Guest: Sociologist and nonbeliever Phil Zuckerman

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🗓️ 18 October 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Topic: Society Without God

Prof. Phil Zuckerman talks about his hot-off-the-press book, Society Without God, which refutes the myth that religion is necessary for happy citizens and moral societies. Zuckerman, an FFRF member, cites statistical evidence showing the "happiness index" tends to be much higher in godless societies, and offers Scandinavia as a prime example. The broadcast also looks at the contributions of famous freethinkers born in October.

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0:00.0	This is free thought radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.8	Imagine there's no heaven
0:22.3	It's easy if you try
0:35.6	No hell below us Above us
0:39.6	Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today I'm happy fall, all you fallen away Americans and skeptics.
1:01.0	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:02.2	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:05.3	Or as a current news release said,
1:07.2	The Atheist of the Airwaves.
1:09.9	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.
1:13.8	And this show is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:17.1	the nation's largest organization of atheists and agnostics,
1:20.5	working to educate the public about the views of those of us who dissent from religion.
1:26.5	Skeptics, secular,
1:28.0	born-again non-believers.
1:30.8	Atheists.
1:31.4	Atheists and agnostics.
1:32.6	We call ourselves Freethinkers.
1:33.9	And we also work to keep state and church separate.
1:37.4	I guess later in the show will be a free thinker and author, Phil Zuckerman,
1:41.5	who has just written a book called Society Without God,
1:45.6	just published this month.
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