The Trouble With God
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Nonbelief Relief announces charitable grants to combat hunger, oppression, and discrimination around the world. After lamenting the resignation of Supreme Court justice Anthony M. Kennedy, and the recent bad anti-Muslim and anti-abortion Supreme Court decisions, FFRF attorney Patrick Elliott describes our new lawsuit challenging the Ten Commandments at the Arkansas capitol. Then we talk with screenwriter Chris Matheson (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure) about his new book, The Trouble With God: A Divine Comedy About Judgment (and Misjudgment).
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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. |
| 0:13.7 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.3 | 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 Above us only sky. Welcome to Feed That Radio. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and hello, dear listener, especially after the news out of the U.S. Supreme Court this week in which so many of our causes and civil liberties are now being placed in supreme jeopardy, it is comforting to be part of a radio show and an organization and a movement |
| 1:13.2 | that cares about our nation's independence from religion and government, that cares about |
| 1:19.8 | civil rights, true religious liberty, and the fate of women's and reproductive and |
| 1:25.2 | LGBTQ rights in the United States. |
| 1:28.2 | Now, more than ever, freedom depends on free thinkers. |
| 1:32.2 | And free thinkers are atheists and agnostics. |
| 1:35.1 | I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist, a former preacher. |
| 1:39.6 | Who saw the light? |
| 1:40.8 | A former preacher who indeed saw the light. |
| 1:44.0 | This show today is the June 28, 2018 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:50.3 | Buzz Kemper is producing this show and the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio right here in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:57.1 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:02.4 | And Frithat Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 2:09.1 | And we're already in the battle of our lives with the religious right takeover of the White |
| 2:14.4 | House in Congress. And we're very grateful to our members for your support |
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