Guests: Steve Benson & Robert R. Tiernan

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2007

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Irreverent Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Steve Benson of the Arizona Republic, who is the grandson of Ezra Taft Benson, the late president of the Mormon church, talks about why he left that church in a highly-publicized break and is now an atheist. Also, attorney Robert R. Teirnan talks about FFRF's newest federal lawsuit, challenging the promotion of churchgoing by a school district in Colorado. Photo by Brent Nicastro.

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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.
0:22.6	It's easy if you try.
0:28.6	No hell below us. Godless above us above us only sky
0:42.3	Imagine all the people
0:48.3	living for today.
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1:12.3	This is your antidote to the religious right domination of our public airwaves.
1:16.4	And I'm Dan Bark, your co-host, your friendly neighborhood atheist and out-of-the-closet, atheist, and freethinker.
1:23.7	There are more Air America affiliates picking up our broadcast every week. So let's welcome
1:29.3	new listeners in Sarasota, Florida. And I was in Monterey this last week and got to talk
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2:03.4	secular and entirely godless constitution. In a few minutes, we'll be talking with a prominent
2:09.1	Latter-day Saint who has become a Latter-day Ain't, and that would be Pulitzer Prize-winning
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