"Mental Immunity"
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Breaking news! FFRF won its lawsuit against a Texas judge who opens his courtroom sessions with a prayer. We hear Christopher Hitchens talking about facing death, and then a "funny" song about death by Dan Barker called "No Hurry To Die." Then we speak with philosopher and author Andy Norman about his new groundbreaking book Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think.
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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. |
| 0:23.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us Above us |
| 0:39.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:56.8 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and it's almost Memorial Day weekend. |
| 1:03.2 | And speaking of war, there certainly are atheists in foxholes. |
| 1:08.8 | Speaking of tragic and sad deaths and other types of war, this week |
| 1:13.6 | marks the first anniversary of the murder by police of George Floyd, and Memorial Weekend |
| 1:19.6 | also is the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Genocide by white townsfolk in Tulsa of at least 36 black Tulsans, possibly up to 300, |
| 1:31.5 | and the destruction of the Black Wall Street, erased from memory for nearly a century, |
| 1:37.1 | and definitely something that needs to be memorialized. |
| 1:40.5 | And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Free Thought Radio for May the 27th, 2021. |
| 1:47.0 | Annie, Lori, and I were going to be hosting in the library, the Jolby Land and Wanda-Waibirce Library, |
| 1:54.0 | but we came here to the building and they're watching the windows in there and it's really noisy. |
| 1:58.0 | So we had to move out to this open area at a conference table on the third floor. |
| 2:02.8 | And there's no soundproofing at all. |
| 2:04.8 | You might hear some trucks going by. |
| 2:06.3 | I hope a fire truck doesn't go by when we're doing the show. |
| 2:10.6 | But in any event, you all understand we're just making this happen. |
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