A Secular Coalition
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Many FFRF victories and legal complaints to talk about this week. Since today is "Pi Day," and π is irrational, we hear the irreverent Joe Hill song about the irrational belief of "pie in the sky" called "The Preacher and the Slave." Then we speak with Steven Emmert, Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America, working to "protect the equal rights of nonreligious Americans."
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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. |
| 0:18.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:40.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Hello, welcome to feed that radio. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and Happy Pie Day. |
| 1:02.1 | Happy Pie Day. |
| 1:03.2 | I'm Dan Barker, the co-host. |
| 1:05.6 | Today is March 14, which is 314. |
| 1:09.6 | And of course, pie is the number 3.14. dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. |
| 1:14.7 | So are you going to get some pie today, Dan? |
| 1:16.4 | Well, did you make some pie? |
| 1:17.6 | No. |
| 1:18.2 | One year, everyone brought in pie at the Freedom for Religion Foundation, but I think many of us |
| 1:23.8 | are cutting back on sweets right now, so no pie today, apparently. |
| 1:27.7 | Well, I would have had some anyway. |
| 1:29.9 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:34.9 | and this is the March 14th, 2024 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:41.1 | Tori Neals with Audio for the Arts is our engineer in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:53.8 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:59.9 | Emphasis on From, because there's no true religious liberty without the Freedom from Religion Foundation, emphasis on from, because there's no true religious |
| 2:03.5 | liberty without the freedom to dissent. There's no freedom of religion without freedom |
| 2:08.8 | from religion. And FFF has two purposes related to that, to keep religion out of government |
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