Guests: Julia Cicci, ROTC cadet and unbeliever and Sarah Braasch, FFRF legal intern

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This week Freethought Radio will talk with Julia Cicci, a University ROTC cadet and unbeliever, who recently delivered a nonreligious invocation at her ROTC commissioning ceremony. Also interviewed will be FFRF's articulate legal intern, Sarah Braasch, who will talk about growing up in the Jehovah Witnesses church and why she left it.

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0:00.0	This is free thought radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.8	Imagine there's no heaven
0:22.3	It's easy if you try
0:28.9	No hell below us
0:35.4	Above us only sky
0:41.3	imagine all the people Living for today.
1:00.4	Once religion takes hold in a society, it can't be stopped.
1:03.6	Well, that sounds like a threat. Religion can't be stopped.
1:07.1	Here at Free Thought Radio, we like to imagine no religion.
1:09.0	I'm Annie Laurie Galore.
1:12.4	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:16.6	And this is Free Thought Radio, broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.
1:21.3	Free Thought Radio, this show is a production of the National Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:29.1	We are America's largest organization of atheists and agnostics and other types of non-believers.
1:30.1	Skeptics.
1:33.8	We like to use the word freethinker.
1:38.1	Freethinker is a nice umbrella term that encompasses all types of non-believers, whatever we call ourselves.
1:39.0	We like to say we all disbelieve in the same God.
1:42.3	We have two great guests for today's show.
1:44.8	In the second half of the hour, we'll be talking with a former Jehovah Witnesses member.
1:49.5	This will be the first time Free Thought Radio has talked about that particular faith,
1:53.4	and about what a number of those teachings did on her as a child and why she has left
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