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Freethought Radio

Guest: Prof. Bart D. Ehrman Agnostic Bible Scholar

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6578 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Bart D. Ehrman, the agnostic bestselling author of several books, most recently Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don't Know About them), will be a guest. The program will also showcase nonbelieving classical composers, and take a look at state/church conflicts in Afghanistan.

Transcript

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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.

0:26.2

It's easy if you try.

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No hell below us.

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Above us only sky imagine all the people living for today Yeah

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Am I the middle of country

1:01.0

Out of an hour

1:05.0

At an hour

1:06.0

With rosembedaught With neglad Hello, all you Godless and Fidel's.

1:17.6

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and that piece by Brahms, of course, is his famous lullaby.

1:22.6

It's a little teaser for today's show, which we promise won't put you to sleep.

1:33.2

And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. How many devout believers realize that they are singing their children to sleep with a melody composed by an ardent non-theist?

1:41.4

We'll be talking about that and more on Free Thought Radio, your weekly antidote to the

1:45.8

religious right.

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Free Thought Radio is broadcasting over Air America Radio and streaming overairamara.com.

1:52.7

And we want to thank you for listening, however you are listening, and wherever you are listening.

1:58.4

Free Thought Radio is a production of the National Freedom from Religion Foundation

2:03.2

based in Madison, Wisconsin, and the country's largest organization of atheists and agnostics,

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working to keep state and church separate and to educate the public about the views of the fastest

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growing segment of the American religious landscape, the non-religious,

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atheists and agnostic.

2:20.8

Our upcoming guest today is an agnostic, and that's Bart Erman.

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