Guests: Jennifer Hecht, author of Doubt & FFRF Staff Attorney Rebecca Kratz: Religion in Military & FFRF Activism over National

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Jennifer Hecht, author of Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson, will talk about her book tracing the impressive history of doubt. Rebecca Kratz, FFRF staff attorney, will join Dan and Annie Laurie for updates over FFRF legal complaints about transportation of bibles to Iraq and Afghanistan by the military, and local abuses over the National Day of Prayer. FFRF is suing the President over the National Day of Prayer, which resulted in a lot of attention to this annual abuse, and a moderation of the relationship between government and the National Day of Prayer Taskforce, associated with the Christian-right Focus on the Family.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker, and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:20.1	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:22.6	It's easy if you try.
0:28.6	No hell below us Above us
0:38.0	Above us only sky
0:42.3	Imagine all the people
0:48.3	Living for today
0:55.0	Hallelujah, there is no hell.
1:00.1	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and I'd like to welcome you to Free Thought Radio.
1:04.6	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:08.2	Hallelujah, there is no hell.
1:09.9	I guess that's something to be happy about.
1:11.8	I think so. Or Hosanna, there is no heaven, maybe. Wouldn't it be fun to turn on the TV on Sunday
1:17.2	morning and have someone preach? Hallelujah, there's no hell for a change? Or that if there's a heaven,
1:21.9	it's right here on earth. I'm Dan Barker, Free Thought Radio. This show is broadcasting overair America radio, streaming overairamerica.com.
1:31.5	Free Thought Radio is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and this is a group
1:35.6	that I helped co-found as a college student with my mother, Ann Nicole Gaylor, who was the
1:40.9	big founder of the group, so happy Mother's Day, Mom. The foundation went from a
1:46.5	dining room organization with just three members to one that has nearly 14,000 nationwide today,
1:52.4	making FFRF the largest free thought association in the entire North America. And we've been
1:58.2	working very diligently to defend the constitutional principle of freedom
2:02.3	from religion in our government.
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