Out of God's Closet
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The Pennsylvania Catholic Church scandal is the horrible news of the week, involving hundreds of pedophile priests and thousands of victims. After hearing the song "Check It Out," which Dan wrote when he was transitioning out of the ministry more than 30 years ago, we talk with former Catholic priest Stephen Uhl, a long-time generous FFRF member, about why he left the priesthood and what he is doing to bolster secular public education.The Pennsylvania Catholic Church scandal is the horrible news of the week, involving hundreds of pedophile priests and thousands of victims. After hearing the song "Check It Out," which Dan wrote when he was transitioning out of the ministry more than 30 years ago, we talk with former Catholic priest Stephen Uhl, a long-time generous FFRF member, about why he left the priesthood and what he is doing to bolster secular public education.
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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. |
| 0:13.5 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.2 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:42.0 | living for today |
| 0:48.3 | welcome to free thought radio |
| 0:52.8 | I am Annie Laurie Gaylor and I have three words for you. |
| 0:57.7 | You may remember that scene in the graduate where the guy tells Justin Hoffman, I have one word for you. |
| 1:02.5 | Well, actually, these are three sets of numbers. |
| 1:05.7 | I'm going to repeat them now. |
| 1:06.8 | Get a piece of paper and a pencil and write this down. |
| 1:13.8 | 202-224-3121. |
| 1:20.0 | That's 202-224-3-1-21. |
| 1:24.7 | That's the federal congressional hotline to call your senators so you can vigorously oppose the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for |
| 1:30.5 | Supreme Court Justice and ask your senators to do anything they can to delay the hearing |
| 1:35.0 | that's now set for September 4th. So just two more times. That hotline is 202-224-3121. |
| 1:43.7 | 202-224-3-121-202-224-3-1-1. |
| 1:47.1 | Call them every day. |
| 1:48.6 | You set it four times, not three times. |
| 1:50.3 | So that's more is better. |
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