Writing God's Obituary

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🗓️ 4 August 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The religious right and FOX News are upset about FFRF's IRS church-electioneering victory. We hear Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg talking about the Hobby Lobby decision. We celebrate the birthdays of freethinkers James Baldwin and Rupert Brooke. Then we talk with author and professor Anthony Pinn about his new memoir, Writing God's Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist.

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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 imagine all the people living for today.
0:57.7	Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:59.2	Welcome to Free Thought Radio,
1:02.7	and greetings to all of you, August, non-believers.
1:07.4	August, because today is our first show in the month of August.
1:08.5	I'm Dan Barker.
1:14.7	I'm your original friendly neighborhood atheist. This is the August,
1:24.6	the August 2nd, 2014 broadcast of Free Thought Radio. We first air this show from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin, that's WXXM. But you also might be listening to us on stations in Milwaukee, in Grand Rapids, in central
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