Guest: Prof. Hector Avalos

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🗓️ 2 June 2010

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Co-hosts Dan and Annie Laurie discuss developments in Parson's exemption lawsuit filed against Timothy Geithner. Prof. Hector Avalos shares why he thinks Yahweh is a moral monster.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music and Interviews.
0:12.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:17.0	It's easy if you try
0:22.6	No hell below us
0:29.6	Above us only sky
0:35.6	Imagine all the people Above us only sky.
0:54.7	It's Memorial Day weekend, and I hope you're enjoying a little break.
0:57.2	I'm Annie Laurie Geller. Welcome to Free Thought Radio.
1:00.0	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:03.0	It was fun when I visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a few weeks ago to hear John Lennon's Imagine being played at that place.
1:07.3	This is the weekend of May the 29th, 2010.
1:11.8	And by the way, it is our 23rd anniversary this weekend, May the 30th.
1:17.5	Annie Laurie and I were married 23 years ago on May 30th, 1987, at Freethothot Hall in Sock City, Wisconsin.
1:28.3	And that is the only extant Free Thought Hall left in Wisconsin that's still being used for meetings.
1:34.3	The Unitarians have taken it over.
1:36.6	It was founded by the Freigamindy, the practical atheist who came over after the failed revolution.
1:42.4	German, Freigemindy, the Freak of 1848.
1:45.8	The free congregation.
1:47.3	And Freetat Hall in Sock City, now sometimes called Sock Prairie, was the center of town.
1:52.6	August Dirleth writes about it.
1:54.6	It's still very fondly regarded by the locals when you go over there.
1:58.0	The high school graduations used to be conducted at an atheist hall, can you imagine?
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