The Case Against Miracles

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Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Kanye West should not be preaching in prisons. FFRF attorney Ryan Jayne explains how we successfully stopped public funding for churches and religious ministries. We report additional recent state/church victories in Wisconsin, Arkansas, and Kentucky. Then former minister and Christian apologist John Loftus, who is now an atheist, tells us about his newest book, The Case Against Miracles.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:14.0	Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try
0:22.6	No hell below us
0:29.6	Above us only sky
0:35.6	Imagine all the people Above us only sky. Hello, all you fainty-theworthy
0:39.3	people, and my co-host, Dan Barker, who's co-cruitsy free thinkers, and happy heathens. I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and my co-host, Dan Barker, who's co-creator of Free Thought Radio with me, has finally returned. Welcome back, Dan.
1:03.8	Well, it's nice to be back, and we'll talk about that in a minute, won't we? Today's show is the November 21st, 2019 edition of Freethought Radio. Buzz
1:14.2	Kemper is our engineer again in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall.
1:20.4	Freethought Hall is the national office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:26.7	And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. And Free Thyte Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:31.1	which works to keep religion out of government and to represent the views of those of you who
1:36.4	are personally free from religion. And we'd love to have your support at fFRF.org.
1:42.7	Today we're going to talk with our friend and a returning guest, John Loftus.
1:48.0	He's a former Christian minister who's now an atheist, who's become a leading anti-apologist author.
1:55.7	John Loftus's newest book is The Anthology, The Case Against Miracles, that he edited, that is just out this week.
2:05.4	And this week is the anniversary of the birth date of the composer Scott Joplin, and he was born November 24th, 1868.
2:16.2	And you're going to talk about that in a minute, but I forgot to say we were also going
2:19.6	to have an attorney, FFRF attorney Ryan Jane, join us in a few minutes to talk about some
2:27.0	major faith-based victories, victories against faith-based funding that he's had.
2:32.0	And so, Jan, tell us more about Scott Joplin.
2:33.8	So as you said, Scott Joplin, the king of ragtime was a non-believer.
2:40.1	In his opera, Tremonisha, Joplin says that the way out of ignorance, misery, and superstition is through education.
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