Heretic
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We celebrate the release from prison of Nigerian humanist Mubarak Bala who was convicted of the "crime" of blasphemy. FFRF Senior Litigation Counsel Sam Grover updates us on our lawsuit challenging the law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in Louisiana public schools. Then, we hear some shocking stories about early Christianity from Catherine Nixey, author of the book Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons 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. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:58.5 | Hello, welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Galar. |
| 1:05.3 | And by the way, the song imagined that we start every show with and we just heard turns out to have been President Jimmy Carter's favorite song, or so he said. |
| 1:11.4 | And so it's being played today at his funeral. |
| 1:14.7 | And of course, Jimmy Carter was a famous Born Again, |
| 1:18.0 | but he supported the separation of state and church, |
| 1:22.0 | and he left the Southern Baptists over their sexism. |
| 1:25.9 | And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Free Thought Radio. And isn't it |
| 1:30.1 | interesting that a born-again Christian loved the song that says, imagine there's no heaven |
| 1:36.0 | above us only sky. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and this is the January 9th, 2025 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:50.2 | Leo Costello is our producer, and Tori Neels with Audio for the Arts, is our engineer. |
| 1:56.9 | We're recording in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 2:01.7 | the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:06.7 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:12.1 | which is the nation's largest association of freethinkers, atheists and agnostics, and Dan, we just got the news. |
| 2:20.1 | The newest report, membership report, we have broken into 41,000 members. This is the highest we |
| 2:27.5 | have ever been. So if you're a new member or an old member, regular member, thank you so much. |
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