Guests: Candace R. Gorham and Juan Mendez
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2013
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Freethought Radio will play an excerpt of Arizona State Rep. Juan Mendez' Emperor Has No Clothes Award acceptance speech at the recent national FFRF convention. Mendez is the only "out" atheist in elected state government and talks about why he gave a freethought invocation before the Arizona State Legislature last spring and what happened when he did.
Candace R. Gorham, author of the new book, "The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion — and Others Should Too." Candace was an ordained evangelist who holds a master's degree from Wake Forest University, is a credentialed counselor and founder of www.EbonyExodus.org.
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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. |
| 0:25.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us. |
| 0:39.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all of you who are good without God. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and I am co-host of Free Thought Radio, but today, my co-host, |
| 1:06.3 | Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves, is not able to be part of this broadcast. |
| 1:12.5 | He's bit under the weather. |
| 1:13.9 | I missed a recent show now. |
| 1:15.4 | It's Dan's turn. |
| 1:17.4 | But I'm flying solo for the first time, but God is not my co-pilot, and I'm glad to have |
| 1:23.3 | for company, Dave McCann, our engineer. |
| 1:26.6 | And this is the September, or the October 26th, 2013 broadcast of Free Thought Radio. |
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| 2:03.3 | And everywhere I go, and that's been a lot of places lately, people come up to me and |
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