Guests: Edwin Hensley: Kentucky's Godly Homeland Security Violation & Victor Stenger, author of The New Atheists
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2009
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Freethought Radio will interview 2 timely guests: Foundation member Ed Hensley, who will talk about why he is 1 of 9 plaintiffs challenging an egregious Kentucky law requiring "dependence on God" by the state Department of Homeland Security, and bestselling atheist author and scientist Victor Stenger. Stenger will talk about his hot-off-the-press book, The New Atheists: Standing Up for Science & Reason. The show will include brief commentary on the prosecution of a Sudanese feminist for wearing slacks.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:19.6 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:26.1 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us. |
| 0:42.0 | Above us only sky imagine all the people |
| 0:48.1 | living for today. |
| 1:03.7 | Hello, happy heathens, and you can be happy knowing there is no-how, and you're not living in a fool's paradise. |
| 1:06.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is Freethought Radio. |
| 1:10.6 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:16.6 | Free Thought Radio is the only nationally syndicated broadcast devoted to the views of the undevoted, |
| 1:23.0 | the unmasked masses, the 15 to 20 percent of the U.S. population that is not religious. |
| 1:28.5 | Prethought Radio is broadcasting over many Air America stations and streaming from air America.com. |
| 1:34.3 | And this show, Freethought Radio, is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:46.1 | We are more than 30 years, national organization of Freethinkers, which is a nice umbrella term to encompass atheists, which most of our members call themselves, but as well, agnostics. We work to educate the public about those of us, good Americans who are free from religion, |
| 1:53.0 | and to guarantee that religion and government in our country remain forever separate. |
| 1:59.9 | My dad always used to describe himself by saying, I don't believe in the fool killer. |
| 2:04.1 | The fool killer, right. |
| 2:05.5 | Coming up, an interview with bestselling atheist author Victor Stinger. |
| 2:08.8 | And in a minute, we'll have on the phone, Ed Hensley, he's a foundation member living in Kentucky, |
| 2:15.1 | who's challenging an unconstitutional Kentucky law passed by the Kentucky |
| 2:19.7 | Office of Homeland Security, citing dependence on Almighty God. |
| 2:25.8 | Oh, I just realized I said it wrong. |
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