The heretical roots of America
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2014
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
After hearing Dan Barker's appearance on the Nancy Grace Show, and reporting the Vatican's coddling of a pedophilic priest, we honor the birthdays of freethinking baseball great Ted Williams and early feminist activist Frances Wright. Then we talk with Matthew Stewart, author of the new book: Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:14.7 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:18.7 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky imagine all the people living for today greetings o godless ones, and welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:00.2 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:01.9 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:05.4 | This is August 30th, 2014 broadcast of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:11.1 | And this would have been my father's birthday today. |
| 1:14.4 | He was a very firm atheist, died in 2010. |
| 1:18.8 | And what has happened to this summer? |
| 1:20.6 | It's been a glorious, lovely, cool, for the most part, summer here in Madison, Wisconsin, |
| 1:25.4 | and a very nice change from the most horrid |
| 1:28.3 | winter we've ever had, and I don't want to go back. |
| 1:31.0 | Well, there's still some summer left. |
| 1:32.5 | We're starting to lean back away from the sun up here in the northern hemisphere. |
| 1:38.3 | Free Thought Radio originates in the northern city of Madison, Wisconsin, where the national |
| 1:43.6 | offices of the Freedom |
| 1:45.6 | from Religion Foundation are located, and Free Thought Radio first broadcasts on and streams |
| 1:51.5 | from the radio station here, the Mike 92.1, WXXM, on Saturday mornings, right here in Madison. |
| 1:59.6 | But hello also to you, listeners, to the broadcast in California, in parts of New York State, |
| 2:05.4 | in Michigan, in Central Missouri, and in Texas, and, of course, to you faithful, faithless |
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