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Freethought Radio

Guest: Shawn Francis Peters, author, When Prayer Fails

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Freethought Radio will play some coverage of FFRF's jolly new bus sign campaign in Seattle, play some coverage of its 32nd annual convention there and discuss how religious lobbies sabotaged the House health care reform bill over abortion. Shawn Francis Peters will talk about the Christian Science lobby's promotion of a "sham" repeal of faith exemption in the Wisconsin Legislature. The show will also tackle the federal lobbying by the Christian Science lobby to mandate coverage of prayer as "medicine" in the Senate health care reform proposal.

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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.

0:26.2

It's easy if you try.

0:32.3

No hell below us.

0:42.0

Above us only sky imagine all the people

0:48.1

living for today

0:54.4

I'm

0:56.1

Greetings

0:58.6

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor

1:00.6

and this is Free Thought Radio

1:02.0

broadcasting over many Air America stations

1:04.7

and streaming from airamara.com weekends.

1:07.9

And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. And we hope someday you will

1:13.6

join us. Above us, only sky. We hope you will join us. This show is produced. Free Thought

1:19.4

Radio is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation. It's a membership organization

1:24.5

of atheists and agnostics working to keep religion and government

1:29.5

separate and as the show does to educate the public about the views of those of us who are

1:36.4

non-religious, totally secular Americans.

1:38.7

Now, Dan, you told me you have a 95-year-old joke.

1:41.5

A joke about a 95-year-old. Thank you, listeners, for sending in those jokes.

1:46.1

Keep them coming.

1:47.2

This 95-year-old man went into the confessional booth, and he sat down and he said to the

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