Guests: Activist Michael Shermer and Mike Smith

Freethought Radio

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Michael Shermer, one of America's leading skeptics, will be interviewed, along with Denver FFRF activist Mike Smith, about the "Imagine No Religion" billboard he helped get posted for two months this summer in Denver.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.9	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.1	It's easy if you try.
0:31.6	No hell below us.
1:00.7	Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today Hello are you godless infidels in Born Again Skeptics.
1:02.3	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:07.3	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.
1:09.6	Imagine no religion.
1:13.8	I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. A former minister,
1:19.5	former preacher after 19 years, I saw the light, now a co-president of the foundation with Annie Laurie. Those of you who listen to my show regularly know that I try to have at least one
1:26.8	funny joke on every show and not always successfully.
1:30.6	But if you know any good religion jokes or anti-religion jokes, email them to us and we'll try them out.
1:37.6	Here's one that might work or might not. You decide.
1:41.0	The minister was reading his sermon about the book of Genesis.
1:43.8	He was standing up in the pulpit, and he was reading away,
1:47.5	and Adam said to Eve, and then he was silent, and he was turning the page, and he was rustling,
1:54.0	excuse me, and Adam said to Eve, and then he kept turning the pages, turning, and, you know, he was pausing, and then, and Adam said to Eve, I seem to have lost a leaf.
2:09.7	Does that work?
2:10.6	Well, I don't know.
2:13.0	Well, if you want a better one.
2:14.8	I'm sure it happens all the time of the pulpit.
2:17.1	Send it in.
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