Agnostic
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This week we complain about both major presidential candidates mixing religion and politics and pandering to faith voters. FFRF Attorney Sam Grover tells us about the firestorm that erupted in a west Texas high school after we complained about the Ten Commandments and a bible verse painted permanently on the wall, and also reports the mixed results of a federal decision in FFRF's lawsuit challenging the Christian nativity in an Indiana high school. After hearing the Philip Appleman song "God's Grandeur" (set to music by Dan Barker), we talk with journalist and author Lesley Hazleton about her new book Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto.
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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. |
| 0:13.5 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:23.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the people above us only sky Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. I am a co-president of the Freedom for Religion Foundation. |
| 0:57.5 | And with me is the other co-president. I'm Dan Barker, the other co-president. We each have a half a vote. |
| 1:03.5 | Have we ever canceled each other out on a vote? Maybe. Maybe once in a while. |
| 1:07.6 | I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. This is the September 17, 2016 Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:16.0 | Steve Gotcher is our engineer, producing the show in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:23.7 | the National Offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:29.1 | We first broadcast and stream this show on Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1, here in Madison, |
| 1:36.8 | Saturdays at 11 a.m. Central, and rebroadcast at midnight. |
| 1:41.1 | The Freedom from Religion Foundation produces free thought radio. |
| 1:45.5 | It's a weekly production. |
| 1:48.3 | And FFRF has two purposes. |
| 1:51.4 | We work to promote and educate non-theism. |
| 1:53.5 | Our members are personally free from religion. |
| 1:57.6 | And we work very diligently to keep religion out of government. And we hope not someday, but today, if you are not already a member, |
| 2:02.0 | that you will consider joining us. |
| 2:03.9 | Go to ffrof.org or click on the link and ask for a free sample of our newspaper Free Thought |
| 2:08.8 | Today. |
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