When God Sanctions Violence

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2007

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Freethought Radio features an interview with Prof. Brad J. Bushman, of the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, about his studies linking religious belief and scriptural reading with violence. The show reports on the related attack this week upon atheist author Taslima Nasrin by Muslim lawmakers in Hyperabad, India. The show, airing on the birthdate of Robert G. Ingersoll, takes a look at this 19th century freethinker's illustrious life. A new song, "Adrift on a Star," words by the lyricist Yip Harburg ("Somewhere Over the Rainbow"), music by Dan Barker, debuts. The weekly show is hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. (MP3, 50 min, 22,8 MB)

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0:00.0	It's time to reclaim America for Free Thought.
0:06.8	Free Thought Radio is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
0:11.7	www.fRF.org with your host's FFRF co-presidents, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:20.7	with irreverent views, news, music, and interviews.
0:26.2	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:31.8	It's easy if you try.
0:42.3	No hell below us
0:47.3	Above us Only sky
0:51.3	Imagine all the people living for today.
1:03.0	Welcome to Free Thought Radio, are you out of the closet atheists?
1:07.5	And welcome to the agnostics and secular humanists too.
1:12.5	And hey, you're welcome even if you're an in-the-cli-cliest. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. Free Thought Radio is your weekly antidote
1:19.7	to the religious right domination of our public airwaves. We're broadcasting from Madison's
1:24.7	progressive talk, the Mike 92.1, streaming live from Madison, Wisconsin,
1:30.1	and podcasting on August 11, 2007, which happens to be the anniversary of the birth of Robert G. Ingersoll,
1:39.4	19th century's most famous exponent of free thought in America.
1:44.0	And I'm Dan Barker, another one of those out of the closet. country's most famous exponent of free thought in America.
1:49.3	And I'm Dan Barker, another one of those out-of-the-closet atheists.
1:58.6	I went from a preacher to atheist, from born-again, fundamentalist, Bible-believing, street-preaching, gospel-singing believer,
2:01.6	to an out-of-the-closet atheist. And actually, now I call myself your friendly neighborhood atheist.
2:05.6	The Freedom for Religion Foundation is made up of free thinkers.
2:09.6	And if you look up the word free thinker as a single word, not two-word, but the word
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