Guest: Robert Parham
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2012
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The battle over Christian banners in Texas high-school football games continues, with much national media attention. FFRF victory in Oregon plus the music of John Lennon and Ralph Vaughan Williams round out the first half of the show. Then we talk with Robert Parham, a Southern Baptist minister who "saw the light" and is now a nonbeliever and board member of The Clergy Project.
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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. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:42.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 1:00.4 | Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Geller, and hello, all you cheerleaders for a reason. |
| 1:02.9 | Let's cheer for the secular constitution. |
| 1:10.0 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves, and apostate apostle. I used to be a former preacher. |
| 1:13.0 | This is the October 6th, 2012 broadcast of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:17.0 | This show is produced at the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:21.4 | This show broadcasts and streams from this station, |
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| 1:35.3 | Columbia, Missouri, that's right. |
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