Phantom God

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week we talk about the novelist John Irving, Christian supremacy, and the Respect For Marriage Act. After hearing the debut of the Godless Gospel song "I Don't Need Jesus," we talk with scientist and author John C. Wathey about his new book, The Phantom God: What Neuroscience Reveals about the Compulsion to Believe.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:09.2	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:13.6	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:19.9	It's easy if you try
0:22.6	No hell below us
0:33.6	Above us only sky
0:38.3	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:50.3	Welcome to Free Thought Radio.
0:52.3	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:54.2	And I'm Dan Barker, and this is Rational Radio and blasphemous Broadcasting. Radio for
1:01.8	non-believers, Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:09.9	This is the November 17th, 2020 episode of Free Thought Radio.
1:14.6	Graham Blaschka, with Audio for the Arts,
1:17.4	is our engineer in the Stephen Ull-friendly atheist studio
1:21.6	in Freethaw, which is the National Office
1:25.1	of the Freedom from Religion Foundation
1:27.3	in Madison, Wisconsin. Free Thought Radio is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:30.4	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, as regular listeners know,
1:37.3	and we work to keep religion out of government and social policy,
1:42.6	and we are a bunch of irreverent people banding together to do so.
1:47.4	Our members are freethinkers, atheists, agnostic, skeptics.
1:51.0	We don't care what you call yourself.
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