Guest: Valerie Tarico
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2014
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In The News: public vouchers to religious schools, and revelations of hundreds of priests defrocked for raping children. We hear some of the music of nonbelieving composer Jerome Kern, then we talk with Valerie Tarico about her book Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light.
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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 |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:55.0 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and I want to wish a happy birthday to the man who named the United States of America, without whom our country probably would not exist. |
| 1:05.8 | The revolutionary and deist Thomas Payne, a person who used to be lauded in the 19th century by Freethinkers every December, |
| 1:16.1 | or every January 29th, his birth date would be celebrated. |
| 1:20.1 | They would get together and have dinner parties, free thinkers, and celebrate Thomas Payne, |
| 1:25.1 | who wrote the classic repudiation of the Bible and revealed religion, |
| 1:31.0 | The Age of Reason. |
| 1:32.7 | I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:34.0 | So are we in the age of reason yet? |
| 1:36.7 | Not really. |
| 1:37.9 | No, well, when you hear some of the news we have to report today, you might wonder. |
| 1:41.4 | I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves, |
| 1:46.4 | and today is January the 25th, 2014. We are broadcasting from Madison, Wisconsin, from the |
| 1:53.6 | Mike 92.1. We produce the show here at the station and broadcast originally from this station 11 o'clock Saturday mornings. |
| 2:03.6 | We also stream from WXXM here and we podcast around the world and then we also broadcast later |
| 2:10.1 | in the weekend and later in the week in other states such as California, New York, in Michigan, |
| 2:16.4 | Missouri, and you might be listening to us in central Texas. |
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