Guest: Prof. Ron Aronson, author, Living Without God

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 4 July 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Tune in for timely commentary on secularism and patriotism, Gov. Mark Sanford's religious pronouncements, mews coverage of FFRF's first billboard in Alabama, and of FFRF's complaint about unlawful prayer by the city council in Lodi, Calif. The guest, a distinguished professor of history at Wayne State, will talk about the secular movement, Obama's faith-based partnership and living well without God.

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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
0:22.4	It's easy if you try
0:28.7	No hell below us
0:35.5	Above us only sky
0:41.8	imagine
0:45.6	all the people
0:48.0	living for today. Yeah.
1:02.0	Well, happy Independence Day weekend to all you independent thinkers.
1:09.8	Of course, that's our nod to July 4th.
1:11.2	That reminds me more of Monte Python than July 4th, though.
1:14.1	I'm Annie Larry Gaylor.
1:15.2	Welcome to Free Thought Radio.
1:16.9	And that's the Liberty Bell, John Phillipsuza's Liberty Bell.
1:20.6	And we're all celebrating something.
1:22.1	I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:24.7	We're all celebrating independence from something, from the tyranny
1:28.5	of lordship and kingship. In my case, after many years of being raised in a strong fundamentalist
1:35.6	evangelical family as a strong believing Christian and minister, I 26 years ago became
1:42.1	independent from religion. I was a missionary and an ordained minister. It didn't happen overnight. It took a while. I tell the story in my book, losing faith in faith and in godless, about how it was like a revolutionary war. We didn't just break away from England in this country. It took a while to fight. And in my case, I gradually
2:01.0	fought and shifted across that spectrum. I'd like to say I threw out all the bathwater
2:06.2	and I found out, hey, there's no baby there. So congratulations to all of you who are listening,
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