Life Beyond Belief
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2014
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Life Beyond Belief. After state/church news in South Dakota, Georgia, Ohio, and Oklahoma, we hear from science-fiction writer Ursula K. LeGuin, and listen to part of Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Peace Prize remarks. Then we talk with Bob Ripley, former pastor of the largest mainline Protestant church in Canada who resigned after discarding his faith. His new book is Life Beyond Belief: A Preacher's Deconversion.
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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. |
| 0:25.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and want to welcome you |
| 1:00.7 | heathens, infidels, as we like to joke on this show. Those of you who have made the |
| 1:06.2 | intellectual decision that religious claims do not hold up to scrutiny, and it should be socially |
| 1:12.8 | unacceptable to believe what you know ain't so rather than being socially unacceptable |
| 1:18.0 | to be an atheist or agnostic. |
| 1:20.5 | And this show is partly produced to dispel myths about nonbelievers, and to, as that |
| 1:26.8 | cliche goes, give us our place at the table so Annie |
| 1:29.9 | Laurie the agnostic right apostate agnostic well I was never religious so I can't be |
| 1:35.7 | called an apostate I guess that's true your family though originally had some well my generation |
| 1:40.7 | I'm Dan Barker this is the October October 18th, 2014 edition of Free Thought Radio, |
| 1:47.9 | which is produced at an originally broadcast from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin, |
| 1:53.5 | progressive talk, which also streams the show through IHeart Radio. Free Thought Radio also broadcasts |
| 2:00.4 | in California, in New York, in Michigan, in Missouri, in Texas. |
| 2:04.7 | And if you're listening to the podcast, why not ask your local progressive radio station to broadcast the show to help counter all those religious programs? |
| 2:13.7 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, which stands for the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 2:21.3 | We named the group, my mother and myself, because we felt this was a very overlooked constitutional principle, a part of religious freedom. |
| 2:30.4 | You can't have freedom without freedom from religion and government. |
| 2:33.6 | And we have two purposes. |
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