Hard-Fighting Editor
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
After 67 years, James A. Haught, the hard-fighting editor of West Virginia's largest newspaper, the Charleston Gazette-News, is still advocating for reform. Haught, who has authored a dozen freethought books, tells us what it has been like fighting governmental corruption working for a progressive-minded paper in one of the most conservative states in the country. Then we listen to the stories of Samson's wedding and Pinehas's racism excerpted from the audiobook of Dan Barker's book GOD: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction, read by Dan and Buzz Kemper (who played the "voice of God."
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.5 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.2 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the feet Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.6 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:54.2 | I'm Annie Laurie Galar. |
| 1:06.3 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. This is the May 24th edition, May 24th, 2018 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:13.4 | Buzz Kemper is our announcer. You heard him announcing at the beginning of the show, and he's our engineer in the control room. |
| 1:19.3 | And we're going to hear a little more from Buzz Kemper later in today's show in a very special way. |
| 1:26.5 | And Buzz is producing our show in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:32.8 | Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:33.9 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and we have |
| 1:39.7 | two purposes to educate the public about non-theism and to keep religion out of government, |
| 1:45.9 | and that keeps us awfully busy. We're over 32,000, 33,000 members. And if you're not a member, |
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| 1:57.9 | Today at FFRF.org. And in the second half of today's show, we're going to hear, as I said, some of Buzz Kemper's |
| 2:06.5 | voice as the voice of God. Yes, is the biblical character known as God a praiseworthy or a |
| 2:14.4 | reprehensible figure? We have a special segment about that coming up. |
| 2:19.3 | But first today we have on the phone from West Virginia. |
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