Special Guest: Author Barbara G. Walker

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2007

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Barbara G. Walker, author of "The Skeptical Feminist" and the landmark "Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets", talks about what turned her into a skeptic and nonbeliever. The show includes updates on the Foundation's newest faith-based challenges, including a federal lawsuit filed this week, and a "Pagan Pulpit" freethought sermon on the trinity by Dan Barker, a former minister. The show is hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents of the Freeom From Religion Foundation, which produces the weekly broadcast. (MP3, 48 min, 22 MB)

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0:00.0	It's time for Free Thought Radio, a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
0:11.0	featuring Foundation co-presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:16.3	irreverent views, news, music, and interviews. Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.2	It's easy if you try.
0:32.6	No hell below us.
0:54.2	Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today.
1:01.2	Hello, all you neo-Atheists, as Chuck Colson calls us.
1:04.5	You happy heathens and hellbound infidels.
1:09.1	Welcome to our weekly hour-long broadcast, Free Thought Radio,
1:12.5	your antidote to the religious right monopoly of our public airwaves. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. We're broadcasting from Madison's progressive talk,
1:18.4	the Mike 92.1. We're streaming live from Madison, Wisconsin, and podcasting on June 23rd, 2007.
1:26.0	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:28.8	Your friendly neighborhood neo-athist, as Chuck Colson would call me,
1:33.4	during that same speech when he called us neo-athias, which isn't a bad phrase.
1:38.1	Atheism has been around for a long time.
1:39.8	It was way since the Greeks.
1:40.8	But he also said we were virulent.
1:46.3	And I think he got it backwards because religion is the virus, the virus of the mindset people say. So free thought is, what would you
1:51.8	call it, anti-virulent or an anti-virus. Vaccine. I suppose, some kind of a vaccine against
1:57.8	the infection of religion.
2:02.6	We have a PAC show today.
2:08.9	We have news to report on the state church front and an interview coming up with Barbara G. Walker,
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