Special guest: Katha Pollitt

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Nation's "Subject to Debate" columnist, author, poet, feminist and atheist Katha Pollitt, returns to Freethought Radio to talk about her latest book, "Learning to Drive," the cultural politics of abortion on this pre-Roe v. Wade anniversary show, and her views on the state of freethought and religion in politics. The show also features a new Freethinkers Almanac and Theocracy Alert.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.9	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.2	It's easy if you try.
0:31.8	No hell below us.
0:41.3	Above us only sky Imagine all the people
0:48.3	Living for today.
0:56.5	Greetings, are you godless, infidels, happy heathens, and hell-bent atheists and agnostics?
1:03.0	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:04.6	Welcome to Free Thought Radio, the only national radio broadcast in the United States from the Freethought point of view,
1:12.4	offering slightly irreverent views, news, music, and interviews.
1:16.7	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.
1:20.5	Imagine there's no heaven.
1:23.1	It's easy if you try.
1:25.4	I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. I used to preach there was a
1:28.9	heaven, but now I realize there's no hell below us, above us, only sky. Pre-thought radio is radio for
1:35.6	the rest of us. Isn't about time there be at least one hour a week for those of us who are not
1:41.2	religious on the radio to counter the 24-7 of TV and radio evangelism.
1:47.5	Pre-thought Radio is produced by America's largest association of non-believers.
1:53.8	Call us what we want, atheists, agnostics, doubters, skeptics.
1:58.4	Free thinkers.
2:00.2	The Freedom from Religion Foundation, the largest group of non-believers in the country,
2:04.6	working to keep church and state separate.
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