One Nation Under God?
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In the News: Venice, Florida, city council rejects “In God We Trust;” Doug Marshall’s Reason Station goes up in Warren, Michigan, city hall; creationist teacher disciplined in Arroyo Grande, California, public high school. After celebrating the birthdays of Peter Tchaikovsky and Pete Seeger, we talk with Princeton history professor Ken M. Kruse about his eye-opening book, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:14.7 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:19.1 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us Above us |
| 0:39.3 | Only sky |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all you non-believers who do believe that the United States is one nation under the Constitution. |
| 1:08.3 | I'm Dan Barker. Annie Laurie is sick today. She stayed home with a very, very bad cold, |
| 1:16.0 | but she's not treating herself with prayer, obviously. She's self-medicating today with gallons of |
| 1:23.1 | very, very hot tea. We'll have her back on the show next week. That's a prophecy. I used to |
| 1:30.7 | have the gift of prophecy, but I can pretty much say that we'll have her back on next week. |
| 1:36.3 | Today's show is the May 2nd, 2015 edition of Free Thought Radio. The show is produced at the |
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