Heretics!
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We announce FFRF's new "Ask an Atheist" Facebook Live show. Is the Kentucky Governor right to fight crime with prayer? Should religious hospitals be exempt from pension-plan regulations? FFRF attorney Patrick Elliott tells us about the recent Supreme Court ERISA decision that privileges religious companies and thereby endangers their employees. After hearing the irreverent song "Experiment," by the non-religious songwriter Cole Porter, we talk with professor Steven Nadler, author of the new book Heretics! (illustrated by his son Ben Nadler), about the 17th-century scientists and thinkers who brought philosophy into the modern world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.4 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.4 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the people Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome to Freeth Free Thought Radio and a special hello to you iconoclasts out there who think for yourselves and stand up for reason. |
| 1:08.6 | And all you Heretics, and we're going to talk about Heretics later in today's show. I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:13.0 | This is the June 8th, 2017 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:20.3 | Buzz Kemper is our very capable and very talented engineer, producing this show in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall. Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom |
| 1:27.2 | from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:30.3 | And our show broadcast here in Madison, Wisconsin, on a couple of radio stations. |
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| 1:40.3 | including over in Columbia, Missouri, in College Station, Brian, Texas, in Ithaca, New York |
| 1:47.5 | area, and over in Vermont and New Hampshire. |
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| 1:53.9 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which, of course, |
| 1:59.4 | has two purposes to educate the public about |
| 2:02.8 | free thought and non-belief and to work very diligently to get government out of, to get |
| 2:10.4 | religion out of government and to defend the constitutional wall of separation between church |
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