The Case Against God

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week we celebrate the Fourth of July, as well as the Supreme Court's decision on abortion rights. We announce FFRF billboard activism in Mississipi, Minnesota, and Cleveland, Ohio, where we welcome visitors to the RNC this month with the face of Ronald Reagan advocating for state/church separation. We report legal victories in Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and California. After hearing the music (!) of actor and atheist Kevin Bacon, we talk with author George H. Smith, whose classic 1974 book, Atheism: The Case Against God, has been reprinted with a Foreword by Lawrence Krauss.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:09.3	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:13.3	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:20.0	It's easy if you try
0:22.6	No hell below us
0:33.6	Above us only sky
0:36.6	Imagine all the people
0:41.3	Living for today Welcome to Pete That Radio, a warm, especially warm welcome to you thinkers who have made your own declaration of
1:13.6	independence from religion. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood
1:20.4	atheist. And of course, this is the Fourth of July weekend. This is the July 2nd,
1:26.0	2016 edition of Free Thought Radio. Buzz Kemper is our engineer,
1:31.7	producer, and announcer today. He's a one-man show in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio
1:39.4	in Freethought Hall, the National Offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:46.5	We first broadcast this show and stream on Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1, here in Madison,
1:54.4	Saturdays at 11 a.m. Central, and again, at midnight.
1:58.1	Yeah, we actually caught the show, didn't we? We were turning on the radio alarm, and there was Free Thought Radio at midnight.
2:04.8	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
2:09.2	and FFRF has two purposes to educate the public about non-theism.
2:14.4	So we are a National Association of 24,000 non-believers, and we work to keep religion
2:20.3	out of government.
2:21.3	We've been really busy even just this week. Today we're going to be talking about free
2:25.0	thought activism and state church issues in Cleveland, Mississippi, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
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