May 10, 2008 - Guest: Richard Sloan

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 10 May 2008

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This weekend's show will feature an interview with Richard Sloan
about timely issues involving the dangers of religion and prayer being prescribed as "medicine." Freethinkers Almanac will look at the nonreligious views of Irving Berlin and Katharine Hepburn, and the hosts will talk about a freethinking visit to New York City and Los Angeles.

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1:09.0	Today, with his sinus, I could play the voice of God. Would you believe me if I said I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. Today, with his sinus, I could play the voice of God.
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1:30.6	What is it, 12,000 and a half plus of atheists and agnostics,
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1:38.6	and to educate the public about the views of the vast growing number of non-believers in this country.
1:44.7	Next week we'll talk about our newest lawsuit, but this week we're going to have a special guest,
1:48.9	Richard Sloan. He's author of Blind Faith, the Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine,
1:55.2	and we'll have a little bit of this, a little bit of that to report on.
1:58.5	Dan, you recently got back from your, I can't remember,
2:01.4	your 68th debate? 64th. At Harvard. At Harvard, yeah, my 64th public, formal, moderated debate.
2:08.9	Yeah, on religion. On religion, yeah. And I did four in the month of April, actually. When it Tufts
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