Guest: Sci Fi Author Ben Bova

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The interview will feature distinguished and very charming science fiction and nonfiction author, the much-honored Ben Bova, an unbeliever. The hosts talk about FFRF's exciting new lawsuit filed this week, challenging Congressional mandates to engrave "In God We Trust" and the religious Pledge of Allegiance at the new Capitol Visitor's Center (through which everyone visiting the Capitol or their members of Congress must pass). They also talk about the Christian fundamentalist prayer delivered on behalf of the United States at the D-Day commemoration last month in France, and complaints made to Secretary of Defense Gates and President Obama.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:20.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:22.6	It's easy if you try.
0:28.6	No hell below us Above us
0:39.3	Above us only sky
0:42.3	Imagine all the people
0:48.3	living for today.
0:55.0	I think all of us believe deeply in this country, I think almost everybody does believe in God.
1:03.7	That was Barbara Walters talking on her TV show, The View, May 20th.
1:07.9	Well, we have news for you, Barbara.
1:10.5	The fastest growing segment of the U.S.
1:12.8	population in regards to religion is those of us who do not believe in a God. And I'm one of them,
1:18.5	Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is Free Thought Radio, the only nationally syndicated radio show
1:23.9	devoted to the views of atheists and agnostics and other free thinkers and to debunking
1:29.1	the myth that almost everybody believes in a God. Barbara Walter said almost everybody. That means
1:34.4	she acknowledges that there's a few, a couple little of us huddled in the corner, quietly not
1:39.6	believing in God. Actually, 15 or 20 percent of us who are non-religious. I'm Dan Barker. I'm here with Annie Laurie
1:46.1	Galer, and I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist. This show, Free Thought Radio, is broadcasting
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1:58.4	Freedom from Religion Foundation.
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2:07.8	And we have a lot of news to comment on this week.
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