Anti-Caste Activist
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Margaret Downey, president of the Thomas Paine Memorial Association, tells us about an exciting celebration of the birth of the "Forgotten Founder" Thomas Paine on his Jan. 29 birthday. Then, FFRF Director of Communications Amit Pal speaks with the actor, theater director and artist-in-residence at UW-Madison Vamsi Matta, a Dalit (the most oppressed in the Hindu caste hierarchy) who is fighting back against religious discrimination.
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:26.2 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:32.0 | No hell below us. |
| 0:42.3 | Above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:56.3 | Welcome to Vithart Radio. |
| 0:58.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:00.5 | And today, which is January 18th, marks many important free thought birthdays in the past, |
| 1:07.6 | among them Montesquieu, who said, if triangles made a god, they would give him three |
| 1:14.4 | sides. Montesquieu was born January 18, 1689, and A. A. Mell, who wrote Winnie the Pooh, |
| 1:21.2 | was born today in 1882, and he famously said, the Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief than any other book written. |
| 1:35.0 | Do you agree, Dan? |
| 1:36.2 | I do, and I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:38.0 | Annie, Lori, and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:43.5 | You might have guessed from those opening remarks. |
| 1:46.5 | This is the January 18th, 2024 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:51.8 | Our engineer, again, is Tori Neels. She's with Audio for the Arts. |
| 1:57.2 | And she's right here in our studio, the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 2:02.7 | which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:08.6 | And the Freedom from Religion Foundation is the producer of Freethought Radio, |
| 2:13.6 | and FFFF has so many other activities and purposes. |
| 2:17.1 | We are the Lation's largest association of atheists and agnostics and skeptics over 40,000, |
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