Guest: Phil Zuckerman talks about his new book

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🗓️ 14 November 2011

⏱️ 41 minutes

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It's only November, but already the war on atheists and state/church separation has begun! Tune in for news updates, then hear Prof. Phil Zuckerman of Claremount talk about his new book, "Faith No More," the first major sociological study in book form about why believers lose their faith!

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:19.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:39.3	It's easy if you try. No hell below us Above us Above us only sky
0:41.3	Imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today
0:53.3	Well, it's dreary Living for today.
0:58.7	Well, it's dreary November.
1:05.0	It's way too soon for the religious rights use of Christmas as a war on freethinkers and a war on the separation of state and church, but it's starting already.
1:10.1	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:11.3	We'll talk about that and more on today's Free Thought Radio.
1:15.4	Coming up, slightly irreverent views, news, music, and interviews.
1:19.8	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves.
1:23.8	Yes, this week we had our first snowfall of the season here in mid-November.
1:30.4	But preceding that, I mean, I think it was right after Halloween that we saw all these Christmas
1:34.8	things going up in the stores. And my goodness is getting earlier and earlier, or I guess we
1:40.5	should say holiday decorations going up in the stores. And as you pointed out, it's not a war on Christmas is happening.
1:47.0	It's a war by the religious right on our secular nation,
1:51.2	our secular constitution with state and church separation.
1:55.3	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin,
1:59.8	and we're streaming from this station,
2:02.6	and broadcasting also in Atlanta, Grand Rapids, Monterey, New York City, and podcasting everywhere.
2:08.3	And this is the weekend of November the 12th, 2011.
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