Guest: Steven Pinker

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2011

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

FFRF's complaint removing a cross from a water tower in Tennessee is getting attention. And so is Steven Pinker's hot off the press new book released this week, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence is in Decline. We will talk with Steven Pinker about why he thinks humanism is triumphing.

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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.
0:41.3	Imagine all the people living for today. Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Giller and welcome to Free Thought Radio, channeling Catherine
1:01.2	Hepron.
1:01.8	I'm an atheist, and that's it.
1:04.0	And by the way, Catherine Hepburn's quote is up on a great big 14 by 48 foot billboard
1:09.4	right now in Hartford, Connecticut, which was her hometown.
1:13.7	That quote goes on to say, all I know is we should be kind to other people.
1:18.7	So you were actually channeling Catherine Hepburn?
1:21.0	That was a joke, Dan.
1:22.3	Okay.
1:23.4	I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves.
1:27.3	This is the October 8th, 2011 broadcast of Free Thought Radio. I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves.
1:31.3	This is the October 8th, 2011 broadcast of Freethought Radio.
1:37.1	The show is produced and broadcast from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:41.3	And we're welcoming a brand new engineer producer today, Dave McCann,
1:45.8	who so far is doing a great job replacing Brian Tarani.
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