Religion's Harm to Women

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2006

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Reports on legal developments in the Freedom From Religion Foundation's major lawsuit against the Department of Veteran Affairs for intermingling faith with medical care. Annie Laurie Gaylor, author of Woe to the Women: The Bible Tells Me So and editor of the anthology Women Without Superstition, will discuss the bible's treatment of women, and its far-reaching effects today with the rise of the religious right. Margaret Sanger is featured in Freethinkers Alamanc, and Dan Barker's tribute to Sanger, the song, "No Gods - No Masters," will be played. (MP3, 52 min, 24 MB)

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0:00.0	It's time to wake up.
0:03.0	Stay tuned for Free Thought Radio, the only weekly Free Thought Radio broadcast anywhere,
0:09.0	a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation featuring co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:16.0	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:20.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.6	It's easy if you try. no hell below us above, above us only sky.
0:42.3	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:55.9	Hello, all you, godless, heathens, infidels, irreverence, and open-minded listeners.
1:02.4	Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Galar.
1:05.2	We invite you to stay tuned for the next hour.
1:08.4	Free Thought Radio is the only weekly Free Thought Radio broadcast in the nation
1:12.9	offering slightly irreverent views, news, music, and commentary. We're broadcasting in Madison,
1:19.8	Wisconsin, and streaming live. And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. You said
1:25.3	slightly irreverent views. Sometimes they're not that slight. Some of the
1:29.4	views here are quite irreverent, and we're proud of that. Irreverance is a good thing. This is a
1:35.7	unique radio show. It's a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. We are a national
1:42.8	association of free thinkers. We like that word. It's a
1:46.0	single word. Look it up in the dictionary, free thinker, which is sort of an umbrella term for
1:50.6	atheists and agnostics and other types of non-believers, representing a huge and growing
1:58.0	segment of the population who chooses none of the above for their religious
2:02.8	preference.
2:03.8	And our group is the largest, free thought group in the country.
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