Guest: Scary Guest! IRS Auditor Talks about Parish Exemptions & Other Tales for Halloween

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🗓️ 31 October 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Scary theocratic developments in the news, will be followed by an interview with one of America's scariest figures: an IRS tax auditor! Retired IRS auditor Robert Baty will expose the many tax privileges and benefits accruing "ministers of the gospel" in the IRS tax code, which are being challenged in a new federal lawsuit by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. An "ode" to John Keats, born on Halloween, and October's other famous freethinkers, will be featured.

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0:00.0	This is free thought radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker, and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.8	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 all the people
0:48.1	living for today.
0:58.0	Imagine there's no country. Happy Halloween, all you heathens and heretics. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. And speaking of
1:17.6	Halloween, my co-host informs me that it's a Celt tradition that the Celts always marked the
1:24.2	sad end of summer with festivities on October 31st.
1:28.8	And the Catholic Church enveloped the fall ritual as they did most pagan and seasonal customs.
1:34.1	And so I think it's great to mark the changing seasons with a little fun today.
1:39.1	And to mark the end of the beautiful fall colors as we are doing here in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:43.9	Can you play that again, Dan?
1:45.3	That little scary, my piano playing that I've made.
1:48.8	Scary.
1:50.2	We call this ominous piano.
1:53.7	I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:58.0	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting over many Air America stations and streaming from
2:03.2	airamerica.com on weekends. And we hope someday you will join us. Free Thought Radio is produced
2:10.0	by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which is a national organization of free thinkers.
2:16.6	And that word free thinker is one word, not free space
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