Guest: John W. Loftus
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2008
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
John W. Loftus, a seminary-trained minister in the Restoration Movement of Churches, will talk about why, after earning a Master of Divinity degree and other theological degrees, he realized he could no longer believe in biblical claims. The hosts will also discuss the Freedom From Religion Foundation's newest lawsuit, filed this week in state court in Denver, suing Colorado Gov. Jim Ritter over his National Day of Prayer proclamations.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio on Air America. |
| 0:13.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:18.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:30.6 | Above the sun this sky |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:41.3 | living for today |
| 0:47.3 | Hello, secular's and First Amendment fundamentalists. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and welcome to Free Thought |
| 0:55.3 | Radio, your weekly antidote to the religious right. And I'm Dan Barker, your co-host, your friendly |
| 1:01.2 | neighborhood atheist, atheist of the airwaves. And that's Connie Talbot, right, who's singing |
| 1:07.2 | a little British girl. Six or seven-year-old girl singing Imagine. |
| 1:14.4 | Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America. |
| 1:17.8 | And it's produced by the National Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:21.2 | We are the country's largest organization of atheists and agnostics, |
| 1:29.3 | educating the public about the radical, heathistic, infidel views of those of us who dissent from religion. |
| 1:32.4 | We call ourselves atheists, agnostic, secular humanists, whatever. |
| 1:34.5 | We all disbelieve in the same God. |
| 1:39.9 | And as with many religious people, we work hard to keep state and church separate, |
| 1:42.3 | which is good for the state and good for religion. |
| 1:48.8 | My co-host, Dan, as you may be aware, used to not only be an evangelical believer, but he was a preacher. |
| 1:50.6 | And your new book, Dan, is called Godless, how an evangelical preacher became one of America's |
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