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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 September 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the news: football prayer and religion in the military. We hear a tribute to George Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue, Bernstein; "I Got Rhythm," Mary Martin; "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," Billie Holiday; "Someone To Watch Over Me," Nancy Wilson; "It Ain't Necessarily So" Sammy Davis Jr; "Embraceable You," Kiri Te Kanawa; American in Paris; "Summertime" Ella Fitzgerald). Then we talk with Sam Erickson, president of AHA!--the Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison--the strongest campus freethought group in the country.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:14.8	irreverent views, news, music, and interviews.
0:19.2	Imagine there's no heaven
0:21.7	It's easy if you try
0:32.0	No hell below us
0:34.8	Above us only sky
0:41.3	Imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today
0:57.8	Hello, welcome to Free Thought Radio.
1:02.7	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is the last broadcast of summer.
1:03.6	Goodbye, Summer.
1:07.3	And we'll have fall beginning in earnest on Monday.
1:12.6	So happy fall, all you ardent and unabashed, atheist, agnostic, and infidels. And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. This is the September 20th,
1:20.8	2014 edition of Free Thought Radio. The show is produced at and streams from, and broadcasts originally from at 11 o'clock a.m. Saturday mornings, the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:35.6	We also broadcast, you might be listening to us in California, parts of New York State, in central Michigan, in Missouri, in central Texas.
1:45.9	And if you're listening to us on the podcast, which I think there's like 20,000 faithful, faithless podcast listeners, you might contact your local TV station to see if they would like to air our show in your area.
2:00.5	Free thought radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
2:05.4	Excuse my cold.
2:07.5	And FFFRF has two purposes.
2:09.6	We work to celebrate free thought.
2:13.2	We're the nation's largest association of infidels, agnostics, atheists, and we are a group that is a state church watchdog, and we have over 21,500 members.
2:25.9	And we hope if you agree with our purposes that you'll join us, not someday, but today at fFRF.org.
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