Guests: Lodi State/Church Activist David Diskin "The Family" Author & Expert Jeff Sharlet

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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David Diskin will talk about the hullabaloo over the Freedom From Religion Foundation's request to the City Council in Lodi, Calif., that it drop prayers to open the meetings. David was one of the organizers of a rally on Aug. 5 to counter religious zealots who descended on the town. And Jeff Sharlet will be a returning guest. The author of the timely book exposing the nefarious fundamentalist group at the heart of power in Washington, D.C., The Family, will discuss The Family's relationship with born-again politicians in the news for adultery, including Gov. Mark Sanford, U.S. Sen. John Ensign, and former U.S. Rep. Charles "Chip" Pickering.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Lori Gaylor.
0:19.9	Imagine there's no heaven
0:22.4	It's easy if you try
0:28.7	No hell below us
0:35.5	Above us only sky
0:41.3	imagine all the people
0:48.3	living for today
0:54.4	Hello all you iconoclasts and debunkers of, well, bunk.
1:01.9	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is Free Thought Radio.
1:04.2	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves, and co-host of the show.
1:09.5	And since Annie Laurie and I have a radio show, we are on the same wavelength.
1:15.0	Yes, and we're both debunkers of well bunk.
1:18.3	And wasn't it Thomas Edison who said religion is all bunk?
1:22.7	Free Thought Radio is a production of the freedom from Religion Foundation
1:26.4	and where your weekly weekend antidote
1:28.8	to the religious right. This program broadcasts on Saturday or Sunday in about 25 cities
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1:40.1	and streams over Air America.com at 1 p.m. Eastern Saturdays and 3 p.m. Eastern Sundays. So you have many
1:48.4	opportunities to listen. And in case you wondering, what is the freedom from a religion foundation?
1:54.5	We are the largest national association of Freethinkers, which is like an umbrella term for atheists and agnostics,
2:03.5	and we work to keep state and church separate. We always have a lot of cases in the courts.
2:08.8	We have an important hot new challenge of a congressional resolution to prominently engrave the
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