Guest: Steven Uhl, author of "Out of God's Closet"

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2011

⏱️ 42 minutes

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How can the US motto be "In God We Trust" when so many Americans are Out of the Closet atheists? We'll talk with one of those out of the closet atheists: a former Roman Catholic priest, Steven Uhl, author of "Out of God's Closet." His motto is "Atheists work to make this life heavenly."

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:14.8	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:18.8	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:25.3	It's easy if you try.
0:31.1	No hell below us
0:41.0	above us only sky imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today
0:57.0	Hey, remember to thank The Cook this upcoming Thanksgiving.
1:00.5	I'm Annie Laurie Geller, and welcome to Free Thought Radio.
1:03.2	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, Atheist of the Airwaves.
1:07.7	This is the November 19th, 2011 broadcast of Freethought Radio, which we like to call
1:15.6	radio for the rest of us.
1:17.6	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting here from the Mike 92.1, Madison, Wisconsin, streaming from
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1:31.6	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:37.7	Of course, we believe in freedom of religion, but we are people who are free from religion
1:42.3	and who think our government as government should also be free from
1:46.6	religion. We know our government should be free from religion because it's in the Constitution.
1:51.1	Yeah, the religious freedom. The freedom. Well, as your mom always used to say and still says,
1:57.0	there can be no religious freedom without the freedom to dissent.
2:01.3	So our members are atheists and agnostic dissenters from the status quo.
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