Special Guest: Christopher Hitchens

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2007

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Freethought Radio's featured guest is Christopher Hitchens, author of the bestselling "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything." Freethought Radio is the first nationally-broadcast radio show from the secular point of view! Freethought Radio broadcasts weekly. The show offers programming for nonreligious listeners, as well as countering the religious-right domination of our public airwaves. Freethought Radio features a regular "Theocracy Alert," Dan's "Pagan Pulpit," "Freethinkers Almanac," music and interviews with authors and activists. (MP3, 38 min, 34.7 MB)

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:20.1	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:22.6	It's easy if you try.
0:28.6	No hell below us. Hello us Above us Above us only sky
0:42.3	Imagine all the people
0:48.3	living for today
0:54.3	Hello, all you godless infidels, out of the closet atheists and happy heathens,
1:03.0	and a warm welcome to everyone listening to our weekly broadcast devoted to the secular point of view,
1:09.2	your antidote to the domination of our public airwaves by the religious right.
1:14.0	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:15.3	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America Radio.
1:19.6	We're coming to you from the studio of Madison, Wisconsin's Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1.
1:24.4	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist, a former clergy who has seen the light.
1:30.0	Coming up later in the program, we'll be talking with Christopher Hitchens, the author of the
1:35.7	bestseller, God is not great. And we'll also be talking with a genuine atheist in a foxhole,
1:43.0	Jeremy Hall, who is in the military stationed
1:45.8	in Iraq and is suing the Pentagon for its blatant discrimination against non-Christians.
1:51.2	If this is the first time you've caught Free Thought Radio, you should know that this is the
1:56.7	non-faith-based initiative of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
2:02.7	The Freedom from Religion Foundation is the largest association of atheists and agnostics
2:09.4	in the entire country, and we're a state church watchdog group.
2:15.6	And in fact, last week, the Freedom from Religion Foundation just won
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