Violence and the Bible
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After covering state/church news in Illinois, Wisconsin, California, West Virginia and Minnesota, we celebrate "Bill of Rights Day" (Dec. 15) by hearing Dan Barker's song "The Battle of Church and State." Then, we speak with renowned biblical scholar John J. Collins of Yale Divinity School about his book, Does the Bible Justify Violence?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:19.0 | 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 |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:53.3 | Welcome to feed that ready Living for today. |
| 0:58.4 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:02.7 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and happy Bill of Rights Day. |
| 1:10.5 | The anniversary of the adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791 is Sunday, December 15th. |
| 1:14.9 | And I'm Dan Barker. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. And this is the December 12th, 2024 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:23.4 | Leo Costello is our producer, and Tori Neels, with Audio for the Arts, is our engineer. |
| 1:30.7 | We're recording in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethaw, |
| 1:35.5 | the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:42.2 | And the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which is the producer of this weekly show, |
| 1:46.7 | is the nation's largest association of free thinkers. |
| 1:50.6 | That means atheists, agnostics, humanists, skeptics, whatever you like to call yourselves. |
| 1:56.0 | We joke that we all disbelieve in the same gods. |
| 1:59.4 | FFFRF has two purposes to educate you the public about non-theism |
| 2:05.6 | and to buttress the wall of separation between state and church |
| 2:10.6 | embodied in the First Amendment of our Bill of Rights. |
| 2:13.6 | Does the Bible justify violence? |
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