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Freethought Radio

"Letting Go of God"

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2007

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and Saturday Night Live alum Julia Sweeney returns to Freethought Radio for a new interview about her "beautiful loss of faith story," and her monolog, "Letting Go of God," soon to be released as a film!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.

0:19.9

Imagine there's no heaven.

0:26.2

It's easy if you try.

0:32.0

No hell below us.

0:42.3

Above us only sky Imagine all the people

0:48.3

Living for today.

0:56.0

Hello, all you hellbound atheists, happy heathens, and indifferent agnostics,

1:01.8

as last week's guest Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn calls himself, and a warm welcome to everyone

1:07.5

listening. I'm Annie Laurie Geller, inviting you to stay tuned for the next

1:11.2

hour of Free Thought Radio, broadcasting and streaming live from Air America. If you're new to

1:17.5

Free Thought Radio, this is the first national radio show for atheists, agnostics, and unbelievers,

1:23.1

and those of us concerned about safeguarding the separation of church and state.

1:26.5

And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist, co-host of this show,

1:31.0

which is a non-faith-based initiative of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

1:37.7

We provide some slightly irreverent views, sometimes not so slightly irreverent,

1:43.2

sometimes quite irreverent, news, music, and

1:46.5

interviews.

1:47.9

There was a woman who was climbing a mountain, and there was a small, I guess, rock slide, and she

1:53.7

slipped over the edge of a cliff, and she just grabbed onto the rope.

1:57.0

With one hand, she was dangling, like 150 feet in in the air and she didn't have much time to before

2:02.6

she would let go so she yelled up is anybody up there help help is anybody up there and this voice

2:08.6

over the ridge said i'm here i am god i can help you and she said oh thank god there's somebody up there

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