Guest: Joan Konner, ed., The Atheist Bible

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🗓️ 1 August 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Irreverent thoughts and thinkers will be featured this week. The August Freethinkers Almanac will highlight the contributions of famous unbelievers born in the month of August, many of whom are quoted in award-winning journalist Joan Konner's charming book, "The Atheist Bible: An Illustrious Collection of Irreverent Thoughts." Konner is dean emerita of the Columbia Gradutate school of Journalism and will also explain why she felt "inspired" to compile this collection of provocative, sage and humorous quotations.

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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.
0:26.1	It's easy if you try.
0:31.6	No hell below us.
0:42.3	Above us only sky imagine all the people
0:46.3	living for today Happy August, all you, August, Atheist and Agnostics and other free thinkers.
1:01.8	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is Free Thought Radio.
1:04.3	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:07.0	I don't know how august I am.
1:08.9	It makes me sound like I have white hair, but in any event, I've been called the friendly atheist of the airwaves.
1:15.5	This show, Free Thought Radio, is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Not freedom for, we're support freedom for religion, but we are the freedom from religion.
1:26.2	The nation's largest organizations of people who are,
1:29.1	in fact, free from religion, atheists, agnostic, skeptics, non-theists.
1:34.1	And we work also to keep the government free from religion, which is what is required by
1:38.6	the Constitution and its First Amendment.
1:40.8	Exactly.
1:41.6	And we're happy to be featuring on today's show Joan Conner, who is Dean Emerita of the Columbia
1:46.7	Graduate School of Journalism.
1:48.7	Joan Connor is editor of a book called The Atheist's Bible, an illustrious collection of
1:55.3	irreverent thoughts.
1:56.9	And irreverent thoughts are what we're all about and what we love to hear around here.
2:00.1	So stay tuned. We'll talk with Joan on the second half of our show today about some of her favorite irreverent thoughts are what we're all about and what we love to hear around here. So stay tuned.
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