A Monument to Ignorance
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
After hearing televangelist Pat Robertson accuse the Freedom From Religion Foundation of being led by "the Devil," we hear comedian Robin Williams lampoon the story of Mary and Joseph. We listen to jazz pianist/composer (and FFRF member) Addison Frei's freethinking song "Clinging," sung by Tahira Clayton. Then we interview Jim Helton, president of Tri-State Freethinkers, about the successful protest he organized against young-earth creationist Ken Ham's publicly subsidized "Ark Encounter" in Kentucky, a monument to genocide and ignorance.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.9 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.8 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.5 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:23.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:42.3 | living for today |
| 0:48.3 | Welcome to Freet Thought Radio. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:04.0 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. Well, Annie Laurie is also a friendly neighborhood atheist, but somehow I acquired that title. Well, I wrote a song. You coined that term. Yeah, and I wrote the song, I'm Your Friendly Neighborhood Atheist, as if a children's show on Saturday morning was introducing children to the concept. |
| 1:13.7 | So this is the July 16th, 2016 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:20.4 | Steve Gotcher is our engineer today. |
| 1:23.3 | I can see him through the glass there, doing this godless engineering. |
| 1:29.6 | Producing our show in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, which is the national offices of the Freedom |
| 1:36.7 | from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:40.3 | Our show first broadcasts and streams on the Mike 92.1 FM. It's called Progressive |
| 1:48.3 | Talk, right here in Madison, Saturdays at 11 a.m. Central and rebroadcast at midnight. |
| 1:55.5 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and |
| 1:59.4 | FFRF has, as regular listeners know, two |
| 2:02.3 | purposes. We work to keep religion out of government, and that is a big job, and we work to |
| 2:08.0 | alternatively promote free thought. So we are a membership organization of freethinkers, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Freedom From Religion Foundation, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Freedom From Religion Foundation and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.