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Freethought Radio

Guests: Dan Barker and Matt (a Phoenix activist)

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dan Barker will change hats from interviewer to interviewee to talk about his new book, "Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists" (Sept. 2008, Ulysses Press). And Freethought Radio will be joined by a member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Phoenix who helped FFRF place five billboards saying "Imagine No Religion" to talk about both the censorship encountered--and the fun!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker, and Annie Laurie Gaylor.

0:19.8

Imagine there's no heaven

0:22.3

It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky

0:41.3

imagine all the people

0:47.3

living for today Imagine no religion.

0:56.0

Those words will blanket billboards across Central Phoenix this week.

0:59.4

They're sponsored by an organization trying to promote the separation of church and state.

1:04.4

Hey there, all you godless, infidels, and happy heathens.

1:07.7

I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.

1:08.9

And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.

1:11.3

Or as I'm being called in some quarters, the atheist of the airwaves.

1:16.5

Freethought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.

1:20.5

Free Thought Radio is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

1:24.3

You just heard about our billboards going up around the country.

1:27.4

We hope today you will join us. You can find us online at fFRF.org. We are the nation's largest

1:34.5

organization of non-believers, non-theists. You call yourself an atheist or an agnostic or a non-theist

1:40.9

or a secularist or whatever. What we all say is that we all disbelieve in the same God.

1:47.1

And we work for the separation of church and state.

1:49.6

And here's a reminder that we have the 31st annual National Convention

1:54.3

of the Freedom from Religion Foundation coming up soon in October,

1:58.6

the weekend of October 10th through 12th at the High at Chicago Regency,

2:03.1

and you can find out more about all the speakers. They include Eleanor Clift of Newsweek.

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