A None's Story
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We announce our full-page ad in the New York Times: "Mr. President, we are not a nation of believers." A Virginia sheriff removed a bible verse from police vehicles after hearing from FFRF. Staff attorney Patrick Elliott explains why Trump's budget is a disaster for education, and FFRF's thoughtful Communications Director, Amit Pal, discusses the religiously motivated bombing in Manchester, England. After hearing Mike Tramp's irreverent song "Trust in Yourself," we talk with former nun Maureen Hart, currently on the board of the Clergy Project, about her journey to kick the habit.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:17.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:28.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:34.6 | Imagine all the people lonely sky. |
| 0:46.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:51.6 | Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:02.7 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio and a special greeting to you atheists in foxholes or agnostics in foxholes and non-religious veterans this Memorial Day weekend that's coming up. A quarter of the members of the Freedom for Religion Foundation are vets or active military and a quarter of the U.S. military itself. |
| 1:13.6 | Is non-religious full of atheists in foxholes. |
| 1:15.1 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:18.2 | This is the May 25th, 2017 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:24.2 | Our engineer is Buzz Kemper. |
| 1:26.0 | Buzz has been a part of Freethought Radio since the very beginning. |
| 1:29.2 | We started the show back in 2006. You will recognize Buzz's voice as the announcer on our show. |
| 1:35.4 | He's producing this show in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, which is the |
| 1:42.9 | National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:48.0 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:53.0 | FFFRF has two purposes to educate the public about non-theism. |
| 1:58.0 | And we have over 29,000 non-religious members, and we are urgently trying |
| 2:02.9 | to get up to 30,000 by the end of June. And we are also a state church watchdog, so we work to |
| 2:09.6 | defend the constitutional principle of separation of church and state embedded in the First |
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