry Dewitt, whose new book is out: Hope After Faith: An Ex-Pastor's Journey From Belief to Atheism.
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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. |
| 1:14.6 | Welcome to our show. |
| 1:22.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and hello, those of you who have declared your independence from religion and to everybody who's listening. |
| 1:28.3 | And I'm Dan Barker, your independent, friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:31.0 | This is Independence Day weekend. |
| 1:36.3 | This is the July 6th, 2013 broadcast of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:41.0 | We produce and broadcast from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. We stream from here, and we broadcast in New York, Michigan, California, |
| 1:46.0 | Missouri, other parts of the country, and podcast throughout the independent universe. |
| 1:51.6 | Free Thought Radio is FFRF's weekly production. The Freedom from Religion Foundation is the nation's |
| 1:58.1 | largest association of freethinkers, atheists and agnostics, and we work to keep |
| 2:02.4 | religion out of government, and we're going to tell you about one of our new lawsuits. |
| 2:05.7 | And we're also going to tell you today how you can help save a preacher. |
| 2:11.0 | We're going to talk with a Pentecostal minister who's now a non-believer, who has found independence from religion. |
| 2:19.6 | We had Jerry DeWitt on the show back in 2011, just a few weeks after he publicly came out as an atheist and left the Pentecostal ministry. |
| 2:29.8 | And now he has a new book. It's hot off the press. It was just released. |
| 2:33.8 | Hope After Faith, |
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