Out of the Closet, Freethinkers!
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2014
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
FFRF complains about an Arkansas restaurant giving illegal discounts to church-goers. We celebrate Women's Equality Day, and observe the 100th anniversary of the original Broadway "Book of Mormon" (The Girl From Utah) with freethinker Jerome Kern's first hit song. Then we listen to 20 short videos from FFRF's new "Out of the Closet" Freethinker video campaign.
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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. |
| 0:25.8 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us. |
| 0:41.3 | Above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:56.0 | My name is Andrew Seidel. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm an attorney for the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and I'm an atheist. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm an atheist because faith is not a virtue. |
| 1:04.0 | A willingness to believe anything without evidence, and to cling to that belief is humanity's |
| 1:09.0 | greatest liability. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm an atheist because religion perverts love, |
| 1:18.8 | requiring us to love an imaginary tyrant more than our family, more than our children. |
| 1:25.2 | I'm an atheist because our universe is far more amazing than the paltry miracles of the Bible. |
| 1:28.9 | I'm an atheist for the same reason that you are an atheist about Allah and Osiris and Thor. I'm an atheist because vicarious redemption through human sacrifice |
| 1:36.3 | cannot save my soul. Another person's death will not erase my wrongs. And I am an atheist because |
| 1:43.2 | I take personal responsibility for my mistakes. And I am an atheist because I take personal responsibility for my mistakes. |
| 1:46.8 | And I'm an atheist too. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. Welcome to Free Thought Radio and to all of you |
| 1:52.2 | out of the closet, atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, unbelievers. You just heard Andrew Seidals |
| 1:58.8 | out of the closet free thought testimony. |
| 2:01.3 | Andrew is one of FFRF's erudite staff attorneys, and he is part of an exciting new |
| 2:08.3 | YouTube video campaign that the Freedom from Religion Foundation is just launching. |
| 2:13.2 | And we'll talk more about that in a moment. |
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